Authorial Intent is Bostonist's wrapup of readings in the area. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Thursday, December 6 Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice, Brookline Booksmith, 7:00 pm Greil Marcus goes in search of the American spirit and finds it in Philip Roth, David Lynch, David Thomas of Pere Ubu, and other unpredictable sources. The Village Voice writes that Marcus' latest "basks in the possibilities of......

Blue Velvet and The Twin Peaks Pilot Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Monday, December 3 Tickets and showtimes It's not on any wall calendars, but December 3rd is David Lynch Day in Cambridge, at least according to the Brattle Theatre. Last year, Lynch debuted Inland Empire at the Brattle, and the Cambridge city council honored the director by giving him his own day. This year, the Brattle will celebrate by offering theatergoers a pair......

Sxip's Hour of Charm will be tonight, Saturday, September 15, at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm, and tomorrow, Sunday, September 16, at 8:00 pm, at the Zero Arrow Theatre. The show will run on weekends through September 30th. Go to ART's home page for details. The press release said that Sxip's Hour of Charm is "indescribable." Oh, but it is describable - it is like the circus, complete with ringmaster and musician Sxip Shirey and......

The Chlotrudis Awards kick off at 5:00 pm tomorrow, Sunday, March 18, at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are only $20. How is that price for an awards show honoring movies that were better than most of what got nominated at the Oscars? Oscars, Schmoscars. Boston has the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, which is holding its awards ceremony Sunday, March 18th, at the Brattle Theatre. (By the way, "Chlotrudis" came from combining the names of......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Coolidge Corner Theatre is screening David Lynch's Blue Velvet this weekend at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Long before 1986, moviegoers and TV-heads have been fascinated with the truism that, inside every small town, there's a freak parade struggling to get out. Take the wild success of Peyton Place, for example. But Lynch took that concept to a whole new level with severed body parts, perverse relationships, and theatrical consumption of nitrous oxide. If you......

If you missed Inland Empire because you were too busy, don't worry. The Brattle has given you a little Christmas gift by adding more shows after the original run, which was supposed to end yesterday. Now, the Brattle will run the movie in which David Lynch out-Lynches himself at 1:00 pm next Monday through Friday. This exercise in stream-of-consciousness filmmaking, which sounds like Mulholland Drive times 12 plus Laura Dern plus rabbits, may be the......

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Thursday 6/15 Jane: An Abortion Service With no formal medical training and no legal ground to stand on, an underground clinic performed thousands of safe abortions between 1969 and 1973. Jane: An Abortion Service tells their story with archival footage, recreations, and interviews with the......