Boston’s best movie theater is hosting outdoor movies in a gorgeous cemetery starting next month

Movie night is getting a serious vibe upgrade this fall.

On September 22, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, one of Boston's best movie theaters, is bringing its beloved Cemetery Cinema double feature back to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, offering audiences the chance to watch movies under the stars, surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscaping—and gravestones—in Greater Boston.

The sixth annual Cemetery Cinema takes place Tuesday, September 22, beginning at 7pm at Mount Auburn Cemetery. The double feature starts with David Lynch’s The Straight Story, his unusually tender 1999 road movie about an elderly Iowa man who travels hundreds of miles on a lawn mower to visit his estranged brother. Then comes Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, the gorgeous 1987 fantasy about an angel who falls in love with a mortal woman in Berlin.

The screenings take place in Hazel Dell at sunset (if it rains, the event shifts to Wednesday, September 23). You can bring your own chair, blanket and snacks, but alcohol is not permitted. There will be light concessions on hand, and parking is available at the cemetery.

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There are a few other rules worth remembering. Mount Auburn is an active cemetery, so attendees are asked not to touch or lean against monuments or headstones. The seating area is grassy and uneven, so this is one outdoor movie where a picnic blanket may be more comfortable than a folding chair.

Cemetery Cinema has become one of the Coolidge's more delightfully strange traditions, taking the theater's famously adventurous programming outside its Brookline home. The Coolidge already runs outdoor screenings at the Charles River Speedway and the Rocky Woods, but few things can compete with the sheer cinematic drama of watching a movie in a nearly 200-year-old cemetery.

Cemetery Cinema: The Straight Story & Wings of Desire takes place September 22 at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge. Tickets are $40 for non-members, and the program runs from 7pm to 11pm. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.