Music City Mondays

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.

Inspired by true events, James Foley (GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS) directs Sean Penn and Christopher Walken as a father-son-duo caught in a violent crime ring. Filmed just outside Nashville, the film blends Southern noir with Brat Pack-era sincerity, featuring Mary Stuart Masterson and Kiefer Sutherland.

For the Torrance family, the winter caretaker job at a secluded hotel is a chance to get themselves back on track, and work through past issues and traumas — but they'll encounter so much more in its ancient twisting halls. Welcome to the Overlook Hotel — the intersection of the minds of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King.

When teenager Mike is hired at a public bathhouse in London’s East End, he becomes enamored with the pretty older woman tasked with showing him the ropes. Drawn into increasingly tortured, lustful fantasies involving the beguiling redhead, Mike’s obsession slowly spirals out of control. With music from krautrock legends Can and Cat Stevens.

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.

Ossie Davis’s 1970 action-comedy follows Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson as they unravel a con involving stolen charity funds and a crooked Back-to-Africa scheme. Featuring Redd Foxx and Nashville-born actress Helen Martin, the film blends satire and social critique, marking a turning point in Black independent cinema.