The iconic Brookline theater strives to unite the local film community with its $12.5 million expansion
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REPERTORY FILM REPORT: “HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON” AT THE COOLIDGE
“19th Annual Halloween Horror Marathon”
Saturday, Oct. 26. 11:59pm. Coolidge Corner Theatre. Seven films projected via 35mm. $25-30.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre’s “Halloween Horror Marathon” has operated by the same general methodology since Mark Anastasio, ...
FILM REVIEW: “THE MAFU CAGE” AT THE COOLIDGE
The Mafu Cage premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 and was distributed across much of Europe in the ensuing years. However the film didn’t gain such traction in the U.S., where it was briefly, and unsuccessfully, rebranded as an exploitation film under the new title Don't Ring the Doorbell
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN: ON THE COOLIDGE HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON
The concept of a “playlist” has traditionally been linked to music, but you’ll find analogues for it strewn throughout film culture. Repertory programs are something like an equivalent. But a closer relative—the closest—would be one-sitting movie marathons. ...
JUMPING INTO THE FIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SASHA LANE
Sasha Lane’s first role brings her cross-country
FEEDING FRENZY: ANIMAL-SLASHER CINEMA, POST-AMITY ISLAND
Jaws rip-offs sighted at 12 o’clock
ROAD RAGE: “HIGHWAYS TO HELL” AT THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
On the Coolidge's program of vehicular horror films
THE SEVEN SEES: UNDERRATED VENUES TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON
Tired of going to the same music venues? Us too.
DIG THIS: BACK TO THE FUTURE, HAND IN HAND GALLERY, BOSTON VEGETARIAN FOOD FESTIVAL
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
DIG THIS: HONK! FESTIVAL, BLAIR WITCH, AND DIIV
This week it's all about making some noise!
SCARE SEASON: A WHITE-KNUCLE PEEK AT THE CORE AND HORROR TO COME TO HUB SCREENS THIS FALL
If you’re measuring by body count, though, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is the biggest menace of the scare season this year.
FARCE TO THE FUTURE: THREE GENERATIONS OF COMEDY FILMMAKERS RELEASE LATEST
A judge and a detective get involved as the seventh and eighth wheels, because this is that type of movie—the type of comedy they might’ve made in the ’30s, when detectives and judges were always walking into farcical scenes at the wrong time.
CAR WATT-AGE: THERE’S A WESTERN CHARGE TO “COP CAR”
It doesn’t matter if the shot misses its mark by a bit. You still didn’t see it coming.
INTERVIEW: JOHN HODGMAN
"That’s what put me on The Daily Show as the resident expert, the kind of person that would say with a straight face that Franklin Roosevelt had a hook for a hand but you never noticed it because it’s shaped like a wheelchair."
SUMMER PREVIEW 2015
Summer is here, so let's get down to brass tacks about the beaches, pools, food, concerts, arts events, theater happenings and everything else that makes summer in Boston summer.
CLASS TRIP: ON “HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT” AND “SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS”
Sturges’ flights of verbal fancy are as close as the American cinema comes to Shakespeare, and his turns of phrase are as sharp as a shuriken.
DIG THIS: WINE, SCIENCE, AND ORIGINAL GRAVITY
Our picks for the best of the best events of the week
IFF-Y PROGRAMMING: A RUNDOWN OF THE 2015 INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON
If you were to customize a calendar by marking off the events most integral to Boston film culture, there’s one week you’d highlight a shade deeper than the rest: The Independent Film Festival Boston.
SPRING PREVIEW 2015: ALL THE THEATER, FILM, FOOD, AND BEER TO LOOK FORWARD TO
Now that life has just begun to squeak its way out from the cracks between the ice and snow, bookmark this spread for all you future springtime fun time planning needs.
CRONENBERGIAN: THE AUTEUR’S NEW EFFORT DIAGNOSES A HOLLYWOOD DISEASE
In the most superficial sense, to be Cronenbergian is to be a genre film that mines horror or tension from alterations of the body.
DIG THIS: TIGERMAN WOAH!, MOPED KNIGHTS, AND QUEERLESQUE
Because sitting around watching the snow melt is for suckas.
INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR JENNIFER KENT DISCUSSES HER GENRE-DEFYING HORROR FLICK ‘THE BABADOOK’
When is a horror movie not a horror movie? When it’s The Babadook, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s refined and thoroughly stunning feature debut. “The horror is the byproduct of the story, not the other way around,” says Kent, over the phone. “That was my goal, to explore ...
SWEET SHOWTIME: JOHNNY CUPCAKES RELAUNCHES FILM SERIES
"Coolidge Corner Theatre is a special place to me, as my dad took my mom on dates there before I was born. Who knows, Coolidge could be responsible for my birth?"
