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Tickets for ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ on Sale Monday, November 11 at 12:00 PM

Posted November 8, 2019

Cambridge Day: “Elizabeth Moss does a spin on Courtney Love, and we explore Reagan era on the big screen”

Posted November 4, 2019

Cambridge Day: “With IFFB Fall Focus packed with passion, local filmgoers can forget about Sundance”

Posted October 30, 2019

Wicked Local Cambridge: “Harvard Film Archive to present ‘Make My Day’ cinematic event”

Posted October 30, 2019

Our November-December/Holidays 2019 Schedule Is Here!

Posted October 28, 2019

The Artery: “9 Films That Prime For Awards Season At IFFBoston Fall Focus”

Posted October 28, 2019

The Arts Fuse: “Film Review: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ — ‘A Love Story With Equality'”

Posted October 27, 2019

Boston Herald: “Fans of ‘Alien’ rejoice”

Posted October 25, 2019

Tufts Daily: “Weekender: Art, oppression, resilience converge at Boston Palestine Film Festival”

Posted October 24, 2019

Added Show: ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ on Tuesday 10/29

Posted October 21, 2019
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  • Nov 8

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    Instagram post 17848424599729379 "The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present…" THE TERMINATOR (1984) screens Sunday at 2:30 & 7:00 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. Double Feature with THE RUNNING MAN – visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile). . . . #TheTerminator #JamesCameron #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #LindaHamilton #MichaelBiehn #PaulWinfield #LanceHenriksen #illbeback #skynet

    Nov 8

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    Instagram post 17928086932336653 Joe Dante's GREMLINS screens Saturday at 3:30 as part of Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era, co-presented with @harvardfilmarchive. Info & tickets at brattlefilm.org (link in profile) . . . #Gremlins #JoeDante #ZachGalligan #PhoebeCates #HoytAxton #CoreyFeldman #DickMiller #JudgeReinhold #ChuckJones

    Nov 8

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    Instagram post 17869582000509212 Steven Spielberg's E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL screens on 35mm tomorrow, Saturday, at 1:00 as part of Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era, co-presented with Harvard Film Archive. Visit brattlefilm.org (link in profile) for full series lineup, info & tickets. . . . #ETtheExtraterrestrial #StevenSpielberg #HenryThomas #DrewBarrymore #RobertMacNaughton #DeeWallace #PeterCoyote #MakeMyDay #ReaganEra

    Nov 8

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    Instagram post 18010220443258063 Film critic and author J. Hoberman joins us Tuesday 11/12 at 7:00 to introduce WARGAMES (1983). “The movie that most fascinated Reagan, however, was WarGames… The premise suggested a Spielbergian remake of Dr. Strangelove: a high school computer whiz (twenty-year-old Matthew Broderick) hacks into the North American Defense Command, mistaking one of its programs, Global Thermonuclear War, for a sophisticated computer game. The fate of the world is in his hands, along with his accomplice (twenty-one-year-old Ally Sheedy).” – J. Hoberman, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan . . . #Wargames #JohnBadham #MatthewBroderick #AllySheedy #DabneyColeman #JohnWood #JHoberman #WOPR #coldwar #scifi #sciencefiction #IMSAI8080 #cinemaincontext

    Nov 7

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    Instagram post 17883646288452328 Clint Eastwood in SUDDEN IMPACT (1983), screening Sunday 11/17 at 7pm as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. Info & tickets at brattlefilm.org (link in profile) . A right-wing vigilante if ever there was one, Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan found his most successful vehicle yet (and his famous catchphrase) during the heyday of Reagan’s fearmongering. After yet another violent incident in San Francisco, Harry is sent out of town to investigate a murder and unwittingly falls for the perpetrator – a fellow vigilante on a mission of revenge against the men that raped her and her sister. . . . #SuddenImpact #ClintEastwood #SondraLocke #PatHingle #BradfordDillman #AlbertPopwell #DirtyHarry

    Nov 7

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    Instagram post 18029740411236009 Isabelle Adjani in Ishtar (1987), screening Wednesday 11/13 at 7:00 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. . Though widely derided as one of the biggest cinematic misfires of the ‘80s, Elaine May’s ISHTAR has begun to be reassessed in recent years – perhaps it was just to sharp a satire for audiences at the time. Released just 10 days into the Iran-Contra hearings, this homage to the Road to… films of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope crossed with a left-wing critique of Reagan-era policies stars Beatty and Hoffman as a pair of witless American entertainers who find themselves embroiled in a conflict between North African rebels and the CIA. . . . #Ishtar #ElaineMay #WarrenBeatty #DustinHoffman #IsabelleAdjani #CharlesGrodin

    Nov 7

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    Instagram post 18113148181054069 Set in 2019 after a global economic meltdown has left the U.S. under a totalitarian regime, THE RUNNING MAN features Arnold Schwarzenegger as a government scapegoat sent to compete on a deadly reality TV game show. THE RUNNING MAN (1987) screens Sunday 11/10 at 4:45 & 9:15 in a double feature with THE TERMINATOR. Visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile). . . . #TheRunningMan #PaulMichaelGlaser #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #MariaConchitaAlonso #YaphetKotto #JimBrown #JesseVentura #RichardDawson

    Nov 7

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    Instagram post 17896960696399319 Behind the scenes with Paul Verhoeven and Peter Weller • ROBOCOP (1987) screens Sunday 11/17 at 9:30 in a double feature with SUDDEN IMPACT, part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. Info & tickets at brattlefilm.org (link in profile) . Paul Verhoeven’s savage satire of American law-and-order and corporate contracts, ROBOCOP features Peter Weller as a good cop who is brutally murdered by a sadistic gang – only to be resurrected as a cyborg peacekeeper. . . . #Robocop #PaulVerhoeven #PeterWeller #NancyAllen #DanOHerlihy #RonnieCox #KurtwoodSmith #MiguelFerrer #RayWise #cyborg #police #satire #deltacity

    Nov 6

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    Instagram post 17925174631331637 Ed Harris, Rene Auberjonois, Xander Berkeley, Karl Braun, John Diehl, J.D. Silvester, and Keith Szarabajka in WALKER (1987) screening Wednesday 11/13 at 5:00 & 9:15 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. . A subversive, punk-infused takedown of American interventionalism, Alex Cox’s improbably-funded-by-a-major-studio WALKER ties the foreign policy of the Reagan era to the batsh*t crazy exploits of William Walker – an American adventurer who essentially conquered Nicaragua in 1855. . . . #Walker #AlexCox #EdHarris #RichardMasur #ReneAuberjonois #SyRichardson #XanderBerkeley #JohnDiehl #PeterBoyle #MarleeMatlin #AlfonsoArau

    Nov 6

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    Instagram post 18079190230089523 Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor in THE TERMINATOR (1984), screening this Sunday at 2:30 & 7:00 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. Double Feature with THE RUNNING MAN – visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile). . . . #TheTerminator #JamesCameron #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #LindaHamilton #MichaelBiehn #PaulWinfield #LanceHenriksen #illbeback #skynet

    Nov 6

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    Instagram post 17970386611293139 Tom Cruise stars in RISKY BUSINESS, screening this Friday at 10:30 as part of Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era, co-presented with Harvard Film Archive. Visit brattlefilm.org (link in profile) for full series lineup, info & tickets. . . . #RiskyBusiness #PaulBrickman #TomCruise #RebeccaDeMornay #JoePantoliano #CurtisArmstrong #RichardMasur #BronsonPinchot #MakeMyDay #ReaganEra

    Nov 6

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    Instagram post 18009610531258991 Tonight at 8:30! Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, and Madonna star in DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, screening as part of our series MAKE MY DAY: THE CINEMATIC IMAGINATION OF THE REAGAN ERA. Steeped in the eclectic junk-shop charm of a long-lost Downtown New York, Susan Seidelman's DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN follows a bored suburban housewife (Rosanna Arquette) as she becomes fascinated by the free-spirited Susan (Madonna) and, after a bout with amnesia, assumes her identity. . This series takes place at the Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle, with film selections inspired by J. Hoberman's new book, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. See the link in our profile for film lineup, guest appearances, and tickets.

    Nov 5

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    Instagram post 18036786892222645 Whereas Spielberg took suburban sentimentality and fairy tales as inspiration for E.T., Joe Dante draws from Looney Tunes, monster movies, pop culture, and a general hip irreverence for this classic story of a boy and his gremlin. GREMLINS screens this Saturday at 3:30 as part of Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era, co-presented with @harvardfilmarchive. Info & tickets at brattlefilm.org (link in profile) . . . #Gremlins #JoeDante #ZachGalligan #PhoebeCates #HoytAxton #CoreyFeldman #DickMiller #JudgeReinhold #ChuckJones

    Nov 5

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    Instagram post 17911676497370086 Steven Spielberg's E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL screens on 35mm Saturday at 1:00 as part of Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era, co-presented with Harvard Film Archive. Visit brattlefilm.org (link in profile) for full series lineup, info & tickets. . . . #ETtheExtraterrestrial #StevenSpielberg #HenryThomas #DrewBarrymore #RobertMacNaughton #DeeWallace #PeterCoyote #MakeMyDay #ReaganEra

    Nov 5

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    Instagram post 17843100622786270 David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) screens tonight at 10 as part of MAKE MY DAY: THE CINEMATIC IMAGINATION OF THE REAGAN ERA. This series takes place at the Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle, with film selections inspired by J. Hoberman's new book, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. See the link in our profile for film lineup, guest appearances, and tickets.

    Nov 5

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    Instagram post 17849284882695866 Film critic and author J. Hoberman joins us Tuesday 11/12 at 7:00 to introduce WARGAMES (1983). “The movie that most fascinated Reagan, however, was WarGames… The premise suggested a Spielbergian remake of Dr. Strangelove: a high school computer whiz (twenty-year-old Matthew Broderick) hacks into the North American Defense Command, mistaking one of its programs, Global Thermonuclear War, for a sophisticated computer game. The fate of the world is in his hands, along with his accomplice (twenty-one-year-old Ally Sheedy).” – J. Hoberman, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan . . . #Wargames #JohnBadham #MatthewBroderick #AllySheedy #DabneyColeman #JohnWood #JHoberman #WOPR #coldwar #scifi #sciencefiction #IMSAI8080 #cinemaincontext

    Nov 4

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    Instagram post 17848246693709657 "Who loves you and who do you love?" Set in 2019 after a global economic meltdown has left the U.S. under a totalitarian regime, THE RUNNING MAN features Arnold Schwarzenegger as a government scapegoat sent to compete on a deadly reality TV game show. THE RUNNING MAN (1987) screens Sunday 11/10 at 4:45 & 9:15 in a double feature with THE TERMINATOR. Visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile). . . . #TheRunningMan #PaulMichaelGlaser #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #MariaConchitaAlonso #YaphetKotto #JimBrown #JesseVentura #RichardDawson

    Nov 4

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    Instagram post 17860934071577133 TRUE STORIES (1986) • David Byrne, frontman for one of the decade’s most iconic bands, the Talking Heads, takes to the director’s chair with this exuberantly quirky 1980’s time capsule: a film about a bunch of people from Virgil, Texas. . TRUE STORIES screens Tuesday at 8pm as part of MAKE MY DAY: THE CINEMATIC IMAGINATION OF THE REAGAN ERA. This series takes place at the Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle, with film selections inspired by J. Hoberman's new book, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. See the link in our profile for film lineup, guest appearances, and tickets.

    Nov 4

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    Instagram post 17843351197775988 Behind the scenes with Linda Hamilton and John Cameron • THE TERMINATOR screens Sunday 11/10 at 2:30 & 7:00 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. Double Feature with THE RUNNING MAN – visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile). . . . #TheTerminator #JamesCameron #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #LindaHamilton #MichaelBiehn #PaulWinfield #LanceHenriksen #illbeback #skynet

    Nov 4

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    Instagram post 18079167403184672 Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman ride a camel in ISHTAR, screening Wednesday 11/13 at 7:00 as part of our series, Make My Day: The Cinematic Imagination of the Reagan Era. . Though widely derided as one of the biggest cinematic misfires of the ‘80s, Elaine May’s ISHTAR has begun to be reassessed in recent years – perhaps it was just to sharp a satire for audiences at the time. Released just 10 days into the Iran-Contra hearings, this homage to the Road to… films of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope crossed with a left-wing critique of Reagan-era policies stars Beatty and Hoffman as a pair of witless American entertainers who find themselves embroiled in a conflict between North African rebels and the CIA. . . . #Ishtar #ElaineMay #WarrenBeatty #DustinHoffman #IsabelleAdjani #CharlesGrodin
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