Repertory

Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends drive to a sylvan guesthouse in one of India’s rural “tribal lands” where they mix with the locals. Filled with some of director Satyajit Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images, the film touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak.

May the 4th be with you. Always. The Rebels scatter after the Empire attacks their base on the ice planet Hoth. Han Solo and Princess Leia are pursued by Imperials, while Luke trains with Jedi Master Yoda. But when Luke battles Darth Vader, he learns the shocking truth of his past. Iconic score from John Williams + May 4th = an otherworldly edition of Music City Mondays.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Jessie, who says: “Grab your best friend — time to fall in love with PRETTY WOMAN all over again! In true Vivian fashion it would be ‘a big mistake, HUGE’ to miss on the big screen."

“May the Giant Be with You” — A wounded Agent Cooper has a vision of a giant who gives him several clues about the murder of Laura Palmer. Shelly and Pete recover from the mill fire, but Josie and Catherine are missing.

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) embezzles $40,000 from her employer and goes on the run, reluctantly stops at an unassuming roadside motel run by a very peculiar young man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his domineering mother.

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.

“Coma” — Albert determines that neither Leo nor Jacques killed Laura, but he is unable to find any leads into who shot Cooper. Cooper says they must find the third man, who he believes to be Bob, the gray-haired man.
“The Man Behind the Glass” — Ronette is attacked in her hospital bed by an unseen person. Jean Renault, brother of Jacques and Bernard, plans to blackmail Ben Horne for the release of Audrey. Donna meets with Harold Smith, a shut-in who had befriended Laura.

As the Belcourt simultaneously wraps our 26th year as a nonprofit and the building’s 100th, our look back at this past quarter-century kicks off with a beacon of sorts. Morgan Neville’s inspiring portrait of Mister Rogers, America's favorite neighbor, took us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe. It was and remains the most successful run of our tenure — but more importantly, an anecdote from the not-too-distant past to the weight of our current time.

In the far future, a brutal warrior trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements in John Boorman’s psychedelic counterculture satire.

Held captive in a specialized medical facility, a young woman with unique abilities seeks a chance to escape her obsessed captor in director Panos Cosmatos’ (MANDY) majorly trippy feature film debut.

Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious 1964 masterpiece unfolds in four stunning vignettes that paint a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cuba — its culture and the people who call the island home. Shot soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this wildly offbeat but influential work represents an early effort to keep abreast of the ongoing and crucial work of film preservation — even if our means of exhibition left much to be desired at the time.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. It was also at the center of a positively scorching Nashville summer and a possibly childbirth-inducing opening weekend.

Widely considered to be Robert Bresson’s masterpiece, AU HASARD BALTHAZAR charts the adverse lives of a donkey named Balthazar and Marie, the young girl who named him.

As the Nashville Scene’s dearly departed editor and film critic Jim Ridley noted at the top of his review of THE TREE OF LIFE: “Nothing makes people hate Terrence Malick's movies more than someone describing Terrence Malick's movies.” At its core, THE TREE OF LIFE is the story of a family in Waco, TX circa mid-1950s. Among others, it stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and Tye Sheridan in his feature debut. Sundays at the Belcourt can hold a special place.

Lifelong friends and Torontonians Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner founded Anvil in 1978, bridging the era of 70s hard rock and 80s metal. As bands they’d influenced rose to icon status, Anvil struggled in relative obscurity and yet their dedication to their craft and to each other never once wavered. Documented in the ensuing decades by their friend and roadie, this documentary was born, the band toured with it and brought it here for one night only.

“Laura’s Secret Diary” — Leland confesses to killing Jacques Renault. Andy wants to take a new sperm count test. Rumor spreads that a food critic is coming to Twin Peaks. Jean asks Ben to set a trap for Cooper in exchange for Audrey's life.
“The Orchid’s Curse” — Cooper remembers the message under his bed. Shelly and Bobby begin Leo's home care. Sternwood hears pretrial motions and declares Leo not fit for trial. Nadine comes home, still thinking she's in high school.

A gorgeous and adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, directed by Academy Award®-nominee Hiromasa Yonebayashi and based on a screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki. When a tiny "borrower" named Arrietty makes friends with a young boy many times her size, she must also shield her family from his towering elders. But trouble brews when a curious maid starts asking questions. New 4K Remaster

Richard Linklater's groundbreaking film is seen through the eyes of a child (Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes, and stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents. It was filmed incrementally over 12 years, and it’s now been 12 years since most people have seen it.

A master work of the Revisionist Western subgenre and a personal fave of our dear, recently passed H.G. Webb, Sam Peckinpah’s classic THE WILD BUNCH tells the tale of a band of aging outlaws forced to contend with the inevitable death of their chosen lifestyle and the Old West as they once knew it.

Beyond its relevance as a great documentary in a time of change, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO unwittingly marked a crucial entry point into in a golden era of documentaries that really turned folks out — as much and even more than narrative features at the time. Raoul Peck’s modern classic remains essential.

Of the Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film, Jim Ridley wrote, “The first concert I ever saw was the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour at Municipal Auditorium in 1983; it made me a concertgoer for life, but I’m not sure I got as much out of it live as I did reliving it through Jonathan Demme’s peerless performance film.” STOP MAKING SENSE screens in Jim’s honor.

Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winning black comedy holds the honor of our longest run — playing on our screens for nearly 5 months (and ending just a few weeks after winning the Oscar for Best Picture). By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, PARASITE showcases a modern master at the top of his game.

“Demons” — James saves the girls from a tormented Harold. Cooper brings Audrey home. Bobby and Shelly learn that their insurance plans have backfired. Donna tries to convince Truman that Harold Smith has Laura's secret diary.
“Lonely Souls” — Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern. Hawk finds Harold Smith dead — with a mysterious suicide note and the diary torn to shreds. Leo speaks to Bobby about "new shoes."

The path of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s journey from relative obscurity to a rediscovered candy-coated midnight classic ran right through the Belcourt. To wit, a VHS tape rescued and fan-subtitled to an underground website went above board, found one of its first legit screenings in the Belcourt’s Midnight Movies program — for which a hand-designed screenprint was printed and sold as a bonus, its design picked up by Janus Films/Criterion Collection for its ensuing theatrical and BluRay releases — and HOUSE was reborn.

The fantastic exploits of He-Man (Dolph Lundgren) and his arch rival, the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella), are brought to the big screen for the first time in this high camp box office catastrophe.

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.

Set in the post-Depression Tennessee Valley and concerning an idealistic young TVA administrator sent to clear land to be flooded by a new dam, Elia Kazan's film is a masterful recreation of a unique period in Tennessee history. WILD RIVER opened our Visions of the South series in 2011 — which we called “a survey of 20th century film depicting life in the southeastern United States from the inside and out” — and the first such mega-series of its kind.

“What’s black and white, speaks Hungarian, and is 37,204 feet long? Don’t look now, Nashville, but it will soon be in your midst. It is a phantom, a behemoth that only a comparative few have ever glimpsed. People have driven hours to see it and emerged half a day later from its company, changed. Some compare its effect to a drug. Others say it has the power to stop time. The harder it has been to see, the more its legend has grown. Spoken aloud, its name practically arrives in a clap of thunder: SÁTÁNTANGÓ!” —Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene (Dec 2006)

On Sunday, March 15, 2020, the emergence of a worldwide pandemic forced the long-term closure of the Belcourt for the foreseeable future. The film that we were scheduled to open on the following Friday was Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW. Evoking an authentically hardscrabble early 19th century way of life, two westward travellers in the Oregon Territory start a successful business selling “oily cakes” (scones), but its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.

On June 3, 2000, our organization reopened the Belcourt after a year and a half of uncertainty. With this screening on the evening of June 2, 2026, CROUPIER finally returns to bookend our organization’s first 26 years. Taking a job as a casino croupier just to make ends meet, aspiring writer Jack finds himself seduced by the high stakes world of luck and chance. His attention is caught by a down-on-her-luck gambler with designs to recruit Jack for an inside job. Starring a little-known Clive Owen, directed by Mike Hodges (GET CARTER).

“Drive with a Dead Girl” — Donna and James wonder why Maddy left so suddenly. Norma's mother arrives with the news that she's married a new man, Ernie Niles. Cooper tells Leland they arrested Ben Horne for Laura's murder.
“Arbitrary Law” — Albert returns to examine Maddy. Cooper asks for 24 hours to finish his case. James and Donna reaffirm their love. Andy accidentally leads Donna and Cooper back to Mrs. Tremond's house.

Danny Boyle directs this adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about a group of young Edinburgh dope fiends and psychopaths on the make — and boasts a massive soundtrack featuring music by Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New Order and more. New 4K DCP Restoration

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Coley, who says: “BABA BOOEY! Produced by comedy guru Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS) and directed by Betty Thomas (CAN’T HARDLY WAIT), this biopic based on Howard Stern’s #1 New York Times best seller of the same name follows his meteoric rise from Boston University to WNBC in New York City. After conquering radio, TV and print, this film cemented Stern as the self-proclaimed “King of All Media.” Howard Stern is a national treasure and the greatest entertainer who ever lived.”

“Slaves and Masters” — The police look for James in the Marsh murder. Bobby and Shelly tell Truman that Leo escaped — and Bobby reveals that he saw Hank shoot Leo the night the mill burned. Albert returns to Twin Peaks with information on Windom Earle.
“Beyond Life and Death” — Agent Cooper follows Windom Earle and Annie into the depths of the Black Lodge. Big Ed and Norma get a shock when Nadine suffers head trauma. Andrew and Pete unlock Eckhardt's final box and Audrey stages an act of civil disobedience.