Film Saturday 8/27 and Opera Sunday, 8/28

Join us at the Strand for live theatre, art house films, and more... You're receiving this email because you expressed interest in The Strand Theatre / Westside Theatre Foundation. Make sure you don't miss our announcements by adding highway61coffee@aol.com to your address book.  717 Clay Street / downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi Film: Les Innocentes - Sat., Aug. 27 at 7 Opera onscreen: Lucia di Lammermoor - Sun., Aug. 28 at 2 It's a big international weekend at the Strand. Join us Saturday night for a French film set in Poland in the aftermath of World War 2. And on Sunday afternoon, a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from Liceu, Barcelona. Lucia also is set in the aftermaath of war. Les Innocentes Warsaw, December 1945: the second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy. A non-believer, Mathilde enters the sisters' fiercely private world, dictated by the rituals of their order and the strict Rev. Mother (Agata Kulesza, Ida). Fearing the shame of exposure, the hostility of the new anti-Catholic Communist government, and facing an unprecedented crisis of faith, the nuns increasingly turn to Mathilde as their belief and traditions clash with harsh realities.  Watch trailer:   Lucia di Lammermoor INTRODUCTION Juan Diego Flórez makes his world debut as Edgardo, in one of  Donizetti's most often performed operas.  Recalling a country at war, torn by the ambitions of rival clans,  the stage centers around a leaning glass tower in a landscape of  destruction and desolation. The opera premiered on the 9th of September 1835 at the Teatro  San Carlo n Naples. The first performance at Barcelona's Liceu  was on September 15th 1859. Symphony Orchestra and Chorus  of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Conductor: Marco Armiliato Opera in 3 acts Composed by Gaetano Donizetti  Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano  Sung in Italian with subtitles Recorded 2015 at Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona  Approximately 2 hours 45 minutes  LUCIA di Lammermoor  Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona  Tickets: Les Innocentes: $5 advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse / $7 at the door Lucia di Lammermoor: $15 advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse / $18 at the door Call 601 529 7252 Upcoming shows & events... Westside Theatre Foundation | 717 Clay Street | Vicksburg, MS 39183 | highway61coffee@aol.com | fb.com/WestsideTheatreFoundation This is our new format for email announcements about our shows and events. Let us know how it works for you, and if you have suggestions to make it better. STAY CONNECTED:

Free: Hitchcock's Vertigo - Sat. Aug. 20 at 7 PM

Is Vertigo really the best film ever? 

Why is the movie free at the Strand Theatre this Saturday, August 20? 

 

 

Instead of asking us these questions, come to the Strand and see for yourself. 

 

In 2012 Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's classic tale of obsession, replaced Citizen Kane as the Best Film ever made in the once-a- decade poll conducted by Sight and Sound magazine. It has been recently restored, and the Strand is presenting it free this Saturday, August 20 at 7 PM 

  Long considered a masterpiece, Vertigo stars Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak as a private eye and the  woman he is hired to follow. But nothing, as they say, is as it seems. 

 

 Love, obsession, betrayal, death...To the hypnotic, lush music of Bernard Herrmann, their dreamlike story plays out in and around San Francisco, one of America's most exotic cities. 

 

If you've never seen Vertigo, you need to; if you have, you will be surprised how great it looks and sounds. 

 

And, it's free... at the Strand in downtown Vicksburg

Watch the trailer...

Yo-Yo Ma - The Music of Strangers Sat. Aug. 13 at 7

Join us at the Strand for a new documentary about Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble:

Saturday, August 13 at 7 PM

The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble , the latest film from the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary  20 Feet from Stardom and the critically-hailed  Best of Enemies , follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble's more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. 

"...The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble is lovely to watch, it's even more beautiful to hear..." Ken Jaworowski New York Times

See the trailer

discount advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse

Strand Theatre

717 Clay Street

Vicksburg, MS 39183

Film Sat. August 6 at 7 PM - Hunt for the Wilderpeople

At the Strand this week: From New Zealand: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Details

Hilarious, heartwarming film from New Zealand:
Hunt For the Wilderpeople
starring Sam Neill

Directed by: Taika Waititi

Synopsis
2016 SUNDANCE SELECTION Hunt for the Wilderpeople tells the story of misfit kid Ricky and his grumpy foster Uncle Hec. The unlikely duo evade child services and the law by going bush

PRESS
"A sweetly-told, laugh-out-loud adventure that reminds us you're never too young or too old to find someone to love who'll also love you back." -Film School Rejects

"Taika Waititi knows growing up isn't child's play but he also respects childhood as a place of adventure, where spontaneity rules and the possibilities are only limited by imagination." -Eye For Film

"Comic Dynamite" -The Guardian

Watch trailer:

$5 advance tickets at Highway 61 Coffeehouse / $7 at the door