The Coolidge Corner Theatre
Your Not-For-Profit Independent Theatre
Coolidge SelectsThe Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the best new documentary films and independent features for full theatrical runs in state-of-the-art digital projection in our intimate exhibition spaces, the 45-seat Video Screening Room and the 17-seat MiniMax. 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 TO BE AND TO HAVE, MY ARCHITECT, TARNATION, YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, NINA SIMONE: LOVE SORCERESS, and more. BLINDSIGHTNow Playing! COOLIDGE SELECTS for the Mini Max: Digital Projection  "Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, BLINDSIGHT is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life -- or at least get off the couch." Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, BLINDSIGHT follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge -- made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventurer who established the first and only school for the blind in Tibet, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted. dir. Lucy Walker, documentary, 1h44m |