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Music City Mondays

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


LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH
Mon, Nov 11 at 4:00pm, 8:00pm | Fri-Sun, Nov 15-17

LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH

Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther Vandross tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS
Mon, Nov 18 at 8:00pm

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS

Songwriter/artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the "Friends" theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit "September" and "The Color Purple" musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms — until she found a path to love.
THE LAST WALTZ
Mon, Nov 25 at 2:50pm, 8:00pm | Thu, Nov 28 at 8:00pm

THE LAST WALTZ

A perennial kickoff to the week of Thanksgiving and a Belcourt tradition, Martin Scorsese’s masterful 1978 concert film returns — an all-star affair, seven-camera set-up capturing The Band’s final gig and Bill Graham’s incredibly satisfying prelude to Thanksgiving dinner.
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 | Mon, Dec 16

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.