Boston Free Films Oct. 22nd to Oct. 28th

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Boston Free Films, Vol. 4

 

BOSTON FREE FILM HINT OF THE WEEK:  To get invitations to special screenings, sign up for the Independent Film Festival of Boston mailing list at http://iffboston.org/global/list.php .   There are two free screenings this week and usually at least one per month. 

 

 

Here’s a look at the free films showing in the Medford-Somerville-Cambridge-Boston crescent from Monday, October 22nd to Sunday, October 28th.  If there are any changes I discover, I will post them here. 

 

Monday, October 22nd

 

6:00 pm            Boston Public Library:  Gunfight at the OK Corral

                        Rabb Lecture Hall Copley Square

 

7:30 pm            IFFB Screening:  No Country for Old Men (includes actor Q&A)

                        Somerville Theater  -- get passes at IFFBoston.org

 

Tuesday, October 23rd

 

10:30 am           BPL North End:   My Voyage to Italy (Part II)

                        25 Parmenter St.  

6:00 pm             Harvard:  Alambrista: The Director's Cut
                         D Rockefeller Center for Latin Amer. Studies, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
                        
7:00 pm            The Democracy Center:  Miss Navajo

                        45 Mount Auburn, Cambridge

 

7:30 pm            IFFB Screening:  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

                        Somerville Theater  -- get passes at IFFBoston.org

 

 

Wednesday, October 24th

2:00 pm            BPL Parker Hill Branch Library:  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

                        1497 Tremont St., Roxbury

 

3:00 pm            BPL West End:  Thelma & Louise

                        151 Cambridge St.

Thursday, October 25th

 

2:00 pm            BPL Never Too Late Group:  The Black Cat

                        Rabb Lecture Hall Copley Square

 

6:00 pm            BPL South Boston:  The Body Snatcher (1945)

                        646 East Broadway

7:00 pm            Tufts:  A Driver for Vera (Russian with English subtitles)
                        Russian Circle Film Series     Olin 011 (basement)

 

8:30 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)

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

 

Friday, October 26th

 

 

7:00 pm            Jamaica Plain Forum:  Miss Navajo

                        First Church in JP, 6 Eliot St, JP

 

7:00 pm            MIT LSC:  28 Weeks Later (also at 10 pm, only 7 pm showing is free)

                        MIT 26-100

 

7:00 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)

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

 

7:30 pm            Harvard: Volverás  (Spanish with English subtitles)

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

 

9:30 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)
                        Tufts Film Series   Barnum 008 (see tuftslife.com for final schedule)

 

 

Saturday, October 27th

 

 

7:00 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)

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

 

9:30 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)

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

 

 

Sunday, October 28th

 

 

2:30 pm            Tufts:  either The Host or Bug (schedule TBA)

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

 

 

 

And for those with cash to spare, the $3 movies at MIT’s LSC are 28 Weeks Later and Daywatch.  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.