
Amplifying Your Auditorium Experience
October 20, 2023
There’s a whole new immersive experience happening at the PMA…
If you’re one of the hundreds who watched the Joan Baez documentary, I Am Noise, recently, you were among the first to witness the first digital cinema offerings in PMA’s storied history.
This past summer, with assistance from a friend of the museum, we made major upgrades to the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium, with a goal to improve visitor experience during films, lectures, ceremonies, and the multitudes of events that take place in the PMA’s auditorium. We are thrilled to say that we are now able to offer a better, more engaging experience for all at PMA Films and beyond.
The most notable change is the addition of a new projector for the museum to exhibit modern Digital Cinema Compliant feature films and lecture images in high resolution and full color. This work allowed for the integration of a Dolby Sound Processor, the restoration of the theater’s center channel, and the infrastructure to provide calibrated multichannel sound performance (Dolby 5.1).
Our auditorium is not only better than ever with updated stage and podium microphones, but now supports wireless hearing-assistance devices. Over the next few weeks, we will make further improvements to audio and will add high-definition television cameras to record presentations and enable live-streaming.
Check out what’s coming up and enjoy the improvements yourself!
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
69 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. In English.
Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. Screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”
115 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Philip Kaufman. In English. DCP.
This dazzling, whip-smart remake of the 1956 spine-tingler stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy as characters caught in an eerie tale of possession by alien pod-people. Screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
115 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Danny Boyle. In English. DCP.
Danny Boyle’s audacious rekindling of the zombie franchise, a blast of stylistic invention threaded with trenchant commentary on a post-Brexit Britain, screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
18 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Heidi Burkey. In English. DCP.
On a quiet farm in Maine, a painter grapples with blindness and past traumas while completing the centerpiece for his first art show in years. Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and artist Denis Boudreau.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
116 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In Italian, French, German, and English with English subtitles.
The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in. Recently named the #1 film of the 1970s by IndieWire.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
110 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. In English. DCP.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
118 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Sydney Pollack. In English. DCP.
Sydney Pollack’s iconic paranoid thriller, starring the late Robert Redford as a CIA researcher who finds himself in the center of a criminal conspiracy, screens as part of our celebration of the films of 1975.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
102 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Jafar Panahi. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP.
Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge. Winner of the 2025 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
99 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Harris Dickinson. In English. DCP.
The debut feature film by Harris Dickinson is a distinctive and empathetic exploration of life on the margins of London, featuring a galvanizing performance by Frank Dillane.
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