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Moviehouse One, our grand downstairs theatre, seats 440 people. The theatre features state-of-the-art film projection as well as a large stage ideal for panel discussions, Q&A's, and live performances.

Moviehouse Two used to be the balcony when the Coolidge was a one-theatre house. It is now a medium-size, 218 seat theatre featuring state-of-the-art film projection and audio, as well as a small stage ideal for director q&a's, small performances and group discussions.

The GoldScreen seats 27 and features high-definition digital projection

The Video Screening Room seats 45 and features high-definition digital projection.
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Measuring the World (Die Vermessung der Welt)
Sunday, November 24

1hr 59mins // directed by:Detlef Buck
Two brilliant 18th Century German scientists, each having measured the world in their own way, are the subjects of David Kehlmann’s bestseller The Measuring of the World that this film by Detlev Buck is based on. Fact and fiction are blended into a hilarious, if a little disrespectful, fictitious double-biography.
Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855), a child prodigy born into a poor family, conceived his major discoveries by the age of 17 – all without ever leaving his home state. Scientific explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769 -1859), born into a wealthy family, was more of a late bloomer; but once he found his calling, set out to travel the world over to examine “everything that didn’t have legs nor fear to get away from him”. The film recounts their many groundbreaking ways of measuring the world, evolving from their meeting in 1828 on the occasion of the first German Scientific Congress in Berlin organized by Humboldt.