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Belcourt Theatre The Belcourt Theatre is Nashville's nonprofit film center, showing the best of independent, documentary and repertory films from around the globe.
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Nashville's nonprofit film center

10/20/2026

Week 2 showtimes now on sale (Fri-Thu, Oct 23-29) — and today through Thu (Oct 20-22) showtimes are selling out. 🎟️Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/YOU-CAN-SEE-EVERYTHING

This coming Sat, Oct 24 at 10:30am, join us for “Who’s Laughing Now?!” — a seminar exploring the history and cultural im...
10/19/2026

This coming Sat, Oct 24 at 10:30am, join us for “Who’s Laughing Now?!” — a seminar exploring the history and cultural impact of the American horror comedy film. Led by Lisa Ellen Williams, a faculty member in the MFA in Visual Arts program at Watkins College of Art at Belmont University. Williams has nearly 20 years of experience teaching writing, research and Women’s & Gender Studies in higher education. With a background in pop culture studies and feminist theory, her research interests and publications primarily examine feminist activism’s role in the evolving representations of gender and sexuality in horror, exploitation, and cult cinema. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/Seminar-American-Horror-Comedy)

Starting with an examination of the quintessential horror host’s uses of dark humor and satire to draw in their audience and establish community, we’ll explore how combining the two genres affects spectatorship and has propelled fan rituals and traditions. The horror comedy films of the 1980s, specifically, challenged the idea of the family film, and we’ll discuss how the controversies about what is “appropriate” for younger viewers resulted in the PG-13 rating. In addition, we’ll look at how the horror comedies of the 1990s and 2000s reflect moral panics and shifting views about consumerism, gender, sexuality, and the traditional American family, and we’ll consider what cultural conditions lead to horror comedy film cycles and why we are seeing a resurgence. We will even briefly touch on Tennessee’s own connections to the horror comedy (“KnoWhutImean?”).

It’s 12 Hours of Terror day! Hope y’all got some sleep. Don’t forget to wear a costume tonight IF YOU DARE! You’ll have ...
10/17/2026

It’s 12 Hours of Terror day! Hope y’all got some sleep. Don’t forget to wear a costume tonight IF YOU DARE! You’ll have the chance to win some of this fantastic stuff (and much more). A huge thanks to the lovely and generous folks who donated prizes for our contests and giveaways: PopCatalog.com Hail Dark Aesthetics Music Valley Archive 🄾🄻🄸🅅🄸🄰 🄵🅁🄰🄽🄺🄴🄽🅂🅃🄴🄸🄽 East Nashville gift shop 🐴✏️📓 Wyrd Wife Grimey's New & Preloved Music Holly Carden • Illustrator The Great Escape Nashville Spooky Ghoul Fest The Visitor Center and vendors Press Play Video Fox’s Donut Den Burritos La Mina Huginn & Muninn Astrology & Tarot

Nathan Fielder’s and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING now playing at the Belcourt. (Tickets at link ...
10/15/2026

Nathan Fielder’s and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING now playing at the Belcourt. (Tickets at link bio, or bit.ly/YOU-CAN-SEE-EVERYTHING)

10/14/2026

“Played to wearily ferocious perfection by ‘Slow Horsesp’ owerhouse Rosalind Eleazar in what should be a star-making performance...the almost 40-year-old Misty has developed a full script of excuses for the downward spiral she’s been on…. Unfailingly burns with the self-defeating fire of a woman who’s looking for freedom in all the wrong places.” —David Ehrlich IndieWire

Opening Thu, Oct 15 at the Belcourt, MISTY GREEN — from writer-director Chris Rock, and starring Rosaline Eleazar in a career-making performance, along with supporting turns from Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver and Anna Kendrick. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/MISTY-GREEN)

10/13/2026

“The best movie about Hollywood in years…. Explosively entertaining, savagely authentic…. MISTY GREEN is put together with so much observational exuberance that it leaves you both daunted and exhilarated.” —Owen Gleiberman, Variety

Opening this Thu, Oct 15, MISTY GREEN — from writer-director Chris Rock and featuring a career-making performance from Rosalind Eleazar ("Slow Horses") > 🎟️ bit.ly/MISTY-GREEN

10/13/2026

“In her compelling documentary, BLACK ZOMBIE, the director Maya Annik Bedward explores the dark history of an undead genre.” —Lisa Kennedy, NYT Critic’s Pick The New York Times

BLACK ZOMBIE screens this Wed, Oct 13 at 4pm + 8pm and Sat-Sun, Oct 17-18 at 11:30. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/BLACK-ZOMBIE)

Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery — not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power, a symbol of stolen agency was recast as an object of fear. Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, exposing how Black spiritual traditions were distorted and erased.

10/11/2026

“Spectacular… Get enough people singing weird harmonies at the top of their voices and you start feeling a little sorry for the devil.” —Joe Dempsey Washington City Paper

This Mon at 4:15pm + 8pm*, AWAKE MY SOUL: THE STORY OF THE SACRED HARP — and at *8pm’s showtime, a post-screening discussion with co-director Matt Hinton, moderated by critic and correspondent Ann Powers. Sacred Harp singers will perform in the theater when the doors open for seating at 7:45pm. (Tickets at link in bio, or bit.ly/AWAKE-MY-SOUL)

Continuing at the Belcourt — from documentarian John Wilson (HBO's How To with John Wilson), THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE > ...
10/10/2026

Continuing at the Belcourt — from documentarian John Wilson (HBO's How To with John Wilson), THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE > 🎟️ bit.ly/HISTORY-OF-CONCRETE

10/10/2026

This Sun-Wed, Oct 11-14, NAZA — from Academy Award-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (two of the four directors of NO OTHER LAND) — and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer and James Wilson, the Academy Award-winning team behin THE ZONE OF INTEREST. 🎟️ bit.ly/Belcourt-NAZA

And at Sun, Oct 11's 12:15pm screening, a discussion with humanitarian aid worker Jacob Sprang, who spent the past 18 months in Gaza.

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Nashville, TN
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