MOVIE.RttP{The Coolidge Corner Theatre Awesome Event thread 2013}

There's a bunch of cool stuff coming to the Coolidge in the next few months. Figured I'd start a new thread of cool events at the Coolidge. Maybe you'll come, maybe you'll troll me, who knows. Anyways, here you go!

Django Unchained
www.coolidge.org for showtimes

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2hr 45mins // directed by:Quentin Tarantino // featuring:Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio

Set in the Deep South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino's newest film, Django Unchained, stars Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx (The Soloist) as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds).

Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Django agrees to help Schultz on the condition that he assist him in finding and rescuing his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who was bought by one of the most ruthless plantation owners in the Deep South - Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Together they set off on a quest for revenge in the most unique take on the Western genre since No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

Bad Santa
Fri & Sat, December 28 & 29 2012, Midnite

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1hr 31mins // directed by:Terry Zwigoff // featuring:Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Bernie Mac

A miserable conman (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner (Tony Cox) pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

The Brood
Fri & Sat, January 4 & 5 Midnite

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1hr 32mins // directed by

avid Cronenberg // featuring:Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle

From famed writer-director David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone, The Fly, Scanners) comes a chillingly twisted masterpiece of psychological horror.

Oliver Reed (Gladiator) and Samantha Eggar (The Astronaut's Wife) star in this shocking, intense thriller about how misdirected rage can literally take on a life of its own. Behind the walls of his secluded Somafree Institute, Dr. Hal Raglan (Reed) experiments with "Psychoplasmics," a controversial therapy designed to help release pent-up emotions in his patients. He keeps his star patient Nola (Eggar) in isolation, but as she vents her fury during their sessions, brutal murders befall the people she's angry with outside the institute. What is the connection between Raglan's methods and these monstrous killings? The answer will unleash a whole new breed of terror!

Do the Right Thing
Monday, January 7, 7PM

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2hr 00mins // directed by:Spike Lee // featuring

anny Aiello, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Join playwright Oren Jacoby and others from the Huntington Theatre's production of Invisible Man for a Q&A after the film.

Spike Lee’s powerful 1989 drama chronicles a series of events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast that includes Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Rosie Perez, and John Turturro, Do the Right Thing sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise.

Like Lee’s film, playwright Oren Jacoby’s blistering theatrical adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel Invisible Man confronts audiences with an unblinking view of race. In the 1930s, a young, nameless black man moves through an America divided by race and class, and grapples with the paradoxes of identity. Following the film, Jacoby and members of the creative team of the Huntington’s production of Invisible Man will discuss how Ellison and Lee’s works informed the dialogue about race in America.

Dune
Fri & Sat, January 11 & 12, Midnite

2hr 17mins

Dazzling special effects, unforgettable images and powerful performances highlight David Lynch’s stunning film version of Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction epic about an intergalactic warrior’s messianic rise. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow, Oscar winner Linda Hunt and Sting, Dune is the ultimate adventure experience that goes beyond the imagination.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Fri & Sat, January 18 & 19, Midnite

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1hr 38mins // directed by

ario Argento // featuring:Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall

In his first film as writer/director, Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red) single-handedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as 'The Italian Hitchcock.'

Visiting Rome with his supermodel girlfriend, Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante), an American writer, witnesses a grisly attack on a gallery owner one night. Were it not for his presence the attack probably would have ended in murder. Held in Italy by the police as a key witness and being chased by the murderer, Sam attempts to unveil the identity of the maniac before it's too late.

Argento's stylized use of bright color, innovative camera movement, and narrative twists are already well established in this film, and it's a killer.

Female Trouble
Fri & Sat, January 25 & 26, Midnite

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1hr 29mins // directed by:John Waters // featuring

ivine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey

John Waters' (Pink Flamingoes) second film is the life and times of Dawn Davenport (Divine), a spoiled brat who, when she doesn't get a pair of cha-cha heels for Christmas, runs away from her suburban life and family.

While hitchhiking Dawn gets picked up and impregnated by Earl Peterson (also Divine), who refuses to be involved in the baby's life. Finding comfort in the arms of a group of hairdressers, Dawn is able to raise her daughter, Taffy, as best she can. The film follows the rest of Dawn's life living with a slew of crazy, disgusting, and thoroughly offensive characters that could only have been dreamed up by the godfather of filth, John Waters. "She had a lot of problems..." indeed.

Rushmore
Monday, January 28 7pm

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1hr 33mins // directed by:Wes Anderson // featuring:Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams

Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tennenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom) brings wit and emotional depth to this offbeat coming-of-age tale chronicling a year in the life of wunderkind Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a tenth-grade scholarship student at posh Rushmore Academy.

Max is Rushmore’s least scholarly pupil, but also its most extracurricular. He’s editor of the school newspaper and yearbook, captain of the fencing and debating teams, founder and director of the Max Fischer Players, and president of the French Club, German Club, Chess Club, and almost everything else. His world is thrown into turmoil when he’s put on academic probation and falls madly in love with widowed first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross. To win her heart, he enlists the help of self-made millionaire industrialist and Rushmore benefactor Herman J. Blume (Bill Murray at his Bill Murray-ist). When Max learns that his friend Blume is dating Miss Cross, he declares all-out war.

It’s hard, for just about anyone beyond the teen years, not to squirm at the stark and vivid mirror of adolescent desire that Jason Schwartzman’s character portrays. Max Fischer is at times shockingly mature but at other times surprisingly dense. He is courageous, brilliant and ambitious, but he is also boneheaded, impulsive, and vindictive.

What is it about Max Fischer’s brain that makes him of all these seemingly contradictory things at the same time? Well, he's an adolescent. But at the level of the brain and the mind, what exactly does "being an adolescent" mean?

Using Rushmore and other references to popular culture, psychiatrist and Science on Screen alum Steven Schlozman will illuminate current understanding of how the adolescent brain is different from the adult brain and the pre-adolescent brain. He’ll examine adolescent behavior with any eye towards exploring some fundamental questions. Why, from a neurobiological perspective, do adolescents take risks? What is it, at the level of the brain’s molecules, that allows adolescents to make such wonderful leaps of intuition and then, in the very next breath, to make such astoundingly ill-advised moves? And how can we use what we know of the adolescent brain to understand how best to understand teenagers – and ourselves?

Coffy
Fri & Sat, February 1 & 2, Midnite

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1hr 31mins // directed by:Jack Hill // featuring:Pam Grier

When her younger sister is hospitalized after a bad dose of heroin, Nurse "Coffy" Coffin (Pam Grier) hits the mean streets on a mission of vengeance!

No one is safe from Coffy's vigilante ways! Pimps, mobsters, and every form of scum all eventually get creamed by Coffy! Pam Grier stars in this Blaxploitation classic from director Jack Hill (Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told).

I'll post more later