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KING COAL
Fri-Sun, Sep 15-24

KING COAL

Oscar-nominated Knoxville-based filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia where coal is not just a resource, but a way of life. Part of Doc Spotlight
Ways of Seeing: A Documentary Seminar
Sat, Sep 23 | 11:00am-12:15pm

Ways of Seeing: A Documentary Seminar

Presented in conjunction with the Belcourt’s Doc Spotlight series, this seminar is for anyone interested in the documentary form. Documentary filmmaker and Vanderbilt cinema and media arts assistant professor Carmine Grimaldi will explore the trajectory of documentary film from the birth of cinema to contemporary trends. He’ll discuss documentary styles and practices and explore multiple ways of looking at documentary films, including some of the titles featured in the Doc Spotlight series. The seminar will challenge viewers to see documentaries in new ways, and send participants home with a list of films for recommended viewing.
SHIVA BABY
Wed-Thu, Aug 23-24 at 7:10pm

SHIVA BABY

A young woman struggles to keep up different versions of herself when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.
TOUKI BOUKI
Sun, Aug 27 at 3:10pm

TOUKI BOUKI

Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, two disaffected young lovers steal some money to fund an escape to France, but the local police are on their tail in this stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic from director Djibril Diop Mambéty.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Mon, Aug 28 at 5:30pm, 8:00pm

NATURAL BORN KILLERS

A cross-country killing spree by serial killers (and lovers) Mickey and Mallory becomes an unlikely cause célèbre when the ensuing media frenzy glorifies their ultraviolent exploits in director Oliver Stone’s scathing satire.
THE GETAWAY
Sat-Sun, Sep 2-3

THE GETAWAY

Action maestro Sam Peckinpah’s bloody take on the genre follows a recently-released ex-con and his wife (Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw) who go on the run after a heist goes awry.
SHORTCOMINGS
Ends Sat, Aug 12

SHORTCOMINGS

Cynical young filmmaker Ben is forced to reckon with his own ambitions and his film-obsessed existence in Berkeley when his girlfriend Miko accepts an internship in New York. Exposing a multiplicity of Asian American identities in a fresh and groundbreaking way, Randall Park’s debut comedy embraces the complexity of being human, flaws and all.
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Mon, Jul 17 at 3:45pm, 8:00pm

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Afrofuturist sci-fi, blaxploitation, cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony and offer an “alter-destiny” to those who would join him.
AFIRE
Ends Sat, Aug 19

AFIRE

Four young people come together, friends old and new, at a small vacation home on the Baltic Sea. As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so do their emotions — happiness, lust and love, but also jealousies, resentments and tensions. Meanwhile, the forests burn. Directed by Christian Petzold (TRANSIT, BARBARA)
DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Tue-Wed, Jul 18-19

DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY

The story of the deeply gifted and flawed people behind the dark and difficult masterpiece MIDNIGHT COWBOY; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era. Featuring extensive archival material and compelling new interviews. See also: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Tue, Jul 18)
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