American Independents
Alice's Restaurant
5:00, 7:15, 9:30
(1969) dir Arthur Penn, w/ Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, Pete Seegar, James Broderick [111 min]
Arthur Penn’s adaptation of the Arlo Guthrie song, a humorous and poignant look at the disillusionment of the hippie generation, ALICE’S RESTAURANT was one of the first films to openly criticize the 60’s. The titular Alice seeks to reach past the shallowness of the now cliché hippie lifestyle by opening a restaurant, all the while we are treated to the tribulations of Arlo, who is hunted down by the police for improper disposal of a bag of trash. In between we are shown the hurt of loss, the apathy of a generation that almost made it, and the timeless search for something better.
final showing
American Independents
Five Easy Pieces
8:00
(Double Feature w/NASHVILLE)
(1970) dir Bob Rafelson, w/ John Nicholson, Karen Black, Toni Basil, Susan Anspach [98 min]
Nicholson again plays the role he was born to play, a charismatic but cocky drifter who leaves the safety of his well to do home and his burgeoning music career to hit the road. An alienated drifter looking for something better, but finds himself trapped in a different kind of banality until he must return, the prodigal son, when his father falls ill. A classic tale of the search for one’s identity in all the wrong places.
one day only
Special advance screening QA with director Sam Mendes writer Dave Eggers.
All proceeds benefit 826 Boston!
A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in
order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they
have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of
relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on
their own terms for the first time.
$20 general admission to film
$15 for 826 Boston volunteers Coolidge members.*
Tickets are available online at www.coolidge.org/sh
showing through jul 9
While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country's repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police – even after they themselves become targets of the authorities.
dir. Anders Ostergaard, documentary, 1h24
one day only
"'Valentino: The Last Emperor,' may sound like canny hyperbole, but once you've seen this smart and incisive film, it will seem like a simple statement of fact." - Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times
VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR is a feature-length film on the legendary designer Valentino Garavani in the wake of his exit in 2008 from the company he founded in Rome more than 45 years ago. Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the film is an intimate, engaging and very funny fly-on-the-wall exploration of the singular world of one of Italy's richest and most famous men. The film documents the colorful and dramatic closing
showing through jul 9
Fri, June 26 @ 1:00 - Box Office Babies presentation
FREE for Members Screening Tues, June 30 @ 7:45 pm
After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of absolutely everything. A former Columbia Professor and self-proclaimed genius who came close to winning a Nobel Prize for Quantum Mechanics, Boris fancies himself the only one who fully comprehends the meaningles
showing through jul 9
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