Music City Mondays

Musical prodigy, admired and beloved by his many collaborators (not the least of which dubbed him “the fifth Beatle”), keyboardist and songwriter Billy Preston was also troubled, underrecognized and elusive — a closeted gay man raised in a Black church community that stridently condemned homosexuality (or pretended it didn’t exist). Electrifying footage and moving interviews bring the maestro front and center.

Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. KÖLN 75 dramatizes how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up-and-coming concert promoter (Mala Emde) and nearly stymied when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand promised to the pianist (John Magaro) was nowhere to be found.

An unconventional work in every way, KOYAANISQATSI wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke and composer Philip Glass.

Grace Glowicki writes, directs and gives a barkingly daring lead performance in this bizarre, performance art-coded, gender-bending lo-fi Frankenstein comedy about a lonely gravedigger who will do anything to build the perfect man. Preceded by a live opening set from U.S. Girls, who scored the film.