Film Seminars | Discussions | Intros

Part 12 — Let’s rock. | Part 13 — What story is that, Charlie? | Part 14 — We are like the dreamer.

Part 15 — There’s some fear in letting go. | Part 16 — No knock, no doorbell.

A friendly, selfless man who greets everyone with a disarming "Oh, hai..." discovers that he can't trust anyone after getting engaged to a manipulative, self-serving siren who seduces his best friend and destroys his life. Screening in 35mm

When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights.

Joe Bob Briggs returns to the Belcourt Theatre for “Cult of the Rock Star Night,” a double feature of BUBBA HO-TEP (2003) and ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979). A nationally syndicated “drive-in movie critic” whose wisecracking take on B-movies was featured on two long-running late-night television shows; Joe Bob Briggs’ endeavors continue with his latest series, The Last Drive-In, currently featured on AMC’s Shudder.

Part 17 — The past dictates the future. | Part 18 — What is your name?

When a lead encyclopedist (Gary Cooper) ventures into the streets of New York in effort to bulk up a compendium of current slang, he finds the perfect study in an "astounding specimen" (Barbara Stanwyck), who uses the professor's domicile to hide out from her gangster boyfriend.

A Hollywood director sets out to explore life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from writer-director Preston Sturges.

Three secretaries (Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin) turn the tables on their tyrannical, sexist boss (Dabney Coleman) by abducting him and running the business themselves. Introduction and costume exhibit from the Dolly Parton Archives.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Rusty, who says: “I loved getting lost in this swashbuckling, musical adventure on the big screen as a kid and I still find it just as big, blue, and wet-thing as I ever. This salty adventure to the Caribbean is equal parts dark and hilarious — but most of all just plain weird. Thirty years after it first shipwrecked into theaters, it can still shiver your timbers or else you’ll walk the plank, Matey!”

With live shadow cast Little Morals! This fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock 'n' roll tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad and Janet after they stumble upon the lair of transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. 18+ only.

The iconic gender-exploding rock sensation and enduring cult classic big-screen adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s stage musical about an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” Film screening followed by Q&A and an acoustic set with John Cameron Mitchell.