Films

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder, Hacks) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star (Gillian Anderson), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear and delirium. Directed by Jane Schoenbrun (I SAW THE TV GLOW), straight from the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

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).

When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter in director Adam Wingard's nostalgic throwback to VHS-era action flicks. Exclusive 35mm Engagement – One of a Small Handful Nationwide

When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter in director Adam Wingard's nostalgic throwback to VHS-era action flicks.

An annual stop at the Belcourt, this year’s 99-minute theatrical program consists of six short films curated from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, including three jury award-winning titles: The Boys and the Bees, Crisis Actor, Living with a Visionary, Marga en el DF, Pankaja, Sauna Sickness

A writer of pulp Westerns, arrives in a bombed-out, post-war Vienna at the invitation of his childhood friend Harry Lime only to find him dead in Carol Reed’s noir classic. New 35mm Print

Music video director STILLZ — best known for his music video work with Bad Bunny — makes a stunning feature debut with a trippy, found footage-style descent into ’90s Medellín. Backed by ARCA’s electrifying score, BARRIO TRISTE follows four teens as they document their own rowdiness in a hauntingly poetic portrait of violence and loneliness.

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.

Part 15 — There’s some fear in letting go. | Part 16 — No knock, no doorbell.

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.

A friendly, selfless man who greets everyone with a disarming "Oh, hai..." discovers that he can't trust anyone after getting engaged to a manipulative, self-serving siren who seduces his best friend and destroys his life. Screening in 35mm

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.

A friendly, selfless man who greets everyone with a disarming "Oh, hai..." discovers that he can't trust anyone after getting engaged to a manipulative, self-serving siren who seduces his best friend and destroys his life. Screening in 35mm

It’s high-seas screwball comedy when a clueless heir (Henry Fonda) falls prey — twice — to a couple of gambling con artists posing as a father (Charles Coburn) and beautiful daughter (Barbara Stanwyck). But will she fall prey to him?

Joe Bob Briggs returns to the Belcourt Theatre for “Cult of the Rock Star Night,” a double feature of BUBBA HO-TEP (2003) and ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979). A nationally syndicated “drive-in movie critic” whose wisecracking take on B-movies was featured on two long-running late-night television shows; Joe Bob Briggs’ endeavors continue with his latest series, The Last Drive-In, currently featured on AMC’s Shudder.

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.

Part 17 — The past dictates the future. | Part 18 — What is your name?

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. Introduction and costume exhibit from the Dolly Parton Archives.

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.

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 I 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!”

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.

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

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.

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.

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