Film Seminars | Discussions | Intros

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).

To celebrate the opening of Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET at the Belcourt on Wed, Nov 26, join us for a guided discussion of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel on which the film is based. In 2020, O’Farrell’s book received the Women’s Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The discussion is free with an advance-purchase ticket to HAMNET (RSVP with your ticket purchase), and capacity is limited.

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).

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.

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.”