REMINDER!!! THIS COMING WEEKEND!!! Friday-Sunday, July 19-21, 2024!!!

This July, the Million Year Picnic, New England’s oldest comic book store, will be celebrating 50 years of serving the Cambridge and Greater Boston comic book community! Our anniversary plans include a festival of movies based on comic books/graphic novels screening at the Brattle Theater (40 Brattle Street) the weekend of July 19-21.

The centerpiece of the festival will be a screening of the movie Robot Dreams Saturday, July 20th, at 6:30pm. Sara Varon, the author of the Robot Dreams graphic novel, will be flying into Boston to introduce the movie and participate in a Q&A and book signing at the theater after the movie. Tickets will be $14 for the event or $30 for the event plus a copy of one of Sara’s books (you may choose between Robot Dreams or Sara’s new graphic novel, Detective Sweet Pea and the Case of the Golden Bone).

https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/celebrate-50-years-of-million-year-picnic/

Robot Dreams (2023) is a wordless, all-ages animated movie chronicling the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s (it’s got a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!). Tickets for Robot Dreams are on sale now on the Brattle’s website (https://brattlefilm.org/movies/robot-dreams/).

Also as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Brattle Theater will be playing THE PICNIC, a 40-minute documentary about the Million Year Picnic on Saturday, 20 July 2024, at 3:30pm created by Vincent-louis Apruzzese and starring lots of folks you might remember from behind the counter over the years!

OFFICIAL FILM SCHEDULE:

Friday, 19 July 2024

4pm & 9pm Ghost World (2001)
6:30pm Crumb (1994) (on 35mm)

Saturday, 20 July 2024

12:30pm & 9:30pm Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) (35mm)
3:30pm The Picnic
6:30pm Robot Dreams (2023)

Sunday, 21 July 2024

1pm Black Panther (2018)
4pm Nimona (2023)
6:15pm Persepolis (2007)
8:30pm Tank Girl (1995)

Event details: https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/celebrate-50-years-of-million-year-picnic/, and to find out about other Million Year Picnic anniversary events, keep an eye on our website and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/myp_comics/) pages.