Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Feb 7th at 5p for Hail, Caesar! at the Somerville 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 early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and filmmakers at Capitol Pictures. His latest assignments involve a disgruntled director, a singing cowboy, a beautiful swimmer and a handsome dancer. As if all this wasn’t enough, Mannix faces his biggest challenge when Baird Whitlock gets kidnapped while in costume for the swords-and-sandals epic “Hail, Caesar!” If the studio doesn’t pay $100,000, it’s the end of the line for the movie star.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 31st at 7:10p for Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016 - Animation 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.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and more! Program includes: Historia de un Oso (Bear Story) (Chile), in which an old, lonesome bear tells the story of his life through a mechanical diorama; Pixar Animation Studios’ Sanjays Super Team (USA), about a young, first-generation Indian-American boy whose love for western pop-culture comes into conflict with his fathers traditions; We Cant Live Without Cosmos (Russia), in which two cosmonauts who are friends try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality; writer/director Don Hertzfeldts World of Tomorrow (USA), in which a little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future; and Prologue (UK), in which a small girl bears witness as warriors battle to death during the Spartan-Athenian wars of 2,400 years ago. Additional animated shorts will also be shown. (Note: Prologue contains mature content and will be shown last, so that parents and caregivers can usher children out of the theater if desired. Other shorts in the program are acceptable for kids of all ages.)

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 24th at 7:15p for Anomalisa 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.

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 17th at 5p for The Revenant at the AMC Boston Common 19. Look for Sean wearing a nametagin 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.

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 10th at 7:15p for The Big Short at the Somerville Theatre. Look for Sean wearing a nametagin 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.

Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Jan 3rd at 3:45p for The Hateful Eight Roadshow at the Somerville Theatre. Look for Dan wearing a multicolored shirtin 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.

Note: Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended!

While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man (Walton Goggins) who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to a stagecoach stopover located on a mountain pass. After encountering four strangers, they may not make it to their destination.

Each screening will feature an overture and intermission.

On January 3rd, Dan will be hosting the SNFC at the 3:45p screening of The Hateful Eight at the Somerville. This is part of their limited engagement 70mm “Roadshow”, which features a slightly longer cut of the film, an overture and intermission, and I believe a program. Needless to say, it’s probably a good idea to get tickets in advance. A proper “newsletter” will follow next week, but we thought a heads-up was in order.

The Boston Sunday Night Film Club will not meet this Sunday, December 27th due to the holidays. We will return to our regular schedule on January 3rd, 2016.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Dec 20th at 4pm for Sisters at the Regal Fenway Stadium 13. Look for Sean wearing a nametagin 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.

Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.

Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Dec 13th at 7:15p for Hitchcock/Truffaut at the Kendall Square Cinema. Look for Sean wearing a nametagin 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 1962, Francois Truffaut persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a weeklong interview in which the great British director would share with his young admirer the secrets of his cinema. At the time Hitchcock was dismissed by critics as a mere commercial entertainer, but a hugely influential book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, that Truffaut crafted from their conversation forever changed Hitchcocks reputation. Based on the original recordings of their meeting, this fascinating film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plunges us into the world of the creator of Psycho, Vertigo and The Birds. As filmmaker Kent Jones highlights the main topics with a large number of clips (legendary and lesser known) from Hitchcocks films, 10 contemporary cinema greats reiterate the esthetic, technical and narrative questions at the heart of these conversations with Truffaut. And thanks to the original sound recordings, it is as if the book suddenly comes to life: Hitchcock and Truffaut, with their intonations, hesitations and laughter, answer Martin Scorsese, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich and others, resurrecting this fabled one-week encounter and 20-year friendship.