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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.
Eraserhead
Saturday, September 24
1hr 25mins // directed by:David Lynch // featuring:Jack Nance // 35mm
David Lynch startled the world with Eraserhead.
A love story between a pencil factory worker and his girlfriend set in a dystopian industrial wasteland, this midnight classic is anything but a romance. Mutant babies, singing women who live inside radiators, dancing roasted chickens, and a perpetually confused-looking Jack Nance ("Twin Peaks") as Henry Spencer. Influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nicolai Gogol, Lynch's densely packed tale has to be experienced on the big screen to be fully understood.
Critics and filmmakers alike have canonized Eraserhead as a touchstone in film history, and both Stanley Kubrick and H.R. Giger have cited it as their favorite films (Kubrick screened it repeatedly during the shooting of The Shining to try to impart to his cast and crew the desired tone for his film). In 2004 it was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.