Every Saturday at 11:30am, Monday at 7pm and Thursday at 9pm, the Charles presents repertory films in DCP format (and from time to time on 35mm film) in The Charles’ original 360 seat theatre.
| HEAT | |
| All That Heaven Allows | Saturday, October 11 |
| Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion | Thursday, October 16 |
| The Devil, Probably | Saturday, October 18 |
| Vampire’s Kiss | Thursday, October 23 |
| The Black Cat | Saturday, October 25 |
Much is made of the pair of acting silverbacks at the center of Michael Mann’s magnum-opus crime flick, and rightly so, but one of the undersung pleasures here is the deep bench of character actors absolutely killing smaller parts: Jon Voight, Tom Noonan, Mykelti Williamson, Ted Levine, William Fichtner, the more »
The pinnacle of screen melodrama. Douglas Sirk’s work is perhaps better known today through homages/sendups from the likes of John Waters, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Todd Haynes, but there’s no true substitute for his Technicolor fantasies of real life. Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson dare to cross age and class boundaries with th more »
Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow’s title characters don’t get that they’re a little dumb. And furthermore, they wouldn’t really care. They have each other (platonically) to face life and their judgy ex-classmates. There’s no good reason this Gen X catnip should be as smart, original, and hilarious as it is—the di more »
Robert Bresson’s penultimate film captures the post-’68 generation of Parisian youth on the comedown. Antoinne Monier’s protagonist is past thinking that revolution is at hand, the environment can be saved, or anything much matters. The director’s trademark use of a deliberately inert nonprofessional cast i more »
Nicolas Cage’s outré acting style first fully flowered in his portrayal of an effete New York literary agent who, when not chasing one-night-stands or terrorizing a demure coworker (Maria Conchita Alonso), comes to believe he’s a vampire. The film is a fairly standard ‘80s indie, but Cage does something coc more »
Satanism rears its horned head in Hollywood for the first time in this vintage spooky story starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. The “ordinary” honeymooners that set the story in motion are duds throughout, but the two stars bring the first-class creeps and scenery gnawing as they spar over deadly old gr more »
