Weekend Classics

An English jazz pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal hatchet murder of a renowned psychic and is drawn into a sinister search for clues with help from an intrepid reporter. We assure you this is a Christmas movie! New 4K Restoration

Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this jewel of Iranian cinema reemerges to take its place as one of the most singular and astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolution New Wave. In an ornate, candlelit mansion in 1920s Tehran, the heirs to a family fortune vie for control of their matriarch’s estate. New 4K Restoration

The improbable but true story of a Michigan con man Douglas Street (actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr.) who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. New 4K Restoration

An annual Belcourt tradition! Frank Capra's inverted take on A CHRISTMAS CAROL stars Jimmy Stewart 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.