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Movie Feature: Making Music for the “It” Girl

It is really very much of its time and place, its particular moment in history. The social revolution of the 20s, the new freedoms for “modern” women, the flapper phenomenon, and the challenges to the class structure in urban 20th century America are among the issues in this 1927 silent comedy. By Bill Marx The […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Clara Bow, Coolidge Corner Theater, IT, silent film

Theater Commentary: Complicite, HD, and Freedom

David Annen and Shane Shambu in Complicite's A Disappearing Number

Book lovers and filmgoers have long been able to sample art from anywhere they wish—to read a book in translation or to rent a DVD if they didn’t like the latest releases in the theaters. Now, because of HD,  devotees of the stage will be able to roam the world. By Bill Marx. A Disappearing […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Disappearing Number, British, Complicite, Coolidge Corner Theater, drama, HD, international, stage, Theater

Coming Attractions in Film: October 2010

By Justin Marble. Waiting for Superman. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. At Coolidge Corner Theatre and Kendall Square Cinema through October. The new documentary from Davis Guggenheim, who previously directed An Inconvenient Truth, focuses on the slipping standards and gaping flaws in the American education system. Many have noted that test scores in America are well […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Cable Car Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theater, Found Footage Festival, Halloween Movie Marathon, Harvard Film Archive, His Girl Friday, Justin Marble, Kendall Square Cinema, Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood, The Brattle, Waiting for Superman, Wild at Heart

Theater Review: An Antic ‘London Assurance’ from NT Live

London Assurance by Dion Boucicault. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. The National Theatre production presented by NTLive at the Coolidge Corner Cinema, Boston, MA, July 14. A bonus simulcast has been added to the NTLive lineup; on July 14th Coolidge Corner Cinema will, once again, simulcast Dion Boucicault’s comedy London Assurance starring Simon Russell Beale and […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Coolidge Corner Theater, London Assurance, National-Theatre, NTLive

Coming Attractions in Film: June 2010

By Justin Marble June 11–17, Grindhouse films at The Brattle: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 double feature reignited interest in the campy, cheap, and cheesy B-movies of the grindhouse era. These highly-enjoyable and ridiculous films are an experience unto themselves. With esteemed titles like Black Cobra, Chained Heat, Lady Terminator, and Thrill of the […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Andrei Tarkovsky, Coolidge Corner Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theater, Film, Grindhouse, Harmony Korine, Harvard Film Archive, Justin Marble, New England, Solaris, The Brattle, Trash Humpers, Vittorio De Sica, Winter's Bone

Culture Vulture and Mrs. Goldberg

by Helen Epstein Go here for information about a live-chat, scheduled for August 23rd, with Helen Epstein on “The Art of Narrative Writing.” If you’re at all interested in popular culture, don’t miss Aviva Kempner’s new documentary “Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg.” Kempner is the D.C.-based director of the award-winning documentary “Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: Aviva Kempner, Coolidge Corner Theater, Culture Vulture, documentary, Film, Gertrude Berg, Jewish, Yiddish, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

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