Before Jun 18, 7:00pm screening: Intro from Ken Paulson, president/CEO of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt and in Washington, D.C.; columnist on USA TODAY’s board of contributors, writi...

In her inspired, genre-twisting and deeply personal maiden voyage into documentary, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley (AWAY FROM HER) investigates the secrets kept within a family of story...

This small budget collaboration between writer/director Noah Baumbach and writer/star Greta Gerwig (in a wildly inventive comic performance) centers on Frances, an apprentice dancer fumbling though p...

The Light And Sound Machine Co-presented by Third Man Records and the Belcourt Theatre Third Thursday of the Month at Third Man Records 623 7th Ave S – Nashville, TN 37203 (directions) ...

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 movie HOUSE? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the abo...

With cutting-edge technology and expertise from Sony Colorworks, Prasad Film and Chase Audio, Sony’s restoration team has recently completed a three-year effort to fully restore LAWRENCE OF ARA...

On Sunday, June 23, following the 7:35 pm screening, a discussion will be led by writer/producer Jeremy Scahill via Skype. Investigative reporter and fearless whistle-blower Jeremy Scahill traces th...

Writer, director, producer and impresario Joss Whedon (THE AVENGERS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) hits the big screen again with this modern day version of one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays. E...

Five orphaned dinosaurs flee the devastating famine and upheaval of their world in search of the Great Valley, a legendary land of plenty. A tale of friendship and acceptance set against the backdrop...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. Crowd pleasing and lovingly assembled, a juxtaposition of interviews with industry legends (Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger) an...

This past May saw the passing of the great visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen, whose innovative form of stop-motion model animation—known as “Dynamation” —solidified his pl...

Part of Weekend Classics: The Dynamation of Ray Harryhausen. EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS: When alien visitors declare their intention to take over the earth within 60 days, scientist Russell Marvin...

After being killed by the vicious gangster Carface, a German shepherd named Charlie returns to the land of the living to avenge his own death. With the help of the orphaned Anne-Marie, who can talk t...

Midnight Movies at the Belcourt are expanding! Twice as often. Now every Friday and Saturday. We start with some of the great sequels of all time. Because if it's worth doing once, it's worth...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. With revolutionary Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) imprisoned in a mental institution and her delinquent son John (Edward Furlong) hidden away with a foster...

Part of Weekend Classics: The Dynamation of Ray Harryhausen. THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD: When a princess is shrunk by an evil wizard, the dauntless Sinbad and a shifty magician with ulterior motives h...

Part of Saturday Kid Shows When Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)—the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist—is hired by the government to locate t...

Paul Verhoeven’s Notorious Stripper Drama Hosted and Annotated By Writer/Performer David Schmader. General Admission: $20 / Belcourt Members: $15 Upon its 1995 release, Paul Verhoeven’s...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. The crime-fighting Turtles—Michaelangelo (Michelan Sisti), Donatello (Leif Tilden), Raphael (Kenn Troum), and Leonardo (Mark Caso)—return in t...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. Although mainstream success eluded them, the legendary Memphis band Big Star’s three albums have become critically lauded touchstones o...

Part of Weekend Classics: The Dynamation of Ray Harryhausen. THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS: A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test works his way down the North Atlantic, terrorizing ...

Part of Saturday Kid Shows For today's Harry Potter generation, a viewing of WILLOW will surely be of interest. Written by George Lucas, it's a great film for kids interested in fantasy. Aft...

Part of Second Saturday Outdoor Cinema and Weekend Classics: The Dynamation of Ray Harryhausen. The myth of Perseus is given new life in this classic fantasy film featuring the final stop-motion ani...

HEY BARTENDER tells the story of the renaissance of the bartender in the era of the craft cocktail and features the most famous bartenders in the world, along with unprecedented access to the most ex...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. To finish his latest shocking horror epic, the director Santini has called upon Europe's most acclaimed sound designer of the '70s, G...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. Fresh from drawing deeply divided reactions at the Cannes Film Festival (are there any other kind?), Ryan Gosling and the director of DRIVE, ...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. The prophets Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves), whose band Wyld Stallynz proved the foundation that allowed universal peace to develop, find thems...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa re-teams with director Margarethe von Trotta (VISION, ROSA LUXEMBURG) for a br...

Known for his documentaries of American institutions, Fred Wiseman trains his unflinching gaze on a Philadelphia public high school in 1968. His hand-held camera wanders the corridors with hall guard...

Showtimes will be posted the Monday prior to opening. Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into the student’s abandoned house and find a collection of mysterious VH...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. After what happened in Kingston Falls, it's no wonder that Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates) fled to the big city. But when big business u...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. En route to Mumbai, the cargo ship MV Rozen is heading to port when it is hijacked by Somali pirates. Among the men on board are the ship'...

Showtimes will be posted on the Monday prior to opening. New York-based Chilean director Sebastián Silva (THE MAID) shot this low-key comedy on a lark during a halt in production on his twi...

When 17-year-old Yueh-chen admits she likes the boy swimming champ Shihao, she talks her best friend Kerou into talking to him for her. But Shihao ends up liking Kerou instead, and the rest of the fi...

In 2005 Iran’s national soccer team competed in Tehran to qualify for the World Cup. Under the country’s Islamic Law, women are banned from attending these matches despite being passionat...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. The dust hasn’t even settled from the events of the first Back To The Future, when Doc (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty (Michael J. Fox) travel to 2015...

Part of Midnight Movies and Summer Sequels. Fifty-seven years after Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) lost her ship and crew in the depths of space, she must return to LV-426, the desolate planet wher...

The only feature written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T follows Bart as he faces off against his only enemy in the world: his piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker. Dr. T ...

This very special Marx Brothers double feature showcases the madcap antics of the seminal group at their comedic best. In HORSE FEATHERS, Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires b...