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  • Monday, October 3, 7:00 pm – The Little Shop of Horrors, With a Twist

    The Coolidge Corner Theatre kicks off a new season of its popular Science on Screen series on Monday, October 3 with a special showing of B-movie maestro Roger Corman’s 1960 horticultural cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors paired with a pre-screening talk on carnivorous plants by Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard Forest. The program begins at 7:00 pm.

    The Little Shop of Horrors tells the tale of a hapless plant-shop clerk who breeds a new species of plant named Audrey Junior that not only talks, but also needs a special kind of food to survive: humans. Famous for having the shortest shooting schedule on record – two days and a night – this hilarious black comedy helped establish director Corman as an underground legend. Starring Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, and Jackie Joseph, the film also features an iconic cameo by a young Jack Nicholson as a gleefully masochistic dental patient (possibly not a stretch theatrically.)

    Unlike Audrey Junior, carnivorous plants in nature don’t actually devour people – or bellow “Feed Me!” But because these plants grow in habitats where soil nutrients are in short supply, they must rely on animal prey for sustenance. They catch their dinner using a variety of strategies, from snapping their leaves shut on unsuspecting insects to snagging snacks with sticky tentacles to sucking in their prey like a vacuum cleaner.

    Before the film, Dr. Ellison sheds light on the curious world of carnivorous plants and on how these fabulously complex plants can further our understanding of how a complete, functioning natural ecosystem works.

    At Harvard Forest, Harvard University’s 3,500-acre outdoor classroom and ecological research laboratory in Petersham, Mass., Dr. Ellison studies the evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants, food web dynamics and community ecology of wetlands and forests, and other phenomena. He has received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Faculty Fellow award for excellence in research and teaching.

    Science on Screen is co-presented by The Museum of Science, Boston and made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Tickets are $9.75 general admission, $7.75 for students, seniors, and Museum of Science members, and free for Coolidge Corner Theatre members. For more information and to purchase tickets online, visit www.coolidge.org/science. Tickets are also available at the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office, located at 290 Harvard Street in Brookline. Phone: 617/734-2500.

  • Tuesday, April 26, 7:30 pm – Bag It

    Whole Foods sponsors the Do Something Reel Film Festival, and a screening of Bag It will take place at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline on Tuesday, April 26 at 7:30 pm.  Ticket price is $9, and you may buy tickets on line at www.dosomethingreel.com, or at the theatre.  This highly entertaining and eye-opening film follows everyman Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic-reliant world.  Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics.  The filmmaker Suzan Beraza was born in Jamaica and raised in Puerto Rico and in the Dominican Republic.  Her thought provoking films challenge viewers to examine their lives and consider the impact of their choices.

  • Thursday, October 21, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Climbing the Mango Trees

    Madhur Jaffrey, the seven-time winner of the James Beard Award, is coming to the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline, on Thursday, October 21 beginning at 6 pm  to share her new cookbook, At Home with Madhur Jaffrey, and discuss her memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. There are few better places to be than Madhur Jaffrey’s kitchen. The actress-turned-cooking-guru has won five James Beard Foundation awards and is a world authority on Indian cuisine. Come to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a taste of her new book, which includes simple South Asian recipes perfect for time-pressed cooks. Tickets for this event are just $5 dollars. Purchase tickets by calling  617-566-6660.

  • Thursday, July 29, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Ingredients

    INGREDIENTS is a feature-length documentary illustrating how passionate individuals around the country are working to revitalize the local food movement. Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, the film takes us across the U.S. from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the urban food deserts of Harlem and to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins. INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities. The film will be shown on Thursday, July 29, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline.For more information, please visit: http://coolidge.org/greenscreens .  The ticket price is $9.75.