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Music City Mondays

It’s Monday night, this is Music City, and these are music films.


SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Mon, Dec 2 at 5:00pm, 8:00pm | Fri-Sun, Dec 6-8

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignited a political earthquake and the U.S. State Department swung into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from a CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba.
LET’S GET LOST
Mon, Dec 9 at 3:30pm, 8:00pm

LET’S GET LOST

Seen through conversations with the musician himself, as well as archival footage and interviews with his friends and family — this essential portrait of jazz icon Chet Baker weaves in the moods of modern coastal L.A. to paint a nuanced black-and-white portrait of the trumpeter/vocalist in what would be the final year of his life. New 4K Restoration
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
Sat, Dec 14 at 3:15pm | Mon, Dec 16 at 3:00pm, 7:00pm

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

In one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time, an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome mechanic, must grow up quickly when her lover is shipped off to fight in Algeria.