Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Film The Strange Case of Angelica: Nashville Premiere Free Tonight at Sarratt!
Posted by Jim Ridley on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:13 AM
From the Scene's Winter Arts Preview:
Thirty years ago, if you wanted to see revival screenings of classics, the newest foreign films, cult movies and nuggets of regional and documentary cinema, there was only one theater in Nashville that showed them reliably — and it wasn’t The Belcourt in Hillsboro Village, which was playing the likes of the Mel Brooks remake of To Be or Not To Be. It was Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema , which for decades functioned as the city’s repertory theater until home video, cable and administrative indifference allowed the campus cinema to dwindle in the early 2000s.Over the past five years, though, Sarratt has reclaimed some of its old luster, thanks to one of the best arts programs in the city: the International Lens film series, which offers free weekly screenings representing a rainbow coalition of countries and continents, typically introduced by a Vanderbilt faculty member, staffer or student with knowledge of the culture. Included this semester are films from more than 15 countries, among them both North and South Korea, and local premieres by world masters such as Portugal’s indefatigable 103-year-old Manoel de Oliveira (The Strange Case of Angelica, screening 7 p.m. Jan. 18).
Check out the trailer above and see if that looks like the work of a centenarian to you. Afterward, see Noel Murray's review in the AV Club, then click for the full International Lens schedule.
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