We at the Scene know that the Belcourt Theatre is certainly one of Nashville’s most interesting establishments, and we’ve all had significant interactions in its foyer with fellow cinephiles as we mentioned the newest launch or traditional repertory screening. The tradition surrounding films is as vital as the movies themselves. That’s why we’re partnering with the arthouse to current the Living Room Film Club, a web-based gathering for movie lovers. It’s our manner of extending that Belcourt feeling whereas we’re working towards social distancing throughout the present COVID-19 pandemic.
Each week, the Belcourt and the Scene will announce a group from the Criterion Channel, with one movie as the highlight. You can watch the highlight characteristic by yourself at residence, together with every other movies in the assortment that strike you, and be a part of our visitor audio system for a dwell, 30-minute dialogue on-line.
Our first membership will concentrate on the assortment Starring Juliette Binoche. We’ll highlight the assortment with a dialogue about Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. Join us on Wednesday, April 1, at eight p.m. for a dialogue with Belcourt schooling and engagement director Allison Inman, Nashville Scene contributing author Sadaf Ahsan and Director of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University Jennifer Fay. To attend the dialogue, register right here free of charge. (Check out Scene contributor Steve Erickson’s 2011 interview with Binoche about the movie right here.)
Don’t have a subscription to the Criterion Channel? Criterion has partnered with the Belcourt to supply a restricted variety of discounted subscriptions to share with the theater’s members who are usually not already subscribers. New subscribers who join by March 31 will obtain 50 % off their first three months of membership, following a two-week free trial. Find the particulars on how to enroll right here.
Not a Belcourt member? The theater can use your assist greater than ever. An particular person membership is $50 yearly, and it will get you discounted tickets to all Belcourt movies, 20 % off at the concessions stand and extra. Learn extra right here.
If you’re not a Belcourt member, you may nonetheless take part in the Living Room Film Club by buying a Criterion Channel subscription — both on a month-to-month ($10.99) or yearly ($99.99) foundation.
See you at the films — kind of!
UPDATE: Here are extra movies we’ll talk about this month:
April eight: The Steel Helmet, with particular visitor Frank Dobson, affiliate dean of The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt University
April 15: In the Heat of the Night, with particular visitor Ron Wynn, Scene contributor and Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society columnist
April 22: Godzilla (1954), with particular visitor Haerin Shin, assistant professor of English, Cinema and Media Arts, and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University
