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Hello followers...what with all of the social networking sites, website, and other fun stuff, our meager staff can't seem to find the time to post unique material to all of our outlets, so we're gonna fold this blog and dedicate all future posts to Facebook (as Notes) and MySpace (as bulletins)Bloggery was fun while it lasted, but there's a certain degree of guilt that goes along with being

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March: It's gonna be a good one - Where to start? The first-runs? The midnights? The classics? The middle? The end? How about the beginning, or rather what has already begun: The Weekend Classics' Restrikes and Restorals series.Easy to forget that we undertook the R&R at the new year as 11 films that would cover the weekly Weekend Classics slots (usually Sat-Sun @ noon and Mon @ 7:30 of every

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- The home-bred MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE sees some pre-SXSW love over at Spout. We expect to see more in the coming weeks as they were given a prime Saturday night slot at the Alamo Ritz...Download a preview EP of the coming soundtrack right here.- Exec VP at Starbucks becomes CEO of AMC Entertainment. Coffee sales to go through roof as parents struggle to enjoy the Jonas Bros in 3D.- The

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THE LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Herzog)AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (Herzog)MY BEST FIEND (Herzog)The entire month of Ousmane Sembene films (XALA, CEDDO, BLACK GIRL, BOROM SARRET, MOOLAADE)BREATHLESS (Godard)WEEKEND (Godard)DISTANT (Ceylan)These are but a few of the films that we've booked through the now-defunct New Yorker Films. It's always sad to see such a venerable institution go down.

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The last half of the Sundance Film Festival is quite different from the first in terms of circus. Most revelers and scenesters are gone by Monday leaving only those in for the long haul. The lines die down and the whole town in general begins a sigh of relief. Sensing this, and coupled with the anticipation of coming home, my notes grow smaller and the response more muted. That said, I'll leave

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Just finished dinner after my last full day at the festival and I'm behind on my updates. My head is spinning largely with conversations about the new direction of distribution, how filmmakers find and connect with a film viewing public in the era of product on demand and how that impacts theatrical distribution of films. I have moments of excitement and moments of terror when the back and

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So, it's dinnertime on Sunday and there are a few more films to go tonight. Given a few minutes, here is another round with a little overlap from Stephanie's last post. I had a picture to post, but I thought it in questionable taste. E-mail me if you want to see...BIG RIVER MANConcerning overweight endurance swimmer Martin Strel whose daily routine consists of 30-50k swims, driving on two bottles

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Hello all,Just wrapping up a five film day and a good one at that. PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRESixteen year old Precious is faced with unbearable circumstances locked in a world of violence, incest and poverty. Through one opportunity taken she begins to piece together an alternate future for herself. The issues attacked in the film are monumental but the script and the performances

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Opening night hoopla aside, we get into the reason for the whole thing, them films. THRILLA IN MANILABehind the rivalry of one-time friends who become famously bitter enemies, it wasn't just the namesake fight that pitted Mohammed Ali against Joe Frazier. For those of us unfamiliar with the backstory, THRILLA gives a detailed insight into one of the greatest fights in history from mostly

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Ahoy, you 3-degree-weather neighbors....Did we leave at the right time or what? It's a balmy 35 in Park City, UT where the 2009 Sundance Film Festival kicked off last night with the opening night screening of MARY AND MAX, a full-length animated Aussie offering from the filmmaker who brought us the claymation short HARVEY KRUMPET a few years back. Without delving too much into detail, this

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Blame the holidays if you will, or perhaps a degree of slackery, but we've not been active as of late on the posting. That said, there's a lot going on right now as we prepare for the Sundance season which starts with the Art House Convergence in Salt Lake City, Jan-13-15 and then the Sundance Film Festival itself which runs from the 15th through 23rd. But I digress. The real point is that,

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8 cans to ship them all and 32 reels to bind them! The complete The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is hanging out in our hall ready for screening this weekend.

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The Sundance Film Festival lineup was announced over the last two weeks and features some familiar folk to us here at the Belcourt...very familiar. This may get confusing, so bear with me: Let's start with Brent Stewart's short film THE DIRTY ONES, playing in the shorts program. We showed his documentary THE LONELY back in May as a companion piece to Harmony Korine's MISTER LONELY, the film shoot

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As promised, here is my scrawly labyrinth of notes as used for the Wednesday, December 3rd screening of Eyes Wide Shut.

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We thought it noteworthy that our friends at the Criterion Collection have not only overhauled their website, but made it much more interactive. Not only is there a lot of exploring to be done, but the coolest feature is probably the fact that they are making films available for $5 rental online. Not only are they good quality, but that $5 can be used toward the purchase of the hard copy itself.

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With the challenges inherent in screening often-aged 35mm prints, we're no strangers of screenings gone awry. Today, we pause again to consider the often-foretold evidently-impeding advent of digital cinema. Any time now, we're told. Being an organization bringing a mix of new and classic film, we, by nature, are/have been struggling to reconcile film's future with its past. So, it is with great

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In honor of next week's Thanksgiving screenings of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, feel free to file this under WTF:Starring John Cusack and directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow) comes a stretch of the apocalyptic order. But really now: Is it a second sequel to 2001 or a first sequel for THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW? You be the judge. Comes free with theme music stolen from THE

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In celebration of the South African songstress, who has passed away following a collapse onstage in Italy....We'll be seeing her onscreen again soon with the coming release of SOUL POWER. Currently making the festival rounds, the film follows the organization and implementation of the music festival that was to accompany the "Rumble in the Jungle" Ali vs Foreman fight of 1974 in then-Zaire. The

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Can't help passing this one along. There's a bit of interest about this here CHE flick, as well as a small bit of diverging opinion around the campfire among those of us who've seen it. At any rate, the film will do its "Academy Run" in NY/LA before the end of the year followed by a platform release in January (a Nashville date would likely be in February).At any rate, here's the recently

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Now that the election's over, what are you gonna do? Well, you might take note of a solid piece of online viewing courtesy of Jon Ronson. Invited to the Kubrick estate to go through thousands of boxes containing a lifetime of the director's packrat possessions, the resulting documentary is one high-quality piece of work. It's essential viewing for those of you planning on taking in any amount

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AHENDU NDE SAPUKAI (I Hear Your Scream)A remarkable single-shot short about the process of loss, told completely in silhouette. Just remarkable.LA MUJER SIN CABEZA (The Headless Woman)Take the skeleton of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, then send it wandering off into the last half hour of Mulholland Drive but preparing for a Last Weekend at Marienbad, and you have the idea of where

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Week Three of the NYFF is what we like to call the big ticket week. This was when the big names and the big films showed up, with longer lines and security searches.THE ARGENTINEA/K/A Che Part I. We were shown what is being called The Roadshow Presentation, which has no credits or specific differentiation of title, so I'm going from the standard titling of the two. This was a cinemascope biopic

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Well, week two is definitely best described as full of frustration. With two stellar exceptions, nothing really knocked it out of the park, though nothing was terribly awful (though some would disagree). AFTERSCHOOLThis film aims to be an expose of what life is really like in the age of voyeuristic video and violated civil liberties, while at the same time getting at what's really going on with

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Inspired by Toby's take on Toronto, I figured why not do the same for this year's New York Film Festival. They start Press Week almost two weeks before the actual festival, so it's good in that it allows to get some word out before the public screenings begin (on Sept. 26th).ENTRE LES MURS (The Class)It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, and at first feels like a typical Dangerous Minds/

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We've added FAT TIRE beer to our taps, come get some while it lasts.

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"It Was A Movement That Changed Music. It Was Music That Changed The World. And It All Started With A Germ." - WHAT WE DO IS SECRET we're playing it for 3 days only. What'd you think? Anyone ever see The Germs live?

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The last few days of the Toronto festival settle down. The crowds thin out and because the high profile films are front-loaded, the last few days give you a chance to look at films you may not have otherwise. Back in Nashville now, I'm looking forward to a few weeks from now when the weather approaches Toronto levels of pleasantness. Here's the log for the last half of this year's Toronto film

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This is pretty neat...let the countdown begin...-Josh

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Well, it's a nice 80 degrees in the day and about 55ish at night here in Toronto. Amid the usual bustle of North America's fifth largest city is a whole lot of film types making their ways from screening to screening. Full days are spent in dark rooms with like-minded buyers, exhibitors, programmers, distributors, writers, bloggers and such - punctuated by brief respites into the daylight for a

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Crispin Hellion Glover arrives in Nashville tomorrow for two big ole nights you'll never forget at the historic Belcourt. To give you a dose of what you're in for check out the NASHVILLE SCENE's interview with Crispin. And here's a little clip of Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show (where Crispin Hellion Glover performs a one hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated

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Jerry Reed has passed on to that great highway in the sky...-Josh

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The Nashville Scene reports that the Nashville Film Festival has named Brian Owens, co-founder and director of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, as the new artistic director for the Nashville Film Festival. Congratulations Brian and we look forward to seeing what directions you'll be taking the film festival in the future.-Josh

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The Tennessean has an interesting article about the proposed use of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds."Picture this: a film studio complex and public entertainment venue in Nashville that would capture the look and feel of Universal Studios Hollywood — only without the rides and with a project pipeline loaded with films targeted at heartland audiences.That's the pitch being made to redevelop the

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TELL NO ONE opens today, and we're pretty excited about. Having personally stumbled across the novel by accident the other day and giving it a read, I'm excited to see how the film plays out now that it's been transposed to France from New York. After you watch it come back and give us your thoughts, have you read the novel too? Compare, contrast, whatta you think of this adaptation?-Josh

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The great film critic and artist Manny Farber, passed away last night at age 91. Passed onto us and posted below, from BlogDance, as a tribute to Manny, part of his classic essay "Termite Art vs. White Elephant Art""Masterpiece art, reminiscent of the enameled tobacco humidors and wooden lawn ponies bought at white elephant auctions decades ago, has come to dominate the overpopulated arts of TV

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As linked below, Jim Ridley's interview with Guy Maddin in this week's Nashville Scene was a bit stunted due to print limitations. But we're glad to post here the full interview, from Billy Idol to If Day...proceed:Did I read a story you told about some people in Winnipeg once using the legs of a frozen cow as a hockey goal?The way we use our dead cows tells us so much about our culture.Here in

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Two new openers today MAN ON WIRE & Guy Madden's MY WINNIPEG. Come and watch and then bring your thoughts here to the magic of the interweb...Two local writers spoke with Guy Maddin about his new film, check out Jim Ridley's interview for the Nashville Scene and Jason Shawhan's for All The Rage which can be found HERE. -Josh

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In honor of today's news that Nashville transplater Jack White and Alicia Keys are teaming up for the first duet'ed Bond theme, we present what might have been the first chapter of the Nashville/Bond connection...Johnny Cash's submitted theme song for THUNDERBALL was rejected as the last minute in favor of Tom Jones, and some savvy person has put it where it rightfully belonged.Hat Tip: Mr. Pink

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Opens today, what do think of the latest work by Herr Herzog?-Josh

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Roger Ebert has posted a statement on rogerebert.com about Disney's decision to take his show in a new direction. I remember fondly watching "Siskel & Ebert" on PBS what seemed late in the night when I was younger in the 70s and 80s. Back in the day, that was about all we had to catch a glimpse of upcoming flicks, that and Starlog.Here's Roger's statement: "After 33 years on the air, 23 of them

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As a thank you to all the fans of things like the Late Show/midnight movie thingies, I'd like to invite you to a free screening of a movie in honor of my birthday. I'm not sayin' exactly what it is, but I think you can figure it out. I'm taking a limited number of invites, so if you'd like to be considered, send an email to josh@belcourt.org with your name and the name of a guest you'd like to

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good crowds this week, let's talk, what'd ya think?-Josh

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A more condensed reworking of subject James Carroll's book of the same name, the film follows the former Catholic priest on a journey to confront his past and uncover the roots of religiously inspired violence and war. His search also reveals a growing scandal involving religious infiltration of the U.S. military and the consequences of religion’s influence on America’s foreign policy. Bringing

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Taking a cue from internet forums, a format somewhat different from this, we introduce the sticky: a page dedicated to discussion of films currently screening. We'll try to post them on opening day of each film and encourage readers to comment on these films: strengths/weaknesses, thoughts for the lover and the hater. In honor of this, we'll kick it off with MONGOL. Sure, we're a few weeks in

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Dare we dream? Could there be hope for cinephiles the world over, especially following the unspeakable desecrations of the indefensible Aliens vs Predator 'films?'

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While we're on the subject of up to 85% of the lost footage from Metropolis being found (note: the Murnau Foundation's English-language press release appears to have been made using a translation program, so there are some dodgy turns of phrase), here's a little more on the subject.The film's history is a tangled one, with several versions surfacing throughout the years. The most recent

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If you saw the most recent Kino release of METROPOLIS, (it played at the Belcourt last year as part of our Family Classics series) you'll remember that there were still several scenes missing from the film, lost to time it seemed. But now it appears that a much longer and complete version of the film has been found in Buenos Aires, a version which according to ZEIT ONLINE"...there are several

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or at least he would be this year if he we're still alive. To celebrate the JAMES BOND creator's centenary we're dedicating our Weekend Classics in July to CLASSIC 007. Starting this weekend with a new 35 mm print of DR. NO followed byJuly 12-14 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE* - NEW 35mm PrintJuly 19-21 GOLDFINGER* - NEW 35mm PrintJuly 26-28 THUNDERBALLAug 2-4 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVERAll films

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Let's just assume (like most of the world) that you've never seen Claudio Fragasso's Troll 2.How do you describe what makes a film a cult classic? It's not like there's a tried-and-true formula to achieving such a goal (many films have tried, only to fall by the wayside). Some would say that there's at least one rabid devotee for every film that gets made (which is possible, but at least in the

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Here's a fascinating little piece from The Star (no, probably not the one you're thinking of) about onscreen sex; specifically of the Canadian variety.I'm happy to see reference to Cronenberg, Maddin, and Egoyan, and author Geoff Pevere opens up the debate further by getting into areas of distinctly Canadian character. But more time gets spent on current controversy magnet Young People F---ing

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This isn't really relevant to anything specific going on right now, but I just think it's pretty cool.From EW.com"The movie opening-credit sequence has become a lost art; so many movies today, especially action blockbusters, are content to plunge directly into the action and wait until the end to show you who made the film. Now, Screengrab has compiled a list, complete with YouTube clips, of the

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Those who woke early on Friday, May 23 may have caught a really cool piece on the Belcourt by the lovely Christine Buttorff during All Things Considered on WPLN. Thanks to the interweb, you can here it now at your computer. We especially like the WRATH OF KHAN scream contest getting some exposure.Click here to hear.

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Reports are trickling out the the legendary creature effects creator Stan Winston has passed away. Stan had his hand in creating some of the most memorable creatures, legends and effects of the current modern era of film. Stan's work added to the pantheon of legendary film creatures like the classic Universal Monsters and the legendary creatures of Ray Harryhausen, one of Stan's personal idols.

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Look what that Hat brought in. As you know, or maybe you don't know, with the many "You guys serve beer?!" that we hear as soon as someone walks into the lobby of the Belcourt for the first time. But, not only do we have your regular theatre concession fare; popcorn, soda, candy, etc., but we also serve beer, wine and liquor (only to those of age of course) and we're the only theatre in Nashville

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This is cool: On Wed, June 25 @ 6pm, Gene Hackman and co-author Daniel Lenihan will be on hand to discuss their new book, Escape from Andersonville. More info at 862-5755 or at the Library's website.

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Back in December 2006, about 100 people took a big chance on a film that we never thought we’d get the chance to show, and it wasn't until 26 reels arrived at our doorstep that the realization fully hit. Something of a holy grail for cinephiles, up there with Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1, Fassbinder’s BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA by virtue of mammoth length, accomplishment and

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Opening with a CGI’d ground hog, an inexplicably recurring character introduced with Elvis’ version of “Hound Dog” (not the same animal, Steven/George), and culminating with Russian soldiers aiming their guns offscreen to a crew of prison guards that are directly in front of them (lame, guys), I knew immediately that the suspension of disbelief would be a factor in being able to enjoy INDIANA

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Last Thursday night at the Belcourt we hosted the Tennessee premiere of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. In 1982 three 12 year old boys made a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the lost ark, it took them 6 years to finish. We had the privilege of having filmmaker Eric Zala, one of those "boys" to be in attendance for the screening. The crowd was very energetic and gave Eric a standing

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