Upcoming FLiCX Events

Posted by Wai Yee Vicky Lee on Monday, October 31, 2016 in Archives, News.

Moonlight

Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, 7:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212

Dir. Barry Jenkins |USA |2016 |110 min. |NR |DCP

Post-screening discussion led by Terrance Dean, PhD student in religion and Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society.

Students who commit to checking in by 7:15pm, and to remaining through the post-screening discussion, may RSVP in the right column on this page for tickets purchased by the Dean of Students office.

Since seating is limited, we must remind participants

that if you RSVP in the affirmative, and your plans change, you are expected to log back in and change your status to “not attending;”
that Vanderbilt students must RSVP for themselves, and may not be “guests;”
and FOR THIS FILM, WE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE GUESTS. (Sorry about that.)

Your cooperation is very much appreciated by your peers, the Belcourt, and FLiCX admins!

Writer-director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) returns with an impeccably crafted study of African-American masculinity from a vital creative voice in contemporary cinema. Though his story is set in Miami, Jenkins shuns the familiar neon-lit aesthetic for a different kind of life, miles away from South Beach, in an area hit by a crack epidemic. Bullied at school and beaten down by a harsh home life, young Chiron risks becoming a statistic: another black man dominated and ultimately destroyed by the system. As he grows, it becomes clear that his real battle is an internal one: reckoning with his complex love for his best friend.

Moonlight takes Chiron from childhood to his teens to adulthood, but instead of offering a clear progression of time, Jenkins plunges us into an impressionistic vision of Chiron’s psyche in which sensuality, pain, and unhealed wounds take center stage. Anchored in an unforgettable performance by emerging talent Trevante Rhodes (as the older Chiron), Moonlight explores the human need to feel connected. But although its themes could be called “universal,” they are firmly grounded in a specific understanding of African-American experience. This film was waiting to be made, and Jenkins was the one to make it.

“MOONLIGHT takes the pain of growing up and turns it into hardened scars and private caresses. This film is, without a doubt, the reason we go to the movies: to understand, to come closer, to ache, hopefully with another.” – Joshua Rothkopt, Time Out NY

“The best film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year is also the most delicate, such a calm yet precise piece of filmmaking that you’re barely prepared for its shimmering, quietly sensational ending. “ – Stephanie Zacharek, TIME

A Samurai Seminar in Two Parts

Guided tour of Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, 6:45 p.m.
Frist Center for the Visual Art

Samurai Film: Between History and Fantasy
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Belcourt Theatre

STUDENTS may complete the Anchor Link form once it becomes active on November 1, to apply for a seminar ticket purchased by the Dean of Students office. Successful applicants will be invited to the Anchor Link seminar event so that they may RSVP, and will be eligible for tickets purchased by the Dean of Students office for the Samurai double feature on Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Because of the limited number of seminar tickets available, the Dean of Students is not able to accommodate guests for this event.

Note that persons who are selected for the event must provide their own transportation to the Frist on Friday night (and to the Belcourt on Saturday, as is always the case), and must commit to attending both sessions of the seminar.

Part 1: Guided tour of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Samurai: The Way of the Warrior exhibit
Fri, Nov 18 at 7:00pm at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Led by Ginny Soenksen, assistant curator of interpretation at the Frist Center

Part 2: Samurai Film: Between History and Fantasy
Sat, Nov 19 from 10:00-11:30am at the Belcourt Theatre
Led by Yoshikuni Igarashi, professor of history at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in modern Japanese cultural studies