Repertory

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.

It’s high-seas screwball comedy when a clueless heir (Henry Fonda) falls prey — twice — to a couple of gambling con artists posing as a father (Charles Coburn) and beautiful daughter (Barbara Stanwyck). But will she fall prey to him?

One of the most influential film noirs ever made, John Huston’s directorial debut feature stars Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private investigator Sam Spade who falls in with a deadly band of thieves who’ll stop at nothing to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.

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.

A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert — the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version.

A shapeless organism has come to earth with the parallel urges to consume and expand, spreading muculent mayhem and wrecking the status quo of small-town America. The late, great Chuck Russell delivers one of the all-time horror remakes — and no flesh is safe.

Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning dark dive into the world of FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and brilliant madman Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) was a cultural phenomenon and a remarkable blend of genre splatter and high-art refinement. The only worthy sequel to (and playing alongside) Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER: The Final Cut (Sep 30-Oct 4).

Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) conducts autopsies on executed prisoners and — upon deducing that a spine-dwelling creature is suppressed by the human scream — he doses a deaf and mute woman with LSD and builds for her a terrible nightmare in an attempt to lure the creature.

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 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!”

Sacred Harp singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from sight in the rural deep South. To the casual observer, it is foreign and unintelligible, but to the singers, it is the key that unlocks mysteries — songs of both beauty and sorrow, of life and of death, songs that cause feet to stomp and tears to flow, often at the same time. AWAKE, MY SOUL has been re-edited and remastered for its 20th anniversary.

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption — and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned — and the first time the film will be presented restored. Exclusive Engagement – New 35mm Print

Returning for its 15th incarnation — our quinceañscare-a if you will — the Belcourt’s annual all-night onslaught of eerie evocations again assaults the eyes and ears of our eager audience.

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.