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Fri 1/20 - Sat 2/18: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN: THE FILMS OF JONAS MEKAS at the Harvard Film Archive

We are very excited to collaborate with SMFA for a few shows this year, bringing together the most wild artists we can find to do their thing in the incredible space that is the SMFA Library. For the first of 2017 we got former Mainer, current Western Mass-er, CRANK STURGEON raising the performance art bar and then doing aural acrobatics from it. One of the most engaging performers in the region, he’s known for crankin’ up the absurdity until it’s all too real… usually tackling global concepts while wearing some sort of elaborate handmade costume. He will be joined by area renaissance-person Victoria Shen who will likely be agitating the astral plane with her own hand made synths and electronic noise toys. At-large as she is, Shen plays solo, with her batterie-buoyed duo TRIM, with other various players, and even puts together shows herself. Finally, kicking off the evening we have SMFA’s own Cleo Miao. As an active member of the DIY music scene in Allston, Miao, a native of China, has her ears as wide open as her mind.. not sure what exactly she’ll do, but she recently made a thumb piano out of a cactus so we invited her to join the party. Come get weird and enjoy this fine space and the community that has opened its doors to you. ALL AGES. --Sam Potrykus

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Few aspects of contemporary Art Attack Managing Editor, reality inspire Art Writers more anxiety and dread than the It’s a new year, with meaningful exsurveillance state, hibitions, artist talks, workshops, comwhose indetectmunity gatherings, and performances able, inescapable, lurking around the corner. I personally am ever-compounding on the edge of my seat with the expectation eye colonizes our of seeing our creative communities build new bonds and extend putatively ideas and space with astonishing energy and kindness. However personal with this expectation also comes a call to writers to make sure that space and time the efforts of the individual maker do not go unrecognized, but by recording and are linked to a larger dialogue and made accessible to a more reporting them to diverse audience. This kind of support is so incredibly importgovernment, industry, or to whomevant, and all too often is lacking in our local coverage. The er or whatever receives or thieves its feed. Hassle is committed and we should be committed: Our For decades, the now 93-year-old Jonas all-volunteer team works tirelessly to foster a platform Mekas has offered a camera-positive inversion for creative voices and we need your help to do of this nightmare scenario, in which the gaze is always perso. We are currently seeking both contributing sonal and the process of grazing and collecting images serves writers as well as a managing editor for all poiesis rather than power. A legendary figure whose influence looms art-related web content. In these roles you large over every aspect of the last half-century of American avant-garde will have the opportunity to support your filmmaking, Mekas’ own work is predicated upon productive contradiccommunity and develop your critical and tions, most saliently that between the cinematic panopticon of his ever-rolling journalistic skills. The position of mancamera—whether 8mm, 16mm, or, eventually, digital—and the delicately lyrical, aging editor would additionally build light-suffused, eminently breathable quality of his so-called film-diaries. Mekas’ films may seem to go on forever, yet they are miniaturist and momentific, never experience in team management and totalizing and brutal. Though some of his films feature an impressive array of his editorial vision. This platform is yours! We can’t wait to see what you do with it! bohemian acquaintances, from Warhol and Maciunas to Yoko Ono, they bear no resemblance to “documentary” in the sense we’re used to; these are passing Please email volunteer@brain-arts.org or visit bostonhassle.com/volunteer if scenes as seen by a passing self. While his self may be passing, it is not past: Mekas himself will be on hand for a couple of the HFA’s screenings, and his films you are interested. --Maggie Jensen are built to outlast the collapse of our age’s shabby panopticons. --Matthew Martens

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a bostonh uary2017 Let’s face it y’all, 2016 was rough for many of us. At some point this /moc-jan past year I definitely felt the haunting call of, “What the hell am I Our cities are amalgamations of opportunity, crowded with freeing kinetic energy. In the words of Jane Jacobs, “Cities have doing with my life? And why?” It’s easy to slide into dread and hopethe capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” However, in lessness when so much of societal dysfunction seems out of our Boston and in cities all around the country, costs of living have become impossibly high with everyone from artists to working hands. For artists, whose passions aren’t usually seen as productive families to immigrants nervously treading water, hoping they can make it work. in capitalist society, the desire to continue our work can feel self-in For artists, DIY spaces are the resultant laboratories of carefree and untroubled collaboration. They exist as informal dulgent. You may ask yourself: Am I really gonna buy another guitar gathering places in an oftentimes overregulated cultural milieu. They are the liminal in-between places vital for hosting perforfx pedal when some people can’t even afford to eat? Cool, lemme mances and gatherings when there is a lack of affordable options. In the wake of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, city governments spend another 3 hours on this handmade fanny pack when I could are entering lockdown, shuttering spaces, becoming more reactionary, and focusing on closing spaces rather than safety, which be volunteering at Planned Parenthood. Etc, etc, etc. is short-term thinking at best. Clearly, artists need access to safe, reliable spaces to work and perform. Your fear, your uncertainty, and your insecurity during this time are At the Hassle, we are striving to address this need. We hope that policymakers will consider the detrimen- all valid. Going forward, political activism and mindfulness must tal effects that unaffordability and a lack of safe, alternative cultural spaces have on everyone before become part of our day-to-day existence. But our work derives its simply closing the spaces where so much of Boston’s creative energy is generated. power in the intersection between cultural and political activism. Culture creation is not just something we do for fun or because we places You Can Hang: feel bored. It is the social fabric that brings us together so we can understand the world together. If we can bring our political mind52 Brattle St fulness with us into our cultural activism, that creates meaningful Harvard Sq. impact. A National Endowment for the Arts report this year recognized the critical role artists play “as community leaders, giving I used to think L.A. Burdick was a French chocolate shop, and mispronounced it with an affected French accent for years (Le shape to community identity and voice to community concerns and Burdeek) until my French friend corrected me. It’s not French, but it is a delicious place to bring a date to warm up on a cold aspirations.” (http://creativz.us) And we recognize that too. Here at January afternoon or to pick up a gift for someone who enjoys extremely expensive chocolate. While the chocolate is a bit the Hassle we encourage you not to give up on whatever weirdo pricey, the shop truly excels at drinks and cakes, and after one sip of their dark, creamy hot chocolate, you’ll know that a Dunkin’ passion has chosen you. However, we also encourage you to not just will never again suffice. The only hazard of this perfect cafe is the film that inevitably accrues on your upper lip, but a chocolate wish good riddance upon 2016 and try to forget that it happened. moustache is a small price to pay for the pleasure of drinking warm, thick chocolate from a heavy porcelain mug. Collective change takes collective action. Complacency is not the The Harvard Square outpost feels like a Viennese cafe, and if you can find a spot on a cold day, it is an excellent spot to hiberanswer. Wishing an active and passionate 2017 to you all. nate with some Zuger Kirsch and a copy of the Compass (or whatever). The Back Bay shop is usually less crowded, but no less --Emma Leavitt charming, and though I find myself there less often, I’ve been known to stop in before catching a concert from the Trinity Choir, which feels about as old-world as it gets. It’s January, folks—let your sugar high mitigate the effects of seasonal depression.

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Fri 1/13 Laugh While You Can - comedy featuring Angela Sawyer to benefit gender based violence in Boston and beyond @Iron Furnace (Quincy) 8pm $Donate$

view the full calendar at bostonhassle.com Sat 1/7 The Furs, Prison Hit, Sweet Heat, Earthward @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Sat 1/7 The Channels, Slendermen, Shitwhitman, The Blues Dream Box @Trixie’s Palace 10pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 1/7 Mini Dresses, Squirrel Flower, Strange Mangers @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10

Fri 1/13 PanzerBastard, One Master, Lustrum, High Command @Ralph’s Diner (Worcester) 9pm 21+ Fri 1/20 Willie Lane, Matt $10 Krefting plus legendary fingerstylist Glenn Fri 1/13 Charles Allin (pvd), Joe Mygan, Substrates Jones @ Deep with video by Chris Konopka @Moon Villain 9pm Thoughts JP All Ages $5-10 suggested donation for artists…*A 9pm All Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Ages $5-$10 Sat 1/14 Feminist Fiber Art and Boston Hassle present... Community Art Show and Craft Fair! Sat 1/21 Featuring FFA Artists and Hassle Flyer Artists.... Bash & @32 Rugg Road Allston MA Free/Donation All Pop, The Ages 12-5 pm So So

Glos @Great Mon 1/2 Headband, Kave Kraft, Ghost Boys @ Sun 1/8 The Nude Party, Midriffs, Spirit Ghost Scott ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free @Atwood’s Tavern 9pm 21+ $10 9pm 21+ Sat 1/14 Sam P’s Bday Hoedown Bonanza - featur- $15 Mon 1/2 Sun Drifter, Oxblood Forge, VAT Sun 1/8 Casanovas In Heat, Eastern Bloc, ing Blue Ribbon Band, Slim Jim and the Mad Cows, @O'Briens 8pm 21+ $7 Tortured Skull, New Cross @Koto (Salem) 9pm Chowder Finger + special guests! @Midway Cafe Sat 1/21 21+ $ome Cost 8pm 21+ $7 - A COUNTRY SHOW Black Mon 1/2 Shea's Lounge: A Punk Night @Plough Box Sounds and Stars 10pm 21+ Free Sun 1/8 Oakland Fire Victims Relief Fund Sat 1/14 Exxo Ryders (members of Blanche Blanche featuring Benefit w/ Journey To The Center Of The Blanche - deep bass and trip guitar jams with drum Tue 1/3 Title Fight, Give, Westpoint @Sinclair Colon, Tani, Sonny Jim, Dust From 1,000 Years, machine) plus more TBA @Deep Thoughts JP 9pm Haybaby, Creaturos, Mini 8pm All Ages $ Nicholas P. O'Connor, Ethan Marsh ...and a All Ages $5 sug- Dresses, Jack @Arts specious/special reunion by The Melissas @ gested donation Emerson 8pm All Ages Tue 1/3 Angela Sawyer, Andrea Pensado, Vari- Common Ground 7pm All Ages $5-$20 SugSat 1/14 Planned $ome Cost ant State, Custom Drummer, Long Blonde Wig gested Donation Parenthood @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Benefit featuring Sat 1/21 Glory, Absolute Power, & more TBA @ Sun 1/8 If Not I Than Who Then (magical Gamma Pope, Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $ome Cost Wed 1/4 Teachable Moments, Neksys, Forbes puppet show, experimental beatboxing from Falling (MinneGraham, Fable Grazer, Hard Rugs @Midway Vermont), Having Fun is Spending Money, apolis), Good Sat 1/21 Wes Kaplan, Stormy Saint-Val, Tom Maroon Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Asher Tuil @Deep Thoughts JP 9pm All Ages Doom (Minneapolis), Prior Panic @Democracy @Potato Emporium 5pm All Ages $5 Sugg. Dona$5 suggested donation Center 7pm All Ages $5-10 tion Wed 1/4 Angela Sawyer Standup @Limelight Comedy 8pm $ome Cost Sun 1/8 People Like You, Crumb, Active Bird Sun 1/15 Stefan Banderson, Cal Folger Day, BenSun 1/22 Rye Pines, Fond Han, Bilge Rat, Be You Community, Peach Fuzz @Mid East Up 7pm All jamin Shepherd, Erik Caldarone @Liypad 6pm All Me @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Wed 1/4 All of the Animals, Solei @Plough and Ages $12-14 Ages $7-10 Stars 10pm 21+ Free Sun 1/22 Sparks at the Armory: Zaid Khan, Bedbug, Mon 1/9 ESQ, Courters, Lady Pilot, Heavy Mon 1/16 Alosi Den @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free Sidney Gish @Arts at the Armory 2pm All Ages Thu 1/5 Angela Sawyer Standup @The Green Denims @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 $ome Cost Room 8pm $ome Cost Tue 1/17 Power Monster, AD.UL.T, Dog Hospice, Mon 1/9 Nice Guys, Jojo and the Angry Girls, Hymenal Opening @AS220 (PVD) 9pm All Ages Sun 1/22 Sanguine Eagle, Ozama, Malleus, Brazen Fri 1/6 Madball, Slaine, Brick By Brick, Jaysaun Jim Leonard @Middle East Up 7pm 18+ $10 $ome Cost Gate @Wreck Center (Allston) 7pm All Ages $5-10 @Middle East Downstairs 7pm All Ages $18 Sat 1/14 Punk Rock Aerobics @ONCE 12pm All Ages $10-$20 sliding scale

Mon 1/9 Philosophical Zombie, Chris Warren @ Wed 1/18 Angela Sawyer @The Comedy Studio Fri 1/6 Entombed A.D., Full of Hell, Turbid North, ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free 8pm $ome Cost Bacterial Husk @ONCE 8pm 18+ $20

Sun 1/22 Honeysuckle, Sam Moss @Plough and Stars 4pm All Ages Free

Tue 1/10 Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Meg Baird Fri 1/6 As Built Presents: Ghost Ship Relief Show@Arts at the Armory 6pm All Ages $16 featuring Of the Sun/Kar’Nam, Main Fader, Petridisch @Out of the Blue 9pm All Ages Tue 1/10 Non Event Presents: Nathaniel Brad$Donate$ dock @Cafe Fixe 7pm All Ages $5

Sun 1/22 Sinai Vessel, Saccharine, Du Vide, Tuxis Giant @Mid East Up 7pm All Ages $10-12

Fri 1/6 Thrust Club, The Gala, Radium Girls @ Sally O’Briens (Somerville) 9:30pm 21+ $5 Fri 1/6 Soft Pyramids, The Furniture @Plough and Stars 10pm 21+ $5 Sat 1/7 ENTRAIL SOUP #2 with/ Chill City Icon (Travis Hagan & Kevin Dacey), Taquari Patterson, Joanna Boool, C. Benefield, Fat Shuggy @ Yer Tummy (ask for address) 1pm All Ages

Tue 1/10 Tredici Bacci @The Standard (Brooklyn) 7pm $ome Cost

Wed 1/18 Birthing Hips, Brittle Brian, Fern Mayo, Human People, Kal Marks @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $10-12 Wed 1/18 Truckfighters, Kings Destroy, Gozu @ ONCE 8pm 18+ $14-18

Mon 1/23 TV Girl @Middle East Up 7pm 18+ $10 Mon 1/23 Bong Massagers, Mini Dresses, Yankee Power @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free

Wed 1/18 City Of Caterpillar, The Saddest Landscape, Kindling @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $15 Tue 1/24 Co-incidence: An Wed 1/11 Atlas Lab, Miss Geo, The Solars, Ruby Experimental Music Luna @Middle East Up 7pm 18+ $10 Thu 1/19 Public Access T.V., Splashh, The Britanys @ Residency featuring Morgan Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Evans-Weiler, Michael Wed 1/11 Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Meg Baird Rosenstein and Jesse Collins @Columbus Theatre (Providence) 7pm All Thu 1/19 Washer, Rick Rude, Kiss Concert, Tall Duo, and Michael Pisaro Ages $15 Friend @Shea Stadium (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages @Washington St. Arts $ome Cost Center 8pm All Ages Free Thu 1/12 Forth Wanderers, Half Waif, Brittle Brian @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10-12 Fri 1/20 Cherry Glazerr, Slow Hollows @Middle Tue 1/24 Shaves - A Story Telling Show featuring East Up 7:30pm All Ages $12 Angela Sawyer @ask someone 8pm All Ages Free Thu 1/12 Rare Footage vol. 2 featuring Afropanther, Candy Raine, Dee Diggs, Blk.Adonis @ Fri 1/20 Into Another, High Disciple, Supertouch @ Wed 1/25 John Cushing, Fat Shuggy, James DiscovGood Life 10pm 21+ $ome Cost ONCE 7pm $16 ers, Eu La @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5

Sat 1/7 Lisa/Liza (Maine, tour kickoff show!), Kateboard and Rather Be @Blue Bag Records 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 suggested donation *A Boston Hassle Effort* Fri 1/13 Lyres, The Charms, The Modifiers, DJ Panda @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 Sat 1/7 Dyr Faser, o13, Spectramotiv @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 sugg. donation Fri 1/13 Spelling, Idiot Genes, Jackal Onasis,

Fri 1/20 Ovlov, Sinai Vessel, Bilge Rat, Fond Han @ Wed 1/25 Tonstartssbandht, Tredici Bacci, Cruel Shea Stadium (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $10 Angels, Leya @Sunnyvale (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $10 Fri 1/20 Gimme Noise! presents: 14 foot 1, Today Spelling, Spook The Herd @Great Scott 10pm Junior, Edgar Clinks, Junior Beat @AS220 (Provi- Fri 1/27 SMFA Library Sounds Series and Boston Sat 1/7 Youth Funeral, Ascend/Descend, Hun- 21+ $10 dence) 9pm All Ages $6 Hassle present… Ghostship Benefit/Micah Danedreds of Au, Lilth @Democracy Center 6pm All Fri 1/20 Library Sounds and Boston Hassle Presmayer Tribute show featuring friends of Micah Ages $6-8 Fri 1/13 Big Mess, Kiss Concert, Rick Rude, ent: Crank Sturgeon, Victoria Shen, Cleo Miao @ Danemayer - full lineup To Be Announced…@SMFA Peach Ring @O'Briens 8pm 18+ $8 SMFA 7pm All Ages $5-$10 Suggested Donation Library 7-11pm All Ages $10 Suggested - all proceeds go to the Micah Memorial Fund at MassArt.

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CHOSEN SHOWS OF NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND

WMASS: 1/7 Winter Noise Gig featuring Hiver (NY), TVE (Worcester), Isa X, Fieldmaster, Blood Developer, Venerate the Plough, Poacher @Cold Spring Hollow 8pm All Ages $5-10 WMASS: 1/14 MT Presents: Gary Higgins, Pigeons, Sunburned Hand, Frozen Corn @Mystery Train Records 6pm All Ages $10 WMASS: 1/17 Fern Mayo, Human People, Thee Arcadians, DUMP HIM @Flywheel Arts Collective 7pm All Ages $5-10 WMASS: 1/21 Acorns in the Blender Presents:

Ex-Temper, Picnic Lunch, Easthampton Savings Band, TBA @13th Floor Music Lounge 8pm All Ages $ome Cost CENT-MASS: 1/13 Suffer On Acid, Maniac, Birnam Wood, Overgrowth, Guilt Ritual @Hotel Vernon (Worcester, MA) 8pm 21+ $10 RI: 1/6 Hairspray Queen, Goon Planet, Funeral Cone, Way Out, Black Beach @AS220 9pm All Ages $6 RI: 1/6 Boy Harsher, The Wheal (Fr), Lingua Ignota, Kurt Snell, Strap-on Ritual @Machines with Magnets (PVD) 9pm All Ages $8 RI: 1/8 Minibeast, It's Not Night: It's Space, Rope Trick, River Cult @Aurora (PVD) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost RI: 1/18 The Body, Lingua Ignota, Muslin, Sandworm, Work/Death @Aurora (PVD) 9pm All

Ages $8 NH: 1/5 Green Bastard, It's Not Night: It's Space, Rope Trick, and Cain @Needful Things (Dover, NH) 8pm All Ages $5 NH: 1/7 Rick Rude (record release) with Bunnys A Swine, Kiss Concert, Gash @3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH) 7pm All Ages $ome Cost NH: 1/8 Badsign, Aneurysm, IronGag/ The Path @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 7pm 21+ $3 NH: 1/23 Open Discussion on Sexism, Transmisogyny, & Violence in Our Music Scene @Bailey’s Studio (Dover, NH) 6:30pm All Ages Free CT: 1/7 Blue Smiley, Brandon Can't Dance, Skating, Reduction Plan Jart @44 Skate Shop (Putnam, CT) 6pm All Ages $5 CT: 1/14 Maniac, Mourned, Cauterized, Guilt Ritual, Rug @Crunch House (West Haven, CT)

7pm All Ages $8 ME: 1/7 Sylvia, AICMD, Kintaan, Born Under A Bad Sign @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $8 NY: 1/5 Little Waist, Washer, Teenage Halloween, Howardian, Hiccup @Silent Barn (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $8 NY: 1/7 FlatBox Presents: Ian Sweet, Patio, T-Rextasy & Human People @Shea Stadium (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost NY: 1/13 Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Red Sea, Hello Ocho, Turnip King @The Glove (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $8 NY: 1/14 SPLC Benefit featuring Sad13, Patio, Painted Zeros, Jackal Onasis @C’Mon Everybody (Brooklyn) 7pm All Ages $Donate$

Fri 1/27 The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am (Sat 1/14) Reception: M/OTHERING @Gallery No Longer Afraid To Die, Animal Flag, Paige 263, 6-9pm Chaplin @Middle East Up 8pm 18+ $12

Fri 1/13 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016) dir. Dan Trachtenberg @BRATTLE Despite what you make think, John Goodman does not make a good roomie

(Ends 1/15) Exhibition: APATHiE @Distillery Gallery

Fri 1/27 Mogwai @Berklee Performance Center 8pm All Ages $29.50

(Fri 1/20) Reception: The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanical Photography @New Art Center, 6-8pm

Fri 1/27 Co-incidence: An Experimental Music Residency - Once Far, Now Here featuring six solo pieces/sets by Co-incidence guest artists @Washington St. Arts Center 8pm All Ages Free

(Fri 1/20) Performance: SMFA Library Sounds: Crank Sturgeon, Victoria Shen, Cleo Miao @ SMFA Library, 7-11pm (Fri 1/20, Sat 1/21) Performance: ODC/DANCE @Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 8pm

Sat 1/28 Rhett Miller, Abbie Barrett @ONCE 8pm $20

(Mon 1/23) Reception: DRAW/BOSTON @ MassArt Bakalar Gallery, 6-8pm (Opens 1/24) Exhibition: CODED_COUTURE @ Tisch Family Gallery at Tufts University (Ends 1/28) Exhibition: latinx@mericañaza @ Samson Projects

Sat 1/28 Boston Cream (mbrs. Barbazons, CreaturoS, Hallelujah the Hills), Hands and Knees, Dad Rock Decade, Audrey Ryan @ask someone 7:30pm All Ages $5-$10 suggested donation

(Ongoing) Public Art: Mehdi Ghadyanloo: Spaces Of Hope @Dewey Square Park (Ongoing) Exhibition: Nick Cave: Until @MASS MoCA (Ends 1/28) Exhibition: Race, Love, and Labor @Photographic Resource Center at Boston University

Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Kyle Brunet, Oscar Goff, Andy Houldcroft, Matthew Martens, Pablo Torroella

Fri 1/13 GREEN ROOM (2016) dir. Jeremy Saulnier @BRATTLE Neo-Nazis and punk rock. Need I say more?

Sun 1/1-Tues 1/3 MARX BROTHERS MARATHON @BRATTLE Let a million Marxists bloom.

Fri 1/13 THE RUNNING MAN (1987) dir. Paul Michael Glaser @COOLIDGE The 2017 Hunger Games for criminals Also screens 1/14

Wed 1/4 BEGINNERS (2010) dir. Mike Mills @ BRATTLE Father/Son bonding tale as told by Mike Mills

Mon 1/16 GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy @HFA Busby Berkeley razzle dazzle

Wed 1/4 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (2016) dir. Mike Mills @BRATTLE Story of 3 women trying to make their way through the ‘70s Free preview screening!

Thurs 1/19 THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Chanwook Park @BRATTLE Who would’ve thought 1930s Korea would be so damn erotic and duplicitous?

Wed 1/4 THE FRESHMAN (1925) dir.Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor @ROCKWELL Third-party silent slapstick Live musical accompaniment!

Fri 1/20 ROCKY IV (1985) dir. Sylvester Stallone @COOLIDGE Rocky fights the Cold War & Paulie gets a robot Also screens 1/21

Wed 1/4 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966) dir. Gillo Pontecorvo @MFA Still as relevant as ever Screens through 1/13 Fri 1/6 SURVIVING THE GAME (1994) dir. Ernest Dickerson @COOLIDGE Ice-T’s Most Dangerous Game Also screens 1/7

Fri 1/20 XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE (2017) dir. D.J. Caruso @ANYWHERE Vin and friends do spy things this time

Fri 1/6 PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) dir. Guillermo Del Toro @BRATTLE WWI fairytale masterpiece Also screens 1/7

Fri 1/20 TOWER (2015) dir. Keith Maitland @ BRATTLE Animated historical crime doc Area premiere! Screens through 1/26

(Ongoing) The Artist’s Museum @Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Sat 1/7 TIME BANDITS (1981) dir. Terry Gilliam @BRATTLE Terry Gilliam’s surreal fantasy Also screens 1/8

Sat 1/21 SAILOR MOON R (1993) dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara @BRATTLE Magic girls fight flowers & misogyny Also screens 1/22

(Wed 1/4- Sat 1/8) Artist-in-Residence Workshop: Maurizio Cannavacciulo @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 11am-1pm & 2-4pm

Mon 1/9 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (1973) dir. Ingmar Bergman @COOLIDGE Marriage is hard, and this movie proves it

(Thu 1/5) Reception: Ladyfest Boston Affordable Art Auction @Aviary Gallery, 6-9pm

Wed 1/11 LAND OF MILK AND HONEY (1971) dir. Pierre Etaix @MFA La France profonde reels in the after-May murk. Also screens 1/15

Thurs 1/26 THE NINE (2016) dir. Katy Grannan @CCVA Post-Depression uplift Director in person! Fri 1/27 LORD OF ILLUSIONS (1995) dir. Clive Barker @BRATTLE Clive Barker isn’t pulling a rabbit out of a hat in this one...

(Ends 1/29) Exhibition: Christian Marclay: The Sat 1/28 Vagabond Kings, Wrought Iron Hex, Clock @Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oxblood Forge @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $8 (Mon 1/30) Discussion: Martha's presents Sun 1/29 Black Beach, Hairspray Queen, Idiot Marsha Parrilla: Gender Perspectives @Mills Genes, Thee Cavemyn @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Gallery, 6-8pm (Ongoing) Exhibition: Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning @Harvard Art Museum

(Fri 1/6) Reception: Carly Glovinski & Scout Land @Carroll and Sons, 5:30-7:30pm (Ends 1/7) Exhibition: Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl… @The Cooper Gallery

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bostonhassle.com (Ends 1/8) Exhibition: Embodied Absence: Chil- bostonhassle.c bostonhassle ean Art of the 1970s Now @Carpenter Center bostonhas bostonh (Ends 1/8) Exhibition: Edgar Arceneaux: Written boston in Smoke and Fire @MIT List Visual Arts Center bosto bost (Opens 1/9) Hoarder Vacui: Sage Schmett and bos bos Nick Rocco @Harvard Ed Portal Crossings

Sun 1/29 BELL, BOOK & CANDLE (1958) dir. Richard Quine @BRATTLE Jimmy Stewart vs. hepcat witches! Mon 1/30 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES (2014) dir. Jonas Mekas @HFA Late Mekas, still on time. LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Carpenter Center, Harvard - CCVA Coolidge Corner Theatre COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA Rockwell Somerville - ROCKWELL

Gallery (Mon 1/9-Thu 1/12) Lecture Series: Sharon Harper, Lucy Kim, Steve Locke, Kalup Linzy @Lesley University, 7-9pm (Opens 1/10) List Projects: Andrea Crespo @ MIT List Visual Arts Center (Fri 1/13) Reception: I Dread to Think… @Mills Gallery, 6-8pm (Fri 1/13) Reception: Body Politic @OPEN, 6-8pm

Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings with showtimes and other info.

(Fri 1/13) Film: Doris Salcedo’s Public Works @ Harvard Art Museum, 2-2:30pm

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(Sat 1/14) Reception: Murmurations @Dorchester Art Project, 6-9pm (Sat 1/14) Artist Talk: Creative Empathy @Mills Gallery, 3-4:30pm (Sat 1/14) Community Art Show and Craft Fair @32 Rugg Rd, 12-5pm

Sat 1/28 MEMORY EXERCISES (2016) dir. Paz Encina @HFA A dissident’s children remember their dad’s disappearer. Director in person!

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