Repertory

Based on the Who's 1969 rock opera album about a deaf, mute and blind boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader, TOMMY features an ensemble cast including Roger Daltrey in the starring role, as well as Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell and Tina Turner. Written, co-produced, and directed by Ken Russell. Part of Music City Mondays and Ken Russell x4.

FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must assume the identity (and face) of terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) in order to foil a plot to set off a bomb in a populated area of Los Angeles in Hong Kong action maestro John Woo's phenomenally underrated big-budget Hollywood thriller. See also: John Woo’s ONCE A THIEF (Fri, Dec 4 at 9:35pm | Sun, Dec 6 at 2:25pm)

After the one-armed boxer kills his students, a blind kung fu expert thirsting for revenge travels to a town where a martial arts tournament is being held. His mission is clear — to decapitate every one-armed man he encounters with his flying guillotine. Featuring extravagant choreography, this film set the template for martial-arts video games with its centerpiece kung-fu tournament and the fireworks of its final showdown.

The ultimate ‘90s Hong Kong action sleazefest by bullet balletmaster Ringo Lam. Chow Yun-Fat steps into the most gleefully tasteless shoot-em-up of his storied career. Queer arms dealers, fields of exploding automobiles, harsh neon greens and blues, madness with butterfly knives, biker punk chic, ripping donuts on motorbikes, and heaping helpings of horniness, oh my!

Retired gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small Wyoming town with hopes of quietly settling down as a farmhand, but gets drawn into a battle between the townsfolk and a ruthless cattle baron. Mysterious, moody and atmospheric, George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations and made SHANE one of the enduring classics of the American cinema.

A Belcourt tradition, Martin Scorsese’s masterful 1978 concert film returns — an all-star affair, seven-camera set-up capturing The Band’s final gig and Bill Graham’s incredibly satisfying prelude to Thanksgiving dinner.

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when Stella (Clara Bow) goes too far at a local bar and is rescued by her professor, gossip linking the two escalates. This new restoration of the pre-code gem — an early talkie — is the earliest surviving film by Dorothy Arzner, a successful Hollywood director when there were few women at the top of the profession.

Madeleine Smith’s murder trial for the poisoning of her lover inspired several books, two plays and three films. The first screen treatment, LETTY LYNTON, stars Joan Crawford as a woman who flees her possessive paramour in South America and falls for American tycoon (Robert Montgomery). Meticulously restored, LETTY LYNTON finally returns to the screen for the first time in 90 years, showcasing Crawford at her most glamorous.

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What should be a cut-and-dried journalistic assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey.

An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, GANDAHAR is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI — the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare. Featuring a brilliant cast, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES garnered seven Oscars, including Best Picture.

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski doesn't want any drama in his life. But he must embark on a quest with his bowling buddies after his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity.

Betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is thrown into the opulent French court which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Sofia Coppola’s 2006 interpretation of the life of France’s legendary teenage queen screens alongside Eleanor Coppola’s newly completed-by-Sofia MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sun, Nov 29 at 2:35pm).

Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, BEGOTTEN tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on the essence of life. This new 4K restoration reveals the full photographic body of E. Elias Merhige’s elusive 1989 film, preserving its otherworldly organic texture and retaining its visceral impact, a previously unknown life form captured in cinematic amber.

Right before his leap to Hollywood with BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF, John Woo united with three of Hong Kong’s most charismatic actors (Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Leslie Cheung) for this rollicking heist comedy filled with Woo’s signature action. The three international art thieves who grew up as orphans on the streets of Hong Kong set their sights on one last gig — the theft of a painting so valuable it’s said to be cursed.

Charles Burnett followed up his landmark debut KILLER OF SHEEP with this tragicomic slice of realism set in South Central L.A. in which Pierce Mundy finds himself torn between incompatible loyalties — after his childhood friend is released from prison and his brother decides to marry a woman of a higher social class.

When a promising student is forced to abandon her studies to become the newest concubine inside a walled estate, she discovers a household ruled by a master who’s pitted his wives against each other in a merciless game of power. Gradually worn down by isolation and humiliation, she begins playing to win. Newly restored, RAISE THE RED LANTERN remains a landmark of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema and 1990s international film.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Evan, who says: “F FOR FAKE is the medium at its most incorrigible and a must see for all who know the appeal of a good lie."