Cinema Nouveau presents Prairie Home Companion

[demopolite]

August 11-17, Cinema Nouveau will be presenting "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Historic Bama Theatre in Downtown Tuscaloosa.

A collaboration between the Arts Council and Alabama Public Radio , the opening night will feature live bluegrass music and the opportunity to win various door prizes. Executive Director Pam Penick stated that “The Arts Council is pleased to partner with Alabama Public Radio in this event, which highlights one of WUAL's most popular weekly programs.”

Opening night, August 11, will kick-off at 6:30 p.m. with a reception and live bluegrass music in the Greensboro Room. Admission is $6 general, $5 seniors and students, and $4 Arts Council members. For $10 admission, patrons will be eligible to win door prizes including a pair of season tickets to the Arts Council's Bluegrass , Big Bands, and More performing arts series, a PHC mug, t-shirt, or poster, and other Public Radio items. “Alabama Public Radio is excited about A Prairie Home Companion coming to the Bama Theatre. We are planning the opening night event which we hope will be fun for all attending,” stated Kathy Henslee of APR. Showtimes are weeknights and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

For more information, visit http://www.tuscarts.org/silver%20screen.html

[shells]

Well, how cool is this! Thank you demopolite for the info. Oh my, that's tomorrow night...

[demopolite]

Also of interest:

The Alabama Theatre in Downtown Birmingham will be wrapping up its summer film series with Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" this weekend. Bamalaw and I will most assuredly be there (we saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" there last weekend).

Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo and the stark horror of Psycho, North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock at his most effervescent in this romantic comedy-thriller. It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O. Thornhill, an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent. Convinced these sinister fellows are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy “Stranger on a Train” (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. Of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. Color-136m

Show times are Friday and Saturday at 7:00pm. Organ plays from 7:00 to 7:15pm. Sunday movies begin at 2:00pm. Organ plays from 1:30 to 2:00pm. We have scheduled a classic cartoon to be shown just before each film. Doors open one hour before show time for all shows. Tickets are $6.00 for adults, $5.00 for Sr. Citizens and children under 12. Due to scheduling, show times may vary and are SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please call the Alabama Theatre information line at 251-0418 for complete updates on film presentations or visit us online at www.alabamatheatre.com

For more information, visit http://www.alabamatheatre.com/eventdetail.aspx?eventid=263

Support the Arts!

[demopolite]

Don't forget "A Prairie Home Companion" and "North by Northwest" this weekend!

Gents, if you haven't taken your wife/girlfriend out in a while, this would be a nice date!

[mmcd3182]

I'd really like to go, but too short notice! :(