Repertory

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

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. There's an unexpected side effect: the predators got smarter…and meaner.

When a fanatical U.S. general launches an air strike against the Soviets, they raise the stakes by threatening to unleash a "doomsday device," setting the stage for Armageddon in Stanley Kubrick’s classic black comedy that brilliantly skewers the nuclear age.

A desperate ronin arrives at the manor of a powerful Lord where he begs to be allowed to commit ritual suicide in this tragic, eviscerating anti-samurai film. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, HARAKIRI, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.

In rural America in 1964, a Czech immigrant and single mother (Björk) begins to lose her eyesight. As she tries to put away money for her young son before she goes completely blind, the woman reimagines her life in big musical song-and-dance routines starring herself and her co-workers. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Lars von Trier.

A pair of detectives (Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt) live among the seven sins in a crumbling city of crime all around them. What starts as one bizarre crime turns into a case of serial murders as a predator named John Doe begins to execute victims by paying homage to the "deadly sin" they represent. Directed by David Fincher.

After a mysterious mist envelops a small Maine town, a group of locals trapped in a supermarket must battle a siege of otherworldly creatures… and the fears that threaten to tear them apart.

A farmer and his daughter try to survive in a desolate landscape even as the horse that had always provided their livelihood has already given up on them. Clinging to daily ritual, the pair refuses to let go of life as they know it, even as omens abound that the world might be coming to an end. The final film from Hungarian master of slow cinema Bela Tarr (SÁTÁNTANGÓ), who plunges us into a feat of speechless, spellbinding storytelling.

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty.

After being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident, a desperate man agrees to a radical face transplant. But the relative freedom of his new persona stirs dark temptations within the alienated man. A staggering work of existential science fiction, Teshigahara's film explores both the limits and freedom in acquiring a new persona — and questions the notion of individuality itself.

An American newlywed on his honeymoon in Paris searches for his former medical colleague Leo who may have a cure for the tropical virus that transformed Leo’s wife into a murderous sexual carnivore in Claire Denis’ blood-soaked, divisive gem.

Closing out Bleak Week and screening in advance of and with a nod to his latest film (I WANT YOUR SEX, opening Jul 31), we offer Gregg Araki’s harrowing chronicle of childhood innocence lost. At the age of eight, Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. When the boys' parallel lives inevitably intersect 10 years later the pair unearth dark, repressed secrets.

In the last seven days of her life, Laura Palmer, besieged by a transuniversal conflict reaching back into infinity, must face her own immovable destiny amongst the myriad of secrets in the town of Twin Peaks. Note: FIRE WALK WITH ME bridges Season 2 and Season 3 (Coming Soon)

Sinister goings-on at Camp Arawak center around a shy, traumatized girl as her tormentors get their comeuppance one-by-one in this absolutely bonkers entry in the Summer Camp Slasher genre.

A wealthy countess is murdered for her bayfront real estate, leading to the systematic slaughter of ruthless developers, greedy heirs and bad neighbors in this archetypal slasher from genre maestro Mario Bava.

Prisoners Red (Morgan Freeman) and Andy (Tim Robbins) forge an unlikely bond that will span more than twenty years. Under horrifying conditions and the ever-present threat of violence, two lifers reclaim their souls and find freedom within their hearts. Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King.

A petty criminal sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm gains the respect of his fellow inmates through his intelligence, unbreakable spirit and unwillingness to play by the rules––all traits that earn him the ire of the sadistic warden.

Philip Hartman’s priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress. Post-screening discussion with director (and Two Boots founder) Philip Hartman

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Barry Jenkin’s dreamy, melancholic masterpiece chronicles the story of Chiron, a shy, sensitive boy struggling to stay afloat in the proverbial waters of South Beach. Kicking off Queer Qlassics, it returns to the Belcourt for the first time since its blockbuster 2016 debut.

With vivid, hallucinatory attention to historical detail, Mary Harron captures the explosive cross-pollination of New York’s political and artistic countercultures as well as the creativity, snobbery and decadence at the heart of the legendary Factory. Anchored by the electric Lili Taylor as militant feminist Valerie Solanas — and featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of ‘60s hits by some of the ‘90s’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco).

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Erin, who says: “Mike Myers writes and stars in one of the greatest comedies of all time. Come see how this ‘shagadelic’ spoof holds up almost 30 years on!”

From a screenplay by Jonathan Harvey, BEAUTIFUL THING is a love story in full blossom with themes of acceptance in queer love and coming out — in a coming of age movie. The characters in the film are vibrant and hard not to love — with Mama Cass on full volume throughout the movie’s tender awakening.

Groundbreaking upon its release and newly restored in 4K, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK follows Shy and Valentine, two trans-butch grifters navigating friendship, loss and survival on society’s margins. Written, directed by and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, this landmark queer indie shot on Mini-DV helped redefine LGBTQ+ representation.

Thirty years after the rise of the Burnish, when pyrokinetic abilities suddenly catalyzed throughout the population, a ragtag bunch of firefighters — led by the endearing, perpetually shirtless lunkhead Galo — contain and clear up the wreckage and ashes left behind. But there are always questions to be asked and other paths available — buildings will crumble, hearts will explode in flames, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance!

In Japanese-occupied Korea, a pickpocket poses as a handmaiden in order to convince a Japanese heiress to marry her con artist associate. This seemingly simple gambit quickly falls apart when the heiress falls for the handmaiden instead. Ten years after its debut in 2016, Park Chan-wook’s hypnotic erotic thriller returns to the Belcourt.