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The Belcourt Theatre
January 2024

Winter Classics

Winter Classics

It’s cold out there, and it’s warm in here. We’re whiling away the mid-winter and looking at the snow — at least onscreen. We’ll light our imaginary fireplace, pull on the warm socks, and put on the good stuff. Slip inside our sleeping bag.

Past Screenings

THE GOLD RUSH
Sat-Sun, Dec 30-31 at 12:00pm

THE GOLD RUSH

Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork charts a prospector’s search for fortune and romance in the snowbound Klondike. Featuring such timeless gags as the dance of the dinner rolls and the meal of boiled shoe leather, THE GOLD RUSH is an indelible work of heartwarming hilarity. Screening in 35mm
McCABE & MRS. MILLER
Wed, Jan 3 at 12:30pm, 8:00pm

McCABE & MRS. MILLER

Robert Altman’s masterful revisionist Western about a gambler and a prostitute who become business partners in a remote Old West mining town. With a haunting score courtesy of Leonard Cohen, McCABE & MRS. MILLER captures the essence of a long-ago time — while re-imagining the Old West as a frontier for hustlers and corporate sharks.
THE SHINING
Fri, Jan 5 at 9:00pm

THE SHINING

For the Torrance family, the winter caretaker job at a secluded hotel is a chance to get themselves back on track, and work through past issues and traumas — but they'll encounter so much more in its ancient twisting halls. Welcome to the Overlook Hotel — the intersection of the minds of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King.
FARGO
Sat, Jan 6 at 9:45pm

FARGO

Minneapolis car salesman Jerry Lundegaard hatches an elaborate plot to extort a ransom from his father-in-law by hiring two vicious but inept criminals to kidnap his wife. When the plan goes horribly wrong, Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson is hot on their trail in the Coen Brothers’ brilliant snowbound noir.
COOL RUNNINGS
Wed, Jan 10 at 5:45pm

COOL RUNNINGS

The improbable but true story of Jamaica's first bobsled team — comprising a helicopter pilot, a reggae singer, and a sprinter — which took part in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
THE THING
Fri, Jan 12 at 9:00pm

THE THING

A crew in Antarctica finds a neighboring camp destroyed and its crew dead. Whatever killed them is nowhere to be found, unless it's hidden in plain sight.
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS
Sat-Sun, Jan 13-14 at 12:30pm

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS

When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners search wintery London to find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. One of Disney’s most enduring, entertaining animated films.
THE GREAT SILENCE
Wed, Jan 17 at 5:45pm

THE GREAT SILENCE

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers on the unforgiving, snow-swept frontier. Sergio Corbucci’s bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless West is widely considered to be among the best and most influential Westerns ever made.
RUNAWAY TRAIN
Sat, Jan 20 at 2:15pm

RUNAWAY TRAIN

Based on an original 1960s screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, this white-knuckle ‘80s Cannon action thriller follows two escaped convicts from a maximum security prison and onto a runaway train barrelling without brakes through the snowy Alaskan wilderness.
FROZEN
Sat-Sun, Jan 20-21 at 12:00pm

FROZEN

Fearless optimist Anna teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf — in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Sat-Sun, Jan 27-28 at 12:45pm

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

A young physician and his beautiful mistress get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in David Lean’s 1965 epic, based on the classic Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak.
MISERY
Tue, Jan 30 at 8:00pm

MISERY

Rescued from a car accident during a Colorado snowstorm and being nursed by his number-one fan, a best-selling author of a series of romance novels finds himself writing for his life. Adapted from Stephen King’s bestselling novel and directed by Rob Reiner. Screening in 35mm
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