The Coolidge Corner Theatre

both shows $10 all seats

Newburyport-based musical collective Tiger Saw will present a live score to THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed), the 1926 cartoon feature by German animator Lotte Reiniger. Based on elements taken from the collection "1001 Arabian Nights," PRINCE ACHMED is the oldest surviving feature-length animated cartoon. A stunning work of early animation, the film was animated entirely using a technique Reiniger invented which utitized manipulated silhouette cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. With the assistance of Aladdin, the Witch of the Fiery Mountain, and a magic horse, the the Prince battles the evil African sorcerer to win the hand of Princess Peri Banu.

Tiger Saw is a musical collective founded in Newburyport, MA in 1999 by Dylan Metrano. It is an ever-changing group of friends, whose ranks can vary to form a hushed duet or fifteen-person orchestra. In 2000 and 2002, they wrote and performed their original score to F. W. Murnau's 1922 classic silent film Nosferatu. They have collaborated with Exit Dance Theater, and written music for various short films. For this production, Tiger Saw will include Metrano, Chris Barrett, Dylan Clark, and Erik Tans on a variety of instruments; including trumpet, guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards, and more.

$10 all seats

On Saturday, May 17th, experimental theater group Verbobala Spoken Video is set to arrive to the Coolidge for a debut that will include digital illegal immigration and DJ-esque sampling of spoken speech.

Verbobala, based out of Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tucson, Arizona performs a unique blend of bilingual spoken word poetry and live, large-scale video projections. The group is comprised of poet and performer Logan Phillips, Chicano video artist Adam Cooper-Terán, and Mexican VJ Moisés Regla. Although they perform frequently in central Mexico––including a stop at Poesía.en.Voz.Alta, the country's largest contemporary poetry festival––this spring they have embarked on their first US tour.

Sharing the stage on this night will be the acclaimed writer and performer James Caroline with a featured cast of musicians and singers. Caroline was voted Best Local Author in the 2006 Boston Phoenix poll and is a multiple winner of CPA's for Best Erotic Male Performance Poet and Best Slam Poet Male. James has performed his work across the U.S. as well as London, England and Ankara, Turkey.

$8.50 - May 22 show
$7.75 - May 23 & 24 midnites

Greetings Earthlings! You are invited to join Happy Tree Friends, JibJab, 30 Second Bunny Theater, Odd Todd, Joe Cartoon, Xeth, Low Morale, Its JerryTime! and many more of your favorite animated webtoons, all together on the big screen for the very first time in WEBJAM 2008, the first film festival dedicated to animation on the internets! You can see LOLtoons, ROFLtoons, OMGtoons and even WTFtoons. Join us at this world premiere, star-studded event and see some of the breakout work being created in new media on the big screen. Hosted by Jerry & Orrin Zucker, co-creators of Its Jerrytime!

$10 advance / $12 at the door

Round up your posse and join us for what's sure to be the best weekend in the 'verse this summer! The New England Browncoats are hosting the 3rd annual special charity screenings of Joss Whedon's Sci-Fi epic SERENITY to benefit Equality Now.

Cult hero Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) seemed to do the impossible when he turned his brilliant-but-cancelled television show Firefly into 2005's SERENITY, a full-on big screen adaptation that rivals all of Lucas' prequels combined with its explosive battles, gripping special effects fantastic new worlds, and memorable characters.

With similar screenings are happening all around the globe each year, all told this worldwide event has collected over $160,000 for this worthy cause. Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world.

The New England Browncoats will also be collecting non-perishable food items for the Greater Boston Food Bank at each screening. Anyone donating to this cause at the screening will be entered into a drawing to win prizes including actual props used the film.