Oct 23 2018
Macon Film Guild Presents:

Macon Film Guild Presents: "The King" Documentary

Presented by Macon Film Guild at Douglass Theatre

The King (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


 

 

Admission Info

$5.00 General Admission

 

Dates & Times

2018/10/23 - 2018/10/23

Location Info

Douglass Theatre

355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Macon, GA 31208