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coming up at boston's independent moviehouses - the brattle, harvard film archive, mfa and coolidge

Billy Wilders DOUBLE INDEMNITY is a classic film noir masterpiece derived from James M. Cains 1943 melodramatic novella Three of a Kind. It was adapted for the screen by Billy Wilder and detective novelist Raymond Chandler. Stanwyck is the femme fatale, a dissatisfied and predatory housewife who coaxes MacMurray, an unscrupulous car insurance salesman, into murdering her husband for the insurance money. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, DOUBLE INDEMNITYS storyline of a deliberate and brutal crime was considered amoral and distasteful by the censorious Hays Office and the film ultimately had to be replaced with its present ending in which the murderer was justly punished for his crime. one day only view trailer not the right trailer?

Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature US 1946, 35mm, b/w, 97 min. Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive My Darling Clementine by John Ford (1946, 97 min.). Based loosely on the shootout at the OK Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang, the film stars Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp who, with his three brothers, attempt to drive their cattle to California. After the three eldest brothers travel to the lawless town of Tombstoneleaving the youngest brother to watch the cattlethey return to find the cattle stolen and their brother dead. Seeking vengeance for his death, Wyatt takes the position of Tombstones Town Marshall to find out who was responsible. Meanwhile a young woman from Boston arrives in town by the name of Clementine Carter. one day only find a trailer find/upload a trailer

Directed by John Ford. With Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater US 1936, 35mm, b/w, 95 min. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive Ford’s prints the legend, rather than the fact, in his rousing film about Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was jailed for his purported role in the assassination of President Lincoln after tending John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg. Although Mudd and Booth knew each other prior to the murder, it is unclear to this day whether Mudd knew or was part of Booth’s plan. Ford offers his interpretation of the events by presenting Mudd as an innocent figure whose unjust imprisonment is met with saintly forbearance. Despite several moments of racial caricature, The Prisoner of Shark Island is both nightmarish and ultimately quite moving, redeemed by the film’s chronicling of the relationship between Mudd and one of his former slaves, whose devotion to each to the other is tested by hardship. one day only find a trailer find/upload a trailer

Special Engagement! Restored New 35mm Print! The Red Shoes 4:15, 7:00 PM (1948) dir Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, w/Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook [133 min] Beautiful, young ballerina Victoria (Shearer) is poised to become a superstar thanks to the repressive tutelage of her teacher Lermontov (Wallbrook). However, she falls in love with the charming composer of The Red Shoes ballet, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of shoes that dance the wearer to death, and must choose between her love for him and her devotion to her teacher and her art. This indelible classic has been painstakingly restored to the original brilliance of Jack Cardiff’s legendary original Technicolor photography by UCLA’s Robert Gitt and his team. It can honestly be said that the beauty of THE RED SHOES can now be seen as never before. final showing view trailer not the right trailer?

Wild Hunt by Alexandre Franchi (2009, 96 min.). A modern medieval saga, Wild Hunt tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who follows his estranged girlfriend into a medieval re-enactment game to discover she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his former love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the fantasy. Passions are unleashed, rules are broken, and reality and fantasy collide. one day only find a trailer find/upload a trailer

$9.75/ Coolidge members get 2-for-1 admission Before James Cameron created those big, blue, pterodactyl-riding, cat-people in AVATAR, he was responsible for bringing skeletal, killer robots to the big screen. Using the age old artistic mantra of "more is more", Cameron has dazzled us with sequels to classic genre films such as Ridley Scott's ALIEN (where he pluralized the hell out of those vicious bugs in his ALIENS) and the Roger Corman produced PIRANHA (where, in his sequel PIRANHA 2: THE SPAWNING, confronted with creatures who already traveled in a large group, Cameron responded by adding WINGS to FISH showing through saturday find a trailer find/upload a trailer