January Month of Wellness Film: Chariots of Fire
2026-01-17 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
January 17, 2026:
11am: Tai Chi Stretch in the Central Atrium
Noon: Lunch Break (with specialties running at Global Cafe, Farm Burger, Juice Joint, and Mad Grocer!)
1pm: Church Health Cooking Classes and Recipes in Crosstown Theater
1:30pm: Screening of “Chariots of Fire” in the Theater

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Macbeth 1971
2026-02-05 19:00 - 21:00
February 5, 2026
Macbeth (1971, dir. Roman Polanski)
Roman Polanski’s Macbeth is one of the most brutal and unflinching adaptations of Shakespeare’s tragedy ever put to film. Made in the shadow of personal trauma, the film strips away romanticism and presents a raw, blood-soaked vision of ambition, paranoia, and moral collapse. This is a medieval world defined by mud, steel, and violence, where power is seized through cruelty and maintained through fear.
Polanski emphasizes the physical reality of the play’s horrors, rendering the supernatural elements as ominous rather than theatrical, and grounding the story in an atmosphere of relentless dread. Jon Finch’s Macbeth is volatile and increasingly unhinged, while Francesca Annis’s Lady Macbeth radiates cold resolve beneath a fragile surface. The result is a haunting, deeply unsettling interpretation that treats Macbeth not as elevated literature, but as a savage study of how unchecked ambition corrodes the human soul.

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Zappa
2026-02-12 19:00 - 21:00
Zappa (2020, dir. Alex Winter)
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More than a traditional music documentary, Zappa is an expansive portrait of one of the most fiercely independent and uncompromising artists of the 20th century. Drawing from an unprecedented archive of personal recordings, home movies, and concert footage, director Alex Winter allows Frank Zappa to tell his own story in his own voice, with minimal mediation.
The film captures Zappa not just as a musical innovator, but as a relentless critic of conformity, censorship, and cultural laziness. Composer, bandleader, satirist, and provocateur, Zappa’s work defied easy categorization, and so does this film. Whether you’re a longtime devotee or a curious newcomer, Zappa offers a rare look into the mind of an artist who refused to compromise and gladly paid the price for it.

Sold Out! Crosstown Arts Film Series: Natchez
2026-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
Crosstown Theater
Sold Out! Thu, Feb 19, 7:00 PM

Crosstown Theater
Sold Out! Fri, Feb 20, 7:00 PM

$10The price you’ll pay. No surprises later.

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Natchez (2025, dir. Suzannah Herbert)
Natchez is a quiet, observant documentary that peers beneath the surface of a Southern town steeped in history, ritual, and contradiction. Rather than offering easy conclusions, the film patiently assembles moments of everyday life, revealing how memory, myth, and identity coexist and clash in subtle, often unspoken ways.
Director Suzannah Herbert approaches her subject with restraint and empathy, allowing tensions to emerge organically through image and conversation. The result is a film that feels less like an argument and more like a lived experience that is reflective, unsettling, and deeply human. Natchez invites viewers to sit with ambiguity and consider how the past continues to shape the present, especially in places where history is never fully at rest.
Special Guest: Stick around after the credits! Director Suzannah Herbert will be in attendance for a live Q&A immediately following the film.

Sold Out! Crosstown Arts Film Series: Natchez
2026-02-20 19:00 - 21:00
Crosstown Theater
Sold Out Thu, Feb 19, 7:00 PM

Crosstown Theater
Sold Out Fri, Feb 20, 7:00 PM

$10The price you’ll pay. No surprises later

About

Natchez (2025, dir. Suzannah Herbert)
Natchez is a quiet, observant documentary that peers beneath the surface of a Southern town steeped in history, ritual, and contradiction. Rather than offering easy conclusions, the film patiently assembles moments of everyday life, revealing how memory, myth, and identity coexist and clash in subtle, often unspoken ways.
Director Suzannah Herbert approaches her subject with restraint and empathy, allowing tensions to emerge organically through image and conversation. The result is a film that feels less like an argument and more like a lived experience that is reflective, unsettling, and deeply human. Natchez invites viewers to sit with ambiguity and consider how the past continues to shape the present, especially in places where history is never fully at rest.
Special Guest: Stick around after the credits! Director Suzannah Herbert will be in attendance for a live Q&A immediately following the film.

New York Philharmonic's Audrey Wright plays Zwilich Violin Concerto
2026-02-27 18:30 - 20:30
New York Philharmonic’s Audrey Wright plays Zwilich Violin Concerto

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto is a dynamic and engaging work that blends traditional violin techniques with a modern, expressive edge. Featuring violinist Audrey Wright as the virtuosic soloist, this concerto unfolds with energetic rhythms, lush melodic lines, and moments of deep introspection.

Friday, February 27, 2026 | 6:30pm

Venue: Crosstown Arts – Crosstown Theater
5:30pm Doors | 6:30pm Show

General Admission
$40.00
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Opera Memphis: Pretty Little Room
2026-03-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-07 19:30 - 21:30
Memphis, 1892. Western State Mental Hospital
Alice Mitchell has done something horrible, they tell her. Something sinful. It’s why she was sent here. As she struggles to remember her story, the other women locked away with her join their voices to that of Freda, the young woman Alice loved. But why can’t anybody else see her?
The world premiere of this new opera by Memphis composer Robert Patterson and librettist Jerre Dye was made possible by Jeanie Mercer and Breen Bland.
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Crosstown Arts Film Series: Hardware
2026-03-12 19:00 - 21:00
March 12, 2026
Hardware (1990, dir. Richard Stanley)
A cult classic of dystopian science fiction, Hardware is a ferocious blast of cyberpunk paranoia and industrial-age anxiety. Set in a scorched near future, the film follows the deadly consequences of reassembling a military robot designed solely to kill, serving as a grim metaphor for humanity’s inability to stop rebuilding its own destruction.
With its abrasive soundtrack, brutal visuals, and claustrophobic energy, Hardware feels closer to a punk album than a conventional science fiction film. Director Richard Stanley fuses comic-book aesthetics, body horror, and apocalyptic dread into a raw, unpolished vision that still resonates decades later. Loud, mean, and unapologetically grimy, this is science fiction as rebellion, best experienced in a theater at full volume.

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Beyond the Black Rainbow
2026-03-19 19:00 - 21:00
March 19, 2026
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010, dir. Panos Cosmatos)
More mood piece than narrative, Beyond the Black Rainbow is a hypnotic plunge into retro-futurist nightmare. Set inside a sterile research facility in an alternate 1980s, the film unfolds like a fever dream, saturated with neon color, droning synthesizers, and a suffocating sense of control.
Director Panos Cosmatos crafts an atmosphere of near-total alienation, where emotion is suppressed and individuality is treated as a malfunction. The film’s slow, deliberate pacing rewards patience, immersing viewers in a sensory experience that feels both nostalgic and deeply uncanny. Equal parts science fiction, horror, and audiovisual installation, Beyond the Black Rainbow is cinema as trance, unsettling, beautiful, and unforgettable on the big screen.

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
2026-03-26 19:00 - 21:00
March 26, 2026
Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion.
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This special curated program draws from rare and revelatory cinematic materials connected to Bob Dylan’s life, work, and cultural impact. Rather than offering a conventional biography, Stepping Into the Unknown presents a mosaic of perspectives, fragments, moments, and explorations that reflect Dylan’s enduring resistance to definition.
Sourced from the Bob Dylan Center’s archives, the program highlights film as a crucial lens through which Dylan’s art and mythology have been shaped and challenged. Fans and newcomers alike will encounter unexpected angles on one of America’s most elusive artists, reinforcing why Dylan continues to inspire interpretation, debate, and reinvention. This one-night-only event offers a rare opportunity to experience these works collectively, as cinema was meant to be seen.

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Titane
2026-04-02 19:00 - 21:00
Julia Ducournau’s Titane is a ferocious fusion of body horror, melodrama, and black comedy, an audacious work that violently fractures genre in order to rebuild it into something startlingly intimate. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the film follows Alexia, a go-go dancer with a titanium plate fused into her skull after a childhood car accident, as she drifts from mechanical desire toward a strange and desperate search for connection.
Beneath the chrome and gasoline sheen, Titane operates as a film about transformation, physical, psychological, and emotional. Its most shocking moments are not merely provocative but pointed. Ducournau confronts the viewer with bodies as mutable machines, identity as performance, and gender as both cage and refuge. The film’s violence is handled with a deadpan absurdity that gradually softens, revealing tenderness in places most films would not dare look.
The heart of Titane lies in its undertones, loneliness and projection, the craving for recognition, the reshaping of self in order to be loved, the quiet ache of longing that pushes its characters into wild contortions. What begins as industrial eroticism melts into an unconventional family drama, where vulnerability becomes more shocking than carnage.
Titane is a film of contradictions. It is grotesque yet delicate, cynical yet yearning, metallic yet warm. It tests boundaries not for shock’s sake but to expose the human impulse to find belonging, even if it means becoming something unrecognizable. The result is a fearless and deeply strange meditation on bodies, identity, and the slender thread between monstrosity and love.

Crosstown Arts Film Series: Under the Silver Lake
2026-04-09 19:00 - 21:00
David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a woozy neo-noir that sinks into the dream logic of Los Angeles, peeling back its sunlit surface to expose the network of symbols, conspiracies, and secret messages that seem to pulse beneath the city. At the center is Sam, a drifting young man whose obsession with hidden meaning escalates after a mysterious woman vanishes from the apartment complex where he lives.
On its face, the film plays like a contemporary detective story, complete with codes, clues, and shadowy figures moving through Hollywood’s forgotten edges. Beneath that structure, however, is a meditation on loneliness, fixation, and the way pop culture imprints on the psyche. Sam’s journey is less about solving a mystery and more about clinging to a narrative that gives his life form, direction, and a sense of cosmic importance.
The undertones of Under the Silver Lake swirl with cultural decay and generational drift. The film is haunted by the ghosts of classic cinema and old Hollywood glamour, but the glitter has curdled into an atmosphere of disillusionment. The soundtrack, the billboards, the movie posters, the disposable media, all function as hieroglyphs in a culture obsessed with being noticed yet terrified of fading away.
Mitchell’s film balances humor with dread, and beauty with absurdity. It invites the viewer into a conspiracy that may be real or may be merely a projection of Sam’s desperation to feel connected to something larger than himself. In the end, Under the Silver Lake becomes a strange, melancholic portrait of a city where everyone is waiting to be discovered, and where being lost can feel like a secret code all its own.

Copland Appalachian Spring
2026-05-15 18:30 - 19:30
Copland Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a quintessential American masterpiece that evokes the serene beauty of the rural landscape through its folk-inspired themes and sweeping orchestral colors. Robert Moody leads this exciting program, including Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony, a lively work full of elegant melodies and intricate orchestral textures.

Friday, May 15, 2026 | 6:30 PM

Venue: Crosstown Arts – Crosstown Theater

General Admission

Regular
$40.00
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Crosstown Arts Film Series: No Country for Old Men
2026-05-21 19:00 - 21:00
January 29, 2026
No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Coen Brothers’ Academy Award–winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel stands as one of the most unsettling American films of the 21st century. Set against the bleak landscapes of West Texas, No Country for Old Men follows intersecting lives pulled into a spiral of violence after a drug deal goes wrong, along with the unstoppable force that follows in its wake.
Anchored by Javier Bardem’s chilling portrayal of Anton Chigurh, the film explores fate, chance, and moral erosion with an almost mythic inevitability. Sparse dialogue, oppressive silence, and sudden brutality create an atmosphere of constant dread. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell’s weary reflections frame the film as a lament for a world that no longer makes sense to those who once believed they understood it. Grim, precise, and hauntingly modern, No Country for Old Men demands the focus and scale of a theatrical viewing.
