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Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

"Kilmer plays the most lethal of De Niro’s crew, moving with such coiled menace and weapons expertise that actual drill sergeants use clips of his reloading technique to teach new recruits. He’s also the most vulnerable dude in the movie. Witness the utter devastation of his stoic farewell to wife Ashley Judd, where we see all a man’s hopes for future happiness draining silently from his eyes.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

"The only action comedy named after a Pauline Kael book of criticism, the film is itself something of an autocritique. Yet the knowing asides never devolve into glibness or snark. The dramatic moments have real heft and the deaths in the movie mean something. In a perfect world, these two would have teamed up to solve a few more mysteries, instead of Downey going on to play Iron Man nine times.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

“An unseemly amount of the dialogue in The Final Reckoning is like Baldwin’s ‘living manifestation of destiny’ speech, except not played for laughs. There are films about the life of Christ that spend less time proclaiming the divinity of their protagonist. Yet just like in the movies, right when all seems lost, Cruise miraculously comes through.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/22/2025

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

"This is why it was so gratifying when more than 300 people filled the Somerville’s main auditorium to watch an eminent archeologist beat the stuffing out of some Nazi scoundrels before the wrath of God melted their faces off. After suffering through too many Stephen Miller press conferences, there was something extra cathartic about all the cheering in the theater.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/15/2025

"There are a few good gonzo moments if you like watching miserable oddballs try to capsize a movie — Brando does a whole scene with an ice bucket on his head — but the headliners have far less screen time than you’d hope, with Frankenheimer’s damage control efforts structuring most of the film around boring co-stars David Thewlis and Fairuza Balk.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

"The first and most bare-bones in Dahl’s unofficial trilogy that continued with Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. What’s terrific about the picture is how Kilmer and the cast are able to inhabit classic B-movie movie archetypes without any self-consciousness or postmodern irony. Take out the f-words, switch it to black-and-white and the film could have been made in 1949.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

"Kilmer is the only person in the movie having any fun. While the writer’s doleful Biblical borrowings and shrieking, pidgin English sidekicks foretold much of what was to come in The Phantom Menace, the star’s amusingly unheroic antics set the template for another Disney franchise altogether. Captain Jack Sparrow owes an awful lot to Martigan.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

"The world of David Mamet is divided between hustlers and marks. You’re either playing an angle or you’re being played. Henry Johnson could be the playwright’s bluntest expression of these themes yet, one of those late period works in which artists of a certain age stop smuggling their ideas underneath the drama and just come out and say what they mean.” - North Shore Movies, 05/08/2025

"Not a lot of film students wind up having their homework released by a major studio, but the then-27-year-old wunderkind could never be accused of thinking small. Coppola’s freewheeling adaptation of David Benedictus’ 1963 novel has style and ambition to burn. It’s a wild, visually spectacular calling card in the service of material that’s honestly pretty puerile.” - Crooked Marquee, 05/09/2025

"Callow young Ettore steals from his mother to buy a necklace of the Madonna and Child for a slatternly neighborhood girl. In classic Pasolini fashion, we see the pendant positioned provocatively upon her cleavage. The film’s final segment goes full ion Play, including a faux crucifixion during which Magnani’s character serves as both Magdalene and Mary.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025

"Akerman took her camera into the crowded New York streets, reading aloud on the soundtrack some old letters from her mom. They're full of quotidian family business and ive-aggressive appeals to write back more often, but combine with the visuals to create a haunting portrait of dislocation. A mother’s voice calling out for connection, unanswered and drowned out by traffic and trains.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025

"Almodóvar entwines a bustling, interconnected crew of trans sex workers, cabaret singers and stage actresses in a tear-jerking meditation on maternal instincts and the art of performance, all anchored by a pregnant nun with AIDS played by a never more luminous Penélope Cruz. There are few more moving depictions of the kindness of strangers.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025

"Calling it the best Marvel movie in years isn’t saying much, but it’s something. Thunderbolts* reminds us that the reason those early MCU adventures caught on was not because of special effects or intergalactic lore, but because they were workplace comedies about characters we enjoyed spending time with. Modest charms are nonetheless charming.” - North Shore Movies, 05/05/2025

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

"Palaud exhibits no interest whatsoever in her subject’s accomplishments, skipping immediately ahead to the drudgery of her heroin addiction. The indictments of boorish behavior by men in the film industry are indeed apt, but what’s ironic is that by refusing to see Schneider as an artist, the movie is guilty of some of the same sins as the director it tries to demonize.” - North Shore Movies, 05/05/2025

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

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Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

"This scabrously funny home invasion thriller stars director Mulani as a saucy music critic who angers the wrong fanbase after going viral with a nasty pan of a queerbaiting himbo’s latest single. The masked mob that comes after him is the worst-case scenario for any working reviewer. As someone who has written unkind things about comic book movies, let’s just say I could relate.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 04/17/2025

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

"There are ideas here about cultural appropriation being a form of vampirism, also a tantalizing angle about Blacks and the Irish sharing a history of oppression, plus some bracingly heretical notions about Christianity. Just as Sinners never exclusively belongs to a single genre, it’s also never about just one thing. The movie is too wildly ambitious and overstuffed for that.” - North Shore Movies, 04/17/2025

• Secret Mall Apartment
• The Damned
• Caught by the Tides
• The Shrouds
• Eephus
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• Moonglow
• Two Women
• Presence
• One of Them Days

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Se7en
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Snowpiercer
• The Flying Ace
• The Wages of Fear
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Ice Storm
• A Fistful of Dollars
• Unforgiven

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“'Somehow in the screwed up world in which we find ourselves, a ghastly amount of people have lost sight of the fact that these are the bad guys,’ says the Somerville Theatre’s Ian Judge. ‘This narrative cannot be allowed to be blurred by modern day losers stoking the flames of antisemitism and fascism. These movies help us who we are at our best.’” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/15/2025

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Downfall
• The Sound of Music
• The Great Escape
• The Mortal Storm
• Sisu
• The Blues Brothers

“He was so much taller and blonder and better-looking than everyone around him, like some sort of storybook Nordic prince. But taking another look at the films in the Brattle retrospective, one comes away with how much the actor loved to undercut his matinee idol appearance. Kilmer may have looked like a golden god, but he was often a very silly goose.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

• Top Secret!
• Real Genius
• Willow
• Kill Me Again
• Thunderheart
• Batman Forever
• Heat
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• MacGruber

“If your mom doesn’t have the stomach for the Brattle’s annual Mother’s Day screening of Psycho, you’ll have plenty of options on the other side of the square. The Harvard Film Archive’s Mother’s Day Mini-Marathon features seven 35mm prints of big screen classics examining maternal love in all its complex and sometimes maddening dimensions.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025

• All About My Mother
• News from Home
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Mother
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Mildred Pierce
• Mamma Roma

"In a movie year without big-name, buzzy breakouts from Sundance or South By Southwest, IFFBoston is relying more on documentaries and foreign language films and less on marquee stars. Having been able to preview some of this year’s offerings, I found the scrappy lineup characteristically excellent, even if some of the topics sound like tough sells.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/17/2025

• Caught by the Tides
• Predators
• OBEX
• Zodiac Killer Project
• Sorry, Baby
• April
• Happyend
• Friendship
• Pavements
• Stolen Kingdom

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“He looked how he looked: an unassuming, ordinary guy with an arsenal of grins, winks and chilling stares he could shade into infinite variations. His voice was higher and huskier than you expected, its cracks a key to his often aching vulnerability onscreen. Hackman excelled at portraying gruff men with volcanic tempers, yet few stars seemed so easily wounded.“ - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/27/2025

• The French Connection
• Scarecrow
• The Conversation
• Night Moves
• Twice in a Lifetime
• Hoosiers
• Another Woman
• Mississippi Burning
• Unforgiven
• The Birdcage

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“The self-described ‘sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ takes over the Brattle Theatre for five days of movie mayhem. This year’s BUFF lineup offers another smorgasbord of outré delights, stomach-churning horrors, celebrity guests and celebrations of bad taste. As always, the festival prides itself on pushing the limits of propriety with panache.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/17/2025

• The Surfer
• Death on the Beach
• Vulcanizadora
• Re-Animator
• Fréwaka
• The Ugly Stepsister
• Fucktoys

”Look, I’m not saying that every middle school kid should be allowed to see Blue Velvet, but watching it at that age blew open a lot of doors in my mind about what art was and what movies could do. David Lynch taught us how to see films and television as more than mere plot delivery devices and embrace the many moods and mysteries they’re capable of conjuring.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/07/2025

• Eraserhead
• Blue Velvet
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
• Twin Peaks: The Return

• Two Women
• Predators
• OBEX
• The Things You Kill
• Zodiac Killer Project
• Atropia
• Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

“The Coolidge Corner Theatre celebrates Black History Month with Icons, a six-film retrospective shining a spotlight on groundbreaking performances from throughout the years. The series kicks off with Carmen Jones, director Otto Preminger’s fascinating 1954 attempt to film Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway update of Bizet’s Carmen with an all-Black cast.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 01/30/2025

• Carmen Jones
• Super Fly
• In the Heat of the Night
• Glory
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Sister Act

• Am I OK?
• Sometimes I Think About Dying
• Kim's Video
• Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All
• Fancy Dance
• Stonebreakers
• Earlybird
• Confessions of a Good Samaritan
• Chasing Chasing Amy
• Problemista

...plus 179 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• After Hours
• GoodFellas
• Household Saints
• We Will Rock You
• Chinatown
• Romancing the Stone
• Prime Cut
• Barry Lyndon
• Dune
• Female Trouble

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

”No movie experience this year thrilled me the way Megalopolis did, taking so many big swings and throwing so many wild pitches, half the time I couldn’t believe what I was watching. It’s a cockamamie leap into the unknown unencumbered by conventional rules of screenwriting or parameters of good taste, full of philosophical discussions and boner jokes.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/10/2024

• Anora
• Megalopolis
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Nickel Boys
• Last Summer
• The Beast
• Daddio
• Good One
• The Brutalist

“You feel safe when other people are laughing. That’s why the movies are still playing. That’s why they find new audiences. People come up to me and say I saved their life, which is staggering to hear. But they just mean that wherever they were growing up, they didn’t think that anybody was like them. Then they saw these movies and realized there is another way.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/19/2024

• Pink Flamingos
• Cecil B. Demented
• Female Trouble
• Desperate Living
• A Dirty Shame
• Pecker

“You don’t have to be an armchair psychologist to see how such stories spoke to the fears of traumatized men returning from WWII to find women had become more independent in their absence. Much in the way that the superhero movie craze started shortly after 9/11, it’s always been an American coping mechanism to process our anxieties through pulp.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/07/2024

• In a Lonely Place
• The Big Heat
• The Crimson Kimono
• Niagara
• Leave Her to Heaven
• The Killers
• The Man Who Wasn't There

“IFFBoston program director Nancy Campbell and executive director Brian Tamm knew they wanted to do something big for the tenth annual Fall Focus. So, how big did they go? They’ve managed to fit 14 films into the festival’s five days, closing with a special 70mm screening of all 26 reels and 300 lbs. of The Brutalist, literally the most massive movie of the year.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/29/2024

• A Real Pain
• Eephus
• Hard Truths
• Bird
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• All We Imagine as Light
• It's Not Me
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Flow
• Nickel Boys

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“Not even your most sophisticated home entertainment system can replicate the communal feeling of a whole room full of strangers shrieking and screaming at the same time. There are more than 40 frightening films showing at Boston area indie theaters over the 10 days between now and Halloween. Here are a handful of highlights.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/21/2024

• Nosferatu
• The Invisible Man
• The Fly
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Practical Magic
• Frankenhooker
• Little Shop of Horrors

• Anora
• The Damned
• Caught by the Tides
• The Shrouds
• Eephus
• The Room Next Door
• Queer
• Oh, Canada
• Hard Truths
• I'm Still Here

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“The authors have taken over programming at the Brattle Theatre next week for a pair of double features presenting contrasting images of trans characters. Maclay explained, ‘We wanted the audience to see these films reflected off of one another. By putting them together, you get a full scope of the trans film image we’ve been positing with our book.’” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/03/2024

• The Silence of the Lambs
• T Blockers
• Sleepaway Camp
• I Saw the TV Glow

”With her gangly, akimbo limbs and wide, anime-character eyes, Duvall didn’t look like other leading ladies of the era. Or really any era, for that matter. Yet there was something mesmerizing about her. Even in the dizziest comedies she had an ethereal, melancholy quality that drew the viewer in. Shelley Duvall wasn’t just a great actress. She was transplendent.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/27/2024

• The Shining
• Brewster McCloud
• Nashville
• Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
• Bernice Bobs Her Hair
• Time Bandits
• Popeye
• Roxanne
• The Portrait of a Lady
• 3 Women

“Watch any scene of a Sofia Coppola picture and you can instantly tell who directed it. These are lush, melancholic movies with carefully embroidered visual schemes floating on pillows of sound. Fuzzy guitars and ethereal synth tones follow our heartsick, usually adolescent protagonists on the cusp of adulthood and self-discovery.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/23/2024

• Priscilla
• On the Rocks
• The Beguiled
• The Bling Ring
• Somewhere
• Marie Antoinette
• Lost in Translation
• The Virgin Suicides

“‘It’s interesting to think about a time when Hollywood made movies for adults,’ explains Tamm. ‘What does it say about the end of the 20th century that 25 years on, we’re not making movies like this anymore? Is that necessarily a good thing? I don’t know. There are some deeper, thornier questions in these films that mainstream movies aren’t asking anymore.’” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/10/2024

• American Gigolo
• Body Heat
• 9½ Weeks
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Flashdance
• Risky Business
• Body Double
• Jagged Edge
• Fatal Attraction
• Dirty Dancing

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

”Scrappy, confrontational and blessedly unconcerned with respectability politics, these pictures came from a community in crisis. They’re often furious documents, raging against societal and government indifference to a plague that’s powerfully felt even in the films where AIDS is never explicitly mentioned. Celebrate Pride month with six of these trailblazing titles.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/03/2024

• Poison
• My Own Private Idaho
• Young Soul Rebels
• Edward II
• Nowhere
• Go Fish

”The festival is about more than just watching movies, it’s about ing a room full of strangers and experiencing our common humanity together. As a culture, we had to get used to staying home alone, and I think there’s considerable evidence that it made people kind of crazy and mean. Events like IFFBoston remind us that we’re part of a larger community.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/29/2024

• Janet Planet
• Last Summer
• Good One
• Thelma
• Fear of Flying
• Tallywacker
• issions Granted
• The Road to Ruane
• Sebastian
• Secret Mall Apartment

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“In synopsis, it probably doesn’t sound like much: a few weeks in the lives of a Taiwanese family after their grandma gets sick. Yet this is one of those movies so emotionally expansive that you feel like it might contain the whole of human experience. Yi Yi begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral, heartbreakingly attuned to the cycles and seasons of life.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/27/2024

• Yi Yi
• Taipei Story
• That Day, on the Beach
• Terrorizers
• A Confucian Confusion
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Mahjong

“Killer spiders, pregnant nuns, ex-con Juggalos and humanist vampires, oh my. It must be BUFF season again. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the self-described ‘annual sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ is back at the Brattle Theatre to celebrate the oddest and most outré cinematic offerings covering the whole waterfront of weird.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/18/2024

• The Becomers
• Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
• Immaculate
• Off Ramp
• Strange Kindness
• With Love and a Major Organ
• Femme
• Fatal Termination
• Omen
• Boy Kills World

”Arthur was typically cast as a tightly-wound professional coming charmingly unglued by her male co-stars and the chaotic circumstances surrounding her. What made her heroines unique was that they never seemed diminished, even when falling to pieces. These weren’t shrews to be tamed, but rather independent women blossoming into their best selves.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/01/2024

• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Whole Town's Talking
• The Talk of the Town
• You Can't Take It with You
• The More the Merrier
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

• A Real Pain
• Stress Positions
• Between the Temples
• Good One
• Thelma

• When You Finish Saving the World
• Palm Trees and Power Lines
• Human Flowers of Flesh
• Personality Crisis: One Night Only
• M3GAN
• The Old Way
• Skinamarink
• The Seven Faces of Jane
• Maybe I Do
• Sick

...plus 193 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Three Colours: Blue
• Three Colours: White
• Three Colours: Red
• eXistenZ
• The Double Life of Véronique
• 2046
• The Getaway
• Titanic
• The Rocketeer
• Frozen

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

”Moviegoing bounced back during 2023, dominating the cultural conversation in a way we haven’t seen since before streaming and the pandemic ruined everything. The fact that a film as sophisticated and ambivalent as Oppenheimer could gross more than $950 million says great things about the future of movies and the people going to see them." - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/20/2023

• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Asteroid City
• May December
• Master Gardener
• Afire
• Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
• Beau Is Afraid
• Perfect Days
• John Wick: Chapter 4

”Not every first-time filmmaker comes out of the gate with a stone cold masterpiece, but a surprising number come pretty close. Debut features arrive in all shapes and sizes, as we can see from a wonderfully extensive retrospective running at the Coolidge Corner Theatre over the next few months in celebration of the venue’s expansion.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/01/2023

• Night of the Living Dead
• Get Out
• Eraserhead
• The 400 Blows
• Shiva Baby
• Citizen Kane

• Eileen
• Fallen Leaves
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Monster
• Dream Scenario
• Saltburn

“You know that horror films are always better with a crowd. Shocktober brings an embarrassment of riches for Boston area moviegoers looking for something even more terrifying than trying to park in Salem. With more than two dozen frightening films screening locally during the run up to All Hallows’ Eve, here are six favorites to get you started.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/25/2023

• Cat People
• The Exorcist
• The Others
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Howling
• Psycho

• A Dream Longer Than the Night
• The Strangler
• Foe
• Strange Way of Life
• Janet Planet
• The Woman on the Beach
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has ed
• Priscilla
• Last Summer
• Household Saints

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“At once a mystic oracle and half-kidding huckster, legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has spent his six-decade career shooting on seven different continents, chronicling humankind’s fraught relationship with a cruel and indifferent universe through thirty-four documentaries and twenty dramatic features, as well as dozens of shorts, operas and television programs.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/09/2023

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
• Stroszek
• Grizzly Man
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

“The styles and subject matter are all over the map. The one constant is a sense of endless possibility. With the liberation of location shooting, lightweight cameras and faster film stocks came a new language of expression, which manifested in many of these movies as an intoxicating irreverence, the feeling that old rules were made to be broken.” - North Shore Movies, 09/18/2023

• All the World's Memory
• Fool’s Mate
• All the Boys Are Called Patrick
• The Song of Styrene
• O Seasons, O Castles
• The Overworked
• A Story of Water
• Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
• Love Exists
• Janine

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“The series showcases a dozen of the director’s documentaries, shorts and dramatic features, headlined by a new 4K restoration of The Mother and the Whore. Films with such outsized reputations don’t always live up to them, but an afternoon spent finally catching up with Eustache’s masterpiece turned out to be one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life.” - WBUR's Arts & Culture, 09/05/2023

• The Mother and the Whore
• Robinson's Place
• Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
• Numéro zéro
• A Dirty Story
• Alix's Pictures

“Barbie is crammed with so many homages and allusions to classic films that we critics could spend the entire running time Ken-splaining all the references. A more enjoyable alternative can be found at the Brattle Theatre this week, where their Barbie’s Roots retrospective presents thirteen of director Greta Gerwig’s inspirations for her billion-dollar blockbuster.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/28/2023

• Josie and the Pussycats
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• All That Jazz
• Wings of Desire
• s Ha
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• A Matter of Life and Death

“The Coolidge's Hip-Hop At 50 celebration takes a dark detour with a week of gritty crime dramas. All four of these films pulsate with street-level views of American life unseen in suburban multiplexes until the music of the cities started a pop culture revolution. Hip-hop helped reinvent the cops and robbers genre for an era of gangbangers and crack cocaine.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/19/2023

• Clockers
• Belly
• Colors
• New Jack City

“‘The more you love movies the harder it is to make lists,’ says Tamm. ‘When people ask for my favorite film, lately I’ve been saying Singin’ In The Rain. Since lockdown, I must have watched it a dozen times. To see it in the same canon as Tokyo Story and 2001 is great. It’s a movie maybe some people wouldn’t think of as a foundational film, but it absolutely is.’” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/17/2023

• Singin' in the Rain
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Mulholland Drive
• Beau Travail
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• In the Mood for Love
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Tokyo Story
• Citizen Kane
• Vertigo

“Allen might be the only primary creative force of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who never became a household name. Hagiographies of that era tend to trend toward blowhard, masculine director types, but it was this prim and proper female cutter who redefined the shapes and sounds of the most fertile decade in American cinema.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/18/2023

• Odds Against Tomorrow
• The Hustler
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Serpico
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Night Moves
• The Missouri Breaks
• Reds
• Henry & June

“Scary movies allow us safe spaces where we can work out our anxieties. And there were few things scarier or more anxiety-inducing than sex during the AIDS crisis. Yet even separated by decades from this subtext, these movies still thrill because they understood that desire can (and sometimes should) feel dangerous and dirty. That’s the fun part.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/11/2023

• Poison Ivy
• Fear
• Body Double
• Wild Things
• Angel Heart
• Cat People
• Crimes of ion
• Single White Female

"'There’s the film part and there’s the festival part,' Tamm explains. 'The film part gets a lot of attention, but the festival part is just as important. The event-ness of it all. It’s about people coming together and interacting with each other and interacting with the filmmakers. People missed that. People missed Q&As, and filmmakers missed getting in front of audiences.'” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/24/2023

• STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Bad Press
• 20 Days in Mariupol
• Stonebreakers
• Master Gardener
• Kokomo City
• BlackBerry
• STARTING FROM ZERO
• Earlybird
• Past Lives

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“The staggeringly prolific South Korean filmmaker has directed 17 features in the past decade alone. But there’s comfort in the consistency of his preoccupations. Hong has spent his career exploring similar characters, situations and themes with a familiar stock company of actors so that the movies feel as if they flow into one another like a river.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/21/2023

• The Woman Who Ran
• In Front of Your Face
• Introduction
• Walk Up

“The three films are dense with ideas, offering a complexity of thought that stands in sad contrast to what es for discourse today. You can’t fit Baldwin’s worldview into a tweet. He’s funny and urbane, with no time for traditional talking points or the kind of self-congratulation you get from folks who make a big deal out of letting you know they have good politics.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/23/2023

• James Baldwin: From Another Place
• Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
• Baldwin's Nigger

“The city’s self-described 'sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream' boasts fourteen features and six shorts packages covering the whole waterfront of weird. From splattery horror to environmental terrorism to alien invasions and even some Scandinavian cringe comedy, there’s something here to blow just about anybody’s ears back.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/21/2023

• Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland
• Smoking Causes Coughing
• The Unheard
• Sick of Myself
• Spaghetti Junction
• The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
• Piaffe
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Rebel

“I know that there’s dialogue in Beau Travail, but I’ll be damned if I can ever any. Denis tells the story almost entirely through physicality and movement. Throbbing with barely-repressed homoeroticism, the movie is a mass of engorged muscles and entwined limbs; desire rerouted through conformity and cruelty in the rhythm of the night.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/06/2023

• Chocolat
• No Fear, No Die
• Beau Travail
• Trouble Every Day
• 35 Shots of Rum
• White Material

“Valentine’s Day is the most unnecessarily stressful holiday that isn’t New Year’s Eve. Couples risk being crushed under colossal expectations to come up with the perfect date, while the rest of us need to find someplace where we won’t feel self-conscious about being alone. As is my catch-all solution for most of life’s problems, I find going to the movies helps.” - WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/08/2023

• Titanic
• Casablanca
• The Princess Bride
• Before Sunrise
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind