Films

From director Steven Soderbergh, BLACK BAG is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test — loyalty to his marriage or his country. Starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan, among others.

An eccentric lottery winner (Tim Key) lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. Old tensions resurface when his fantasy quickly turns into reality: the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island.

At the turn of the 20th century, a small group of students from an all-female college vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Peter Weir’s landmark of Australian cinema is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day. New 4K DCP Restoration

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a Victorian-era Englishman who suffered from a disfiguring congenital disease and the surgeon who saved him from a tormented life in a freak show, David Lynch's 1980 film returns via a new 4K DCP restoration overseen by the director himself, and is only available to screen theatrically for a few brief months this spring.

The arrival of this new documentary (having world-premiered at the end of March) has moved quickly due to ICE’s detainment of one of the film’s subjects — Mahmoud Kahlil — the student/diplomat who operated as a negotiator between the student encampments and the leadership of Columbia University, a campus movement that quickly spread nationwide.

Belmont University Motion Pictures Associate Professor Jake Mahaffy will present a case study with footage from his new no-budget feature film. Mahaffy will also workshop attendees’ own stories and project plans so they can be realized immediately on micro-budget principles. This workshop is for anyone —beginners, students or professionals – interested in elevating and expanding their filmmaking skills and learning a practical, proven mindset of making more from less.

Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Largely unseen for decades following its completion in 1977, the film is now recognized as a touchstone of the groundbreaking L.A. Rebellion movement — and a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an aching intimacy like no film before. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

Set in the 1950s, this adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel follows the parallel journeys of a newlywed (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her wayward brother-in-law (Jacob Elordi) as they navigate the risks and rewards of clandestine transgressions that could place them in greater danger than either bargained for.

A tech-entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of buried loved ones — until a spate of vandalized graves threatens to put his enterprise at risk. Written following the death of his own wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia.

In Charles Burnett’s long-awaited 1999 comedy, an aging Jamaican widower (James Earl Jones) has spent decades wrestling an invisible demon named Hank. De-institutionalized, he takes a bus to Los Angeles and meets fellow lodger (Lynn Redgrave) who is fleeing her spurned long-dead fiancé, composer Giacomo Puccini. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

Showed some years back in a faded 35mm print, Pink Floyd’s iconic 1972 concert film returns to the Belcourt fully remastered. Set in the haunting ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheater in Pompeii, it showcases the band performing music primarily from their then-current album Meddle to an ecstatic audience of none.

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria (Tuesday Weld), depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with movie producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) offers a semblance of solace. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, directed by Frank Perry. New 4K DCP Restoration

In effort to save his marriage, ex-pat Nicolas Cage returns to an idyllic western Australian beach community intent on catching waves with his son and purchasing the cliffside home of his youth. When he’s stymied by a cult-like gang of beach-bronzed locals hellbent on keeping the surf for themselves, Nic Cage does what he does best: he freaks the f*** out!

When a devoutly Christian cop travels to a Scottish island to investigate the case of a missing girl, his efforts are stymied by the pagan laird of the isle and his devoted followers in this exemplary folk horror classic.

Trapped in a generational war against an evil Satanist and his violent cult, brothers Mark (William Shatner) and Tom (Tom Skerritt) head out to defeat the forces that have hunted their family in an epic battle culminating in a literally face-melting finale that must be seen to be believed.

Boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film, his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles — the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him.

The tumultuous journey of beloved singer-songwriter Janis Ian – who found fame as a teenager with her boundary-breaking song “Society’s Child” – unfolds in this saga of an artist who triumphed over homophobia, a misogynistic music industry, debilitating health issues, and a gun-toting lover.

Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present TALL TALES — a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, this powerful second feature from director Dea Kulumbegashvili tells the story of an ob-gyn in eastern Georgia. When a baby dies under her care shortly after delivery at the hospital, Nina’s morals and professionalism come under scrutiny — and she is investigated when rumours about the illegal abortions reach the administration.

In 2003, a group of artists snuck inside the thriving but contentious Providence Place Mall and for the next four years lived in a hidden art space that they created on the sly. This testament to youthful ingenuity incorporates original footage and present day interviews with the construction of both a miniature of the mall and full-scale replica of the apartment in question to create an amusing argument for art as lifestyle.

Elia Kazan’s prescient 1957 film traces the connections between TV stardom and politics via drunken drifter Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith). Plucked from prison to sing on the radio, he lands his own TV show. Working his way up to national syndication, Rhodes’ use of mass media and his lust for power gain him influence in a presidential campaign where his disdain for his audience threatens to awaken the voting populace.

Channelling the cringe comedy of his hit sketch series I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson portrays a suburban dad obsessively pursuing camaraderie with his charming neighbor (Paul Rudd).

A wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th-century American music whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history not merely of soul music, but of country, hip-hop and a dozen other genres.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Will, who says: “MIDNIGHT RUN, above all, is a great time! I'm a sucker for a cross-country roadtrip, enemies to friends buddy comedy and MIDNIGHT RUN delivers with a ridiculous soundtrack to boot. Cheeky De Niro gives bonus points!”

Shot across the better part of the last decade, Seth Pomeroy’s long-gestating portrait of Nashville-based comedian, writer, podcaster and political candidate/raconteur Chris Crofton finally emerges from the shadows — covering its subject from ascent, descent, and ascent again.

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent (who is now Two-Face) and Edward Nygma (The Riddler) with help from an amorous psychologist and his young circus acrobat sidekick, Robin.

Warren Beatty’s loving and eccentric star-studded adaptation of Chester Gould’s long-running comic strip about a tough and intelligent police detective follows the square-jawed cop as he battles Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

When her Mother Superior sends her to serve as governess for the Von Trapp family, Maria’s love of life, music and dance binds her to the naval officer and his seven children. Their delicate happiness is threatened, however, by a burgeoning romance between Maria and the soon-to-be married captain — and the rise of the Third Reich in Austria.

The dearly departed Val Kilmer sank himself entirely into the role of late ‘60s rock icon Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s portrait of The Doors frontman, a powerful musical portrait of his band, his muse and his experimentations — musical or otherwise. 4K DCP Restoration

When fallen-from-grace patriarch Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) announces his terminal illness, his maladjusted family must come to terms with each other, their wildly dysfunctional family, and themselves.

A transformative exploration of two decades of his cinema, Jia Zhang-Ke’s latest film is a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary told from the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long-lost lover.

In Laura Piani’s charming and witty debut, an aspiring author and clerk at a Parisian bookshop snags an invite to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in rural England — and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of an Austen novel.

Steven Spielberg pioneered the “summer blockbuster” with this white-knuckle tale of an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island. Memorial Day Weekend – 50th Anniversary Screenings

Gathering insight and predictions from some of the world’s most influential scientists and innovators, filmmaker Werner Herzog takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness.

With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Produced by Dario Argento and directed by Lamberto Bava, DEMONS follows a panorama of punks, preppies and ne'er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids.

Director Alex Ross Perry constructs a kaleidoscopic impression of the band Pavement by mounting scripted scenes with actors in a fake biopic, a musical stage play based on their songs, an exhibition of questionable ephemera, and blends it all together with archival footage. Opening Night Q&A with band members Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.

Director Alex Ross Perry constructs a kaleidoscopic impression of the band Pavement by mounting scripted scenes with actors in a fake biopic, a musical stage play based on their songs, an exhibition of questionable ephemera, and blends it all together with archival footage. Opening Night Q&A with band members Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.

A genre-exploding dark comedy about a newly married young woman starting her life with an unprepared, bumbling husband. As the heat, nosy neighbors, and her lack of domestic skills begin to take their toll, she is lured into the mysterious nocturnal world of Mumbai where she’s transformed into… something else.

When a group of film students devise a gimmick-filled horror movie marathon at an abandoned cinema, they unwittingly wander into the sights of a murderous psychopath who’s all too happy to use their props and tricks to his own deadly ends.

At an opulent hotel, the concierge (Ralph Fiennes) and his young protégé (Tony Revolori) forge a steadfast bond as they are swept up in a scheme involving the theft of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune. Wes Anderson’s star-studded film is a poignant paean to friendship and the grandeur of a vanished world.

On the quest for a better life, 18-year-old Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) wants to break out of the vicious cycle of violence he’s always known growing up in the hood. Gritty and unabashed, MENACE II SOCIETY remains one of the most relevant films of Black cinema culture. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria

The story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro plays tycoon Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton is Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera is Bjorn Lund, their tutor. Also starring Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis and Benedict Cumberbatch.