Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool: Sunday, March 11

Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm, 5pm and 7:30pm
Discussion following the 2pm show

UK, biography/drama/romance, 105 min., rated R for language, some sexual content and brief nudity

In 1979, a young actor working in London (Jamie Bell) discovers that his neighbor in his apartment house is onetime movie glamour girl (and Oscar winner) Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening). Despite their age difference, the two become a couple through a couple of stormy years before her death at age 57. “[Bening is] marvelously mutable, shifting subtly from insecure to prideful and back again as her allure drains and her strength fails. As marvelous as she is, it’s Mr. Bell who might be the film’s greatest surprise. Ever since he leapt onto our screens in 2000 as a gawky kid in ‘Billy Elliot,’ his opportunities to play a romantic lead have been virtually nil. Which is a pity, because he approaches ardor with a restrained sincerity that encourages us to trust the character.” – New York Times— New York Times

 

Douglass Theatre

355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Macon, Georgia 31201

Films are presented the second Sunday of each month at 2pm and 5pm, with a discussion following the 2pm show. Documentaries are quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon.