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Tuesday, October 27

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  • Oct 26

    Open
    Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Vi Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/hamonrye (link in profile) Something like a DIY David Lynch version of Dazed and Confused, Tyler Taormina’s lo-fi, high-concept film examines that ineffable moment when suburban teens either ‘get out’ or stay stuck in their smalltown lives. In HAM ON RYE, it’s the Big Night and the kids are getting restless. Gathering in their cliques to prep for the life-changing evening to come, they gossip and gripe about their classmates; get dressed up in their Sunday Best; cruise the streets on foot or in their friends’ cars; pose for awkward pictures while being smothered by nostalgic relatives; and hypothesize about who they might hook up with. But there is something off about their conversations – they aren’t heading for the usual prom night rite of passage but, rather, a strange ritual that takes place at the local deli. #HamOnRye #TylerTaormina #Eric Berger #CarsonLund #HaleyBodell #ColeDevine #AudreyBoos #GabriellaHerrera #GregoryFalatek #TimothyTaylor #LoriBethDenberg #DannyTamberelli #AaronSchwartz #ClaytonSnyder #suburbia #teens #comingofage #teenagers #allegory #indiefilm #indiemovie #ensemblecast

    Oct 26

    Open
    Join us next for INMANWEEN, featuring local take o Join us next for INMANWEEN, featuring local take out and two spooky movies! Updates coming soon, visit brattlefilm.org/inmanween for more info (link in profile)

    Oct 26

    Open
    "An unmissable response to an unending emergency.” – The Guardian New Restoration! Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with LA HAINE, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Cassel), Hubert (Koundé), and Saïd (Taghmaoui) – a Jew, an African, and an Arab – give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. – Janus Films New Restoration! LA HAINE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/lahaine (link in profile) #LaHaine #MathieuKassovitz #VincentCassel #HubertKoundé #SaïdTaghmaoui #immigration #racism #BLM #France #Paris #JanusFilms

    Oct 26

    Open
    It's time!!! Tickets are now on sale to everyone f It's time!!! Tickets are now on sale to everyone for @iffboston's virtual #FallFocus! Browse the schedule, learn how virtual screenings will work, order an all-access pass or individual tickets, and more: iffboston.org/fallfocus (link in profile)

    Oct 26

    Open
    "Genuine noir… an essential and previously missi "Genuine noir… an essential and previously missing link in mid-20th-century cinema.” – Eddie Muller, Film Comment New Restoration! NATIVE SON is still available in our Virtual Screening Room. Watch now at brattlefilm.org/nativeson (link in profile) #nativeson #richardwright #jeanwallace #nicholasjoy #pierrechenal #filmnoir #kinolorber #libraryofcongress #restoration #fernandomartinpena #argentinasonofilm

    Oct 25

    Open
    “A work of gentle, genuine American surrealism — a lo-fi love song to those left behind by character and chance.” – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/hamonrye (link in profile) Something like a DIY David Lynch version of Dazed and Confused, Tyler Taormina’s lo-fi, high-concept film examines that ineffable moment when suburban teens either ‘get out’ or stay stuck in their smalltown lives. In HAM ON RYE, it’s the Big Night and the kids are getting restless. Gathering in their cliques to prep for the life-changing evening to come, they gossip and gripe about their classmates; get dressed up in their Sunday Best; cruise the streets on foot or in their friends’ cars; pose for awkward pictures while being smothered by nostalgic relatives; and hypothesize about who they might hook up with. But there is something off about their conversations – they aren’t heading for the usual prom night rite of passage but, rather, a strange ritual that takes place at the local deli. #HamOnRye #TylerTaormina #EricBerger #CarsonLund #HaleyBodell #ColeDevine #AudreyBoos #GabriellaHerrera #GregoryFalatek #TimothyTaylor #LoriBethDenberg #DannyTamberelli #AaronSchwartz #ClaytonSnyder #suburbia #teens #comingofage #teenagers #allegory #indiefilm #indiemovie #ensemblecast

    Oct 25

    Open
    Philippe Lacôte's mesmerizing meditation on the a Philippe Lacôte's mesmerizing meditation on the art of storytelling and its role in survival, NIGHT OF THE KINGS, screens Fri 10/30 as part of @IFFBoston Fall Focus. Tickets on sale now at iffboston.org #IFFBoston #FallFocus #NightOfTheKings

    Oct 25

    Open
    Now Showing! New Restoration! Sidney Poitier and H Now Showing! New Restoration! Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte narrate William Greaves' NATIONTIME, documenting the historic National Black Political Convention of 1972. Watch the full trailer & learn more at brattlefilm.org/nationtime (link in profile). #Nationtime #WilliamGreaves #SidneyPoitier #HarryBelafonte #AmiriBaraka #CharlesDiggs #WalterFauntroy #DickGregory #RichardHatcher #IsaacHayes #JesseJackson #CorettaScottKing #QueenMotherMoore #RichardRoundtree #BobbySeale #BettyShabazz #BlackPanthers #PanAfricanism #PUSH #NationalBlackPoliticalConvention #politics #activism #racialequality #equality #reparations

    Oct 25

    Open
    An unsentimental elegy to the American West, SWEET An unsentimental elegy to the American West, SWEETGRASS follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. SWEETGRASS was one of the first theatrical releases from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, an experimental academic lab that explores the intersection of art and ethnography, and remains a remarkable and hauntingly gorgeous film to this day. SWEETGRASS is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room. Learn more at brattlefilm.org/sweetgrass (link in profile) #Sweetgrass #IlisaBarbash #LucienCastaingTaylor #AmericanWest #cowboys #sheep #shepherd #sheepherding #herding #Montana #documentary #sensoryethnography #ethnography

    Oct 25

    Open
    Join us Friday for INMANWEEN, featuring local take Join us Friday for INMANWEEN, featuring local take out and two spooky movies! Updates coming soon, visit brattlefilm.org/inmanween for more info (link in profile)

    Oct 25

    Open
    Free Screening! Using intercepted satellite footag Free Screening! Using intercepted satellite footage from official broadcasts including footage of unsuspecting 1992 presidential hopefuls, this film presents American politics in a fascinating, unfiltered form. The DocYard presents FEED Oct 26-31. Info: thedocyard.com (link in profile)

    Oct 24

    Open
    Area Premiere! WHITE RIOT is now showing in our Vi Area Premiere! WHITE RIOT is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/whiteriot (link in profile) WHITE RIOT focuses on the birth of Rock Against Racism (RAR) and their early successes leading up to the landmark Carnival Against Racism on April 30, 1978, when 100,000 people marched six miles from Trafalgar Square to the East End of London (a National Front hotspot) for an outdoor concert at Victoria Park featuring The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, and more. WHITE RIOT is about a moment in time when music changed the world… when a generation challenged the status quo. It’s Woodstock meets the March on Washington, punk-style! #WhiteRiot #whiteriotdocumentary #musicdocumentary #punk #punkrock #antiracism #rockagainstracism #TheClash #SteelPulse #XRaySpex #RubikaShah #RedSaunders #DennisBovell #MykaellRiley #Sham69

    Oct 24

    Open
    "Beautiful. Shocking. Moving. Haunting. Lovely. La "Beautiful. Shocking. Moving. Haunting. Lovely. Lasting." – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times Kenadi Delacerna stars in ONCE UPON A RIVER, the highly anticipated new film based on the bestselling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Watch now: brattlefilm.org/once (link in profile). #onceuponariver #HaroulaRose #KenadiDelaCerna #JohnAshton #TatankaMeans #AjuawakKapashesit #KennEHead #LindsayPulsipher #BonnieJoCampbell #NativeAmerican #MargoCrane #Michigan #midwesterngothicamerican #gothicamericana #freedom

    Oct 24

    Open
    Next Week! Free Screening! Using intercepted satel Next Week! Free Screening! Using intercepted satellite footage from official broadcasts including footage of unsuspecting 1992 presidential hopefuls, this film presents American politics in a fascinating, unfiltered form. The DocYard presents FEED October 26-31. Visit thedocyard.com for complete details (link in profile)

    Oct 24

    Open
    New Restoration! Mathieu Kassovitz took the film w New Restoration! Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with LA HAINE, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Cassel), Hubert (Koundé), and Saïd (Taghmaoui) – a Jew, an African, and an Arab – give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. – Janus Films New Restoration! LA HAINE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/lahaine (link in profile) #LaHaine #MathieuKassovitz #VincentCassel #HubertKoundé #SaïdTaghmaoui #immigration #racism #BLM #France #Paris #JanusFilms

    Oct 24

    Open
    New Restoration! Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafont New Restoration! Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte narrate William Greaves' NATIONTIME, documenting the historic National Black Political Convention of 1972. Watch now at brattlefilm.org/nationtime (link in profile). #Nationtime #WilliamGreaves #SidneyPoitier #HarryBelafonte #AmiriBaraka #CharlesDiggs #WalterFauntroy #DickGregory #RichardHatcher #IsaacHayes #JesseJackson #CorettaScottKing #QueenMotherMoore #RichardRoundtree #BobbySeale #BettyShabazz #BlackPanthers #PanAfricanism #PUSH #NationalBlackPoliticalConvention #politics #activism #racialequality #equality #reparations

    Oct 24

    Open
    “Awe-inspiring… Hilariously weird” – Jim H “Awe-inspiring… Hilariously weird” – Jim Hoberman, Village Voice An unsentimental elegy to the American West, SWEETGRASS follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. SWEETGRASS is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room. Learn more at brattlefilm.org/sweetgrass (link in profile) #Sweetgrass #IlisaBarbash #LucienCastaingTaylor #AmericanWest #cowboys #sheep #shepherd #sheepherding #herding #Montana #documentary #sensoryethnography #ethnography

    Oct 24

    Open
    Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Vi Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/hamonrye (link in profile) Something like a DIY David Lynch version of Dazed and Confused, Tyler Taormina’s lo-fi, high-concept film examines that ineffable moment when suburban teens either ‘get out’ or stay stuck in their smalltown lives. In HAM ON RYE, it’s the Big Night and the kids are getting restless. Gathering in their cliques to prep for the life-changing evening to come, they gossip and gripe about their classmates; get dressed up in their Sunday Best; cruise the streets on foot or in their friends’ cars; pose for awkward pictures while being smothered by nostalgic relatives; and hypothesize about who they might hook up with. But there is something off about their conversations – they aren’t heading for the usual prom night rite of passage but, rather, a strange ritual that takes place at the local deli. #HamOnRye #TylerTaormina #Eric Berger #CarsonLund #HaleyBodell #ColeDevine #AudreyBoos #GabriellaHerrera #GregoryFalatek #TimothyTaylor #LoriBethDenberg #DannyTamberelli #AaronSchwartz #ClaytonSnyder #suburbia #teens #comingofage #teenagers #allegory #indiefilm #indiemovie #ensemblecast

    Oct 23

    Open
    “Ham on Rye has the uncanny echo of a disturbing “Ham on Rye has the uncanny echo of a disturbing real-life dream. A hauntingly off-kilter revision of the end-of-high-school drama.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker Area Premiere! HAM ON RYE is now showing in our Virtual Screening Room: brattlefilm.org/hamonrye (link in profile) Something like a DIY David Lynch version of Dazed and Confused, Tyler Taormina’s lo-fi, high-concept film examines that ineffable moment when suburban teens either ‘get out’ or stay stuck in their smalltown lives. In HAM ON RYE, it’s the Big Night and the kids are getting restless. Gathering in their cliques to prep for the life-changing evening to come, they gossip and gripe about their classmates; get dressed up in their Sunday Best; cruise the streets on foot or in their friends’ cars; pose for awkward pictures while being smothered by nostalgic relatives; and hypothesize about who they might hook up with. But there is something off about their conversations – they aren’t heading for the usual prom night rite of passage but, rather, a strange ritual that takes place at the local deli. #HamOnRye #TylerTaormina #Eric Berger #CarsonLund #HaleyBodell #ColeDevine #AudreyBoos #GabriellaHerrera #GregoryFalatek #TimothyTaylor #LoriBethDenberg #DannyTamberelli #AaronSchwartz #ClaytonSnyder #suburbia #teens #comingofage #teenagers #allegory #indiefilm #indiemovie #ensemblecast

    Oct 23

    Open
    Heavily censored on its release, the 1951 adaptati Heavily censored on its release, the 1951 adaptation of NATIVE SON starring author Richard Wright is now available in an exciting new restoration. Watch now at brattlefilm.org/nativeson (link in profile) #nativeson #richardwright #jeanwallace #nicholasjoy #pierrechenal #filmnoir #kinolorber #libraryofcongress #restoration #fernandomartinpena #argentinasonofilm
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