Free Double Feature: Arsenic & Old Lace plus Double indemnity

 

Double feature at the Strand

Arsenic and Old Lace

Double Indemnity

Saturday, August 20 at 7 PM

Sponsored by John and Lisa Martin

Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in director Frank Capra's classic comedy. When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men die happy ... by feeding them a wonderful meal before poisoning them. Now, Mortimer desperately wants to protect the two serial murderers he loves, stop them from killing anyone else and keep his bride from discovering how deranged his family really is.

 

After Arsenic and Old Lace we will have hot dogs in the lobby followed by 

Double Indemnity 

In Billy Wilder's seminal film noir Fred MacMurray plays an insurance salesman who is seduced by a conniving woman (Barbara Stanwyck) into a scheme to murder her husband and make it look like an accident in order to collect his impressive life insurance policy. Dark and twisty with snappy dialogue. Based on a scandalous novel by James M. Cain, the screenplay was written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

 

Don't miss these two great classic films both released in 1944.

Into the Woods live onstage at the Strand - 3 more performances

 

Come with a cast of about two dozen local actors/ singers Into the Woods where nothing's clear, where witches ghosts, and wolves appear.

The Westside Theatre Foundation is bringing Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods to the stage of the Strand.

James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece... and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.

The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch's curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse.

Everyone's wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.

Advance Tickets are $20 each and available online or at Highway 61 Coffeehouse, and $25 at the door.

Where? The Strand Theatre 717 Clay Street Downtown Vicksburg

When?

Friday, July 22 at 7:30 PM

Saturday, July 23 at 7:30 PM

Sunday, July 24 at 4 PM

Print your own program for the show

The Defenders free screening and discussion

 

A new film documenting the actions of the attorneys who took part in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement will have a free screening at Vicksburg’s Strand Theater at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 11.

In the 1950s, major events in the Civil Rights Movement were taking place. But Mississippi’s only accredited law school did not accept Black students, so during that decade the state had a total of four Black lawyers—only three of whom would take on civil rights cases. The story of attorneys R. Jess Brown, Carsie Hall, and Jack H. Young is told in The Defenders: How Lawyers Protected the Movement. The film also tells the story of the hundreds of lawyers and law students from across the country who saw what was happening and came to Mississippi to take up the fight.

Brown worked for many years out of an office in Vicksburg, where in 1965 he represented a group of citizens arrested for participating in a local voting rights action. Hall and Young were based primarily in Jackson, but all three attorneys worked cases across Mississippi. Between them, they represented Mack Charles Parker, Clyde Kennard, James Meredith, the Tougaloo Nine, Freedom Summer participants from across the state, more than 300 Freedom Riders, and more than 600 people arrested while taking part in the Jackson movement.

Jackson-based media company Red Squared was commissioned by the Foundation for Mississippi History to produce the film for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

“We were fortunate to be able to conduct Interviews with people directly connected to this important story, including Reuben Anderson, Marian Wright Edelman, and Constance Slaughter-Harvey,” said Sarah Campbell, one of the film’s producers and director of programs and publications for MDAH. “We also were able to draw on the state archives’ rich holdings of archival news footage, documents, and photographs to immerse viewers in the era.”

Following the screening of the 40-minute film there will be a discussion and question-and-answer session with Campbell and Defenders director Roderick Red. The Strand Theater is located at 717 Clay Street in Vicksburg.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai at the Strand

 

 

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

at the Strand

Saturday, June 4 at 7 PM

It's summer at the Strand - time for something cool. Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller.

In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code even as chaos and violence spiral around him.

Featuring moody cinematography by the great Robby Müller, a sublime score by the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and a host of colorful character actors (including a memorably stone-faced Henry Silva), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai plays like a pop-culture-sampling cinematic mixtape built around a one-of-a-kind tragic hero.

Tickets are $10 each and available at the door or at Highway 61 Coffeehouse.



Don't forget: free popcorn!

Stand with Ukraine - a free film screening and opportunity to contribute

 

Join the Strand Theatre, Criterion Pictures & Wolfman Productions

 

Stand With Ukraine Through Film!

 

Saturday, May 14 at 7 PM

Come to the Strand for a free screening of an award winning film, and help the people of Ukraine

 

Join Criterion Pictures and Wolfman Productions in supporting the Ukrainian people at this time of crisis, by attending our FREE screening of "The Guide". A film by Oles Sanin, a Ukrainian director. The film is about Russian oppression in the 1930s. 

All proceeds will be donated to Ukrainian Relief Efforts that are being managed by Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America, Inc.  

 

About The Film
 

American boy Peter and blind musician Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the 1930's Russian subjugation of Ukraine. The "Terror Famine" of the 30's is incredibly current given the attempts of Russia to once again crush the independence and freedom of their Ukranian neighbor.

 

• Winner of Best Actor and Cinematography - Odessa International Film Festival 2015

• Nominated for the grand prize at the Odessa and the Warsaw International Film Festival!

 Watch the trailer

Stand with Ukraine through Film exists to raise funds to assist Ukrainians in and near Ukraine who are suffering as a result of the Russian invasion of their homeland. 
 
To simplify the flow of funds from ticket buyers and others, the project team created the Ukraine Relief Fund under the fiscal sponsorship of Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America, Inc. (HCROA).  HCROA was established in 1994 and has been an integral part of the US government’s Combined Federal Campaign, the leading workplace fundraising program in the country.  HCROA handles millions of dollars annually, donated by individuals and transferred to benefiting charities. It undergoes annual financial audits.
 
HCROA is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Donations are deductible to the extent allowed by law.
 
Donations – whether from ticket sales or private gifts – will go to international humanitarian organizations.  Among those expected to receive the bulk of the donations will be World Central Kitchen and the International Organization on Migration. A number of smaller tax-exempt groups will also receive support, reflecting the recommendations of Ukrainians.

 

Click to donate directly

Checks can be payable to Ukraine Relief Fund, Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America, PO BOX 2052, Salem, MA 01970
 

 

A Devil Inside - a black comedy onstage at the Strand

 A Devil Inside

Written by David Lindsay-Abaire 

Directed by Alex Long

 

Live theater returns to the stage of the 

historic Strand Theatre in downtown Vicksburg. 

Friday, April 8

Saturday, April 9

Friday, April 15

Saturday, April 16

All performances at 7:30 PM

In A Devil Inside, David Lindsay-Abaire 

has crafted a gruesome comedy...

 

...a fun and frenzied homage to Russian Literature....

...in which a cast of tormented characters careen 

through their cursed, intertwined lives...

...as New York City, with fire and flood, 

disintegrates around them.

Tickets are $15 each and available online, 

at Highway 61 Coffeehouse, and at the door.

Strand Theatre

717 Clay Street

Downtown Vicksburg

Belfast - Oscar wiinner - Free at the Strand

 Free movie at the Strand

 Kenneth Branagh's 

Belfast

Saturday, April 2 at 7 PM

It is 1969 and 9-year-old Buddy finds his peaceful life disturbed as a national conflict is starting to brew in Northern Ireland: unionists and loyalists—mostly Protestants—want the country to remain within the United Kingdom, while nationalists and republicans—mostly Catholics—are campaigning for the country to join a united Ireland. As the tension between these two opposing forces escalates, he and his family must decide whether to stay, or move somewhere safe.

Director

Kenneth Branagh

PG-13 97 minutes

Cast

Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill

Click to Watch the trailer

And it's free!

Celebrate our 10 years of movies at the Strand with us...

Where? The Strand Theatre 717 Clay Street Downtown Vicksburg

When?

Saturday, April 2 at 7 PM

Click to watch trailer