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UPDATE: Set for Saturday, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. - North by Northwest at Cinema Under the Stars; followed by Donut Star, a few blocks away at 601 W Washington St., at 10 p.m. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol on Aug 31, 2019 - 19 comments

It's almost summer, so why don't we pick some nights for classic movie viewing at the Academy in Montavilla? Their full lineup is here. [more inside]
posted by mrzarquon on May 31, 2018 - 18 comments

Meetup is BACK ON. (My trip has been postponed.) Hope some of you can still make it! [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna on Jan 26, 2017 - 10 comments

gucky and I are pleased to invite Bay Area MeFites to our 10 year anniversary party, featuring a 35mm matinee of When Harry Met Sally, September 10th at 1pm at the Roxie in San Francisco. RSVP information inside. [more inside]
posted by eschatfische on Aug 13, 2016 - 6 comments

Saturdays in June at Como Dockside and Mondays in August at Loring Park. See inside for bands and films. [more inside]
posted by Flannery Culp on May 29, 2016 - 5 comments

You guys. There are so many good movies coming out this month that I can't choose. So unless someone feels strongly about seeing something serious, I choose this one. [more inside]
posted by sparklemotion on Dec 1, 2015 - 20 comments

I haven't been more excited about a stupid movie since Jurassic Park was re-released in 3D. Let's go see it together. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Feb 5, 2015 - 5 comments

The Brattle Theater in Cambridge is playing a series of David Lynch movies from Monday, February 23rd to Thursday, March 5th. Anyone want to go see one of them? I'm interested in Dune and Blue Velvet, since those are playing on the weekend, but would be up for pretty much anything in the series. EDIT: We're going to see Dune on Friday the 27th. I'd rather go at 7:00, but if outvoted, 9:30 is also fine.
posted by Rustic Etruscan on Jan 22, 2015 - 32 comments

The Brattle Theater has a really good set of movies coming up this Sunday, 2014/9/14: Sunset Boulevard at 1:00, Chinatown at 3:15 (these two can be seen as a double feature), Los Angeles Plays Itself at 6:00, and Repo Man at 9:30. Does anyone want to go see any of these movies in particular? I saw that Los Angeles Plays Itself was scheduled and was primarily interested in that, but I'd be happy seeing any of these, really. If you want to go, leave a comment saying what movie you'd like to see! EDIT: We're seeing Los Angeles Plays Itself at 6:00 on Sunday. See you all there!
posted by Rustic Etruscan on Sep 8, 2014 - 22 comments

Join us for our 11th quarterly screening of short films from Canada and around the world. This one is our most summer blockbustery screening yet, with lots of monsters and stuff. [more inside]
posted by jmcnally on Jul 11, 2014 - 0 comments

This week: Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING ("The hottest day of the year explodes on-screen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast."). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Apr 10, 2013 - 11 comments

This week, we're trying out moving our Criterion night to Thursdays, with: Akira Kurosawa's I LIVE IN FEAR ("his most literal representation of living in an atomic age"). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Apr 9, 2013 - 3 comments

Due to some travel we each have planned in the next few weeks, we're taking a two-weekend break from Criterion Sunday - but not to worry! We will return on Sunday, April 7th with: Akira Kurosawa's DODES'KA-DEN ("by turns tragic and transcendant...all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion are on fervent display"). [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Mar 20, 2013 - 1 comment

This week's film: Jean Renoir's FRENCH CANCAN ("a Technicolor tour de force by a master of modern cinema"). Trailer. Charles Silver, curator of film at MoMA: "If someone asked me to recommend two or three essential or seminal Chaplin or Ford films, I would be less hesitant than I would be with Renoir, whose thoughts and feelings seem universal, and whose films seem to encompass virtually all that is Cinema—and life itself." [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Mar 14, 2013 - 4 comments

This week's film: Ingmar Bergman's SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT. Pauline Kael: "Late in 1955, Ingmar Bergman made a nearly perfect work—the exquisite carnal comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. It was the distillation of elements he had worked with for several years... The film is bathed in beauty, removed from the banalities of short skirts and modern-day streets and shops, and removed in time, it draws us closer." Roger Ebert's Great Movie review. An interview with Bergman about the film. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Feb 25, 2013 - 1 comment

This week's film: Orson Welles' MR. ARKADIN: The Comprehensive Version. Time Out says: "Long unavailable for theatrical screening... Mr Arkadin assumed an equivalent patina of myth and legend to that cultivated by its central character.... Flamboyantly melodramatic, it's a playfully egocentric display of a magician's perverse revelation of his own trickery."

We are back to our regular schedule this week. Potluck dinner from 6pm, movie starts at 7 en punto. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Feb 25, 2013 - 0 comments

As the IFC Center describes it: "David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as 'a dream of dark and troubling things,' but the unclassifiable ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and even a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family. Amidst a monochromatic wasteland teeming with smoke and shadows, Jack Nance’s wire-haired wage slave Henry struggles to navigate the horrors of mutant offspring, sinister hallucinations and, most terrifying of all, his new in-laws." How can you resist?

This week there will be no potluck, but feel free to bring snacks to eat during the movie. We're starting a little later than usual. Screening starts at 8pm sharp. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Feb 18, 2013 - 9 comments

This week's film: Douglas Sirk's ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS ("a heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America"). Amazing trailer here. [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Feb 14, 2013 - 9 comments

Last night's screening of Diabolique was a lot of fun! On to the next Criterion Sunday: each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus. This week (2/10): Mike Leigh's TOPSY-TURVY, "an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists." *ocherdraco and (The Rt Hon.) MP, and friends, including non-mefites [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Feb 4, 2013 - 3 comments

What's the point of having access to the masterpieces of cinema if you never actually watch them? It's time to remedy this sad state of affairs, one movie at a time. Introducing: Criterion Sundays, where each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus. This week: Henri-Georges Clouzot's DIABOLIQUE, the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never got around to making. *ocherdraco and (The Rt Hon.) MP, and friends, including non-mefites [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Jan 27, 2013 - 12 comments

Ebertfest 2013 is taking place from Tuesday, April 17 through Sunday, April 21. I know of at least one MeFite aside from myself who went last year, but other than that it was the kind of place where MeFites and MeFiteEsques abounded. Anybody else going? Anybody else from the area want to meet up? [more inside]
posted by Madamina on Jan 14, 2013 - 6 comments

Is there enough interest in the film Les Miserables among the Chicago Cabal to organize a group trip to the movie theater? [more inside]
posted by tzikeh on Dec 6, 2012 - 7 comments

Academy Theater in SE Portland is hosting the Beer And Movie fest. From this friday (the 3rd) until the 9th! Times below the fold.

Star Trek and Conan Double Header! 7:00PM Academy Theater. [more inside]
posted by mrzarquon on Jan 25, 2012 - 56 comments

My 40th birthday* is coming up, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate than watching some of my favorite movies with the fine folks of Metafilter. Saturday, March 5th, 2-11PM, Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. [more inside]
posted by Horace Rumpole on Feb 9, 2011 - 65 comments

Come over for Turkish Star Trek Wars and the DO NOT WANT version of The Phantom Menace Revenge of the Sith! (I blame the rye for my complete wrongness) [more inside]
posted by soft and hardcore taters on Aug 18, 2010 - 42 comments