Friday, September 16, 2022

Movies events Saturday and Monday...My Cousin Vinny / Man with a Movie Camera

My Cousin Vinny

Saturday, September 17 at 7 PM

My Cousin Vinny is coming to the Strand...

Marisa Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Joe Pesci proved how funny he could be in this story of clashing cultures...

"What's a Yute?"

"You're in Ala-f**k*n'-bama..."

"How do you cook your grits? You like 'em regular, creamy, or al dente?"

"Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth?!"

'It's got protein! We need protein!'

'Now I ask ya: Would you give a f--- what kind of pants the son of a b---- who shot you was wearing?'

'So, it's either wear the leather jacket, which I know you hate, or this. So, I wore this ridiculous thing for you.'

'However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.'

'My biological clock is ticking like this!/Lisa, I don't need this...'

'No, the defense is wrong!'

Come hear it and see it all again at the Strand...

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

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Man with a Movie Camera

accompanied by live music

Monday, September 19 at 7 PM

A special event classic movie: Man with a Movie Camera accompanied by Live music.

Silent movies were never truly silent: they depended on musicians to play live music to complement the films. As part of their national tour. Montopolis, a chamber combo, under the direction of Justiin Sherburn, will give us a rare opportunity to experience this in the 21st Century. They have created a new score which they will be performing live along with the film.

Revered as a visual masterpiece and one of the greatest documentary films ever made, Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was shot in Ukraine, and gives historical context to the current Russian invasion and lays bare the costs of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The joyful original score by Montopolis celebrates the beauty and resilience of Ukraine’s people and aims to inspire American audiences to support the country in its time of need.

Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Moscow and the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Odesa during the late-1920s. It has no actors. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters", they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.

Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (at one point it features a split-screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted it the 8th greatest film ever made, and it was later named the best documentary of all time in the same magazine.

100% of the revenue from poster sales at these events are donated to UNICEF to support the refugee crisis in Ukraine.

Here's a link to a page with a trailer showing excerpts of the film and the band accompanying it:
https://www.montopolismusic.com/man-with-a-movie-camera

Okay , it's a Monday night, but this is special. Come see this once in a lifetime event...

Tickets are $15 and available at the Highway 61 Coffeehouse as well as at the door.

And free popcorn.

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

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

Thursday, June 9, 2022

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.

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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!

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

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.