When this many lives intersect, the results can be smooth and sinuous or jagged and explosive. During the course of a Los Angeles day, hearts will break, tears will fall, love will take hold and the skies themselves will open up. Twenty-five years on, there’s still nothing like MAGNOLIA. Screening in 35mm
1999 was a major touchstone for a lot of us. Y2K was breathing down our collective necks, but theaters were brimming with a veritable treasure trove of work by old masters and exciting new voices. We’re celebrating that moment 25 years on with a series of 25 films that encapsulate the unique spirit and zeitgeist of the time, from the multiplex to the arthouse. We invite you all to take a trip with us down memory lane as the Belcourt parties like it’s 1999.
Precocious, persistent and mildly insufferable, Max Fischer is the kind of student who delights some adults and fuels ulcers in others. But a crush on a teacher puts him at odds with his newest friend, a curmudgeonly Vietnam vet, and Rushmore Academy is not ready for this level of care and concern curdled.
Tells the true story of the TV expose of the tobacco industry, broadcast on “60 Minutes,” as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. Screening in 35mm
The year 1999 was a moment of significant historical and social change and a watershed moment in cinema history. This seminar will address a spectrum of changes and innovations in the cinema of 1999 — including THE MATRIX, FIGHT CLUB, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and the TOY STORY franchise — and their relationship to each other.
Your comfortable life, catalog-refined and impeccably furnished, has you pacing back and forth in a space growing all the smaller with each passing day. But that’s okay. Your new buddy Tyler’s gonna help you break out of your immaculate cage — and then burn it all down.
Comedian, performance artist, beloved television personality and home-grown weirdo Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) lived a tale as inscrutable and unexpected as the characters and archetypes he embodied, brought to life by the master of the humane, Miloš Forman.
With a small film crew, Wim Wenders accompanies friend/guitarist Ry Cooder on a trip to Havana, immersing themselves in the world of Cuban music. The resulting documentary became a cinematic sensation and an international success.
A dreamscape sprung from Arthur Schnitzler and the sensual imaginations of America at Christmas time, pondering celebrity and fidelity, Stanley Kubrick’s final film is a moody, weird sexual odyssey from the holiday-lit townhouses of New York to the multicolored twinkle of the rainbow’s end. Screening in 35mm