Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Black Orpheus coming to the Strand Saturday, June 30

Black Orpheus
Strand Theatre
Saturday, June 30 at 7 PM

Winner of both the 1960 Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 1959, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpehus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpehus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

Read more about this classic film: 

(Portugese with English subtitles)

See the trailer: 

Advance tickets at Highway 61 Coffeehouse: $5
At the door: $7

Monday, June 25, 2018

American Animals crew featured on the Today Show

Megyn Kelly interviewd the 4 "art thieves" from the movie American Animals this morning: Monday, June 25. Check it out.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

American Animals - true heist story at the Strand

American Animals
Saturday, June 23 at 7 PM

"Hunt this film down if at all possible. It is an absolute gem." - Movieweb.com

SYNOPSIS American Animalsis the unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centers around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer (Barry Keoghan), is determined to become an artist but feels he lacks the essential ingredient that unites all great artists –suffering. 

His closest friend, Warren (Evan Peters), has also been raised to believe that his life will be special, and that he will be unique in some way. But as they leave the suburbs for universities in the sametown, the realities of adult life begin to dawn on them and with that, the realization that their lives may in fact never be important or special in any way. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world’s most valuable books from the special collections room of Spencer's college Library. 

Enlisting two more friends,accounting major Eric (Jared Abrahamson) and fitness fanatic Chas (Blake Jenner), and taking their cues from heist movies, the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fence of the stolen artworks. Although some of the group begin to have second thoughts, they discover that the plan has seemingly taken on a life of its own. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, and innovatively incorporating the real-life figures at the heart of the story, writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) takes the heist movie into bold new territory.

Watch the trailer

Read review from Movieweb

Advance tickets at Highway 61 Coffeehouse: $5
At the door: $7

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

A Fistful of Dollars at the Strand (for Fathers Day)

A Fistful of Dollars
Saturday, June 16 at the Strand Theatre
7 PM

Bring your dad, bring your son, bring anybody to see Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, the first Spaghetti Western, and the film which started Clint Eastwood's rise to international stardom.

See Eastwood's "Man with No Name" ride into a corrupt village, and turn two warring gangs of outlaws against one another.

This story was first told by Akira Kurosawa in Yojimbo only three years earlier, but Eastwood, Leone, and composer Ennio Morricone made the material their own. Westerns would never look or sound the same.

Our showing is being sponsored by Mike Gillis of Raintree Pictures. Thanks, Mike.

Watch trailer

Advance tickets: $5 at Highway 61 Coffeehouse
$7 at the door.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Desert Bride at the Strand

THE DESERT BRIDE
Strand Theatre
717 Clay Street
Vicksburg, Mississippi


Saturday, June 9 at 7 PM

54-year-old Teresa has worked for decades as a live-in maid with a family in Buenos Aires. When the family sells the house, she is forced to take a job in the distant town of San Juan. Although feeling uncomfortable with traveling, she embarks on a journey through the desert. During her first stop, in the land of the miraculous “Saint Correa”, she loses her bag with all her belongings. This unexpected incident leads her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman and the only person who can help Teresa find her bag. What seemed like the end of her world might ultimately prove her salvation.

Watch the trailer:

Advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse for $5
At the door: $7