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Coolidge Corner Theatre brings outdoor movies to four locations

The theater will be showing movies at four locations in the Boston area with screenings happening July-September.

June 19, 2024 • 
Michael Beausoleil
"Bring It On" projected on an outdoor movie screen at the Charles River Speedway beer garden.

Charles River Speedway is a great outdoor movie venue.

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Moonlight, camera, action — Coolidge Corner Theatre will be bringing back its outdoor movie screenings this summer, allowing cinema fans to watch 35mm films under the stars. Here’s what’s on the schedule in July:

  • Wednesday, July 10 — “The Rock” at Charles River Speedway. Admission is free.
  • Saturday, July 20 — This double feature will show “The Wicker Man” + “Midsommar” at Rocky Woods in Medfield. Tickets are $35.
  • Wednesday, July 31 — “Godzilla 2000" at The Rose Kennedy Greenway with guest speaker Harvard alumus Brad Bolman, Ph.D. Admission is free.

More outdoor screenings will take place throughout August + September. On Tuesday, Sept. 24 the outdoor cinema will return to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge for the first time in five years. This “Cemetery Cinema” double feature will show “The Seventh Seal” + “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”

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