Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 17th at 7:15p for The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019: Animation at the Kendall Square Cinema. Look for Howard wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short…and more! Program includes Animal Behaviour (Canada), in which five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by a canine psychotherapist; Disney-Pixar’s Bao (USA), the story of an aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome who gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy; Late Afternoon (Ireland), about an elderly woman who journeys into an inner world, reliving moments from her life; One Small Step (USA/China), about a vibrant young Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut; and Weekends (USA), the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Rounding out the feature-length program are bonus animated shorts Wishing Box (USA) and Tweet Tweet (Russia).

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 10th at 7:15p for Cold War at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Dan wearing a multicolored shirt in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 3rd at 6:50p for Vice at the Kendall Square Cinema. Look for Dan wearing a multicolored shirt in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

The epic story of how Washington insider Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards!

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 27th at 7p for Roma (70mm) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Shelly wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

The most personal project to date from Academy Award(r)-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuaron draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.

Note: This 70mm presentation is a limited engagement, and 7pm is the only screening on Sunday. While it’s in the big house at the Coolidge, you may wish to buy your tickets in advance.

I tried to hold out to see if the forecast for Sunday Night improved, but it’s looking pretty snowy up until the late evening. So the Sunday Night Film Club will not meet this Sunday, January 20th. Stay safe and warm.

We will resume our normal schedule next Sunday, January 27th.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 13th at 7p for On The Basis Of Sex at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Howard wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 6th at 7:15p for If Beale Street Could Talk at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne). A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected she and her artist fiance Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny (Stephan James). Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

The Boston Sunday Night Film Club is taking this Sunday, December 23rd off due to the impending holidays. We hope to return the following Sunday, December 30th (depending on host availability).

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Dec 16th at 6pm for The Favourite at the Kendall Square Cinema. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Darkly comic story of three commanding women who jockey with raw abandon for love, favor and power amid the excesses of 18th century royals.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Dec 9th at 6p for Widows at the AMC Assembly Row 12. Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Note: This is a reserved-seating screening, so you may wish to purchase your seats in advance. The host, Sean, will be sitting in Row F.