Somerville Theatre

Somerville Theatre Entertaining the community with stage and screen since 1914.

Check out the latest in our double feature series Kurt & Jodie: From Disney Kids to Movie Legends with Panic Room (6:30p...
06/07/2026

Check out the latest in our double feature series Kurt & Jodie: From Disney Kids to Movie Legends with Panic Room (6:30pm) and Backdraft in 35mm (8:45pm) this Monday, June 8th.

Jodie Foster took on some impressive action roles in the Aughts, starting with the stylish thriller Panic Room, from director David Fincher and screenwriter David Koepp. Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, newly divorced Meg Altman (Foster) and her young daughter (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion.

We've paired it with Backdraft (35mm), a film where feuding siblings (Kurt Russell and William Baldwin) carry on the family tradition as Chicago firefighters, soon tasked with solving a puzzling series of arson attacks.

For the gripping fire sequences, director Ron Howard insisted on using real fire effects whenever possible. Burning nearly a thousand gallons of rubber cement to create intense, realistic flames that move and dance and seem to have a kind of animalistic intelligence, Backdraft was one of the last major Hollywood movies to use real fire effects this extensively. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to see it on our big screen in 35mm.

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is opening this Friday at Somerville Theatre. See it during opening weekend and get a ...
06/07/2026

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is opening this Friday at Somerville Theatre. See it during opening weekend and get a mini poster, while supplies last!

About the film
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. We are coming close to ... Disclosure Day.

06/05/2026

📽️ Silents, Please: The Adventures of Prince Achmed in 35mm with live score by Jeff Rapsis
🗓️ Sunday, June 14th at 2pm
📍Somerville Theatre

Hailed as the first feature-length animated film in the history of cinema, this captivating film by pioneering animator Lotte Reiniger tells the story of Prince Achmed’s magical adventures.

Taken from ‘The Arabian Nights,’ the first full-length animated feature (a full decade earlier than Disney’s ‘Snow White’) tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse, sending him off to a series of wondrous and romantic adventures. A masterful example of silhouette-style animation and a true breakthrough in cinematic story-telling. Join us for 100th anniversary presentation on the big screen at the Somerville Theatre with live score.

Live musical scoring will be provided by silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based performer who specializes in music for silent film presentations. In the tradition of theatre organists of the 1920s, Rapsis improvises each film’s score on the spot, making up the music as the movie is screened. Rapsis uses a digital synthesizer to create the texture of a full orchestra.

Get your tickets NOW for The Odyssey in 70mm at Somerville Theatre. Opening July 17th with preview screenings on July 16...
06/04/2026

Get your tickets NOW for The Odyssey in 70mm at Somerville Theatre. Opening July 17th with preview screenings on July 16th.

Our Saturday Night Midnight Specials return with Carrie in 35mm! See Brian De Palma's spellbinding horror film this Satu...
06/02/2026

Our Saturday Night Midnight Specials return with Carrie in 35mm! See Brian De Palma's spellbinding horror film this Saturday night (6.6) in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

The film follows Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), a withdrawn and sensitive teenager, who endures relentless bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically religious mother. When she begins to discover she has telekinetic powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

TONIGHT (6.1)! Check out the latest in our double feature series Kurt & Jodie: From Disney Kids to Movie Legends, with T...
06/01/2026

TONIGHT (6.1)! Check out the latest in our double feature series Kurt & Jodie: From Disney Kids to Movie Legends, with The Accused in 35mm (6:30pm) and Silkwood (8:45pm).

Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for The Accused, a legal drama loosely inspired by a 1983 gang r**e in New Bedford. Foster gives a complex and sympathetic performance as 24-year-old waitress Sarah Tobias, who is brutally r**ed by three men at a local bar while several patrons watch and cheer. Kelly McGillis plays District Attorney Katheryn Murphy, who is assigned to the case.

We've paired it with Silkwood, another Oscar-nominated film based on a true story. Meryl Streep stars as Karen Silkwood, who, after being exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, becomes a whistle-blower investigating potential wrongdoing by her employer. Kurt Russell plays Karen’s boyfriend, giving a subtle, layered performance as a compassionate, soft-spoken man whose patience gets pushed to the edge.

05/29/2026

Now Playing at Somerville Theatre:
🍿 Backrooms
🍿 Obsession
🍿 I Love Boosters
📽️ Stolen Kingdom (5.31 at 6:00pm with Q&A)
📽️ 6.1 - Kurt and Jodie: The Accused in 35mm (6:30pm) and Silkwood (8:45pm)

The Midnight Special returns this summer at the Somerville Theatre! All aboard the midnight train for select 70mm screen...
05/29/2026

The Midnight Special returns this summer at the Somerville Theatre! All aboard the midnight train for select 70mm screenings and anniversaries of cult classics.

The 2026 Schedule includes:
🚂 Carrie in 35mm - 50th Anniversary (6.6)
🚂 Blue Velvet in 4K - 40th Anniversary (6.13)
🚂 Bottle Rocket in 4K - 30th Anniversary (6.20)
🚂 Django - 60th Anniversary (6.27)
🚂 Terminator 2 in 35mm - 35th Anniversary (7.11)
🚂 The Dark Crystal in 70mm (7.18)
🚂 Howard the Duck in 70mm - 40th Anniversary (7.25)
🚂 The Doors in 70mm - 35th Anniversary (8.1)
🚂 Inland Empire - 20th Anniversary (8.8)
🚂 Chopping Mall - 40th Anniversary (8.15)
🚂 The Craft in 4K - 30th Anniversary (8.22)
🚂 Bound in 35mm - 30th Anniversary (8.29)

05/27/2026

Opening Friday: Backrooms

In the latest from A24, a strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell.

Next in our Thirsty Thursdays series, it's ROAD HOUSE in 4K, this Thursday, May 28th at 7:30pm. The Double Deuce is the ...
05/26/2026

Next in our Thirsty Thursdays series, it's ROAD HOUSE in 4K, this Thursday, May 28th at 7:30pm.

The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he’s more than capable — busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot-spot. But Dalton’s romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay (Kelly Lynch) puts him on the bad side of a cutthroat local big shot.

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