The Medford Recreation Department concludes its summer outdoor movie series with a showing of the 1991 Steven Spielberg adventure/fantasy film "Hook" at Wright's Pond. The movie (2 hours, 15 minutes long) will begin at 8 p.m., but come an hour earlier as the Rec Department will have music and lawn games set up onsite, along with free popcorn. In addition, the co-sponsoring Kiwanis Club of Medford will provide pizza, ice cream, and family-friendly pirate fun (pirate costumes encouraged!). Please bring…

Tufts University's Department of Community Relations presents and outdoor showing of the Disney film "Encanto," which was postponed due to bad weather in June. "Encanto," a computer-animated musical fantasy comedy, won a 2022 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The movie (1 hour, 42 minutes long) will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Fletcher Field at the corner of Professors Row and Curtis Street. Attendees may arrive between 7 and 7:30 p.m. Parking will be available at Dowling Hall…

The Department of Romance Studies at Tufts University is presenting a French film with English subtitles, shown outdoors on a large screen on the Residential Quad. The event is free and open to the public. Bring a blanket to sit on!  

The Fletcher Eurasia Club and Tufts Amnesty International present a film screening of the documentary "Tango with Putin," also known as "F@ck This Job" (2022). The presentation will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain), and Natalya Sindeeva, the founder, main owner, and chief executive officer of Dozhd (TV Rain) Media Holding. The event is open to the public. Please register via the event page to participate in person.

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University presents a screening and discussion of the film "Waylaid in Tijuana." The film explores how immigration policies adopted in Washington, D.C., reverberate just south of the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The screening will be followed by a discussion between writer, producer, and Fletcher professor, Dr. Katrina Burgess, and the Latin American Studies Program's Jorge E. Cuéllar, NEHC-Mellon Faculty of Color Working Group Fellow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored…

The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a screening of the one-hour documentary movie “Voices from the Basement” with the film’s producer and director, Michael Bavaro. Just the name of Filene’s Basement will bring smiles and sweet memories of Boston’s beloved bargain basement. The 2010 film is collection of clips and stories told by the people who worked and shopped at Filene's Basement including celebrities Mike Wallace, Thomas Menino, Estelle Parsons, and Susan Wornick. A question-and-answer session with Michael Bavaro…

The Tufts University Film and Media Studies Program presents a screening of the 1958 film "The Horse's Mouth," followed by a discussion with Professor Laurence Senelick. In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. The film is…