Directed by Bert Stern
USA | 1959/2020 | 85 mins |
Film Source: Kino Lorber
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Free and open to the public. Bring your chair or blanket, grab delicious food from A Single Pebble food truck followed by Lake Champlain Chocolates special ice cream, and settle down to enjoy the film with its great music.
*** Location: Birch Cliff Street lawn at Lake Champlain Chocolates, Pine Street, Burlington. Parking available on the street or in the lot behind/next to the Lake Champlain Chocolate building.
***Note that space will be limited to comply with health regulations. Please reserve in advance, online, with the total number in your group selected. Walk ups as space allows. Masks required when not in your socially distanced spot. No dogs allowed.
***Food trucks and check in starting at 6pm, film starts at approximately 7:15pm (sunset). Check in required at the VTIFF table.
Rain Date Thursday, September 3rd. Weather related announcements will be posted if needed via social media and on the website earlier in the day on 9/2.
*** Note: if you can’t make it to the event, you can catch it on our Virtual Cinema HERE
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
The 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordinary and possibly the first concert film ever made. Its sparkling new 4K restoration by IndieCollect, recently premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival. The film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999, and its restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film’s 60th Anniversary.
Worth reading the press kit which include original posters and reviews HERE