Wednesday, April 21, 7pm
In conjunction with our own Hard Country Wednesdays, Delilah’s is very pleased to be hosting a tasting of all currently available High West Whiskies. High West is Utah’s only distillery and one of the most interesting in the industry today. Owner David Perkins will be in all night to sample and discuss his Rendezvous Rye, 16yr and 21yr Rye expressions and his new vatted Bourye – two types of Rye mixed with one Bourbon. Free.
Jimmy Cliff plays Ivan, a renegade songwriter from the boondocks of Jamaica who comes to the big city looking for dreams and only finds reality. He’s ripped off, beaten up, falls in love, deals ganja and finally sells a song for $20 – and then things really get interesting. This film really put reggae on the map in America. Dir. Pery Henzell. Starring: Jimmy Cliff. (103 min.)
Countess Irina Karlstein fellates her male lovers to death, eventually falling in love with one of her victims, she drowns herself in a bath of blood in order to rejoin her beloved in the realm of the dead. Dir. Jess Franco. Starring: Lina Romay, Alice Arno & Jack Taylor. (94mins)
To escape his religious fanatic father, J.C. (McGaha) flees his strict background, becoming the leader of a bike gang. One night, during a righteous LSD trip, he “sees the light” and preaches a sermon to his fellow tripping biker buddies to head west with him to freedom and a life with no hang-ups. Alas, they get no further than J.C.’s home town and soon fall headlong into a confrontation with the uptight townsfolk. It’s the life of Jesus told as a hippy-biker parable.
Directed by William F. McGaha. Starring: Hannibal Penney, Joanna Cookmoore, Slim Pickens, Burr Debenning. (96 mins)
Recent documentary, with great interviews of his closest friends and family.
Gathered from over 400 hours of footage that includes a decade of home movies, personal interviews, live shows and the Lips’ feature film – Christmas On Mars, The Fearless Freaks has been realized. This is an amazingly intimate look at one of today’s most acclaimed alternative rock bands. Dir. Bredley Beesley (110min)
Hounded by the cops, the mob and other hostile adversaries, McQueen responds with a lethal control, blasting his way through shootouts that teeter on madness to the loot, the girl and onward to Mexico. Dir. Sam Peckinpah. Starring: Steve McQueen.
Filmed initially in 1992 during the filming of a Johnny Thunders documentary, director Lech Kowalski brings us the life and times of Ramones bassist and all-star burnout Dee Dee Ramone. Dir. Lech Kowalski (63mins)
McQueen at his best as a multi-millionaire who plots and executes the perfect bank heist – the original and clearly the better version of this film. Dir. Norman Jewison. Starring: Steve McQueen.
This film brilliantly documents the King of Soul as he performs on Where The Action Is with Dick Clark and on American Bandstand in the mid to late ‘60s – over 40 songs. (120min)
McQueen’s last movie has him playing a born out of his time bounty hunter bringing in bail skippers in his beat-up old car. Dir. Buzz Kulik. Starring: Steve McQueen.
