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Boston Free Films, Vol. 3

 

Here’s a look at the free films showing in the Medford-Somerville-Cambridge-Boston crescent from Monday, October 15thth to Sunday, October 21st.  If there are any changes I discover, I will post them here. 

 

Monday, October 15th

 

6:00 pm            Boston Public Library:  Shane

                        Rabb Lecture Hall Copley Square

 

Tuesday, October 16th

 

10:30 am          BPL North End:   My Voyage to Italy (Part I -- Part II on October 23rd)

                        25 Parmenter St. 

 

2:00 pm            BPL Dorchester:  Sabrina

                        Lower Mills Branch Library, 27 Richmond St

 

 

Wednesday, October 17th

 

3:00 pm            BPL West End:  Crocodile Dundee

                        151 Cambridge St.

 

7:00 pm            Chicks Make Flicks:  Dance by Design & Transgressions (short)

                        Women in Film & Video/New England        MIT Room 6-120

 

9:00 pm            Tufts:  El Cantante 

                        ALAS & Latino Center event   Tisch 304

 

Thursday, October 18th

 

2:45 pm            MFA:    Orozco: Man of Fire

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival      MFA Remis Auditorium

                        www.bliff.org

 

6:00 pm            BPL South Boston:  The Seventh Victim

                        646 East Broadway

 

6:30 pm            BPL:  Motherhood Manifesto (includes filmmaker)

                        Rabb Lecture Hall Copley Square

           

7:00 pm            Harvard:  Dark Water (Nakata, 2001)

                        Harvard Law School      Hauser 102

 

7:30 pm            MIT:  The Kite

                        MIT Lebanese Club             Room 6-120

 

8:00 pm            MIT:  Rendition       Special Sneak Peek for MIT/Wellesley and guest Only: 

                        LSC   2 tickets per MIT/Wellesley ID, tix distributed starting at 6 pm in Lobby 16

                        Film in 10-250     Time to find your MIT friends. 

 

8:30 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

Friday, October 19th

 

3:00 pm            BU:  Operación Patakón  + Hispaniola (short)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

5:00 pm            BU:  Made in L.A + Esperando (short)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

5:45 pm            MFA:  Orozco: Man of Fire

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival    MFA Remis Auditorium

 

6:30 pm            BU:  Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories + Tracks of Color (short)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

7:00 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

7:30 pm            Harvard:  Lola Vende Cá  (Spanish with English subtitles)

                        Real Colegio Complutense   26 Trowbridge Street (corner of Harvard Street) in

                        mid-Cambridge

 

8:00 pm            BU:  Lost and Found in Mexico

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

  

9:30 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

 

Saturday, October 20th

 

4:00 pm            BU:  selection of contemporary US-Latino shorts

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

5:30 pm            BU:  Immigrant Reflections: Three Boston College Service Workers Share their

                        Stories (includes director talk) + Camión de carga (short)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

7:00 pm            BU:  Mario and New Bedford Stories (includes director talk)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

7:00 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

8:00 pm            BU:  International shorts selection

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

8:45 pm            BU:  Brujeria (Voodoo Woman)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

  

9:30 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

  

Sunday, October 21st

 

1:30 pm                 BU:  Democracy in Action: Venezuelan Elections 2006  (includes director talk)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

2:30 pm            Tufts:  either Shrek the Third or Happy Feet (schedule TBA)

                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

2:30 pm            BU:  I Believe in America (includes director talk)

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

4:00 pm            BU:  Collection of international shorts + La historia de Liz Rojas

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

5:45 pm            BU:  Choropampa: The Price of Gold

                        Boston Latino International Film Festival  

                        Howard Thurman Center  775 Comm. Ave

 

 

And for those with cash to spare, the $3 movies at MIT’s LSC are Live Free and Die and The Lives of Others.  See http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/ for exact schedule and location. 

 

 

References (in other words, where I found out about these films and where you can get more information on locations, schedule changes):

 

Tufts:   www.tuftslife.com

 

Harvard:      http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/calendar/arts.html

 

Real Colegio Complutense:  http://www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu/indexEn.htm

 

Brattle Theater:    http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/index.html

 

MIT:  http://events.mit.edu/

 

BU:     http://www.bu.edu/com/ft/film/cinematheque.html

 

Boston Public Library:  http://www.bpl.org/

 

Goethe-Institut Boston  http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/enindex.htm

 

Women in Film & Video/New England   http://womeninfilmvideo.org/home.php

 

Schedules subject to change without notice.  When in doubt, please check the source material.  Subject to space constraints.  Please let me know of new sources and I will add them to future issues. 

 

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