Film Seminars | Discussions | Intros

Directed by Peter Weir and written by Nashville native Tom Schulman, DEAD POETS SOCIETY stars Robin Williams as a teacher who inspires students to defy conformity. Featuring Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard, the story draws from Schulman’s experience at Montgomery Bell Academy, shaping the film’s Nashville themes and setting.

A desperate mother takes her daughter to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of a mysterious illness. When the pair are separated after a violent car crash, the mother must investigate the strange, liminal purgatory of the town and uncover its terrifying secrets and find her daughter in this adaptation of the hit survival horror video game.

Two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in “Dinohattan” from a diabolical lizard king in this tremendously strange and infinitely divisive adaptation of the beloved video game.

In conjunction with the opening of Kristen Stewart’s THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (opening Fri, Feb 6) and presented in collaboration with The Porch, this workshop provides an introduction to expressive writing, a therapeutic, research-backed approach to writing for healing and deeper self-understanding.

This Belcourt 100 seminar reveals a century of filmmaking shaped by Black Nashvillians, examining the actors, directors, writers, exhibitors and theaters that fostered Black cinema culture during and after Jim Crow segregation — and traces how Nashville’s Black creatives used the moving image to reflect lived experience and shape cultural identity, positioning Music City as an overlooked center of African American cinema. Includes a screening of STORMY WEATHER immediately following at 8:00pm.