Free fun this Sat & Sun - FREE Jazz Movies at The Kimball Theatre Presented by Winter Blues Jazz Fest - These movies are free and no tickets will be issued. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. https://facebook/events/829320860452772/ Bird (1988) Sat., Jan. 17 at 4 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Rated: R Bird is a 1988 American biographical film, produced and directed by Oscar® - winning Director Clint Eastwood and starring Oscar® - winner Forest Whitaker in the title role as saxophonist Charlie Yardbird Parker. Parker was one of the great fathers of jazz, a creator of bebop whose sound is absolutely distinctive. He created a bridge between the swing era and the cool jazz of the 1950s. Even as his career collapsed into disarray, his influence continued to grow until his early death at age 34. At the end, Bird was denied a cabaret license because of his drug use, and couldn’t even play in Birdland, the famous club named after him.161 mins. The Cotton Club (1984) Sat., Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 18 at 4 p.m. Rated: R Directed by Oscar® - winning Director Francis Ford Coppola and starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, and Diane Lane. Nominated for three Oscar® Awards, the movie takes place in New York in the 1920s, in flashy settings like the Cotton Club, a Harlem nightclub that featured the nations most talented black entertainers on stage -- playing before an all-white audience. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing, and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem’s Cotton Club. 127 mins.
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