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THE BRATTLE THEATRE
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-876-6837
   
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-876-6837. Call for showtimes and complete schedule. Tickets: $9.50; students & matinees $7.50; seniors & children $6.50. Classic, cutting-edge and world cinema with double features almost every day. Oct 9 at 5:30 p.m.—Rolling Thunder; Oct 10 at 8 p.m., Oct 11 at 4 p.m., Oct 12 at 11:30 a.m..—The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Oct 11 at 8 p.m., Oct 12 at 3:15 p.m.—The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; Oct 12 at 7:15 p.m., Oct 13 at noon and 8 p.m.—The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Oct 16 at 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m.—The Candidate; Oct 18 at 1 and 3 p.m.—My Man Godfrey.


COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-734-2500
   
290 Harvard Ave., Brookline, 617-734-2500. Call for showtimes and complete schedule. Tickets: $9.75; members, seniors & children (Mon–Thu) $6.75 and (Fri–Sun) $7.75. This independent movie house screens recent indie films, as well as the classics. Now showing: Burn After Reading; Towelhead; Choke. Special events: Oct 9 at 7:30 p.m.—The Found Footage Festival; Oct 12 at 1 p.m., Oct 13 at 7 p.m.—The Kite.


HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-495-4700
   
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 617-495-4700. Call for showtimes, complete schedule and ticket prices. With more than 300 films shown per year, HFA is one of the most active art cinemas in New England. Oct 7 at 7 p.m.—High Treason; Oct 8 at 7 p.m.—Metropolis; Oct 14 at 7 p.m.—Goodbye Dragon Inn; Oct 15 at 7 p.m.—The Man with a Movie Camera; Oct 17 at 7 p.m.—Sex, Okra and Salted Butter.


MUGAR OMNI THEATER
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-723-2500
   
Museum of Science, 617-723-2500 or 617-333-FILM. Call for showtimes and complete schedule. Tickets: $9; seniors $8; children (3–11) $7. Discounted admission for showtimes after 6 p.m. This IMAX theater presents larger-than-life images on a five-story high domed screen. Now showing: Beginning Oct 6—Mysteries of Egypt; beginning Oct 7—Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs; beginning Oct 10—The Greatest Places; through Oct 11—Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk; The Alps; beginning Oct 12—Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk; through Oct 17—Wild Ocean; Sea Monsters.


MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-267-9300
   
465 Huntington Ave., 617-267-9300. Screenings Thu–Sun, call for showtimes and complete schedule. Tickets: $6–9. The Museum of Fine Arts’ Film Program has grown to become one of the nation’s finest exhibitors of contemporary international cinema, restored classics and premieres of American independent films. Now showing: Oct 11 at 10:30 a.m., Oct 18 at 4 p.m.—Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women; Oct 11 at 12:30 p.m., Oct 12 at 5:45 p.m., Oct 16 at 4 p.m., Oct 18 at 7:30 p.m., Oct 19 at noon—The Universe of Keith Haring; Oct 12 at 2 p.m.—Twisted: A Balloonamentary; Oct 12 & 18 at 12:30 p.m., Oct 16 at 2:30 p.m.—A Man Named Pearl.


SIMONS IMAX THEATER
Category: Film
Telephone : 617-973-5200
   
New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, 617-973-5200. Sun–Wed 9:30 a.m.–9:30 p.m.; Thu–Sat 10 a.m.–9:30 p.m. Call for showtimes and complete schedule. Tickets: $9.95; seniors & children (3–11) $7.95. The Simons is the first large-format theater in Boston to have 3D viewing capability. Now showing: Sharks 3D; Deep Sea 3D; Grand Canyon 3D; Dolphins and Whales 3D; U2 3D; beginning Oct 15—Wild Oceans 3D.


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