Films

What happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions.

A raucous capitalist critique, I LOVE BOOSTERS follows a group of shoplifters who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven in this careening comedy of carefully-controlled chaos from the imagination of writer-director Boots Riley (SORRY TO BOTHER YOU).

A gorgeous and adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, directed by Academy Award®-nominee Hiromasa Yonebayashi and based on a screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki. When a tiny "borrower" named Arrietty makes friends with a young boy many times her size, she must also shield her family from his towering elders. But trouble brews when a curious maid starts asking questions. New 4K Remaster

Together with his genial mentor (Dustin Hoffman), a talented piano tuner (Leo Woodall) tends to high-end pianos across New York until his meticulous skills lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes — turning his life and his new relationship with a music student (Havana Rose Liu) upside down. A whip-smart script with great chemistry across the board makes for a thriller with perfect pitch.

Set in the post-Depression Tennessee Valley and concerning an idealistic young TVA administrator sent to clear land to be flooded by a new dam, Elia Kazan's film is a masterful recreation of a unique period in Tennessee history. WILD RIVER opened our Visions of the South series in 2011 — which we called “a survey of 20th century film depicting life in the southeastern United States from the inside and out” — and the first such mega-series of its kind.

On Sunday, March 15, 2020, the emergence of a worldwide pandemic forced the long-term closure of the Belcourt for the foreseeable future. The film that we were scheduled to open on the following Friday was Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW. Evoking an authentically hardscrabble early 19th century way of life, two westward travellers in the Oregon Territory start a successful business selling “oily cakes” (scones), but its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.

On June 3, 2000, our organization reopened the Belcourt after a year and a half of uncertainty. With this screening on the evening of June 2, 2026, CROUPIER finally returns to bookend our organization’s first 26 years. Taking a job as a casino croupier just to make ends meet, aspiring writer Jack finds himself seduced by the high stakes world of luck and chance. His attention is caught by a down-on-her-luck gambler with designs to recruit Jack for an inside job. Starring a little-known Clive Owen, directed by Mike Hodges (GET CARTER).

“Drive with a Dead Girl” — Donna and James wonder why Maddy left so suddenly. Norma's mother arrives with the news that she's married a new man, Ernie Niles. Cooper tells Leland they arrested Ben Horne for Laura's murder.
“Arbitrary Law” — Albert returns to examine Maddy. Cooper asks for 24 hours to finish his case. James and Donna reaffirm their love. Andy accidentally leads Donna and Cooper back to Mrs. Tremond's house.

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

In this new romantic crime thriller from Adam Carter Rehmeier (DINNER IN AMERICA), Samara Weaving stars as Caroline Daniels, whose desire to leave her small Texas town brings her into the orbit of a charismatic con man (Kyle Gallner), and together they weave a path of crime and passion across the American Southeast.

Set in a botanical garden within a medieval German university town, SILENT FRIEND centers on a majestic Ginkgo biloba tree — which can famously live up to 1,000 years — that silently observes humans over the centuries. A tender, enchanting and wholly engrossing exploration of the natural world starring Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux.

When Rufus T. Firefly is appointed president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia, chaos erupts as he ruthlessly insults benefactors and diplomats alike, eventually leading to all out war in this anarchic antifascist Marx Brothers satire.

In the 57-minute documentary MUD ON THE STARS: STORIES FROM ELIA KAZAN'S WILD RIVER, residents of Bradley County, Tennessee, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Elia Kazan’s film that put them on the big screen.

Ease on down the road with schoolteacher Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne, Michael Jackson and all the rest in this adaptation of the all-Black Broadway version of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Produced by Berry Gordy, its original songs by Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross were adapted and arranged by Quincy Jones with an assist from Ashford and Simpson.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Coley, who says: “BABA BOOEY! Produced by comedy guru Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS) and directed by Betty Thomas (CAN’T HARDLY WAIT), this biopic based on Howard Stern’s #1 New York Times best seller of the same name follows his meteoric rise from Boston University to WNBC in New York City. After conquering radio, TV and print, this film cemented Stern as the self-proclaimed “King of All Media.” Howard Stern is a national treasure and the greatest entertainer who ever lived.”

“Slaves and Masters” — The police look for James in the Marsh murder. Bobby and Shelly tell Truman that Leo escaped — and Bobby reveals that he saw Hank shoot Leo the night the mill burned. Albert returns to Twin Peaks with information on Windom Earle.
“Beyond Life and Death” — Agent Cooper follows Windom Earle and Annie into the depths of the Black Lodge. Big Ed and Norma get a shock when Nadine suffers head trauma. Andrew and Pete unlock Eckhardt's final box and Audrey stages an act of civil disobedience.

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to... DISCLOSURE DAY, a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Conner, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.

There's trouble bubbling up in Bikini Bottom, King Neptune's crown is missing, and Mr. Krabs has been accused of stealing it! Together with his best pal Patrick, SpongeBob sets out to treacherous Shell City to reclaim Neptune's crown and save Mr. Krabs in his debut feature.

Sara Dosa’s elegiac followup to her volcanic 2022 documentary FIRE OF LOVE reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years — likening it to the intergenerational memory of her subject, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, who is tasked to write the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change.

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.

This soaring music documentary traces Gregg Allman’s journey from a childhood scarred by his father’s murder to the heights of Southern rock and late-life sobriety, exploring grief, addiction, love and the racially charged American South through his transcendent music. Tender and unsparing, featuring electrifying performances and archival recordings, the film reveals how Gregg’s unforgettable blend of rock, country and blues mirrored the music and struggles of his soul.

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.

A feature-length documentary exploring Ralphie May — the comedian America couldn’t contain — and the personal and cultural crises that ultimately consumed him. Post-screening discussion with Lahna Turner, co-director of the film and wife of the late Ralphie May

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.

An isolated Australian small town hosts the evils of religious fanaticism and its consequences for wayward youth — and star-crossed Niam and Ryan must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.. At times sensual, and just as often thrilling, LEVITICUS shines as both a harrowing experience and a queer social horror.

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.

Everything Is Terrible!’s Memory Hole is back with a new piece of horror video collage made from thousands of real home movies that will turn the viewer’s blood into a viscous, demonic sludge of oil and microplastics.

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.

In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For 10 grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the 'glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures, and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.

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. TUnder 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

MADDIE’S SECRET is comedian, writer and actor John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company whose mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances.

30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada disappeared at sea. Now, it has returned. Desperate to make ends meet, two men (George McKay, Callum Turner) join its crew and set sail once again but soon discover they’ve been transported back into the past and mistaken for the original crew. Mark Jenkin’s latest film is a haunting, trance-like excavation of time, memory and collective disquiet, rendered in the filmmaker’s unmistakable visual and aural languages.

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!”

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. A fiercely energized chamber dramedy, THE INVITE revitalizes the classic, largely bygone cinema of marital strife. Starring Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Exclusive 35mm Engagement