Coolidge SelectsThe Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the best new documentary films and independent features for full theatrical runs in digital projection in our intimate exhibition spaces: the 45-seat Video Screening Room and the 14-seat Gold Screen. The COOLIDGE SELECTS title is given to films that we feel deserve to be shown in an independent forum, presented the way they were meant to be seen: with an audience. Discussion is the key, and these are the films that will leave you thinking and talking. Previous Selects titles have included hits like MAN ON WIRE, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, CONSTANTINE'S SWORD and more. GET LOWNow Playing!  "With a mix of sly humor, homespun grace and affecting poignancy, Get Low casts a well-nigh irresistible spell." - Joe Leydon, Variety Based on a true story of a hermit who lived for forty years in the Tennessee woods. Felix Bush decides it is time to plan his funeral. But his funeral will not be any old macabre occasion. Organized by a local undertaker played by Bill Murray and his sidekick played by Lucas Black, the funeral will be more party than memorial and an event to which anyone and everyone will be invited and at which Bush will reveal a long kept secret. dir. Aaron Schneider, w/ Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall, 1h40m ALAMARMust End Thursday! .jpg? "Alamar_lo(2).jpg") “Though the film abstains from any particular environmental statement—the dialogue itself is even sparse—the gratitude that the protagonists and other Mayan fishermen display for an ecosystem that provides them with all the resources they need to subsist is contagious. It is the absence of a message that makes Alamar an impressionable artistic work where many other eco-activist films have failed.” - Audubon Magazine "The characters in Alamar may be playing versions of themselves, but the writer, editor and director Pedro González-Rubio has constructed a film in which the journey has an overarching mythic resonance that evokes fables from “Robinson Crusoe” to “The Old Man and the Sea.” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times A love story between father and son, man and nature, water and sky, ALAMAR is set in the turquoise waters of Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean, home to thousands of species of fish and Mexico's largest coral reef. Living somewhere on the cusp between fiction and documentary, the film tells the story of a young boy whose divorced parents (an Italian mother and Mexican father) make him a child of two worlds. The strikingly handsome Jorge, muscled, tattooed and mustachioed, transports the urban child to this natural paradise to teach him to dive for lobster, and fish for barracuda, spending days on a tiny fishing boat and nights in a reed-roofed cabin that floats atop the water. Egrets and crocodiles are their neighbors in this aquatic Neverland. dir. Pedro Gonzales-Rubio, w/ Jorge Machado, Natan Machado Palombini, in Spanish and Italian with English subtitles, 1h13m FAREWELLNow Playing!  “Astonishing…like any good thriller, this is the story of deceptions within deceptions. It’s juicy, fascinating stuff.” - Todd McCarthy, Variety Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, and Willem Dafoe star in this Cold War espionage thriller, based on true events. In 1981, a KGB agent (Kusturica), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world… Discreetly, he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thomson in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - containing information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years, French President François Mitterrand was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename "Farewell". dir. Christian Carion, w/ Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Willem Dafoe, in French and Russian with English subtitles, 1h52m |