Save the dates for these summer film festivals, series, and special events coming to screens in our area.
Brattle Theatre: Fans of film noir won’t want to miss the first-ever Noir City: Boston (June 8-10) with TCM host Eddie Muller on hand to introduce the double features he’s handpicked from the classic noir period of 1942-1950. Films include “The Glass Key’’ and “Street of Chance’’ (June 8); “Murder, My Sweet,’’ “Strangers in the Night,’’ “The Killers,’’ and “So Dark the Night’’ (June 9); and “Force of Evil,’’ “The Guilty,’’ “Try and Get Me!’’ and “Shakedown’’ (June 10). Go to www.brattlefilm.org.
Coolidge Corner Theatre: The 50th anniversary of “2001: A Space Odyssey’’ provides a reason to screen it in 70mm beginning June 15. The film’s star, Keir Dullea, will be on hand for a discussion June 23. Big Screen Classics presents Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now’’ (July 9) in a showing dedicated to the late Globe film critic Jay Carr. The outdoor screening series Coolidge at the Greenway returns to Boston’s Wharf District Park on June 19 with Hitchcock’s “Rear Window.’’ Go to www.coolidge.org.
Harvard Film Archive: The Complete Luchino Visconti runs June 1 through July 21. The ongoing Cinema of Resistance series includes “A Man Escaped’’ (1957), “The Tree of Wooden Clogs’’ (1978), and “City of Jade’’ (2016) with Taiwan-based director Midi Z in person. Go to hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/.
Roxbury International Film Festival: Celebrating its 20th year, the RIFF (June 20-30) opens with Aaron and Amanda Kopp’s “Liyana’’ (June 21 at the MFA), a mix of animated fable and documentary about five orphaned Swazi children. Other highlights include Nancy Buirski’s “The Rape of Recy Taylor,’’ an expose of the 1944 gang rape of a 24-year-old Alabama mother and sharecropper and her fight for justice; and Nijla Mu’min’s “Jinn,’’ a 2018 SXSW Festival award winner, about a 17-year-old girl whose mother, a popular meteorologist, abruptly converts to Islam. Go to www.roxburyinternationalfilmfestival.com.
Museum of Fine Arts: Sunset Cinema returns with free screenings on the museum’s Huntington Avenue lawn including “Black Panther’’ (June 20), “Faces Places’’ (July 12), and Hayao Miyazaki’s “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind’’ (Aug. 9). The Boston French Film Festival (July 12-29) presents more than 20 films including Claire Denis’s “Let the Sunshine In’’ starring Juliette Binoche. “Heroic’’ (Aug. 1-31), a film series highlighting female heroes on screen, includes “Princess Mononoke’’ and “RBG.’’ Go to www.mfa.org.
Somerville Theatre: This venue’s screenings of the 50th anniversary 70mm print of “2001: A Space Odyssey’’ are June 1-14; Jeff Rapsis provides musical accompaniment for the silent “Docks of New York’’’ (July 8); midnight screenings (on film) include “Xanadu’’ (June 30); “Jaws’’ (July 13-14); and “Thelma and Louise’’ (July 27). Go to somervilletheatre.com.
Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival: This ninth annual event screens international films on bicycle travel and adventure (May 30-31) at the Regent Theatre in Arlington. Go to www.regenttheatre.com.
Berkshire International Film Festival: The 13th annual fest (June 1-3) offers shorts, features and panel discussions in Great Barrington and Pittsfield. Go to www.biffma.org.
Provincetown International Film Festival: PIFF (June 13-17) celebrates its 20th anniversary with director Sean Baker (“The Florida Project,’’ “Tangerine’’) as the Filmmaker on the Edge. Actress Chloë Grace Moretz receives the “Next Wave Award.’’ Director Desiree Akhavan’s Sundance Film Festival award winner, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,’’ is a program highlight. Go to www.ptownfilmfest.org.
Nantucket Film Festival: Running June 20-25. Writer-director Noah Baumbach receives the Screenwriters Tribute; Morgan Neville is honored for Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling. His latest, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’’ about Fred Rogers, the host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’’ screens as the festival’s centerpiece film. Go to www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.
Maine International Film Festival: The Waterville-based MIFF (July 13-22) celebrates 21 years with 10 days of American and international titles, along with made-in-Maine movies. Go to www.miff.org.
Woods Hole Film Festival: The oldest film festival on Cape Cod and the Islands celebrates its 27th season (July 28-Aug. 4) with screenings, workshops, and special events. Go to www.woodsholefilmfestival.org.
FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival: Celebrating its 22nd year, RIIFF (Aug. 7-12) is one of only six festivals worldwide whose winners in the short film categories qualify for the Academy Awards. Go to www.rifilmfest.org.
Massachusetts Independent Film Festival: A slate of indie films screen at Arlington’s Regent Theater (Aug. 25-26). Go to www.massiff.org.
Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival: This end-of-summer festival marks its 13th year (Sept. 4-9) offering many international films and special guests. Go to mvfilmsociety.com.
Loren King can be reached at loren.king@comcast.net.
