The 😸cats😽 are back! Fri, Aug 2 through Thu, Aug 8, @CatVideoFest returns to the Belcourt — and tickets are now on sale (link in bio, or bit.ly/CatVideoFest-2024).

Just like last year, #CatVideoFest helps support the volunteer-run @NashvilleCatRescue — and Eva McAllister from Nashville Cat Rescue will provide an introduction at the Sun, Aug 4 12:50pm + 3:20pm screenings. ...

30 years after EUROPA EUROPA, three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland’s GREEN BORDER opens this Fri, Jul 26 (through Wed, Jul 31) at the Belcourt. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/GREEN-BORDER)

⭐️ “A heart-in-mouth thriller.” —Variety
⭐️ “A gripping, visceral human drama.” —Time Out
⭐️ “A humanitarian masterpiece.” —The Deadline
⭐️ “Agnieszka Holland pulls no punches.” —Eye For Film ...

“A devilishly complicated thriller of superior class.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

This Wed, Jul 24 at 8pm for #QueerQlassics, Herbert Ross’ 1973 THE LAST OF SHEILA (written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins no less!). AND…a post-screening discussion and book-signing with film historian and critic @alonso.duralde, author of “Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film,” with support from @novelettebooksellers. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/QQ-LAST-OF-SHEILA) ...

“A forgotten documentary featuring many of the genre’s most influential voices…. The film never received a theatrical release in the United States and has existed for 50 years as a piece of lost media available only to the most diligent scholars and archivists who could track down a copy.” —Christian Zilko,@IndieWire

Roviros Manthoulis’ 1973 THE BLUES UNDER THE SKIN — in a new restoration — this Mon, Jul 22 at 4:30pm, 8pm, and this Tue, Jul 23 + Thu, Jul 25 at 3pm. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Bukka White and Roosevelt Sykes. His objective was to not only document the music but also penetrate the surface of the blues — exploring the emotional and sociopolitical factors that make it such an expressive and haunting musical form. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/BLUES-UNDER-THE-SKIN) ...

“A model for how to reimagine a standard documentary structure to accommodate a multifaceted subject without smoothing over the rough spots and slapping on a halo… [Director Jeff] Zimbalist hits on a great idea: arrange the film in terms of what Mailer’s friends, enemies and acquaintances believe his ‘rules for coming alive’ might be.” —Alissa Wilkinson, NYT Critic’s Pick, @nytimes

HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MAILER now playing at the Belcourt (through Thu, Jul 25). Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/NORMAN-MAILER ...

“Not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century…. It could be argued that this greatest of filmmakers gave employment to action heroes for the next 50 years.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, #AkiraKurosawa’s 1954 SEVEN SAMURAI at the Belcourt through Thu, Jul 25 — now in at new 4K restoration in celebration of it’s 70th anniversary. ...

SAINT LAURENT on Wed, Jul 17 at 8pm! Part of our #QueerQlassics series! (With an intro from QQ programmers Sheronica Hayes, T. Minton and Jason Shawhan.) Tickets at link in bio, or at bit.ly/QQ-SAINT-LAURENT.

✨ “Rapturous insanity. And of course it’s stylish as hell.” —The Wrap
✨ “If Scorsese adapted Proust, this would be it.” —Vanity Fair
✨ “Profoundly intoxicating.” —Artforum ...

This Tue, Jul 16 at 8pm, another Belcourt #StaffPick!

SPY KIDS, programmed by Grant who says: “Bask in the early-2000s-CGI glory of Robert Rodriguez’s over-the-top film anchored on just one simple premise: ‘What if James Bond was nine years old and his uncle was Machete?’” (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/Staff-Picks-SPY-KIDS) ...

“Watching Curtis Hanson’s gritty and electrifying 8 MILE, the first thing you notice about Eminem, the most scaldingly powerful artist in pop music today, is how vulnerable he looks.” —Entertainment Weekly (Nov 6, 2002)

This Mon, Jul 13 at 8pm, 2002’s 8 MILE for #MusicCityMondays! (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/Belcourt-8-MILE) ...

“Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Breillat, a longtime, reliably interesting provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be... LAST SUMMER is complex, tricky, at times very uncomfortable and thoroughly engrossing. —#ManohlaDargis, NYT Critic’s Pick, @nytimes

The fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER — her first film in a decade — screens Fri-Sun, Jul 12-21. (Tickets at link in bio, or > bit.ly/Belcourt-LAST-SUMMER) ...

Queer Qlassics 2024 starts this Wed, Jul 10 (with support from @QDPnashville) with THE COLOR PURPLE! See the full lineup, get tickets, and check out the QQ intros + post-screening discussions. (Link in bio, or bit.ly/Queer-Qlassics-2024) ...

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“Watching REVIVAL 69, you can’t help but compare it to today’s musical landscape and pine for a simpler time when musicians could play with anyone at any time. Public relations teams weren’t a thing then. And brand recognition and rock ’n’ roll had yet to meet.” —Dana Gee @thevancouversun

REVIVAL 69 this Mon, Jul 8 at 8pm + Tue, Jul 9 at 4:25pm, 8:45pm — a behind-the-scenes look at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival — with the likes of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, and others. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/REVIVIAL-69) ...