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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series: Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
DESCRIPTION:March 26\, 2026\nStepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center\nBob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion. \nGet Your Tickets! \nThis 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. \nSourced 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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-stepping-into-the-unknown-films-from-the-bob-dylan-center/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series: Titane
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBeneath 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. \nThe 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. \nTitane 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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-titane/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series: Under the Silver Lake
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOn 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. \nThe 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. \nMitchell’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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-under-the-silver-lake/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series Presents: Dr. Strangelove
DESCRIPTION:Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of cinema’s sharpest and most enduring satires\, a Cold War nightmare spun into pitch-black comedy. Released at the height of nuclear anxiety\, the film follows a chain reaction of military blunders and political absurdities that threaten to end the world\, not with heroism\, but with bureaucratic confusion and human folly. \nAnchored by Peter Sellers in multiple unforgettable roles\, Dr. Strangelove walks a razor’s edge between the ridiculous and the terrifying\, exposing how fragile the systems of power can be when placed in the hands of flawed individuals. Kubrick’s stark visual style and relentless sense of irony turn global annihilation into something both hilarious and deeply unsettling. \nJoin us at Crosstown Arts Theater on Thursday\, April 23 at 7pm for this landmark film that remains as biting\, relevant\, and uncomfortably funny as ever.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-dr-strangelove/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Copland Appalachian Spring
DESCRIPTION:Copland Appalachian Spring\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAaron 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. \n\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 15\, 2026 | 6:30 PM\n\nVenue: Crosstown Arts – Crosstown Theater \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Admission \n\n\n\n\n\nRegular\n$40.00\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/copland-appalachian-spring/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series: No Country for Old Men
DESCRIPTION:No Country for Old Men (2007\, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)\nThe 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. \nAnchored 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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-no-country-for-old-men/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Film Series Presents: Summer of Soul
DESCRIPTION:Six weeks. 300\,000 people. A moment that should have been history. \nAs part of the Crosstown Arts Film Series\, Crosstown Arts and Memphis Listening Lab present Summer of Soul\, the long-buried story of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Featuring unforgettable performances from Stevie Wonder\, Nina Simone\, Mahalia Jackson\, B.B. King\, and Sly and the Family Stone\, the film captures a cultural eruption that went unseen for decades. \nDirected by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson\, and winner of major awards at the Sundance Film Festival\, the film finally gives this moment the spotlight it always deserved. \nJoin us after the screening for a live conversation with producer Joseph Patel and IMAKEMADBEATS. \nThursday\, May 28 at 7PMCrosstown Theater$5
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-summer-of-soul/
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