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The series Barbara Stanwyck - Maybe I Am Just a Dame starts at the Brattle Theater today and runs on Tuesdays until August 28. Check the theater's website for showtimes and dates. Ball of Fire is tonight at 7:15 and 9:30. The Brattle Theatre's series on Barbara Stanwyck begins tonight with 1941's Ball of Fire, a title that pretty much sums up Stanwyck's legend. She would have been 100 years old this week, and her......

The Brattle Trailer Smackdown Contest is open until Sunday, July 1. Get details on the rules and regulations from the Brattle Theatre website There is a $10 entry fee. Gee whiz, the Brattle Theater has been pugnacious lately given the recent anime-fest Brattle Royale, and now with its Brattle Trailer Smackdown contest. In this contest, aspiring filmmakers are invited to submit a trailer to the Brattle for a fictional movie. There are only a few......

The Harris Center for Eating Disorders presents Thin at the Brattle Theater. The movie will screen at 7:00 tonight, and director Lauren Greenfield and Dr. David Herzog will hold a Q&A afterward. Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, who explored "Girl Culture" in her last work, is in town to screen her documentary about women suffering from eating disorders - the timing is right now that we've seen all the lollipop-headed women parading up Oscar's......

Martin Amis will read from House of Meetings at 6:00 pm at the Brattle Theater, courtesy of Harvard Book Store. By the way, tonight's reading with Paul Auster is sold out. Martin Amis has been trying to get Stalin out of his system for a while. It's not working. Amis' House of Meetings can be considered a fictional take on life - or what was left of it - under Stalin, a topic Amis covered......

The 8th Annual Boston Underground Film Festival (B.U.F.F.) starts today and lasts through Sunday March 26. This year’s screenings will take place at the Brattle Theater, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Headlining the Festival is a dark comedy, The French Guy about a woman who undergoes brain surgery only to come back to her apartment in a feeble emotional and mental state, incapable of dealing with her......

For those three others of you in your cubicles this afternoon, Bostonist thought you’d like a little something to read while you mind-numbingly try to keep yourself entertained until 5p.m. Newton Couple Stabbed in Home Invasion: Once voted the safest place to live in America, Newton pops up on the local news scene with a scary story about a knife wielding neighbor who inexplicably attacks a couple in their home. Luckily, police caught him after......

Yes, we know it’s cliché to love the Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” but every time we see lil’ Zuzu talk about an angel getting its wings, Bostonist goes straight into tears. The1946 Frank Capra film is like a bad habit we just can’t kick. Well, if you are jonesing for some George Bailey vs. Mr. Potter action tonight, the Brattle Theater is showing the black and white film tonight at 7:15 p.m. for......