Tucked into the morning shadow of Crosstown Concourse is one of the most exceptional spaces on campus: the Crosstown Arts Theater. This 415-seat auditorium is home to concerts, meetings, and special events throughout the year, including a film series worth clearing your Thursday night for.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series brings together cinematic masterpieces and bold, boundary-pushing films under one roof. Every Thursday, grab some popcorn, settle into your seat, and catch an affordable screening that directly supports Crosstown Arts — one of Memphis’s most vital cultural institutions. Most films are just $5. Check out the 2026 schedule below, and bring a friend.
Most films are just $5! Check out the 2026 schedule below, and be sure to bring a friend.
July 9, 2026 – As Goes South
A lyrical, wide-ranging documentary portrait of the American South — told through artists, musicians, writers, and everyday people wrestling with history, memory, and what it means to belong to a place in the middle of reinventing itself.
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July 16, 2026 – Cries & Whispers
Ingmar Bergman’s devastating chamber drama — widely considered one of the greatest films ever made — draws three sisters together in the face of death, exposing the love, resentment, and silence that live between them, in stunning crimson-drenched imagery by cinematographer Sven Nykvist.
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July 23, 2026 – 2046
Wong Kar-wai’s dreamy, melancholic follow-up to In the Mood for Love drifts through memory, desire, and lost love with hypnotic beauty, featuring extraordinary performances from Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Faye Wong.
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July 30, 2026 – Enemy
Denis Villeneuve’s slow-burn psychological thriller follows a man who discovers his exact double — and descends into paranoia and fractured identity — anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal in a riveting dual performance.
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August 13, 2026 – The Fall
Shot across some of the most breathtaking locations on earth, Tarsem Singh’s visually astonishing fantasy epic follows a young girl and an injured stuntman whose shared story grows stranger and more wondrous with every telling.
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August 20, 2026 – The Parallax View
One of the defining conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s, Alan J. Pakula’s coolly unsettling film follows a journalist who pulls a thread connected to a political assassination — and can’t find his way back out.
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August 27, 2026 – Dreams
Akira Kurosawa’s final masterwork transforms eight dreams into pure cinema — moving through wonder, grief, terror, and transcendence with a painter’s eye and a poet’s sensibility.
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