This Weekend: Watch The Craft and Salute Your Shorts With Friends – Nashville Scene

The Craft

Plans this weekend? Hopefully not. We at the Scene are committed as ever to bringing you the best arts and culture recommendations the city has to offer via our weekly Critics Picks: Social Distancing Edition, and weve got two more suggestions to offer for the weekend.

First, my 80s and 90s children will want to tune in to the Belcourt for another Midnight Movie via Twitch: Andrew Flemings The Craft. While some may consider The Craft a horror movie, its also one that effectively explores the struggles of a teen girl. The foursome of teen witches in this 1996 cult hit endure an array of the kinds of problems a young woman might encounter during adolescence: Sarah (Robin Tunney) is the new girl at a Catholic school looking to fit in; Bonnie (Neve Campbell) deals with body-image issues due in part to her severe scarring; Rochelle (Rachel True) endures harassment by a racist classmate; Nancy (Fairuza Balk) is from a poor family with a despicable stepdad and cant seem to escape the white-trash stereotype. Sarah becomes friends with the other three, and they form a coven (Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the East. Powers of air and invention. Hear me!). As they begin to exact revenge on their enemies and build power in themselves, things go from light and fun to dark and scary fast.

It kicks off Saturday, April 18, at 8:30 p.m. with a pre-show. You can get The Craft cued up on Netflix or pop your old VHS or DVD into the player and everyone counts down to hit play at 9 p.m. The Belcourt will provide live commentary via video from a few of the theaters delightful staffers throughout, and you use the chat box to contribute to or distract from the discussion at hand. (In my experience, the chat is the best part.) Heres the Belcourt Midnights Twitch channel.

On Sunday, local film buffs of Salute Your Shorts will host a livestream that you dont want to miss. Founded in 2013, SYS has been programming short-film festivals and monthly viewing parties that feature locally made shorts, music videos, animated stories, experimental films and more. The organizations monthly events at Smith & Lentz Brewery have been on hold due to COVID-19 and damage that the brewery sustained during the March 3 tornado. On Sunday, April 19, at 7 p.m., Salute will host a remote viewing party via Twitch. Audience members will be able to join online to view six to eight locally made shorts, join in the chat discussion and participate in Q&As with the filmmakers.

Salute Your Shorts organizers are encouraging donations to the Film Action Fund, which awards stipends of $400 or $800 to local filmmakers who are experiencing partial or full loss of income due to the pandemic. Keep your eye on the Salute Your Shorts Facebook page for the Twitch link on Sunday.

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