The Brattle Theatre

Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1969 Language: French Starring: Antoine Vitez, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Leonid Kogan, Marie-Christine Barrault In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales”, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to […]

Director: Fred F. Sears Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956 Starring: Donald Curtis, Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum, Thomas Browne Henry With stop motion animated UFOs created by Ray Harryhausen, EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS gives us another tale of Earth under threat from a full-on alien invasion while human scientists embark on a desperate hunt for a way […]

Director: Byron Haskin Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953 Starring: Ann Robinson, Frank Kreig, Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin H.G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi novel about a seemingly indestructible foe from outer space comes to vivid life in this saturated Technicolor 1950s classic. Tuesday: Double feature with EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS

Director: Rosa von Praunheim Run Time: 97 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1979 Language: German w/ English subtitles Starring: Divine, Edward Caton, Gil Fontaine, Paul Ambrose, Tally Brown New Digital Restoration! Both a loving portrait of a larger-than-life personality and a vivid record of New York’s 1970s downtown demimonde, this captivating documentary follows Tally Brown—cabaret chanteuse, underground film star, and a staple of Andy […]

Director: Mary Harron Run Time: 103 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1996 Starring: Anna Thomson, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton New 4K Restoration! The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose […]

Director: William Wyler Run Time: 155 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1968 Starring: Anne Francis, Barbra Streisand, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon Friday Film Matinee! 35mm Screening! IB Technicolor Print! The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to […]

Director: Ted Kotcheff Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1982 Starring: Bill McKinney, Brian Dennehy, Jack Starrett, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone The Late Show Before they burned out in the mid 90s, Carolco Pictures was an independent production company and distributor with an outsized impact on popular culture. Striking it rich with Terminator 2, BASIC INSTINCT, and more, this upstart company […]

Director: Adam McKay Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2004 Starring: Christina Applegate, David Koechner, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell This uproarious, career-defining comedy from Adam McKay and Will Farrell offers an entirely different view of a 1970s television newsroom. Brattle Debut

75th Anniversary! In this 1950s sci-fi classic, a UFO lands in Washington D.C. and, as the pilot emerges with a message of harmony, he is promptly wounded by a nervous soldier. Tense moments with a menacing robot bodyguard follow but it is the aid of a young war widow and her son that turn the […]

Director: Elaine May Run Time: 106 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1976 Starring: Carol Grace, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Peter Falk, Rose Arrick New 4K Restoration! Small-time mobster Nicky (Cassavetes) is holed up in a fleabag motel after finding out the boss he stole money from has put a hit out on him. Terrified and with nowhere to run, he calls on […]