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Boston Hassle: “Review: Midnight In Paris (2019) dir. Roni Moore & James Blagden”

Posted October 21, 2019

Brown Daily Herald: “Diving into ‘The Lighthouse’ with Director Robert Eggers”

Posted October 21, 2019

Reviews for ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’

Posted October 21, 2019

This Week’s Staff Picks: ‘Gundermann’, ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’, and Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Lifeboat’

Posted October 21, 2019

Cambridge Day: “Alien chest-bursting; lucky grandmothers; nature docs from rainforest, African plains”

Posted October 20, 2019

Cambridge Day: “‘Man Who Laughs,’ inspiration for The Joker, plays Friday at Brattle, with music”

Posted October 17, 2019

Boston Globe Highlights ‘Midnight in Paris’ and ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’

Posted October 17, 2019

Boston Globe: “A Pair of Festivals That Explore Identity”

Posted October 17, 2019

Boston Hassle: “Review: The Lighthouse (2019) dir. Robert Eggers”

Posted October 17, 2019

Just Added: Bradley’s Almanac Presents ‘Strange Negotiations’

Posted October 16, 2019
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  • Nov 11

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    Instagram post 17843543317786975 Film critic and author J. Hoberman joins us Tuesday 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 11

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    Instagram post 17904277477383577 What's for lunch? Friday at 7, come on down to the Brattle for International Pancake Film Festival's SCI-FI EXTRAVAGANZA! Visit brattlefilm.org for info & tickets (link in profile)

    Nov 11

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    Instagram post 17904459106391762 Don't miss out—tickets for holiday screenings of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE go on sale today at 12pm! Please visit brattlefilm.org for details (link in profile).

    Nov 11

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    Instagram post 17849893273709845 Sondra Locke 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 10

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    Instagram post 18074853631179262 Alex Cox's WALKER (1987) screens 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 9

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    Instagram post 17915467006363532 Repost from @o_b_driftwood • #gizmo #backstageatthebratt #gremlins #joedante #reelfilm

    Nov 9

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    Instagram post 17859552382589370 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 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 9

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    Instagram post 17894482102412477 "Your move, creep." Peter Weller is ROBOCOP (1987), screening 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 9

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    Instagram post 18090116425119568 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 9

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    Instagram post 17852057497669696 Mark your calendar—tickets for holiday screenings of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE go on sale Monday at 12pm! Please visit brattlefilm.org for details (link in profile).

    Nov 9

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    Instagram post 17922346846345823 Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty 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 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
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