Sunday Night Film Club – Boston

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nats preaching to subdue unruly slaves.

As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

From Robert Kenner, director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., comes a high-stakes documentary thrillerbased on Eric Schlosser’s critically-acclaimed book of the same namethat reveals the deadly “human error” that led to a little-known accident at the Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. The chilling new documentary explores the unlikely chain of events that caused the accident and the feverish efforts to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United Statesa warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the frightening dilemma that the U.S. has faced since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

As part of the Somerville’s 70mm & Widescreen festival, a IB Technicolor 35mm print of Ben-Hur!

“When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.”

Note: Because of the late showtime of this film, we will be meeting BEFORE the movie. Meet at 5pm in the park across from the theatre (in front of JP Licks) and we can pick a place to go.

Note: Because of the late showtime of this film, we will be meeting BEFORE the movie. Meet in the park across from the theatre (in front of JP Licks) and we can pick a place to go.

“A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.”

Linklaters sequel-in-spirit to DAZED & CONFUSED draws on his own experiences of the first week in college. Blake Jenner plays Jake, a freshman pitcher for Texas State, who, along with his fellow baseball teammates, navigates the landscape of unsupervised proto-adulthood that college provides. A throwback to raunchy, 80s teen comedies with a sentimental heart and a soul grounded in reality, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! is a raucous good time.

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas.

A misplaced sausage (voice of Seth Rogen) and his food friends embark on an existential adventure through the aisles of a massive supermarket in this raunchy animated comedy. While they are initially excited by the prospect of a Fourth of July sale, the perishable pals are soon horrified when they learn the full truth about what happens after they are purchased.

Note: The host will be sitting in Row J

Ousmane Sembene, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BLACK GIRL (La noire de). Sembene, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Therese Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and one of the essential films of the 1960s.