Somerville Theatre

08/28/2026

Now Playing at Somerville Theatre:
🍿 Michael Mann's Manhunter: The Final Cut in 4K (8.28-29)
🍿 Tony
🍿 The Odyssey (70mm and digital)
🦉 Midnight Special: Bound in 35mm (8.29 at Midnight)

08/27/2026

See Bound in 35mm this Saturday for our final Midnight Special of the summer.

Bound, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, was the first film directed by the Wachowskis. In this neo-noir thriller, sparks fly when Violet (Jennifer Tilly) sets eyes on Corky (Gina Gershon). As the two women launch into a passionate love affair, they assemble an intricate plan for Violet to escape from her violent gangster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano), with two million dollars of the mob’s money.

08/27/2026

This Friday and Saturday, it's Michael Mann's Manhunter: The Final Cut in 4K.

A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert–the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance).

The third feature written and directed by Michael Mann is a gripping adaptation of the first of Thomas Harris’s four novels featuring the iconic murderer Lecktor, and benefits from the filmmaker’s typically striking visuals as well as a top-notch supporting cast, including Tom Noonan as the hunted killer and three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen as his blind love interest.

This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version. Shot in 1986, Manhunter was on a frontier in both its subject matter and film form, initiating an impressive list of subsequent films and series.

08/24/2026

Today begins a three day run at Somerville Theatre !! Get out and support Somerset Firefighters Local 2649 and all of your local firefighters and see Burnin' Down the House today!

08/22/2026

08/18/2026

"...for many of us, Catherine O’Hara was so much more than Macaulay Culkin’s mom.

That’s the purpose of the 'Catherine O’Hara Tribute Weekend' at the Somerville Theatre, a five-film retrospective of non-'Home Alone' classics co-starring the Canadian comedy legend."

A five-film retrospective at the Somerville Theatre honors the late comedy legend with 35mm screenings of "Beetlejuice," "Waiting for Guffman," "After Hours," "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind." The tribute culminates in a Crystal Ballroom afterparty featuring movie karaoke, a mock variety show and....

08/17/2026

Tonight and tomorrow (8.17-18) join us for the wild world of Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films, screening at 8pm.

Hell’s Highway is a morbidly curious exploration of the shocking driver education films of yesteryear. Produced between 1959 and 1979, these films encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses. These traumatic films would disappear from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status. Hell’s Highway unearths these artifacts of grim Americana and interviews the filmmakers responsible for this radical educational movement.

08/14/2026

Now Playing at Somerville Theatre:
🍿 The Odyssey (70mm + digital)
🍿 I Want Your S*x
🍿 The Invite
🦉 Midnight Special: Chopping Mall (8.15)
📽️ Silents, Please: Son of the Sheik with live score (8.16 at 2pm)
🎥 The Last Picture Shows (8.16 at 5pm)
🚙 Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (8.17-18)
🎞️ The Third Man - new 35mm print (8.19-20)

08/12/2026

Silents, Please: Son of the Sheik (1926) with live score
🗓️ Sunday, August 16th at 2pm
📍Somerville Theatre

The silent romantic epic ‘Son of the Sheik’ will be screened with live music on 100th anniversary of Rudolph Valentino's tragic early death. Live music will be provided by Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based silent film accompanist who performs regularly at screenings around the nation.

About the film
Ahmed (Valentino), the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman (Agnes Ayres), loves local dancing girl Yasmin (Vilma Banky).

When he slips out of his father’s heavily guarded compound to woo her, he is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of bandits led by Yasmin’s father (George Fawcett) and Ghabah (Montagu Love), the Moor to whom she is betrothed.

Can Valentino escape the clutches of his enemies and win the heart of his true love?

08/11/2026

🎞️ The iconic British noir, THE THIRD MAN, plays the Somerville Theatre on August 19-20th. Don't miss your chance to see a beautiful and brand new 35mm print of "one of the finest films ever made" (NY Times). 🎞️

About the film
Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives in a bombed-out, post-war Vienna at the invitation of his childhood friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) only to find him dead. Martins develops the ultimate conspiracy theory after learning of a “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, butting up against interference from British police officer Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover Anna (Alida Valli).