The King: Tuesday, October 23

Showing @ 7:30pm

Germany-USA, documentary, 107 min., rated R for language

Director Eugene Jarecki drives Elvis Presley’s old Rolls Royce across the country, taking the pulse of the USA in the present while looking at the rocker’s rise-and-fall story. With Alec Baldwin, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, James Carville, John Hiatt, Ethan Hawke and more. “Wildly ambitious, thoroughly entertaining and embellished with some snaky moves, Eugene Jarecki’s documentary is a lot like its nominal subject, Elvis Presley. In part, it tells the familiar story of the poor little boy who became a king. But Mr. Jarecki has a second, larger and more complicated story he wants to address, too: that of the United States. Tying one man’s body to the body politic, he seeks to turn Presley’s life – from ravishing, thrilling youth to ravaging, putrefying fame – into the story of the country, an arc that takes the documentary from Graceland to Trumpland.” – 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.