Part of Music City Mondays
Sat, Aug 17 at 9:35pm: Introduction from Jason Shawhan, senior film critic for the Nashville Scene | BUY TICKETS
The classic rock star myth, gussied up in vinyl and velvet, sexified with the mesh of R&B and New Wave, with parental issues straight out of Greek tragedy, and above all, the music of His Royal Badness at the top of his game. The Oscar-winning music is timeless (and launched Tipper Gore’s creation of the PMRC), the outfits are amazing, and you’ll feel cleansed as if by the waters of Lake Minnetonka when it’s all done.
“PURPLE RAIN is not a living room kind of movie. It demands to be experienced in all its awesomely ridiculous glory on the biggest screen, with the biggest speakers and the biggest crowd.” —Odie Henderson, rogerebert.com “PURPLE RAIN is, and remains, both one of his greatest works and the greatest opportunity that his fans will likely ever have to know him. Its success, and its longevity, may only have intensified the mystery surrounding who he was and what made him tick, but if you pay close enough attention, he tells us all that we need to know.” —Todd Gilchrist, Rolling Stone
