'In the Heat of the Night'
When:
Friday, Jul 14, 2017 4:45p -
Saturday, Jul 15, 2017 9:00p
Friday, Jul 14, 2017 4:45p -
Saturday, Jul 15, 2017 9:00p
Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$11
Categories:
Film
Event website:
http://www.brattlefilm.org/2017/07/14/in-the-heat-of-the-night/
New Restoration! 50th Anniversary!
In Norman Jewison’s explosive, racially-charged film, Sidney Poitier stars as Virgil Tibbs, Philly’s #1 homicide detective who finds himself at odds with everyone from cops to killers when he gets swept up in a murder investigation in small town Mississippi. Rod Steiger co-stars as the town’s racist sheriff who begrudgingly admits that he could use the help of this big-city ‘boy.’
With staggeringly powerful performances by both Poitier and Steiger, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was a monster hit upon its release and won 5 Oscars including Best Picture (though, tellingly, Poitier wasn’t even nominated). It remains, to this day, a superlative film with remarkable talent both in front of and behind the camera – shot by Haskell Wexler, edited by Hal Ashby, music by Quincy Jones – and is not to be missed on the big screen in this new 50th anniversary restoration.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) dir Norman Jewison w/Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant [109 min; DCP]
Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/K9bzzr3uhco
