The Comfort of Strangers screens at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday, May 29, at 9:00 pm and on Wednesday, May 30, at 7:00 pm. The festival ends on May 30, but several other Pinter movies are still showing between now and then. Check their calendar. Note: The Harvard Film Archive will be closed for construction in June. We were so preoccupied with the Brattle Grindhouse that we almost missed the Harvard Film Archive's Pinterfest,......

Cockfighter will be at the Brattle Grindhouse on Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 pm. The absolute weirdest movie to grace the Brattle Grindhouse is coming up, and it isn't for you if you lean toward the vegetarian or the vegan. This grindhouse flick is 1973's Cockfighter, starring the late, great Warren Oates, a character actor who specialized in the bizarre. While it might seem like straight-up trash, Cockfighter also has a decent pedigree. The director......

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things screens at 8:00 pm, and Satan's Cheerleaders screens at 10:00 pm on Thursday, May 17. We'll be spotlighting a few movies from the series, but you can see the full schedule here. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things shot to the top of our Brattle Grindhouse wanna-see list because of the unforgettable title. The 1972 movie was also directed by the late Bob Clark, whose diverse body of work......