Thursday, May 20 · 7:30pm
One Show Only
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird the Capri Theatre and the Alabama Humanities present a screening of the feature motion picture based on the novel.
To Kill A Mockingbird will be shown Thursday, May 20 at 7:30pm at the Capri Theatre. Tickets are $6.00 for Capri members and $8.00 for the general public. Tickets go on sale one half hour before the show.
This is a rare opportunity to view To Kill A Mockingbird in a theatre setting shown on 35mm film. The Capri Theatre has acquired a special archival print for this presentation.
The movie To Kill A Mockingbird was released on Christmas Day, 1962 (coincidentally, two days after the Clover Theatre re-opened as the Capri). Starring Gregory Peck, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Adapted Screenplay for Horton Foote. It lost out on Best Picture to Lawrence of Arabia.
Since then, To Kill A Mockingbird has become a beloved classic, not only as a faithful adaptation of the novel, but as a remarkable film in its own right.
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All of the above information is reposted from a Capri email.
On a personal note: lots of folks talk about how relevant the message of the movie is today. Uh, shouldn't that be a point of embarrassment to us all here in The South? Shouldn't it be someting we look at and just can't believe there was ever a time like that?
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