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Actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but struggles to find work. He spends most of his time with Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his easygoing best friend and longtime stunt double — who happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, the couple whose futures will forever be altered by members of the Manson Family. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

In this seminar, we'll follow the narrative path of human storytelling on its journey out from Earth and through the stars, with stops made in the world of 1960s television and late '70s/early '80s big budget big screen adventure, screening September 4th-7th as part of Star Trek 60th Anniversary.

Sandusky, Ohio is hell on earth for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy and Clive. When they discover a New York City club is hosting a “Night of 1000 Stevies,” the pair hit the road with high hopes that Gypsy will be able to perform. For its 25th anniversary, GYPSY 83 returns in a brand-new extended Director’s Cut, restored in 4K.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Conner, who says: “A new vision of the world in a surreal stream of sun-tanned and mojito-fueled consciousness. I absolutely love getting lost in its spell.”

Boarding the sleekly updated NCC-1701 starship, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the rest of the Enterprise crew are reunited to stop an immense, destructive alien construct before it reaches Earth. "The human adventure is just beginning" in this epic relaunch of the '60s TV sci-fi classic brought to the big screen by director Robert Wise.

23rd century. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) seems resigned to the fact that a routine inspection may well be the last mission of his career, but his old enemy Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, he’s stolen a top secret device, wrested control of another Federation starship — and is threatening universal Armageddon.

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!”

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.