Films

Exclusive 35mm Engagement – It all starts with something magnificent…. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis and Alicia Silverstone, among others.

Rose Byrne delivers one of the year’s great performances as Linda, a counsellor riding the edge of exhaustion as she attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O’Brien) and the calm support of a hotel employee (A$AP Rocky) — all as her Montauk home is literally caving in.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Against a Nixon-era backdrop of alienation and disillusionment, a taciturn family man (Josh O’Connor) makes the rash, largely inscrutable decision to orchestrate a heist at the local art museum in this restrained and often funny anti-thriller from Kelly Reichardt (FIRST COW, MEEK’S CUTOFF).

It all starts with something magnificent…. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis and Alicia Silverstone, among others.

In Lynne Ramsay’s harrowing new psychosexual thriller, a young mother (Jennifer Lawrence) is slowly slipping into madness in rural Montana, acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion (Robert Pattinson) increasingly worried and helpless. Co-starring Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, Lakeith Stanfield.

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border (in one of the most astounding one-take crane shots in cinema history), a Mexican drug enforcement agent (Charlton Heston) and an American cop (Orson Welles) investigate.

On the Pont Neuf, Jacques befriends Marthe, potentially suicidal over the non-appearance of her lover, and over the next four nights, desperately falls for her himself. But what if that lover shows up? With his signature minimalism, Robert Bresson films the shimmering beauty of nocturnal Paris as it enfolds his characters in endless possibility — subtly capturing the wonder of unexpected connection and the mystery of fate.

Meredith Monk — composer, performer and interdisciplinary artist — is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. With Monk’s music at its center, and featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, MONK IN PIECES is a mosaic that mirrors the structure of Monk’s own work, and illuminates her wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery.

From the strobelit stages of gentlemen’s clubs to the neon otherworld of casino-strewn pageantry, Nomi Malone has come to Las Vegas to make a wager. 30th Anniversary 4K Restoration.

Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi — his first following his most recent prison sentence — follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.

Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Cult classic MIND GAME is an explosion of unconstrained expression — gloriously colorful images ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa’s brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory.

A daredevil driver and his secret love face off in the most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe, the Redline. Takeshi Koike (THE ANIMATRIX) directs and animates this high-speed thrill.

75th Anniversary – Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is Billy Wilder’s definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood.

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments — as well as a stylistic influence on the past quarter century of filmmaking and a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

As the Grand Ole Opry grew into a national institution, it spent seven formative months on our stage — then the Hillsboro Theatre. This seminar revisits the Opry’s brief but pivotal stay at the Belcourt (1935–1936), correcting the historical record and exploring its enduring impact on Nashville’s cultural and filmmaking identity while honoring the shared centennials of two Tennessee icons: the Opry and the Belcourt Theatre. Includes a screening NASHVILLE REBEL (35mm) immediately following at 8:00pm.

They were never in time to book a gig at Toronto’s The Rivoli, then one day… They weren’t in their time at all. Shot in downtown Toronto and featuring any number of unbelievable hijinks involving its well-known landmarks, NIRVANNA sets the flux capacitor for a gut-busting, time-skewing real good time.

Seasoned stunt driver Ken Carter is determined to achieve legend status — by jumping a car a mile over the St. Lawrence Seaway. An epic journey to the heart of one man’s dangerous obsession, this 1981 doc is an unforgettable immersion into the mind of a dreamer that's often described as a Canadian forerunner to AMERICAN MOVIE.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Nathan, who says “What happens when the future director of GHOST IN THE SHELL and the concept artist behind Final Fantasy make a meditative arthouse film? Well they don’t make any money, but they do create an intricately illustrated, hauntingly beautiful and bizarre cult classic that’s one of the most transcendent film experiences I’ve ever had.”

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was “The Beautiful Confusion,” and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. New 35mm Print.

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård lead this moving drama about a burgeoning stage actress and her estranged father, a once-renowned director who’s reappeared to both revive his career and repair his family’s broken bond. The novelistic drama marks another high watermark collaboration between actress Renate Reinsve and filmmaker Joachim Trier (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD).

A perennial kickoff to the week of Thanksgiving and 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.

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley).

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet. Riffing on Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved mystery series is as strong, inventive, and entertaining as ever. Stellar ensemble cast features Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott and more.

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.

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy. The result is a masterpiece — a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.

Truck driver Jack Burton struggles to free his buddy's fiancée from the clutches of an evil 2,000-year-old magician living beneath San Francisco's Chinatown in this pulpy cult genre mishmash from master director John Carpenter.

Irascible petty criminal H.R. McMurtry pleads insanity to keep himself out of jail. Once institutionalized, he slowly stages mutiny against the oppressive Nurse Ratched. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

A career safecracker dreams of leading a normal life after one last job for the mafia. But they have other plans for him… This recently-restored 4K Director’s Cut of Michael Mann’s iconic Tangerine Dream-scored neo-noir heater breathes new life into a true cult classic of crime cinema.

A Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. His girlfriend and chiropractor try to help him find balance, but Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.

The extraordinary, internationally embraced YI YI, directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Quinn, who says: “This sapphic modern classic burnt a hole through my brain the first time I saw it in February 2020, and I left the theater forever changed. It’s my rainy day movie, my desert island movie, and a staggering masterpiece from start to finish.”

Winner of multiple prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sly, genre-bending political thriller stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a technology expert on the lam and seeking refuge in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977 — and is a thrilling and pleasurable neo-noir steeped in the filmmaker’s love for and knowledge of cinema.