NOIR CITY: Boston returns to its home at the Brattle Theatre, June 9-11 with eleven films celebrating their 75th anniversaries. FNF board member, film professor, and author Foster Hirsch will introduce the festival screenings. NOIR CITY opens with a double feature of Robert Siodmak's "Cry of the City", co-starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte, and Jules Dassin's "The Naked City", shot on location in New York City, starring Barry Fitzgerald. Five films will run on Saturday and four films will play on Sunday.

Saturday's lineup starts with "He Walked by Night", an influential police procedural, directed by Alfred L. Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann, photographed by perhaps the greatest film noir cinematographer, John Alton, and starring Richard Basehart. "Hollow Triumph" follows, directed by Steve Sekely, starring Joan Bennett and Paul Henreid. Rounding out the afternoon films is "The Spiritualist", lensed by John Alton, featuring Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, and Cathy O'Donnell. The evening films kick off with John Farrow's "The Big Clock," starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, and George Macready. Henry Hathaway's newspaper noir "Call Northside 777", the first film shot entirely on location in Chicago, follows with noteworthy performances by Jimmy Stewart and Richard Conte.

Sunday begins with a screening of Douglas Sirk's "Sleep, My Love" starring Claudette Colbert and featuring Don Ameche playing against type as a murderous husband. The second film of the day — Preston Sturges' black comedy "Unfaithfully Yours" also features an actor playing against type, Rex Harrison, as a murderous husband. The final evening of the festival begins with Anatole Litvak's adaption of Lucille Fletcher's renowned radio play, "Sorry, Wrong Number", starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. The festival of 1948 films finishes with a screening of George Sherman's "Larceny" featuring the incredible lineup of John Payne, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters, and Joan Caulfield.

BRATTLE BONUS: On Monday, June 12, The Brattle has programmed a bonus screening of Anthony Mann's "Raw Deal#. The 1948 film stars Dennis O'Keefe, Marsha Hunt, and Claire Trevor. This screening will not be hosted.Individual tickets, ticket packages, and film schedule are available on The Brattle's website: https://bit.ly/43SPL4O

Brattle Theatre in Harvard showing Goncharov (original cut!) on December 14th at 8:30pm! My friends and I already have tickets! Love this local area theatre! https://brattlefilm.org/coming-soon/

MADE IN MASSACHUSETTS Coming to The Brattle on Sunday

The Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA) is one of my favorite movie theaters on the planet! In the 5th row there is actually a Cruising In The Van Productions seat that my producer and I bought during their pledge drive in 2006. Now they are doing one of the coolest things, a big free event on Sunday January 13, 2024, Made in Massachusetts: 100 Years of Filmmaking the Bay State.

Here's the press release:

A one-time-only public screening of an epic 3+ hour chronological compilation of scenes from over 200 films and television shows shot in Massachusetts between 1922 and 2022. Highlighting recognizable locales from Martha’s Vineyard to Harvard Square to Great Barrington, along with bygone landmarks and Boston streets, and featuring James Cagney, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor, Luciano Pavarotti, Harrison Ford, and all the Afflecks and Wahlbergs you can handle. Compiled and edited by Adam Roffman and Vatche Arabian, who will be in attendance. 

Both Adam and Vatche are friends of mine and I'm sure they did an awesome job of curating. I hope some of the big films I've worked on like Monument Ave made the cut!

This is a free event with donations encouraged. For info: https://brattlefilm.org/special_events/made-in-massachusetts/

«Coming Soon • Free Screening & Discussion! After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem. Brandeis University’s Brandon Callender joins us Mon, Oct 30 for The Howling. Learn more at brattlefilm.org/movies/elements-of-cinema-the-howling/

Das Plakat „Framed: Art on Film“ des Brattle Theatre zeigt eine Vielzahl von Filmen über Kunst und Künstler. Eine ansprechende Visualisierung des Programms. Den ganzen Artikel gibt es hier: https://nordischepost.de/unterhaltung/design/framed-art-on-film-plakatentwurf-fuer-das-brattle-theatre/?feed_id=66380&_unique_id=6627b6fd48dfc

Affordable property. #Cambridge #HarvardSquare (at Brattle Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clq4tMnufEY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

films watched in february 2024

39. "kolobok" (1956, davydov) / 1st viewing / file 40. when tomorrow comes (1939, stahl) / 1st viewing / file 41. "rendezvous" (1976, lelouch) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 42. "my name is oona" (1971, nelson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 43. "back to the future predicts 9/11" (2015, alexander) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 44. "mondo elvis" (1984, corboy) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream 45. "the attitude factor" (1981, parker) / 2nd viewing / museum of home video stream 46. "the ugly little boy" (1977, morse / thompson) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 47. "invasion of the aluminum people" (1980, boone) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 48. passage à l'acte (1993, arnold) / 1st viewing / museum of home video stream 49. only angels have wings (1939, hawks) / 2nd viewing / dcp, brattle theatre 50. the talk of the town (1942, stevens) / 1st viewing / dcp, brattle theatre 51. the last picture show (1971, bogdanovich) / 3rd viewing / columbia classics 4k 52. the train (1965, frankenheimer) / 2nd viewing / kino lorber 4k 53. the lego batman movie (2017, mackay) / 1st viewing / blu-ray 54. no sex last night (1996, calle and shepard) / 1st viewing / le cinema club 55. barry lyndon (1975, kubrick) / 2nd viewing / 35mm, brattle theatre 56. ladies of leisure (1930, capra) / 2nd viewing / file 57. the raid (2011, evans) / 2nd viewing / 4K 58. misery (1990, reiner) / no idea what viewing / scream factory blu-ray 59. the whisperers (1967, forbes) / 1st viewing / file 60. thinner (1996, holland) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray 61. the song of the scarlet flower (1938, tulio) / 1st viewing / file 62. the curse (2024, fielder & safdie) / 1st viewing / paramount w/ showtime 63. red lips (1995, farmer) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray 64. video diary of a lost girl (2012, denniberg) / 1st viewing / agfa blu-ray 65. drugstore cowboy (1989, van sant) / 2nd viewing / criterion channel 66. "beanstalk bunny" (1955, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 67. "kit for kat" (1948, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 68. "the bee-deviled bruin" (1949, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 69. "robin hood daffy" (1958, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 70. "daffy duck hunt" (1949, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 71. "piker's peak" (1957, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 72. "wet hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 73. "now, hare this" (1958, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 74. "water, water every hare" (1952, jones) / 35mm, brattle theatre 75. "bill of hare" (1962, mckimson) / 35mm, brattle theatre 76. "knighty knight bugs" (1958, freleng) / 35mm, brattle theatre 77. muppets from space (1998, hill) / 2nd viewing / blu-ray 78. josie and the pussycats (2001, kaplan & elfont) / no idea what viewing / criterion channel 79. the big house (1930, hill) / 4th viewing / file 80. liar liar (1997, shadyac) / 2nd viewing / shout factory blu-ray 81. no country for old men (2007, coen brothers) / 2nd viewing / paramount plus 82. "the big snooze" (1946, clampett) / looney tunes golden collection vol. 2

Might be a humblebrag but failed at fixing my cufflinks but had a great time at the Broscars tonight! (at Brattle Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpt7dgEMdWY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

me jumping on this 24 min after psb sent out an email about this event lmao

New NOIR CITY festival dates have been added for 2024!

CONFIRMED 2024 NOIR CITY DATES

NOIR CITY: Seattle: Feb 16-22 SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Seattle, WA

NOIR CITY: Hollywood: Mar 22-31 Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, CA

NOIR CITY: Boston: Jun 14-16 The Brattle, Cambridge, MA

NOIR CITY: Portland: Jul 19-21 Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR

NOIR CITY: Chicago: Sep 6-12 Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL

NOIR CITY: Detroit: Sep 20-22 Redford Theatre, Detroit, MI

NOIR CITY: D.C.: Oct 11-24 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

NOIR CITY: Philadelphia: Nov 15-17 The Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville, PA

*Other U.S. cities will be added as festival dates are confirmed.

Remember… Boston has had an Irish population since the first four shiploads from Ulster arrived in 1718.

Il materiale di origine: Shawn Fitzgerald / Oscar Isaac onstage at Independent Film Festival Boston Q&A screening of Inside Llewyn Davis at Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. (7th November, 2013)

BEST MOVIE-GOING EVENT OF 2022

The best movie-going event of the year is a little different than the Best Movie of the Year. This year there were a few memorable times at the movie theater: going back to the movie theater for the first time in months and seeing 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home at a time when I needed the lift that movies give me; attending the in-person Independent Film Festival Boston; bringing my son to see Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish; or seeing Moonage Daydream at Coolidge Corner Theatre. But my Best Movie-Going Event of 2022:

1. Band of Outsiders (10/12/22 at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge)

On our wedding anniversary, my wife and I had dinner in Harvard Square. We got out early enough that we went next door to the Brattle just as they were about to screen a 35mm print of Band of Outsiders as part of their tribute to Jean-Luc Godard. This has always been one of my favorite Godard films and it was my first time seeing it on the big screen. When my wife and I first met we bonded over French cinema and particularly Godard, this being one of our shared favorites and now we got to see it together on our 14th anniversary!