HIDDEN FIGURES with extended introduction by special guest Dr. Moiya McTier Part of the SCIENCE ON SCREEN® Series An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theater in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation HIDDEN FIGURES Theodore Melfi, 2016, 127 min With: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner Before rockets could break the …
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY with extended introduction by special guest Sarah Rose Siskind Part of the SCIENCE ON SCREEN® Series An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY Alexandra Dean, 2017, 89 min, documentary Hollywood glamour meets hardcore engineering. Bombshell uncovers how …
IN AMERICA Jim Sheridan, 2002, 105 minutes With: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Djimon Hounsou With special guest speaker, Colum McCann About the film: Set in early-1980s New York, In America follows an Irish immigrant family arriving illegally in Hell's Kitchen, carrying grief, hope, and the fragile promise of a new beginning. Through the …
HESTER STREET Joan Micklin Silver, 1975, 89 min With Carole Kane, Steven Keats About the film: In this newly restored independent classic adapted from Abraham Cahan 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, a newly arrived Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe struggles to find her footing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side as her …
HER with extended introduction by special guest Janna Levin Part of the SCIENCE ON SCREEN® Series An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation HER Spike Jonze, 2013, 126 min With: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara What happens when artificial intelligence learns to love, and evolve …
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1988, 86 minutes Rated G This program is supported by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the NYC Council. ALL TICKETS, ALL AGES - $5.00 My Neighbor Totoro follows two sisters who move to the countryside to be closer to …
EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA (On the Seventh Day) Jim McKay, 2017, 92 min With Fernando Cardona, Gilberto Jimenez, Abel Perez in Spanish with English subtitles Q&A with director Jim McKay and Moises Bazbaz of the Latin American Film Center About the film: Set over the course of seven days in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, this compassionate …
THE GOONIES Richard Donner, 1985 114 minutes Rated PG Parents' Guide This program is supported by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the NYC Council. ALL TICKETS, ALL AGES - $5.00 From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, The Goonies plunges a band of young heroes into a swashbuckling surprise-around-every …
LOSING GROUND Kathleen Collins, 1982, 86 minutes with Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones Co-Presented with the Bronx Independent Film Center About the film: Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an …
LITTLE KID FLICKS Inventive first films for ages 5+ 58 minutes Presented in partnership with the New York International Children’s Film Festival. This program is supported by public funds from the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with the NYC Council. ALL TICKETS, ALL AGES – $5.00 Let your little ones …
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson 2021, 1h 57m, PG-13, Documentary co-presented with Friends of Morningside Park, the Columbus/Amsterdam BID and W. 111th Street Block Association In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary-part music film, part …
MAMMA MIA! Directed by Phyllida Lloyd 2008, 1h 48m, PG-13 With: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård co-presented with the Columbus/Amsterdam BID and W. 111th Street Block Association Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. …
