Belcourt Theatre Announces October Schedule

The Belcourt Theatre has announced its upcoming October schedule. It will include the showings of THE HEADLESS WOMAN, directed by Lucretia Martel, opening 10/9, David Cronenberg's THE BROOD, and John Carpenter's THE THING.

THE HEADLESS WOMAN - Opening 10/9
After only three features, Argentine writer/director Lucrecia Martel (THE HOLY GIRL, LA CIENAGA) has become one of contemporary world cinema's most gifted and rigorous artists. A remarkable thematic fusion of MULHOLLAND DRIVE, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, the film is a remarkable and demanding experience that will shatter your reality. Vero (Maria Onetto) is a woman adrift. Recovering from the trauma of a car accident and finding all her certainties unmade by the possibility that she may have killed someone, she must navigate the whorls and eddies of a life she hardly recognizes as her own. Family, lovers, servants, and friends blur and detach, and the only fixed point for Vero is whatever or whomever died on that isolated road out by the canal.

BRIGHT STAR - Continuing showing throughout October
From director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) - London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet John Keats(Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats's younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny's efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats's best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, "I have the feeling as if I were dissolving," Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats's illness proved insurmountable.

THE BROOD - Part of the Shocktober Weekend Classic Series
A film about divorce. Writer/director David Cronenberg, revolted by the mainstream acclaim and success for KRAMER VS KRAMER, decided to lay down what divorce really does to people, and he did so with this relentless blend of experimental psychotherapy, the cyclical nature of family abuse, and the Shape of Rage.

THE THING - Part of the Shocktober Midnight Movies
Taking the DNA of Christian Nyby's 1951 The Thing From Another World, John Carpenter made one of the most visually stunning films in the realm of SciFi/Horror. An isolated Antarctic research station has an unfortunate encounter with a lifeform that's been buried under the ice for over one hundred thousand years- an organism that can mimic any multicellular organism it encounters. Which it does. Oscar-winner Rob Bottin is responsible for the ground-breaking visual effects, work which remains unequaled in cinema history.

For more information and a full showings schedule, visit www.belcourt.org.