“[Laurel] Parmet’s strong script and surety behind the camera navigates the audience through this complicated story of religion and sexuality, patriarchy and power, brought to eerily accurate life by the ensemble of excellent actors.” —Katie Walsh @thewrap

Writer-director Laurel Parmet’s THE STARLING GIRL opens this Fri, Jun 2 at the Belcourt — starring Eliza Scalen (“one of the promising young actors of her generation” re @screenrant) and Lewis Pullman. Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/THE-STARLING-GIRL <http://bit.ly/THE-STARLING-GIRL>.

#thestarlinggirl #laurelparmet #elizascalen @elizascalen #lewispullman @lewispullmanofficial @bleekerstfilms @pinkypromisefilms ...

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Opening Fri, May 26, Paul Schrader’s MASTER GARDENER with Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver and Quintessa Swindell (tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/MASTER-GARDENER)

⭐️ “Joel Edgerton in a career-best turn.” —The Playlist
⭐️ “A touchingly utopian story of love, loneliness, violence and redemption.” —New York Times
⭐️ “An auteur operating at the top of the league.” —Total Film ...

Opening this Fri, May 26, director #NicoleHolofcener’s YOU HURT MY FEELINGS starring #JuliaLouisDreyfus (tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/YOU-HURT-MY-FEELINGS)

⭐️ “Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never been better.” —The Guardian
⭐️ “Delightful… A story about how love means always having to say you’re sorry.” —Slate
⭐️ “A knock-out from writer-director Nicole Holofcener.” —Elle

@nicole_holofcener @officiaULD @A24 ...

“Timeless and universal… Nothing short of amazing.” —Los Angeles Times

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff in the groundbreaking THE HARDER THEY COME (released in the U.S. in 1973) — this Mon, May 22 at 3:35pm + 8pm, and this Wed, May 24 at 3pm + 5:40pm (tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/1973-HARDER-THEY-COME). #1973 #MusicCityMondays ...

“Joyful, grateful, and wise. A stirring, epic, and intimate tale of friends in high places.” —#JessicaKiang @variety

Winner of the Cannes Grand Jury prize, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS opens this Fri, May 19.

#theeightmountains @charlottevanderme_ersch @alessandro.borghi #felixvangroeningen #charlottevandermeersch #lucamarinelli #alessandroborgli ...

“A furious, queer, boisterous gangster epic that offers a view of the country from the outskirts and turns oppression into resistance.” —Leonardo Goi @thefilmstage

This Wed-Sun, May 17-21, a limited engagement of Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós’ DRY GROUND BURNING. An all-female gang draws oil from an underground pipeline and sells it to working-class motorbike couriers in this hybrid feature — part narrative documentary, part crumbling sci-fi, part classic Western — an electrifying reflection of modern-day Brazil. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/DRY-GROUND)

@ghopperfilm #drygroundburning #joanapimenta #adirleyqueiros ...

“It breaks no new ground, offers no ingenious plot twist and makes no unique character insights. But who cares when the movie is so much fun.” —Joe Hollemon, St. Louis Post Dispatch (Jun 2, 1992)

For #MusicCityMondays this Mon, May 15 at 3:45pm + 8pm, #WhoopiGoldberg in SISTER ACT! (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/Belcourt-SISTER-ACT) ...

“A phantasmagorical journey… An eye-opening film… Through these directors’ eyes, these bodies look wondrous and unsettling, macabre and beautiful, and often uncannily unfamiliar.” —Nicolas Rapold, Critic’s Pick @nytimes

Now at the Belcourt for a limited engagement — Sun-Tue, May 14-16 — DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA opens the human body to cinema, from the directing team of Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (LEVIATHAN, SWEETGRASS). Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/HUMANI-CORPORIS ...

“Blending jittery naturalism with thrilling showdowns and even a surreal climax, R.M.N. is [Cristian] Mungiu’s most fully realized work since 4 MONTHS” —Eric Kohn @indiewire

In a limited engagement, Fri-Thu, May 12-18, R.M.N. — Romanian New Wave auteur Cristian Mungiu’s (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS and BEYOND THE HILLS) chilling, universally relevant parable of the dangers of malignant nativism. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/Belcourt-RMN)

@cristian_mungiu @r.m.n_filmul ...

The country watches intently as a disgraced former president faces allegations of covering up illegal activities, inflation is completely out of control, and the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the state of abortion. It’s 1973 in America.

Fifty years have passed, but many of the same issues still haunt the national psyche. As the U.S. ended its involvement in Vietnam, the young countercultural filmmakers who broke down Hollywood’s doors in the late ‘60s — and prepared the American consciousness for the moral complexities of the war and a changing society — became the heirs apparent to the entertainment-industrial complex. With more resources and the support of an avid public, the New Wave rolled ashore and gave us a veritable treasure chest of gritty stories and meaty performances.

This year, we celebrate the golden anniversary of many of the masterpieces those turbulent times helped produce with an eye to the future — and the art this generation might create to help us process the challenges we face today.

With 18 films, from Fri, May 19 through Thu, Jun 8 — and with tickets on sale now (including ticket 5-Packs and Full Series Passes) and a downloadable schedule to help you make your movie plans. Head to the link in our bio, or bit.ly/Belcourt-1973. ...

“No, it’s not FEMALE TROUBLE, but it’s just as nuts. Pretty? Pretty? Pretty f*cked up!” —John Waters’s Best Films of 2022 (#4), @artforum

At the Belcourt Wed-Sun, May 10-14, SICK OF MYSELF is a skin-crawling, black-as-midnight-on-a-moonless-night satire about influencer culture, depraved narcissism, and the vagaries of the high art world (tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/SICK-OF-MYSELF). at Wed’s 7:35pm screening, artist and Belcourt staffer Cody Lee Hardin provides an introduction.

@sykpike @kristogger #sickofmyself #KristofferBorgli @codysuckscartoons ...