Films

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life. Starring Dominic Sessa (THE HOLDOVERS) as Tony. Directed by Matt Johnson (NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE).

In Oregon during the Great Depression, a battle-scarred veteran (Ethan Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp where the Warden (Russell Crowe) tempts him with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness. A more-than-worthy addition to the WAGES OF FEAR canon of precious cargo and precarious conditions, THE WEIGHT is a kickass throwback to the great outdoor adventure films of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Big Ant is just out of prison and struggling to reconnect with his wife and adolescent son, Lil Ant, a sensitive artist who begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighborhood. A blend of social and magical realism with allusions to Greek mythology, the film has its head in the clouds without losing sight of the street-level conditions that shape its characters’ lives.

When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights.

One of the most influential film noirs ever made, John Huston’s directorial debut feature stars Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private investigator Sam Spade who falls in with a deadly band of thieves who’ll stop at nothing to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor — and she must face what comes next as sparks fly. Grief, romance, Fosse-like dance numbers and little magical realism collide in a true crowd-pleaser from this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

When a lead encyclopedist (Gary Cooper) ventures into the streets of New York in effort to bulk up a compendium of current slang, he finds the perfect study in an "astounding specimen" (Barbara Stanwyck), who uses the professor's domicile to hide out from her gangster boyfriend.

A Hollywood director sets out to explore life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from writer-director Preston Sturges.

Three secretaries (Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin) turn the tables on their tyrannical, sexist boss (Dabney Coleman) by abducting him and running the business themselves.

A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert — the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version.

At a posh country club outside Manila, 17-year-old Isabel from the rural north works the immaculate grounds, sampling its luxuries as the members engage in a complex dance with the staff. The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

A shapeless organism has come to earth with the parallel urges to consume and expand, spreading muculent mayhem and wrecking the status quo of small-town America. The late, great Chuck Russell delivers one of the all-time horror remakes — and no flesh is safe.

After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson (How To with John Wilson) tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete. But his foundation soon begins to crumble — literally and figuratively — as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry.

Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning dark dive into the world of FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and brilliant madman Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) was a cultural phenomenon and a remarkable blend of genre splatter and high-art refinement. The only worthy sequel to (and playing alongside) Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER: The Final Cut (Sep 30-Oct 4).

Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) conducts autopsies on executed prisoners and — upon deducing that a spine-dwelling creature is suppressed by the human scream — he doses a deaf and mute woman with LSD and builds for her a terrible nightmare in an attempt to lure the creature.

Pioneering queer avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) broke barriers by centering frank lesbian sexuality and pleasure in an expansive body of beautiful, poetic, personal work. Constructed largely from Hammer’s own archive, director Brydie O’Connor crafts a loving portrait of a force of nature while accompanying her through her final years and creative processes.

The Butthole Surfers exploded onto the underground music scene in the 1980s, amassing a growing audience as they built one of the most mind-boggling surrealist rock and roll spectacles ever devised. They were radically inclusive art-punk pioneers on an endless tour, blowing minds and spreading their art to a cult following.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Rusty, who says: “I loved getting lost in this swashbuckling, musical adventure on the big screen as a kid and I still find it just as big, blue, and wet-thing as ever. This salty adventure to the Caribbean is equal parts dark and hilarious — but most of all just plain weird. Thirty years after it first shipwrecked into theaters, it can still shiver your timbers or else you’ll walk the plank, Matey!”

After the success of POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, Warner Brothers offered John Boorman the opportunity of a lifetime — the chance to direct a sequel to their smash hit, THE EXORCIST. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history. Part of Doctober and Shocktober

When a respected academic gets sidelined by the story of the Chronovisor — a device capable of transmitting visuals from any point in history to a TV screen — she unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy. Dense with real primary sources, scored to Holst, and shot on 16mm, this utterly unique debut feature performs a remarkable sleight of hand by transforming the momentum of private study into a genuinely kinetic pursuit.

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (HARAKIRI) shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. New 4K Restoration. Part of Shocktober

Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer and other entertainment icons all got their start in the same 1972 Toronto production. Nick Davis’ high-spirited documentary reveals how a humble Toronto run of the hippie musical Godspell became an historic incubator for modern comedy.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civilians — and is titled for a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary NO OTHER LAND.

Sacred Harp singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from sight in the rural deep South. To the casual observer, it is foreign and unintelligible, but to the singers, it is the key that unlocks mysteries — songs of both beauty and sorrow, of life and of death, songs that cause feet to stomp and tears to flow, often at the same time. AWAKE, MY SOUL has been re-edited and remastered for its 20th anniversary.

Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery — not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power, a symbol of stolen agency was recast as an object of fear. Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, exposing how Black spiritual traditions were distorted and erased. Part of Doctober and Shocktober

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption — and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned — and the first time the film will be presented restored. Exclusive Engagement – New 35mm Print. Part of Shocktober and Ken Russell x4

Featuring a career-making performance from Rosalind Eleazar and supporting turns from Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver and Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock’s latest as writer-director brilliantly satirizes the bigotry and hustle at the heart of Hollywood.

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.

Returning for its 15th incarnation — our quinceañscare-a if you will — the Belcourt’s annual all-night onslaught of eerie evocations again assaults the eyes and ears of our eager audience.

Michael Rooker turns in a career-great performance as the titular serial killer who links up with a former prison buddy to wreak havoc in Chicago in this harrowing and truly disturbing newly-restored classic. Part of Shocktober

A strange, glowing fog rolls over a small coastal town one hundred years after a mysterious shipwreck and when vengeful ghosts go on a killing spree, residents look for answers even as they try to survive. Directed by John Carpenter. Part of Shocktober

What game designer Allegra Geller has created is a whole new way of gaming — eXistenZ by Antenna — plugs directly into the spinal column and uses the structure of the brain as its playing field. It’s causing pandemonium with the public, including a faction of fundamentalists who want her and her technology dead. No one does mind/body schism like David Cronenberg. Part of Shocktober

Winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest from writer-director Cristian Mungiu is a gripping high-stakes courtroom drama driven by a profound moral dilemma. An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system. Starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve.

There’s a bad moon on the rise when vacationing yanks David Naughton and Griffin Dunne meet up with savage jaws and slashing claws on the moors. Part of Shocktober

Three modern-day witches (Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer) yearn for Mr. Right in a quaint New England town. Is the arrival of wealthy, irresistible Daryl van Horne (Jack Nicholson) a coincidence –– or their unconscious sorcery at work? Part of Shocktober

When a Harvard abnormal psychology professor (William Hurt) begins to experiment with mushrooms indigenous to a remote Mexican tribe, signs of both mental and physical devolution lead to the phasing in and out of material existence. Written by Paddy Chayefsky with an original score from modern composer John Corigliano, Ken Russell’s 1980 film is a fantastic and frightening trip into the deepest, darkest recesses of human consciousness. Part of Shocktober, Music City Mondays and Ken Russell x4.

"Do you want to meet a ghost?" After the sudden deaths of several friends, three strangers explore a city that grows more empty by the day — and attempt to solve what lies within a forbidden room in an abandoned construction site, mysteriously sealed shut with red packing tape. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Part of Shocktober

A mysterious and unsettling children's book forces a grieving widow to confront her resentment of her imaginative young son — and the possibility that his terrifying nightmares might be real. Part of Shocktober

Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass and Kenneth Branagh star in writer-director Reed Van Dyk’s searing story of trauma and forgiveness following a horrifying event during the Iraq War. Based on Dexter Filkins’ 2012 New Yorker essay of the same name, ATONEMENT asks difficult questions about reconciliation and trauma while acknowledging that everyone seeks out different means of moving on.

With live shadow cast Little Morals! This fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock 'n' roll tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad and Janet after they stumble upon the lair of transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. 18+ only.

Professional ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson seek to ski down the north face of Mount Everest, a feat never achieved, as the Oscar-winning filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (FREE SOLO) follow their journey.

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) embark on a challenging and emotional road trip across a Germany in ruin — returning home after 16 years of exile in the U.S. As with prior films IDA and COLD WAR, director Paweł Pawlikowski constructs memorable setpieces as little cathedrals in luminous black-and-white.

Ken Russell’s outrageously surreal take on the life of the hedonist 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey, fresh from TOMMY), whose dazzling music and magnetism drive women to hysterics and whose rivalry with fellow composer Richard Wagner culminates in an epic musical showdown. Look out for Ringo Starr in an audacious cameo as the Pope. Part of Music City Mondays and Ken Russell x4.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Tony, who says: “I find UtSL to be the rare puzzle box movie, which yields new insights and interpretations with every watch. The film loves old Hollywood, classic cinema, puzzles and ciphers, and the paranoid-soaked works of Phillip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson as much as I do. Will you help me break the code?”

A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse in this eagerly anticipated new film from Lee Chang-dong (BURNING, POETRY), currently being hailed as his masterpiece on this year’s fall festival circuit. In this tale of yearning, envy and grief, the divide between the couples becomes increasingly tangled as the tensions mount.

The iconic gender-exploding rock sensation and enduring cult classic big-screen adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s stage musical about an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” Film screening followed by Q&A and an acoustic set with John Cameron Mitchell.

Los Javis’ ambitious and captivating homage to Federico García Lorca sees the lives of three men intertwined in love and loss across eras. Combined with stunning cinematography and a grand score, the seamlessly converging storylines make for a sweeping and operatic romantic drama that delicately balances collective memory with deeply emotional personal histories.

Two CIA agents (John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell) are sent on a mission to Easter Island, where one faces an existential crisis over his past actions, in the latest dark comedy from Martin McDonagh (THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN).

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.

Conceived in 1972 by legendary filmmaker William Greaves and completed 50 years later by his son David, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM is an essential work of living archive, documenting a lively gathering of luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance during a cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s home.

In his exuberant debut feature, writer-director Jordan Firstman stars as a carousing New York City club promoter whose lifestyle is upended by the unexpected responsibility of raising a 10-year-old son he never knew he had. Exclusive 35mm Engagement.

Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall. This is the movie. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Screening in 35mm