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Since 1933, the Coolidge Corner Theatre has been showing the best classic, foreign, indie, & midnight cult films.

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Announcing the first ever Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award

The Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award was created to spotlight the next generation of filmmaking talent. As we look to our future—which we are doing a lot of, with our theatre expansion slated to open later this year—we want to spotlight the bold and innovative film artists who represent the future of cinema.

Our 2021 Student Deals Are Here

Welcome back, students! While we offer special student pricing on tickets and memberships throughout the year, in September and October we expand those even further.

Welcome to Wes World

In celebration of the release of his latest, The French Dispatch (opening Friday, October 22), we present this five-film 35mm retrospective of some of Wes Anderson's most delightful creations.

Recent reviews

Opened on Friday, September 24.

Followed by a panel discussion about tackling race, racism and US History in American classrooms. Participants included filmmaker Rachel Boynton; Museum of African-American History's L’Merchie Frazier; Boston Latin School's Cate Arnold; and Civil War historian and educator Kevin Levin (moderator).

Introduced by Harvard physicist Dr. Jacob Barandes.

Cinematographer Alexander Dynan joined us for a Q&A moderated by DigBoston's Jake Mulligan.

Liked reviews

Annette

Annette

★★★★

During Henry's standup routine I was like "this is awful, lol, what a funny joke about bad artsy white dude standup" and then after the movie I learned it's explicitly parodying Bo Burnham, whose work I have never seen, and now I find it even funnier.

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

★★★★★

This influence this had on Star Wars is just staggering. Truly a masterpiece by Kurosawa.

I've seen this film thrice before, so going to see it on 35mm didn't reveal anything thematically new to me. What was beautiful was the experience of a.) seeing an actual tangible film containing Seven Samurai fill a wall in front of me and b.) experiencing everyone's reaction around me.

I always knew there was some humor in Seven Samurai, but to hear the packed house flood with roucous laughter really surprised me. There is something extremely universal with Kurosawa's…

They Live

They Live

★★★★½

keith forever