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PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN (Cillian Murphy in a feature continuation of the British televison series); ISHQA'N DE LEHKE (from India). 2/2

New movies in Memphis, 3/6: THE BRIDE! (likely next Best Actress winner Jessie Buckley with Christian Bale in another 'Frankenstein' iteration); HOPPERS (Over the Hedge + Avatar = new Pixar); PROTECTOR (Milla Jovovich returns to action); DOLLY (another horror doll) ... 1/2

And, tragically, he only had a felt pen.

To my everlasting sorrow, Emil Sitka CANCELED.

I thought you might get a kick out of this.

Cool! - I interviewed John Agar at that event! wrote a big ol' story for the Memphis Press-Scimitar.

Memphis College of Art's legacy celebrated in Brooks Museum exhibit A new exhibit at the Brooks Museum features works from from across eight decades by 90 artists who taught or trained at the Memphis College of Art.

The Memphis Brooks Museum bids farewell to its historic Overton Park home with a climactic exhibition that makes the case that the late Memphis College of Art was - like the more storied musical spaces of Sun and Stax - a momentous and almost magical magnet for talent: bit.ly/3P4HrwG

A new addition to the Memphis culture scene: Zaire Love's Aint Film Fest: bit.ly/4l6OPnl

Patricia Highsmith as a child; picture captioned “Little Toughie.” (From the documentary LOVING HIGHSMITH, 2022.)

STARBRIGHT, with John Rhys-Davies as a "not quite angel"; UMA MUSUME: PRETTY DERBY - BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA (anime); PAATKI (from India); VISHNU VINYASAM (from India). 2/2

New movies in Memphis, 2/27: SCREAM 7; from Iraq, THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (Studio only); acclaimed BDSM drama with Alexander Skarsgaard, PILLION (Studio only); DREAMS, with Jessica Chastain (Ridgeway only); EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT expands beyond Imax... 1/2

newspaper ads for the old Muhammad Ali Cinema on Beale Street

they call dems snowflakes but now they're alarmed by actual snowballs

RIP Robert Carradine, 1971. Frequent guest (usually alongside such other Hollywood scions as Chris Mitchum and Patrick Wayne) of the storied (since 1972!) Memphis Film Festival, later called the Midsouth Nostalgia Festival, returning this year as the Flashback Film & TV Festival.

Would have liked to have seen more of Dr. Frankenstein’s cat-snake.

Forgotten Frankenstein: Randy Quaid as the monster in the 1992 made-for-TNT FRANKENSTEIN.

Memphis, 1964 - classic Hammer horror reissue. O for a time machine...

Tyler Perry's 'Joe's College Road Trip' stops in Memphis. See where "Joe's College Road Trip," partly filmed in Memphis, is the most-watched movie on Netflix since its debut on the streaming service Feb. 13.

Tyler Perry's Netflix hit JOE'S COLLEGE ROAD TRIP has a good bit of Memphis content - real Memphis and faux Memphis. bit.ly/3OSBYZN

first screening TONIGHT

Raymond Massey as John Brown in Michael Curtiz's SANTA FE TRAIL (1940).

Ida Lupino, Michael Curtiz's THE SEA WOLF (1941).

BENDITO CORAZON (a Spanish-language 'faith' film); and 2 from India: ASSI and DO DEEWANE SEHER MEIN. 4/4

HOW TO MAKE A KILLING (a Kind Hearts & Coronets-inspired murder comedy with Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley); I CAN ONLY IMAGINE 2 (sequel to surprise 'faith' hit inspired by MercyMe song); THIS IS NOT A TEST (high school zombie apocalypse); REDUX REDUX (indie scifi) ... 3/4

Programs of this year's OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS - LIVE ACTION, DOCUMENTARY and ANIMATION (Ridgeway only); MIDWINTER BREAK (with Lesley Manville and Ciarin Hinds); PSYCHO KILLER (just like it sounds, apparently) ... 2/4

Why 'Natchez' is about more than just MS town's complicated history Suzannah Herbert says acclaimed "Natchez" documentary is "a broader reflection of how in this country we have not fully dealt with the past."

New movies in Memphis, 2/20: The much-praised (New Yorker, New York Times, et al) NATCHEZ, by Memphis' own Suzannah Herbert (Ridgeway only, previews at Crosstown -story here: bit.ly/4qJKuaX); Baz's EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT (story here: bit.ly/4tHuZTo) 1/4

Robert Duvall hung out in Memphis - he loved Cozy Corner and Blues City Cafe - while making A FAMILY THING in 1996. He recorded tracks for an aborted C&W album here with Chips Moman, at Chips' converted firehouse. "Strange dude," Duvall told me. "Chalk that one up to experience."

'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert' lets the King tell his story Film editor Jonathan Redmond offers a look into the making of "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert" and why it was "a real detective journey."

"The big man with the big voice deserves the big screen." I spoke with editor Jonathan Redmond, director Baz Luhrmann's crucial collaborator on the new EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT, which opens this week: bit.ly/4tHuZTo

RIP our beloved LouLou. The sweetest, gentlest, most beautiful being I ever encountered.

RIP our beloved LouLou. The sweetest, gentlest, most beautiful being I ever encountered.