Music City Mondays

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.

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.

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

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.