Paducah's Maiden Alley Cinema has a busy couple of weeks ahead with several special features and Music at MAC bookended by two acclaimed feature films: Punks-vs.-neo-Nazis thriller Green Room and the Tom Hanks-starring comedic drama, A Hologram for the King. John Null caught up with MAC's film programming director John Holt to discuss the coming attractions.
Green Room stars Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Mark Webber, Macon Blair and Patrick Stewart. It's about a group of touring musicians who witness a murder at a backwoods Oregon bar and are then held captive by the bar's neo-Nazi proprietors, led by Stewart. The film is directed by Jeremy Saulnier, whose previous feature, Blue Ruin, showed at Maiden Alley in 2014. Green Room starts Friday, June 10 and plays through Sunday, June 12.
Tom Hanks stars in A Hologram for the King, based on the National Book Award finalist of the same name by Dave Eggers. It's about an American businessman hit hard by the Great Recession, who journeys to Saudi Arabia to sell a holographic conferencing system to the king. The film co-stars Sarita Choudhury, Ben Whishaw and Tom Skerritt, and is directed by Tom Tykwer, who previously teamed with Hanks for Cloud Atlas. A Hologram for the King is showing Friday, June 17 through Tuesday, June 21.
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the 2003 drama Pieces of April and the locally-produced The Dooms Chapel Horror all have one-off showings next week, as well. For showtimes and more information about events at Maiden Alley, click here.
