Repertory

Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.

When three sorority sisters find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to the police chief to even the odds. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from the director of A CHRISTMAS STORY.

After spotting the delicate Françoise at Midnight Mass, Jean-Louis vows to make her his wife, although when he spends an unplanned night at the apartment of the bold divorcée Maud, his rigid standards are challenged in Eric Rohmer’s brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of the Six Moral Tales series.

“Manhattan. Christmas Vacation. Not so long ago.” So begins Whit Stillman’s surprise hit indie film, an ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene that chronicles the rise of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor and their impending demise.

“Merry Christmas, 007.” The sixth James Bond film was released on Dec 19, 1969, and stars George Lazenby in his only role as playboy British agent James Bond, who goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), hell-bent on a holiday plan to hold the world at ransom.

It’s Christmastime in Reno, where a world-weary gambler (Philip Baker Hall) teaches the tricks of the trade to a luckless young man (John C. Reilly). The debut feature of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson took a year to hit theaters — by which time Anderson was in production on BOOGIE NIGHTS, further cementing Hall and Reilly as Anderson mainstays.

An annual Belcourt tradition. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a good man who’s spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would’ve been like had he never been born.

New York City detective John McClane becomes the only hope for a group of hostages, one of whom is his estranged wife, trapped in an L.A. high-rise when it’s seized by terrorists on Christmas Eve.

The Muppets' rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale puts a unique twist on that fateful Christmas Eve, when Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas’ multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation in Ridley Scott’s sometimes holiday-set crime epic. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria.

Robert Redford as blue-eyed, laid back train robber Sundance and Paul Newman as his equally charming partner-in-crime, Butch, star in this soulful, romantic look at the infamous Hole in the Wall gang.

The iconic duo of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as the iconic duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in Alan J. Pakula’s iconic 1976 ripped-from-the-headlines award-winning film. Based on Woodward and Bernstein’s 1974 account of their Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigation that resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon.

Marking its 50th anniversary, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS captures the rise of Outlaw Country through intimate portraits of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and others. Filmed in Texas and Nashville, it traces the genre’s raw, rebellious roots within the city’s evolving history in American roots music culture.

In a beautifully understated performance, Redford Redford plays a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart’s narcissistic drive for glory. Astonishing Alpine location photography and breathtakingly fast and furious imagery bring the viewer directly into the mind of the competitor.

Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of maniacs debase themselves for our amusement in this debut entry in the masculinity-skewering Jackass Cinematic Universe.

Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman sneak into an R-rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on Canada and our young heroes are America's last hope to stop Armageddon.

In this timeless tale of contemporary politics, Robert Redford plays Bill McKay, an idealistic California attorney running for office. Captivating the electorate's attention, his long-shot candidacy attracts the attention of the party machine, and McKay must decide whether he can effect a greater change as a part of the government — or retain his integrity and lose.

Tracing a century of filmmaking in and about Music City, this seminar explores how Nashville became both a subject and a site for American cinema. From Southern stories to music-driven productions, it also highlights Belcourt's enduring role in shaping — and showcasing — the city’s evolving film culture. Includes a screening of RANCHO DELUXE (35mm) immediately following at 8:00pm.

On the strength of their 1969 collaboration BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, Robert Redford and co-star Paul Newman teamed up once again with director George Roy Hill for this ‘30s-set caper about two professional grifters’ plot to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).

John Archibald Dortmunder (Robert Redford), a notorious fresh-out-of-jail cat burglar, is approached by Dr. Amusa (Moses Gunn) with a scheme to steal a gem from a museum that was itself stolen from his African country during colonial times — and he wants the gem returned to its rightful place. Dortmunder quickly assembles a team of the best, most experienced cat burglars he knows. An elaborate plan is hatched, but the perfect heist threatens to run off the rails.

In a dystopian near-future Japan, law and order is enforced by a brutal paramilitary police unit. When their extreme methods spark public outcry, the government moves to dismantle the unit. A philosophical blend of film noir, political allegory and existential mystery, this visually striking black comedy meditates on justice, memory and the cost of loyalty. It also serves as a foray into live-action filmmaking for animation master Mamoru Oshii (ANGEL’S EGG, GHOST IN THE SHELL).

Cartoon antics and film noir archetypes collide through a dazzling combination of live action and animation in this comedy classic starring the great Bob Hoskins.

Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. Shot on location in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains — the home of Redford’s Sundance Film Festival — and directed by Sydney Pollock (see also THE WAY WE WERE).

When he dons an ancient Nordic mask, the otherwise mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss moves at warp speed, knows your every desire, satisfies your every whim and dances like Fred Astaire, Gumby and Baryshnikov combined. He's s-s-s-smokin'!

Set against the political backdrops of the lead-up to World War II and later McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple (Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford) come together only to find that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. Directed by Sydney Pollock (see also JEREMIAH JOHNSON).

Directed by Peter Weir and written by Nashville native Tom Schulman, DEAD POETS SOCIETY stars Robin Williams as a teacher who inspires students to defy conformity. Featuring Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard, the story draws from Schulman’s experience at Montgomery Bell Academy, shaping the film’s Nashville themes and setting.

Directed by first-time filmmaker Robert Redford — more than years deep into his acting career at the time — ORDINARY PEOPLE stars Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore in this intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Superb performances and masterful direction complement the award-winning screenplay, based upon the novel by Judith Guest.

The Maclean brothers, Paul (Brad Pitt, in a pivotal early role) and Norman (Craig Sheffer), live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister (Tom Skerritt), the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. Robert Redford directs Norman McClean’s semi-autobiographical novel in the bucolic splendor of Montana.

Inspired by true events, James Foley (GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS) directs Sean Penn and Christopher Walken as a father-son-duo caught in a violent crime ring. Filmed just outside Nashville, the film blends Southern noir with Brat Pack-era sincerity, featuring Mary Stuart Masterson and Kiefer Sutherland.

A desperate mother takes her daughter to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of a mysterious illness. When the pair are separated after a violent car crash, the mother must investigate the strange, liminal purgatory of the town and uncover its terrifying secrets and find her daughter in this adaptation of the hit survival horror video game.

Two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in “Dinohattan” from a diabolical lizard king in this tremendously strange and infinitely divisive adaptation of the beloved video game.