While the movie business has become filled with mostly mass produced movies shown at mass movie houses the Coolidge Corner Theater is a true gem. It is a non-profit movie theater located in Coolidge Corner, Brookline. The Coolidge corner theater calls itself “your not for profit independent theater” and it lives up to the slogan. The theater is beautifully maintained and a true gem.
It was clear how different from traditional commercial theater’s the Coolidge Corner Theater when we went to the concession stand. I asked for a small popcorn and a bottle of water. The employee behind the counter asked me if I would rather have a “cup of ice water- because it was free.” We were at the theater to watch the collection of short movies called “Sundance Shorts”. The movie was shown in the “Mini Max” a theater which seats just 17 people. The movie was enjoyable, the setting was great.
The theater has a great website at http://www.coolidge.org/ where you can view the show schedule, buy tickets and learn about becoming a member.
My photo (above right) from our night at the theater is lacking…they had turned out the lights in the sign by the time our movie was over!
Better Photos Of the Theater can be found on Flickr.
Image by Flickr Member Fuzuoko
This photo is used under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic
