Music City Mondays

When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left a legacy of music and a family of performers he had shepherded to folk stardom. The fourth film in a string of belly laugh-inducing mockumentaries from SNL cast member Christopher Guest. Part of SNL Cinematic Universe and screening in 35mm.

Loveable party-time slackers Wayne and Garth have an excellent midwestern public access cable show, and keeping it going takes some doing! We’re closing out this whole shebang with a double feature of totally mental spew. We’re not worthy! Part of SNL Cinematic Universe

In the wake of COVID, independent venues experienced existential crises, imminent closure and corporate takeovers. Here in Nashville, filmmaker Patrick Sheehans follows Exit/In owner Chris Cobb as he wages a heroic effort to advocate for venues nationwide — while struggling to keep the legendary Nashville venue afloat at home. Features performances by local artists Allanna Royale and Diarrhea Planet among others.

Showed some years back in a faded 35mm print, Pink Floyd’s iconic 1972 concert film returns to the Belcourt fully remastered. Set in the haunting ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheater in Pompeii, it showcases the band performing music primarily from their then-current album Echoes to an ecstatic audience of none.

In the mid-’60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scored a controversial hit single called "Society's Child," about an interracial love relationship. The song launched her illustrious career but also ignited death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin — only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, "At Seventeen," a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying. Janis overcame significant obstacles — embezzlement, record industry misogyny and heartbreak — to find love and produce an indelible body of searingly honest songs that have earned her a devoted following and critical acclaim.