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The Brattle Film Podcast
Hosted by The Brattle Theater, Ian Brownell, Ivy Moylan, Ned Hinkle, Alissa Darsa · EN
The official podcast of Boston's unofficial film school: The Brattle Theatre. Since 1953 the Brattle has been a home for film lovers to gather and share great cinema; showing an eclectic mix of classic, cutting-edge, foreign, cult, and art-house movies on 35mm film, digital projection, and now virtually.
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Reissue: Boston on Screen, Part 2: The Institutions
Nov 2601:33:44Tap to summarizeFor this second part of our reissued Boston on Film series, we go beyond the crime movie to focus on how the institutions of Boston – educational, social, scientific, medical, legal, and the press – are depicted on screen. Because the focus of these pictures is not on the underground criminal element, they are more likely to feel like time capsules giving us a glimpse into a Greater Boston that many of us have never seen.
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Reissue: Boston on Screen, Part 1: Crime Movies
Nov 2501:28:42Tap to summarizeFor Thanksgiving, we're reissuing all 4 of our Boston on Screen episodes. Inspired by partnering with the Massachusetts Historical Society for a program focusing on the dichotomy of Boston's image in Hollywood films, we did, what turned out to be, a four part series with a selection of pictures that could be called "The Boston Crime Wave," or, as Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr calls this subgenera, "Boston Triple Decker Films," or, as Boston crime novelist Chuck Hogan refers to them, "Boston No-R movies." We explore what these films get right and what they get wrong in how they depict and use our fair city in geographical, character, and thematic terms.
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Announcement and Listener Messages from Episode #86
Nov 2500:20:08Tap to summarizeWe're unable to bring you our planned Episode #87, "Give Thanks for Chicago." So we'll be re-running our Boston on Screen series for Thanksgiving. But first, take a listen to voice messages from listeners who called in with their responses to Episode #86, "Scariest Movie Moments."
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Episode 86: Halloweek, Scariest Movie Moments
Oct 2701:35:16Tap to summarizeFor Spooky Season, Allisa, Ian, Ivy, and Ned share their personal top five scariest movie moments and invite our listeners to share their own rankings of this most subjective of cinematic rankings.
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Episode 85: Hal Hartley
Oct 101:08:09Tap to summarizeOn the occasion of his latest feature, Where to Land, coming to the Brattle, we welcome indie cinema icon Hal Hartley to discuss his text-built and performer-driven films, the ways the industry has evolved over the decades of his career, as well as his fondness for Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Episode 84: Cat Fancy, A Feline Film Feast
Aug 2701:41:22Tap to summarizeWe wrap up the summer with an episode and a film series devoted to movies about house cats, of which there are a lot more than you can shake a stick at. Whether they appear in animated movies, horror films, comedies, or historical fictions, felines play an outsized role in cinema, despite being notoriously difficult to train in the craft of acting.
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Episode 83: Altmania!
Jul 15, 202502:41:31Tap to summarizeFor Robert Altman's centennial, we dive deep into the filmography of the great maverick.
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Episode 82: Reunion Week: 1950, 1975, 2000
May 20, 202503:10:01Tap to summarizeWe kick off Season Six with our typically epic Reunion Week show, highlighting films celebrating their 75th, 50th, and 25th anniversary of release.
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Episode 81: Cinema Her Way with Marya E. Gates
Apr 15, 202501:15:01Tap to summarizeAuthor Marya E. Gates joins us on the occasion of her new book, Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words, as a prelude to a series of screenings at the Brattle introduced by Marya. Two of the directors from her book will join her for these screenings: Bette Gordon on April 17 and Mira Nair on May 10th.
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Episode 80: March Madness
Mar 18, 202501:22:54Tap to summarizeNed, Alissa, and Ivt attempt to explain March Madness to non-sports fan Ian, and we engage in a freewheeling conversation about the many films going head-to-head in this year's March Madness movie brackets.
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