Closing Night Film BAND AID, the refreshingly raw, real, and hilarious feature debut from Zoe Lister-Jones, is the story of a couple, Anna (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally), who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In … Continue reading Band Aid | IFFBoston Closing Night at The Coolidge →

THE KALAMPAG TRACKING AGENCY May 8, 2017 (Mon) - 8:00pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre Presented in conjunction with Crows and Sparrows, Balagan welcomes Manila-based filmmaker and curator Shireen Seno to present a program of Filipino experimental film and video from the past three decades. The Kalampag Tracking Agency is an ongoing curatorial initiative of Shireen Seno … Continue reading Balagan Films | Shireen Seno (curator), Experimental Films →

The 30-year odyssey of the Grateful Dead was the most unlikely success story in rock ’n’ roll history. Famously averse to publicity and seemingly incapable of recording radio-friendly hits, they flouted music-industry convention by giving their live music away to a global  network of tape traders and becoming the highest-grossing concert act in America through … Continue reading Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead →

Worpswede, northern Germany, 1900. From the moment they meet, Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn sense a special connection. Their shared passion for painting grows into a great love. They marry, but the life they lead as a couple is far removed from the conventions of their time. It’s a relationship rendered in rich colors and … Continue reading Paula | Goethe Institute Film at The Coolidge →

The Bad Batch, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour After A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour brings us a savage dystopian fairytale where society's rejects are just trying to make ends meat. The Bad Batch follows Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying … Continue reading The Bad Batch | special screening at The Coolidge followed by director Q&A →

Cinema Jukebox D.A. Pennebaker (Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) uses his signature cinéma vérité style to record the paradigm-shattering weekend of 1967's Monterey International Pop Festival. This up-close documentary brings to the screen a vibrant encapsulation of an entire decade, as we are witness to the Summer of … Continue reading Monterey Pop | Coolidge Theatre →

Brookline Village Library will present a showing of the powerful and uplifting documentary Our Mockingbird. This ground-breaking film relates the experiences of students in two high schools in Birmingham, Alabama, one predominantly black and the other predominantly white, as they come together to put on a play based on the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The filmmaker, … Continue reading Our Mockingbird | Documentary →