The Brattle, TRASH NIGHT's terrestrial home, shows the best in classic, cutting-edge, foreign, and art-house films. They also show first-run films and new releases of classic films, but their specialty is a repertory programming format consisting of films from a particular director, genre, or subject shown over the course of a week, or on the same weekday throughout the month. Movies have been shown at The Brattle Theatre since 1953, when Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. started things off with a screening of the German film, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (The Captain from Köpenick). Haliday and Harvey later founded Janus Films for the purpose of distributing foreign films nationwide. The non-profit Brattle Film Foundation has operated The Brattle Theatre since 2001, and now, given the ravages of COVID-19 on local arts communities, finds itself facing the same difficult questions as threaten theaters countrywide. [If you enjoy this channel or our other work elsewhere, please consider making a donation to the Brattle at this link.](https://brattlefilm.secure.force.com/donate/?dfId=a0n0b00000XkMBYAA3&;) Thank you.

For an event whose audience participation is centered around "yelling jokes in the dark," TRASH NIGHT has managed for NEARLY NINE YEARS to remain a boisterous, yet inclusive and good-natured, event. Please join us as we attempt to replicate the genuine TRASH NIGHT experience by adhering to the following channel guidelines: * When the movie is bad (and it's always bad), please feel free to make jokes about it, or at its expense, in chat. * When you make those jokes, simply ensure that you are not accidentally putting a joke-shaped hat on a tiny slur and ushering it out into the world. * That is basically the whole deal As we say every month: If the target of your joke, absent the context of the film, is a group or classification of person, please assume a person such as that is watching and make a different joke. Thank you for your cooperation—it legit is a better time all around when everybody is stoked to be in chat.

TRASH NIGHT is a monthly film series concerned with VHS hell and forgotten-media bricolage. Traditionally held as a group event at the Brattle Theatre in the greater Boston area, TRASH NIGHT has "logged on-line" both here and [at our Youtube page](https://www.youtube.com/user/trashnightvideo/).