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CALENDAR - MAY 2010

BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERRORDir. James Nguyen / 010 / USA / 90min / HD - Friday-Saturday, May 14-15 That the film concerns a salesman, his love interest and gaggle of poorly animated birds isn’t really the point. And why do these birds descend on Half Moon Bay? Who cares? It’s all fun and games, and everyone gets hurt except, of course, a salesman and his love interest. A midnight classic in the making, it’s Ed Wood meets Alfred Hitchcock in the aviation sensation that’s sweeping the nation.

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FLASH GORDONDir. Mike Hodges / 010 / USA / 111min - Friday-Saturday, May 28-29 From the Producer of ARMY OF DARKNESS, the Cinematographer of STAR WARS, and the Director of GET CARTER comes 1980’s state-of-the-art take on the classic serial adventures of: FLASH! AH-AHH! When sports star and adventurer Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) gets forcibly transported to the empire of the cruel Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) along with the lovely Dale Arden and the noble Dr. Zarkov, he finds himself the only obstacle between the fiendish Ming and the destruction of the earth! Kingdoms at war, stunning sets, boreworms, and MUSIC BY QUEEN! Also starring Timothy Dalton, Topol, and Deep Roy.

VincereThe Girl With the Dragon TattooNotoriousRocky Horror Picture ShowOld Worlde Theatre: Peter Pan

NOTES: Coming in June:Exit Through The Gift Shop • Everyone Else • The Secret In Their Eyes • Kurosawa Weekend Classics& much more!

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VincereThe Girl With the Dragon TattooNotoriousGallery SNAP Art opening, 5p

CharadeThe Girl With the Dragon TattooTBA

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Casino JackNo One Knows about Persian CatsThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Casino JackNo One Knows about Persian CatsNorth by NorthwestThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Natural Resources Defense Council presents: Movies Save MountainsThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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FROM THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR

SPECIAL THANKS

WEEKEND CLASSICS: CARY GRANT

KIDS COURT: Olde Worlde Theatre Presents...

DEAR BELCOURT FRIENDS,The time has finally come, and I can’t tell you how excited and grateful we are. We will be shutting down the 1925 Hall on Saturday, May 15 immediately following the 12:15 Olde Worlde Theatre performance of Peter Pan and getting down to work INSTALLING THE NEW SEATS! This may fall into the category of TMI but people have been asking so here’s the plan…as I write this, Kirk Futrell—our head projectionist and facilities director—is literally sitting in every seat in the theatre to decide 1. Keep for parts, replace a 1966 Hall seat with, or offer to one of our many friends and patrons who expressed interest in having a set of their very own (how we’ll do this we’re still not sure) or 2. Send on to its final chair resting place. We’ll start pulling and storing seats on Saturday, sometime in the next few days patch and paint the floor, and then….drumroll please…install our beautiful new seats. Our thanks to Steve Ward & Associates for all their help in this process. We’ll reopen on Friday evening May 21 for movies. For all you fantastic folks who donated to the campaign—we’ll be having a thank you soiree in the next month or so, so we’ll be in touch.

One other special update…a generous donor & longtime Belcourt friend came forward and contributed enough money so that we could install new drapery in the 1925 Hall. It’s going to be simply gorgeous and will give us a taste of what that theatre looked like on opening day in 1925. A fitting start to our celebration of the theatre’s 85th year as a Nashville institution.

All the best,

STEPHANIE SILVERMANManaging Director

2ND SATURDAY OUTDOOR CINEMAIn concert with the building’s 85th anniversary and the 10th Anniversary of our group that saved it, we are celebrating by showing outdoor films curated by our members.

WE NEED YOU! We are looking for volunteers to join our Membership and Audience Development Committees. We also need volunteers to assist with

various special events such as our upcoming 10th Anniversary Celebration. For more information, please contact haylee@belcourt.org.

Saturday, May 1st, 8th & 15th at 10:00am & 12:15pm. Tickets on sale NOW! General Admission - $7 all agesOlde Worlde Theatre proudly presents “Peter Pan,” a tale of elegant proportions. Peter will

laughingly blow Fairy dust into your eyes, and presto — you are now a believer in the magic

of Fairies! Join Peter, Tinkerbell, Wendy, Michael and John on their adventures to magical

Neverland, the land of make-believe. There you will meet Pirates, Indians, Mermaids, and

the mischievous Lost Boys. The show is geared for people of all ages, created and done in

Olde Worlde style. It features cool music, movement, dance, comedy, colorful characters and

costumes, lots of action and special effects.

For more info call Richard Stein at 615-300-0374 or visit oldeworldetheatre.com

WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE: A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS Dir. Tom DiCillo / 2009 / USA / 90min / 35mm - Opens Friday, May 7th Armed with fresh footage of rehearsals, recording sessions, interviews and a recently unearthed 35mm copy of Jim Morrison’s student film HWY: AN AMERICAN PASTORAL, this new documentary, directed by award-winning director Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, provides fresh insight into the deep impact of its music and legacy. From the halls of UCLA’s film school and through the formation of the band and ultimately to Morrison’s death, and at risk of being yet another film about the fabled Doors and their time bomb of a front man, WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE is a riveting account of a band who found their unique creative muse by dangling from the collective precipice by mere threads.

TRASH HUMPERSDir. Harmony Korine / 2009 / USA / 78 min / 35mm - Opens May 28 Catchy title, eh? Take it literally. By his own admission, Nashville-based director Harmony Korine isn’t certain that his latest work is even “a film”. Made to resemble a playback of a discarded old VHS (shot and edited in that same format), the eerie blowup to 35mm comes complete with tracking lines and 8-bit text and the horrors that lie within come in snippets: multi-generationally degraded images as might be recorded and recorded over. At the core are four self-documenting “elderly” miscreants who, between various seemingly senseless acts of vandalism, murder, and visits with fellow outcasts do just that: fixate their gaze and their pelves on our fair city’s distributed trash and recylcing recepticles: an outlet routinely taken to after a long summer’s day of treachery. Having divided festival audiences around the world since it’s premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, TRASH HUMPERS will no doubt do the same back home. After all, that might be your trash bin they’re banging.

THE SOCIETY FOR NASHVILLE’S ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHERS was started in 2006 by a group of four

friends meeting in a kitchen to talk about

photography and quickly grew into a forum

for presenting and discussing member’s

work in formal and informal settings with

about 75 members today. Our artists were

tasked with producing work that shared titles

with existing movies. The ten works presented were chosen by a jury based

on their artistic merit in relation to the theme and include photographs from

Holly Ables, Jerry Atnip, Paul Beavers, John Brassil, Laura Carpenter, Eric

Hansen, Barry Noland, Jerry Park, Kay Ramming and Brent Spears.

VINCEREDir. Marco Bellochio / Italy / 2010 / 122min / 35mm - Opens Friday, April 30In this highly stylized feature from Italian auteur Marco Bellochio, Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) falls for young Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi) in Milan and sells everything she has to help the future dictator fund his newspaper, Popolo d’Italia. But when World War I separates the newly wedded couple, Mussolini marries another woman. Ida demands to retain her rights as Mussolini’s wife and the mother of his son, but the Fascists have other plans for the dictator’s dark secret in this dizzying biopic.

CASINO JACK and the United States of MoneyDir. Alex Gibney / 2010 / USA / 120min / 35mm - Opens Friday, May 21Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thomp-son), now focuses his attention on the story of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. From Indian casinos and Chinese sweatshops to Russian spies and a mob-style killing in Miami, CASINO JACK and the United States of Money is at once a colorful tale of international intrigue and a story of the corrupting role that money plays in our political process. By following ongoing criminal investigations - including the indictments of federal officials, staffers and congressmen - and inquiries into the day-to-day business of favor-trading in our nation’s capitol, the film shines a light on the way that politicians’ desperate need to get elected - and the millions of dollars it costs - may be undermining the basic principles of American democracy.

NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOWDir. Jonathan Demme / USA, 2010 / 82min / Digital Video - May 31 & June 3Trunk Show: a traveling display of unique goods, packed and unpacked along the way. Neil Young Trunk Show: Jonathan Demme’s display of Neil Young’s musical and spiritual soul. Young on a stage full of per-sonal icons; alone in the center of a circle of his beloved acoustic guitars; in the midst of stellar musicians Ben Keith, Ralph Molina, Rick Rosas, Pegi Young and Anthony “Sweet Pea” Crawford, plus an onstage painter portrayed by Eric Johnson. There are delicately offered acoustic numbers like “Sad Movies” and “Mexico”; mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artist’s psyche (“No Hidden Path”); searing, chaotic anthems including “Like a Hurricane” and “Cinammon Girl”; and rarely performed pieces like “Kansas” and “Ambulance Blues” that provide glimpses of Young’s less public persona. Shot with a mix of video and film cameras, mostly handheld, NYTS presents the kinetic reality of a Neil Young performance in breathtakingly intimate fashion.

NOTORIOUS Dir. Alfred Hitchcock / 1946 / 102min / 35mm - Sat-Sun, May 1-2Director Alfred Hitchcock fuses suspense and romance in this brilliant allegory of love and betrayal. A

beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant)

to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries

the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex (Claude Rains). Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must

face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he’s loved her all along. Stunning perfor-

mances, Ben Hecht’s excellent script, and Hitchcock’s direction at its best make Notorious a perfect film.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN Dir. George Stevens / 1942 / 118min / 35mm - Sat-Sun, May 8-9The dashing Cary Grant stars as Leopold, an activist wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. To

avoid execution, Leopold breaks out of jail and takes a job as a gardener for a teacher named Nora (Jean

Arthur). Nora’s other houseguest (Ronald Colman) is a legal scholar who learns Leopold’s true identity.

His two new friends end up helping him find justice -- and perhaps even love. The film earned seven

Oscar nods, including Best Picture.

CHARADE Dir. Stanley Donen / 1963 / 113min / 35mm - Sat-Sun, May 15-16A trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American (Audrey Hepburn) through Paris to recover the

fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger

(Cary Grant). A deliciously dark comedic thriller, Stanley Donen’s CHARADE dazzles with style and

macabre wit to spare.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST Dir. Alfred Hitchcock / 1959 / 131min / 35mm - Sat-Sun, May 22-23What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced that you were a spy? This classic from master direc-

tor Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone

else and is forced to go on the lam (helped along by Eva Marie Saint). Hitchcock’s sure-handed comic

drama pits Grant against a crop duster and lands him in a fight for his life on Mount Rushmore - a true

cliffhanger if ever there was one.

IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY!

THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOTDir. Michael Cimino / 1974 / USA / 115min - May 29-30, Showtimes TBAEx-thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and fun-loving drifter Lightfoot (an Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges) team up with Thun-derbolt’s shady old associates, Red (George Kennedy) and Goody (Geoffrey Lewis), to restage a robbery of an armored bank. Writer-director Michael Cimino, who later helmed THE DEER HUNTER, kicked off his career with this zany and irreverent caper thriller, full of crackling dialogue and rubber-burning car chases.

THE MOTHER AND THE WHOREDir. Jean Eustache / 1973 / France / 217min - June 6 @ 7pmOne of the most important French films of the 1970’s Jean Eustache’s 3.5 hour marathon drama comes to us on loan from the French Em-bassy, a truly rare screening of a film unavailable on DVD in the US. Concerning a bizarre love triangle between a seemingly unemployed narcissist (Jean-Pierre Leaud), his live-in girlfriend and a Polish nurse, Eustache effortlessly intertwines its lost characters’ confused and am-bivalent interrelations with a critical portrait of French youth in the wake

of late 60’s Parisian cultural and sexual revolutions. One Screening Only

JUNE 12 JULY 10 AUGUST 14 SEPTEMBER 11

CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF KUROSAWA ALL SUMMER LONG!

CALL FOR PHOTOS & STORIESWe need YOUR help! We are looking for stories and photos that help celebrate our history and how The Belcourt is YOUR neighborhood theatre. Please send any photos or stories to haylee@belcourt.org or 10th Anniversary, Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212.

In conjunction with the release of his new film TRASH HUMPERS, we’ve asked our favorite internationally-regarded local filmmaker HARMONY KORINE to curate a couple of our Weekend Classics slots. Here’s what shook out…

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATSDir. Bhaman Ghobadi / 2009 / Iran / 106min / 35mm - Fri-Sun, May 21-23Considering the turmoil within Iran surrounding last year’s uprising and the continuing arrests of opposition and cultural figures, No One Knows About Persian Cats is as timely as current films can get. Directed by Kurdish filmmaker Bhaman Ghobadi, the only such filmmaker whose complete out-put has received US distribution, the film, inspired by a concert with resulted in 400 arrests, delves into the underground indie rock scene in Tehran: a scene that is by and large illegal under the current regime. Shot in quasi-documentary style, it centers around a male-and-female act looking for band members to accompany them on a tour outside of the country. Written by Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who herself was jailed in Iran last year on an espionage charge, Ghobadi’s film surveys and celebrates the sound of Iran’s youthful resistance.

“A near masterpiece” - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Tuesday, May 4 @ 9:30$5 admission goes towards Belcourt’s HD digital projector fund!

KAMERA SUTRA is a monthly exhibition of short films by award-

winning local producers, animators, music

video directors, and diamonds in the rough.

Join us at the Belcourt Theatre and hob-

nob with Nashville’s film scene! Check out

the BEST under-seen short films, but also

SUBMIT YOUR OWN!

Check Out January’s Winner:Buffalo Clover’s Midnight Circus VideoDirected by Dustin Masters

GALLERY at theBELCOURT KAMERA SUTRA

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOODir. Niels Arden Oplev / 2010 / Sweden / 152min / 35mm - Opens Friday, April 23rd Based on the international bestselling novel of the same name and the first of the “Millennium” trilogy of novels by the late Swedish author Steig Larsson, this highly accessible Scandanavian thriller concerns the disappearance of an uncle’s beloved niece Harriet whose body was never found. 40 years later and convinced that the killer is a member of his own family, he employs an out-of-work journalist and a troubled but resourceful hacker to investigate. When they discover a series of murders at the time of Harriet’s, they also begin to unravel a dark family history and must decide how far they are willing to go. Larsson’s book is one of the last decade’s major literary successes and the film is the highest grossing film in Swedish history.

“Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat thrills from start to finish” - The Daily Mirror

“MESMERIZING...the most exciting movie currently in theatres.” - Playboy

“Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the doors in his 1991 Biopic?Here’s the doc for you.” - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“In his provocative docu, the gifted Alex Gibney turns what could have been a glum tale of corruption into an entertaining spectacle replete with characters tailor-made for the big screen.” – Emanuel Levy

“Fueled by frustration with the myriad prohibitions governing life in Iran, No One Knows About Persian Cats strings an improvised tale around Tehran’s underground indie-rock scene.” - Alissa Simon, Variety

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