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Deaf / Hard of Hearing SeriesThe Coolidge Corner Theatre is committed to making films accessible to our hearing-challenged patrons. As part of this mission, we offer a special monthly film series for the deaf and hard of hearing, which spotlights contemporary features, classics, and documentaries. Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $5 to offset the cost of purchasing and maintaining our assisted-listening equipment. All films are shown from DVD in our 45-seat Screening Room, which is equipped to be compatible with telecoil (T-coil) hearing aids. Headphones with volume control are also available. Films are shown with closed captioning or English subtitles. All four film and video exhibition areas are now accessible by elevator and completely handicap accessible. In addition, we encourage our hearing-challenged patrons to check our listing of upcoming films for those with English subtitles. Admission for attending these regularly scheduled films in the evening is $9.75, but we offer a $3 discount to all Coolidge members. Our World Cinema programs also offer films with subtitles. Many of them are screened at 1:00 on Sunday afternoons. Suggestions? If you have film recommendations, or suggestions for organizations serving the deaf or hard of hearing to which we should reach out, please email mazurg The Deaf and Hard of Hearing series is supported by funding from The Massachusetts Cultural Council and VSA Arts of Massachusetts's ADA Cultural Access Initiative Grant Program. Additional support provided by The Bay State Federal Savings and Charitible Foundation and the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation. Read an interview with Ginny Mazur, the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Film Club founder. Read/listen to Andrea Shea's WBUR piece on the club. The Deaf & HOH Film series will hold a planning meeting at the Coolidge on Wednesday evening 7-23 at 5:30 p.m. with ASL and CART services before the screening of Rear Window at 7 (buy your tickets before the meeting please!). Please attend if you are able to join our on-going planning committee - can commit to three meetings annually and can do some behind-the-scenes work for our series. We'll have a job list at the meeting! Bring ideas for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Community Events for 2009 - which can include film/lecture/performance. Thanks, REAR WINDOWWednesday, July 23 @ 7:00 pm Tickets for this are not available in advance online. They will only be available a half-hour before showtime. We apologize for the inconvenience. When professional photographer J.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events...Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history. Alfred Hitchcock appears briefly onscreen in the film as the man winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment as the songwriter is performing the piece that he had been working on during the course of the film. dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1h55m Please note: All Deaf and Hard of Hearing films screen from DVD in our 45-seat Screening Room, which is fully handicap accessible and equipped with assisted listening devices. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GODWednesday, August 27 @ 7:00pm Matlin plays Sarah Norman, a deaf and troubled young woman working at a school for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in New England. An energetic new teacher, James Leeds (William Hurt), arrives at the school and encourages her to set aside her isolated life of frustration by learning how to talk. As she already uses sign language, Sarah resists James's attempts to get her to talk. Romantic interest develops between James and Sarah and they are soon living together, though their differences and mutual stubbornness eventually strains their relationship to a breaking point, as he continues to want her to talk, and she feels somewhat stifled in his presence. Sarah leaves and goes back to her mother's house, in the process reconciling with her once estranged mother. However, she later returns to James, as both realize they need each other. dir. Randa Haines, 1h49m Please note: All Deaf and Hard of Hearing films screen from DVD in our 45-seat Screening Room, which is fully handicap accessible and equipped with assisted listening devices. THERE WILL BE BLOODSunday, September 28 @ 12:30pm "As astounding in its emotional force and as haunting and mysterious as anything seen in American movies in recent years." - David Denby, The New Yorker A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Little Miss Sunshine's Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value - love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son - is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil. dir Paul Thomas Anderson, w/ Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hands, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Dillion Freasier, 2h38m Please note: All Deaf and Hard of Hearing films screen from DVD in our 45-seat Screening Room, which is fully handicap accessible and equipped with assisted listening devices. |