Museum of Science, Boston

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Lecture): It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious space probe is evaporating Earth's oceans and ravaging the atmosphere. The probe emits a message delivered in the song of long-extinct humpback whales. Unless the probe's call is answered, Earth faces certain destruction. So Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), the ... (details).
With: Dave Wiley, PhD, Research Coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

8 Mile (Lecture): Rap legend Eminem stars as Jimmy Smith, aka B Rabbit, a young white rapper struggling to make a name for himself in Detroit's predominantly black hip-hop world. A factory worker living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother (Kim Basinger), his little sister, and his mother's slacker boyfriend, Rabbit ... (details).
With: Charles Limb, MD, associate professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Crimes and Misdemeanors (Lecture): In "one of the watershed films of his career" (Los Angeles Times), Woody Allen intertwines two storylines to deliver a penetrating, acidly funny tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau, Oscar-nominated for the role) is a prominent ... (details).
With: social psychology professor David DeSteno.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Lecture): With only a few days left before their high school graduation, two most excellent dudes, Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Keanu Reeves) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Alex Winter), are on the verge of flunking history. Unless they can ace their final history report, Ted's dad will pack him off to a military academy ... (details).
With: physicist Edward Farhi.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

12 Monkeys (Lecture): In a future world devastated by disease, convicted criminal James Cole (Bruce Willis) agrees to allow scientists to send him back in time to investigate the origins of a virus that wiped out nearly all of the Earth's population decades earlier. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to the wrong year, he ... (details).
With: science writer Carl Zimmer.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Lecture): Winner of the 1972 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (France) and the National Society of Film Critics' best picture prize, director Luis Buñuel's surrealistic masterpiece wickedly skewers bourgeois presumption and hypocrisy as a group of well-to-do friends repeatedly attempts to have a meal ... (details).
With: Robert Stickgold, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, and director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard Medical School.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (Lecture): When Skid Row plant-shop owner Gravis Mushnick threatens to fire his hapless clerk Seymour Krelboyne, Seymour brings in a new species of plant he's been breeding at home, hoping it will lead the shop to fame and fortune and save his job. Turns out, the plant, named Audrey Junior after Seymour's crush ... (details).
With: ecologist Aaron Ellison.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Transcendent Man (Lecture): Filmmaker Barry Ptolemy's compelling documentary explores the life and provocative ideas of renowned techno-prophet Ray Kurzweil. Inspired by Kurzweil's bestselling book The Singularity is Near, Transcendent Man follows Kurzweil around the globe as he shares his daring vision of a future in which humans ... (details).
With: inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil; director Barry Ptolemy.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Death in Venice (Lecture): In director Lucchino Visconti's lush and haunting version of Thomas Mann's novella, an artist obsessed by his ideal of physical and spiritual beauty jeopardizes his own life to be near the object of his desire. Playing Count Aschenbach, a character loosely based on Gustav Mahler, Dirk Bogarde embodies ... (details).
With: psychologist and author Nancy Etcoff, PhD.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Full Metal Jacket (Lecture): Widely regarded as one of the greatest war movies, Stanley Kubrick's powerful 1987 drama about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process used to prepare young men for combat is a film "of immense and very rare imagination," according to the New York Times. The film begins in Marine Corps boot camp, ... (details).
With: psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Lecture): Consistently ranked among the greatest science fiction movies of all time, The Day the Earth Stood Still is about Klaatu, a humanoid alien who travels 250 million miles to Washington, D.C. with his giant robot protector, Gort, to warn Earth's leaders that human beings must stop their warring ways or face perilous consequences ... (details).
With: Dennis Hong, PhD, associate professor, mechanical engineering and director, Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), Virginia Tech.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Dirty Harry (Lecture): Forty years after Dirty Harry first hit movie theaters, Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan remains the definitive renegade movie cop and one of Eastwood's most memorable characters. Marking Clint's first outing as the coolly laconic, justice-at-any-cost San Francisco homicide detective, this taut cat-and-mouse ... (details).
With: Amy Brodeur, MFS, assistant director, Biomedical Forensics Masters Program, Boston University School of Medicine.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Hackers (Lecture): In this 1995 cyber thriller, hacking genius Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is the new kid in a New York City high school. There he meets a corps of gifted hackers, including gorgeous, tough-talking Kate, aka Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie), resident wild man Cereal Killer, phone expert Phantom ... (details).
With: Jesse Schell, professor, entertainment technology, Carnegie Melon University; founder and CEO, Schell Games; and author, The Art of Game Design.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Man in the White Suit (Lecture): Alec Guinness delivers one of his most beloved performances in this smart, satirical comedy that pits one inventor against the forces of Britain's textile industry. Sidney Stratton (Guinness) is a mild-mannered but single-minded research chemist on a quest to bring progress to mankind by inventing a ... (details).
With: Marc Abrahams, editor, Annals of Improbable Research and co-founder, Ig Nobel Prizes; Daniel Rosenberg, chemist, Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations Team.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lecture): Winner of four Academy Awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Score), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is internationally acclaimed director Ang Lee's homage to the Hong Kong wuxia (martial arts) films that fueled his love of movies as a youth in Taiwan. This ... (details).
With: Andrew Cohen, professor of physics, Boston University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Best In Show (Lecture): Master mockumentarian Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind) wrote and directed Best in Show, an inspired send-up of competitive canine culture. Winner of American, Canadian, and British Comedy Awards and a critical favorite, this gem follows a colorful group of contestants ... (details).
With: Dr. Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, MRCVS, professor, section head, and program director, Animal Behavior Department of Clinical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Fight Club (Lecture): Director David Fincher's big-screen adaptation of the novel by Chuck Palahniuk was one of the most talked about films of the 1990s for its controversial takes on violence, manhood, and consumer culture. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star as two frustrated 30-somethings who form an underground club where ... (details).
With: Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, and co-author, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Wild Child (Lecture): Forty years after its initial release, The Wild Child (L'enfant sauvage) endures as one of iconic French director Francois Truffaut's finest works. This deeply moving film, beautifully shot in black and white, is based on the true story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, a feral youth found wandering naked ... (details).
With: Judy Shepard-Kegl, professor of linguistics and director of the Signed Language Research Laboratory, University of Southern Maine.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

American Beauty (Lecture): Winner of five Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography), American Beauty weaves social satire and domestic tragedy into a single sublime package, moving seamlessly from dark, biting comedy to deeply moving drama. Starring Kevin Spacey ... (details).
With: Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Babette's Feast (Lecture): As part of its holiday menu, the Coolidge Corner Theatre serves art with a side of science with a special screening of the delectable Danish film Babette's Feast, paired with a talk on the science of taste. Set in a remote Danish fishing village in the late 19th century, this Academy Award-winning ... (details).
With: Guy Crosby, PhD, professor of food science and nutrition and science expert for Cook's Illustrated magazine and "America's Test Kitchen".
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Lecture): Screen legend Spencer Tracy stars as the dual title role in this 1941 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a prominent, socially upstanding physician whose unorthodox theories alarm his older, more conservative colleagues. Jekyll believes that each man has two ... (details).
With: Anne Harrington, chair and professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University; John Durant, director, MIT Museum, adjunct professor, Science, Technology and Society Program, MIT, and executive director, Cambridge Science Festival.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Coma (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre kicks off a new season of Science on Screen with a screening of the classic medical thriller Coma (1978), paired with a talk by special guest Robin Cook, MD, who wrote the best-selling novel on which the film is based. Something is not quite right at Boston Memorial Hospital ... (details).
With: Robin Cook, physician and author.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

An Evening with Ray Kurzweil (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre concludes the 2008-2009 season of its popular Science on Screen series with a special program, An Evening with Ray Kurzweil. The celebrated futurist, inventor and entrepreneur gives a multi-media presentation based on his best-selling book, The Singularity is Near, and shows ... (details).
With: Ray Kurzweil, author, The Singularity is Near.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Night of the Living Dead (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre takes a dark twist with a presentation of Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero's 1968 genre-defying zombie horror film. When the reanimated corpses of the recently deceased begin to rise from the earth and seek human flesh as sustenance, a small ... (details).
With: Steven C. Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education..
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre pairs Stanley Kramer's groundbreaking 1967 film about interracial marriage with a presentation on the science of prejudice by social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, a pioneer in the study of unconscious bias. Made at a time when mixed-race marriage was ... (details).
With: Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Groundhog Day (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre celebrates the underappreciated holiday of Groundhog Day with a special presentation of -- appropriately enough -- Groundhog Day and a pre-screening talk by science historian and physicist Peter Galison. Director Harold Ramis's offbeat modern comedy ... (details).
With: Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of physics and the history of science, Harvard University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre delves into the world of electronic music with a screening of Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, the 1994 documentary about the unusual electronic instrument and the strange life of Leon Theremin, its inventor and namesake. In 1918, using newly discovered ... (details).
With: Tod Machover, composer, inventor, and MIT professor of music and media; Dalit Hadass Warshaw, orchestral thereminist.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Contact (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre focuses on the possibility of life beyond Earth with a screening of Contact, the 1997 big-screen adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel of the same name. In Robert Zemeckis's adaptation of the novel, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a free thinker ... (details).
With: Paul Horowitz, astrophysicist and Harvard University professor.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Marnie (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues its fall season of Science on Screen with a presentation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller, Marnie. Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) is a habitual thief who uses her ample charm and good looks to gain the trust of her employers, only to rob them ... (details).
With: psychiatrist Phillip Freeman, MD.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre introduces a new season of its popular Science on Screen series with a special showing of Steven Spielberg's adventure classic, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Jones, a world-renowned professor of archaeology hired by the U.S. government to track down ... (details).
With: Curtis Runnels, professor of archeology, Boston University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Superman (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre wraps up this season's Science on Screen series with Superman, the original superhero blockbuster starring Christopher Reeve. Clark Kent is a reporter for the Daily Planet -- at least part of the time. Born Kal-El of the planet Krypton, Kent has a secret identity: he's ... (details).
With: Max Tegmark, associate professor of physics at MIT.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Vertigo (Lecture): Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre continues in April with a special presentation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, Vertigo. During a rooftop chase, police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) is grossly overcome by his acrophobia (a deep fear of falling), which ultimately brings about the death of a fellow officer ... (details).
With: Catherine Kimble, MD.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Darwin's Nightmare (Lecture): Darwin's Nightmare is Hubert Sauper's harrowing documentary about the devastating effects that a "globalized" economy has on the residents of a Tanzanian fishing village. Some time in the 1960s, the Nile perch was introduced into Africa's Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment. This voracious predator ... (details).
With: Les Kaufman, professor of biology, Boston University marine program.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Body Heat (Lecture): As part of its ongoing Science on Screen series, the Coolidge Corner Theatre presents a special Valentine's Day-themed program with a screening of Lawrence Kasden's steamy, contemporary film noir, Body Heat. In one of his most memorable roles, William Hurt plays a Florida lawyer unwittingly drawn ... (details).
With: Michael Baum, PhD, professor of biology at Boston University.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Sleeper (Lecture): The Coolidge Corner Theatre kicks off a new season of Science on Screen with Woody Allen's comedy classic Sleeper. When cryogenically preserved Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is awakened 200 years after a hospital mishap, he discovers the world is ruled by an evil dictator: a disembodied nose. Miles ... (details).
With: Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Lecture): The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. Walter Tevis's novel about an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for director Nicolas Roeg's visual tour de force, an adventurous examination of alienation and cultural dislocation in contemporary life ... (details).
With: Cultural Anthropologist Robert Weller.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Pulse (Kairo) (Lecture): Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (Kairo) tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own, and his subsequent, ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. The mysterious floppy disk they find in the dead man's apartment could provide a clue, but instead ... (details).
With: Alan Lightman, author and adjunct professor of humanities at MIT.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Everything's Cool (Lecture): A hot documentary about global warming, Everything's Cool follows the struggle of a group of extremely dedicated, sometimes depressed, but always passionate global-warming messengers. Their journey provides a snapshot of the fight to end global-warming denial in the United States and create the political ... (details).
With: Adam Wolfensohn, co-producer of Everything's Cool; Ross Gelbspan, veteran journalist and bestselling author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point; Beth Daley, environmental reporter for The Boston Globe; Kathleen Frith, assistant director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Lecture): Admiral Kirk meets his nemesis Khan in the action-packed modern sci-fi classic, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. The genetically superior Kahn seeks revenge upon Kirk for having been imprisoned on a desolated planet. Their battle ensues over control of the Genesis device, a top-secret Starfleet project ... (details).
With: Dr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MIT professor and former NASA astronaut.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Special Program): Just in time for Valentine's Day, Science on Screen presents this mind-bending romance from the minds of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry. Jim Carrey stars as Joel, a man struggling to come to terms with his painful breakup from Clementine (Kate Winslet). When Joel learns his ... (details).
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

So Much, So Fast (Lecture): The critically acclaimed new documentary So Much, So Fast is a gripping, refreshingly candid chronicle of one family's remarkable battle with the paralyzing neural disorder ALS (Lou Gehirg's disease). Diagnosed with the disease at just 29 years old, Stephen Heywood resolves to carry on with his life's plans in spite of an uncertain future ... (details).
With: Jamie Heywood, founder, ALS TDF.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

The Andromeda Strain (Lecture): Decades before Spielberg's splashy dinosaur flick made Michael Crichton's name synonymous with summer blockbusters, there was The Andromeda Strain (1971), a taut, cerebral thriller adapted from Crichton's novel of the same name. When an army satellite falls to earth near a small New Mexico town, ... (details).
With: Dr. Alfred DeMaria, chief medical officer and the state epidemiologist, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; director, Center for Laboratories and Disease Control; director, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control; acting director, Massachusetts State Laboratory Institute and the Bureau of Laboratory Sciences.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Science on Screen Series.

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