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Delta Blues Symposium X:
The 1950s  

Delta Film Series:
 
March 22-24:
 
Monday, 22 March
7:00 PM - Film: A Face in the Crowd
(Museum 157)
 
Tuesday, 23 March
7:00 PM - Film: Mystery Train
(Museum 157)
 
Wednesday, 24 March
7:00 – Film: Lalee’s Kin
(Museum 157)
 

The Delta Blues Symposium X: The 1950s, begins this year’s program with a film series in ASU’s Museum 157 during the first three evenings of the week of the symposium, March 22-24.  The first film in the series, which shows on Monday, March 22nd at 7 P.M.., is the 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan's exploration of pop culture, starring Andy Griffith. With the help of  radio producer Patricia Neal, Griffith 's Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes achieves national fame as a folksy TV idol who exploits his power over the masses. The film includes startling, near-documentary sequences shot on location in Arkansas and also stars Walter Matthau and Lee Remick.  The next film in the series, which will be shown at 7 P.M. on Tuesday, Museum 157, is a film by Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train (1990), which takes its name from a recording Elvis Presley made for Sun Records in 1955.   Mystery Train is three stories of wandering tourists and lost souls unknown to each other while drifting through Memphis. The final evening of the film series that precedes the Delta Blues Symposium is Wednesday, March 24th at 7 P.M., Museum 157, and features a free screening of  Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton. Nominated for a 2001 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, the film follows three generations of African Americans from the Mississippi Delta as they live with extreme poverty and illiteracy.
 
Like all events during the Delta Blues Symposium (March 25-27), these films are free and open to the public.