ongoing - Thurs. Oct. 29 

The Brattle Theatre recognizes October is our dark month - horror movies and scary stuff culminating in the "Evil Dead 2" on Halloween. But "Boston Noir" is up and running now with the Brattle scattering nine films over 7 days. Two of the Dennis Lehane's books-made-into-movies, "Gone Baby Gone," and "Mystic River," which is up Monday Oct. 26 at 8, are part of the series. Others include, "The Boston Strangler," "The Departed," "Thomas Crown Affair," "The Brinks Job, "Spanish Prisoner" and "Spartan." Brattle programmer Ned Hinkle says "neo- noir is an obvious thing to center a Boston film series around. I'd been planning to do something similar and then I heard about Dennis Lehane's collection, and it's a nice coincidence." Of the opening film, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," he says, "I grew up in the Boston in '70s as a kid, and never really experienced the locations and atmosphere of that time and I feel this really comes through, a window on the city when I wasn't really cognizant of." Check the website below for films and times. Admission: $9.50.

40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-876-6838 www.brattlefilm.org