Organization

Area Premiere! LEVIATHAN

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 24-May 30, 2013

Exclusive Area Premiere!  One Week Only, May 24–30

One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, from the directors of Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts, LEVIATHAN is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a...

New Restoration! JOURNEY TO ITALY

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

June 21-June 23, 2013

New DCP Restoration!  Area Premiere June 21–23!
Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY charts the declining marriage of a British couple (Bergman and Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just an anatomy of a relationship,...

Malcolm McDowell in IF...

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 19, 2013

Introduction by Neil Gaiman

Lindsay Anderson’s searing excoriation of British boys school traditions features the screen debut of Malcolm McDowell and a legendary, rebellious conclusion. (1968) dir Lindsay Anderson w/Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster [111 min] Digital...

KING OF HEARTS

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 19, 2013

 Introduction by Amanda Palmer

This counter-culture cult classic screened for over five years straight in Cambridge during the late ‘60s and one can see why. Alan Bates plays a Scottish WWI soldier dispatched to disarm a bomb left by the retreating Germans in a French town. When he arrives he discovers that...

DROWNING BY NUMBERS

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 18, 2013

Introduction by Neil Gaiman

Three women from the same family (all named Cissie Colpitts) each drown their troublesome husbands – and convince the local coroner to help cover up their crimes. It sounds simple but in the hands of masterful visual artist Peter Greenaway, the film becomes a baroque meditation on the...

Alejandro Jodorowsky's SANTA SANGRE

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 18, 2013

Introduction by Amanda Palmer

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s wildly unrestrained flights of cinematic psychedelia are legendary midnight movies and SANTA SANGRE is no exception. Fenix, the scion of a circus family has entered an asylum after witnessing his mother commit a heinous crime and get both her arms cut off....

Balagan presents MIRROR STAGE

Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre

May 13, 2013

Much has been said about what is regarded as the quintessential cinematic experience: the darkened, softened, uterine surroundings, the hypnotic flicker ahead, the lulling whirr from the projection booth. It is a comfortable hiding place from which to observe others’ nightmares and desires. As much as we at Balagan embrace this fancy, we...