Early Spring 2017
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Early Spring SPECIAL EVENTS Wednesday, March 22 – Sunday, March 26 Friday, April 14 – Sunday, April 16 (Visit brattlefilm.org for ticket prices and more info) The Nineteenth Repertory Series! BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL Cambridge Science Festival: Sunday, February 26 2017: The 17th Annual Boston’s premiere festival highlighting the bizarre, the troubling, and the CONTACT! Friday, February 24 – overlooked returns to the Brattle for their nineteenth year. We are thrilled to In celebration of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival, the Brattle is BRATTLE OSCAR PARTY! welcome back these purveyors of the weird and wondrous, and eagerly pleased to present a brief program of films in which the aliens actually do Save the date for the Brattle’s annual celebration of Hollywood’s biggest Monday, May 1, 2017 await their full line-up. ‘come in peace.’ It’s easy to be overwhelmed by blockbuster sci-fi flicks fea - night! Come join us for snacks and drinks as we cheer our favorites during Keep watching BOSTONUNDERGROUND.ORG for more details but, in the turing bombastic scenes of world landmarks being blown to bits by aggres - “the movie-lover’s Super Bowl.” Visit Brattlefilm.org/oscar for more infor - meantime, we can announce the following features: HIDDEN RESERVES, THE sive E.T.’s – but let’s not forget those times when the visitors have been enig - mation on how to attend. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS & PREMIERES VOID and A DARK SONG. No Brattle Passes accepted. matic messengers, curious explorers, or even fun-loving stoners. Please join us for some fun from the stars with this survey of (relatively) benign aliens. Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25 Also Friday, March 3 – Wednesday, March 8 Monday, February 27 Special 15th Anniversary 35mm Screenings! The Late Show: Wednesday, March 29 & Thursday, March 30 Please see below for full line-up and descriptions The DocYard Presents CINEMANIA Exclusive Theatrical Engagement! Going Out of Release! Co-presented with the UMB Film Series BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT Director Deborah Esquenazi in Person! at 8:00pm XX (2002) dir Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak w/Jack Angstreich, Eric Chadbourne, at 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 SOUTHWEST OF SALEM at 9:30pm (1982) dir Ridley Scott w/Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Bill Heidbreder, Roberta Hill, Harvey Schwartz [83 min; 35mm] (2017) dir Roxanne Benjamin, Karen Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic at 7:00pm This now-classic documentary about a loose knit clan of filmgoing obsessives Hannah, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, William Sanderson, Brion James w/Melanie Lynskey, Sheila Vand, Kyle Allen, Christina Kirk, Natalie Brown, Angela [117 min; DCP] (2016) dir Deborah Esquenazi [91 min; DCP] in New York City celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2017 and, to mark the Trimbur [80 min; DCP] In anticipation of the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 , Warner Brothers is occasion, a special tour of a 35mm print is being arranged. The Brattle is XX is a new, all-female-helmed horror anthology featuring four dark tales removing the original BLADE RUNNER from theatrical circulation but, before excited to be the Boston area stop for this sometimes hilarious portrait of written and directed by four fiercely independent women. Annie Clark (aka Monday, March 6 it disappears for a while, the Brattle presents Ridley Scott’s definitive “Final extreme cinephilia. St. Vincent) rocks her directorial debut with THE BIRTHDAY PARTY; Karyn The DocYard Presents Cut” of this classic sci-fi neo-noir on the big screen for one last time. Come Kusama ( The Invitation ) exorcises HER ONLY LIVING SON; Roxanne Co-presented with the Film Study Center at Harvard take in the neon-drenched, rain-swept streets of alternate-reality Los Angeles Benjamin ( Southbound ) screams DON’T FALL; and Jovanka Vuckovic ( The 2019 and keep them in your mind’s eye until October when we get another University and the Balagan Film Series; Also Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25 Captured Bird ) dares to open THE BOX. Award-winning animator Sofia taste of Deckard’s story. Director Deborah Stratman in Person! The Late Show: Back by Popular Demand! Carrillo wraps together these four suspenseful stories of terror. Screening on 35mm! THE ILLINOIS PARABLES at 7:00pm THE LOVE WITCH (2016) dir Deborah Stratman [60 min; 16mm] at 10:00pm (2016) dir Anna Biller w/Samantha Robinson, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys [120 min; 35mm] Wednesday, April 19 – Sunday, April 23 Thursday, March 9 With a visual style that pays rapturous tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL 2017 Special Premiere Screening! ‘60s, THE LOVE WITCH follows Elaine, a beautiful young witch, who, The WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL returns to the Brattle with live perform - ensconced in her impeccably styled Victorian apartment, will stop at nothing LEAGUE OF HEELS: A VIDEO GAME ances and film programs! Established in 2009, this annual festival has to snare the man of her dreams. A sell-out during our recent “Cinema of the WRESTLING DOCUMENTARY established an international reputation for world-class comedy from headlin - Occult” series, we’re thrilled to bring this film back in a 35mm print! at 7:30pm ers like Jane Lynch, Lily Tomlin, and Maria Bamford, to up-and-coming come - From a goof among friends to an international sensation, see and hear for dians who have gone on to perform in television and film. the first time never-before-told stories about the rise of the video game Also Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25 This year's festival will takes place at venues throughout Boston and wrestling empire that is League of Heels. Bursting onto the video game Special Matinees! Cambridge and will feature five days of shows, panels, and special events convention scene three years ago, League of Heels took the world by LOONEY TUNES REVUE at The Brattle, including comedy from Sasheer Zamata (SNL), Naomi storm with its clunky-trainwreck charm. Interviews with the top competitors Fri at 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00; Sat at 4:00, 6:00 Ekperigin (Broad City), Jenny Zigrino (Conan O'Brien). take you behind the scenes and reveal the ups and downs, twists and turns, in-fights and hugs that brought the league to where it is today. A school vacation treat for kids and fun-loving adults alike, the Brattle’s The festival features a wide variety of genre and styles, including improv, Following the film will be a Q&A with that same League of Heels magic BUGS BUNNY FILM FESTIVAL has been delighting audiences for over twen - Friday, March 31 – Sun, April 9 musical comedy, sketch, stand up, storytelling, and film, all over a five-day Friday, March 10 – Thursday, March 16 you have come to know and love featuring a number of the league's ty years! We round out the second weekend of our annual BUGS BUNNY Exclusive Theatrical Engagement! The Thirty-Third Boston LGBT Film Festival (and night) celebration each spring. Double Feature! FILM FESTIVAL with special matinees of a LOONEY TUNES REVUE, featuring WICKED QUEER 2017 superstars. Ticket info TBA. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and all of their looney friends. THE LURE Visit WICF.com for more information on films, performers, panels, and work - WICKED QUEER, the Boston’s LGBT film festival, is the longest running and shops during this year’s festival. No Brattle Passes accepted. Fri-Wed at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 (+ Sat & Sun at 1:30, 3:30); Thu at 10:00pm only BODY SLAM (2015) dir Agnieszka Smoczynska w/Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, largest LGBT media event in New England. Now in its 33rd year, the festival at 9:30pm Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka, Jakub Gierszal [92 min; DCP] celebrates work that entertains, enriches, and enlightens all audiences in the Wednesday, April 26 (1986) dir Hal Needham w/Dirk Benedict, Lou Albano, Roddy Piper [92 min; Wednesday, March 1 – Wednesday, March 8 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and allied communities. The annual fes - 35mm] If you thought that La La Land needed 100% more sexy mermaids, this bold, A Tribute to Debbie Reynolds! Repertory Series! genre-defying horror-musical mashup — the playful and confident debut of tival screenings showcase international, US, and local film, video, and other In this amazing time-capsule of 80s cheese, The A-Team ’s Dirk Benedict A Year of Women in Cinema, Part 1: Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska — should be right up your alley. A media, fostering a greater sense of awareness and community among LGBT SINGIN' IN THE RAIN plays a failing music manager who accidentally signs a pro-wrestler (Piper) THE WOMEN WHO BUILT HOLLYWOOD pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate 1980s and LGBT-friendly audiences. at 7:00pm and finds that mixing rock’n’roll and wrestling is a winning combination. Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land. Their tanta - Visit WickedQueer.org for complete details, including screenings at other (1952) dir Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Beginning in March of 2017, the Brattle will be presenting “A Year of lizing siren songs and otherworldly aura make them overnight sensations as venues, special event info, and much more! No Brattle Passes accepted. w/Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Donald Women in Cinema.” For the following 12 months, each one of our bi-month - nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit fantasy world of O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse [103 min; 35mm] ly calendars will include at least one repertory series highlighting films by, Smoczynska's imagining. In a visceral twist on Hans Christian Andersen's Sunday, April 9 We were as saddened as everyone else for, or about women.