Now that the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville is about to come back online I’m excited to see the new space and to watch films at my favorite art house again. I got an email last night confirming that the new Brian De Palma documentary, De Palma, will be screening at the Belcourt in August.

DePalma is written off by some as overrated or just a Hitchcock wannabe. For me movies like Carrie, Blowout, Scarface, The Untouchables, Phantom of the Paradise and Dressed to Kill more than
outweigh stinkers like The Black Dahlia and The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Plus DePalma is an invaluable alum of the film school generation of writers and directors including Marty, Francis, Steven and George. Here’s Brian on Charlie Rose in 1992…

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This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up. A movie about images, the first time I saw through the film’s most superficial layers I was in the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, TN. I think it was during a Noir Fest screening — it was a double-feature with De Palma’s Blowout. Again, this is a movie about images, but it was through the sound system in the theatre that I got soundtrack clues that revealed some amazing secrets I’d never heard watching and listening to a DVD at home. The movie that taught me how crucial sound might be to a film’s plot is a film about images.

Here are some images about the images about images…

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