Films

Featuring Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell), Walton Goggins and David Strathairn, this stranger-than-fiction drama resurrects the hugely popular 1980s game show Press Your Luck, and the “luckiest man in America” who broke it.

Zeinabu irene Davis’s ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans is seen through a couple in 1910 Chicago, and a couple living in the same city almost 80 years later. Played by the same actors, their stories are deftly interwoven through the creative use of archival photography, an original score featuring ragtime and African percussion, and an editing style both lyrical and tender. New 4K DCP Rejuvenation

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.

After botching a recent drug bust, brother FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) conceive a crackpot plan to go undercover as ditzy, white socialites to lure a kidnapper with the hopes of saving their tails.

When she accidentally consumes an entire tray of weed cupcakes, Jane must cross town to repay an unforgiving drug dealer, attend an audition, and somehow replace the previous cupcakes in director Gregg Araki’s ultimate stoner comedy.

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 the wake of COVID, independent venues experienced existential crises, imminent closure and corporate takeovers. Here in Nashville, filmmaker Patrick Sheehans follows Exit/In owner Chris Cobb as he wages a heroic effort to advocate for venues nationwide — while struggling to keep the legendary Nashville venue afloat at home. Features performances by local artists Allanna Royale and Diarrhea Planet among others.

Animation pioneer Karel Zeman conjures the adventures of the legendary, boastful baron, whose whirlwind exploits take him from the moon to 18th century Turkey to the belly of a whale and beyond.

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 Echoes to an ecstatic audience of none.

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!

In the mid-’60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scored a controversial hit single called "Society's Child," about an interracial love relationship. The song launched her illustrious career but also ignited death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin — only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, "At Seventeen," a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying. Janis overcame significant obstacles — embezzlement, record industry misogyny and heartbreak — to find love and produce an indelible body of searingly honest songs that have earned her a devoted following and critical acclaim.

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.

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!”

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.