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Tribute to Joe Williams’ Wonderful Life at The Tivoli August 8th
“Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
Joe Williams’s life touched many in St. Louis and his recent death has left an awful hole in the local film community. The beloved movie critic for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who died last Sunday in a car crash, often cited the 1946 Holiday classic IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as his all-time favorite film. Next Saturday. August 8th, Cinema St. Louis is teaming up with Landmark’s The Tivoli Theater for a Tribute to Joe Williams. The event begins at 11am. Friends and colleagues of Joe will be in attendance and will share remembrances and anecdotes about Joe’s life and career. The tribute will conclude with a screening of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets will need to be obtained at the theater box office. Click HERE to order online or obtain one from the Tivoli box office. There is a $1 service charge and .01 cent fee for online tickets.
Joe Williams interviewing director Oliver Stone onstage at The Tivoli in November of 2013
It wasn’t until the 1980s when IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE became the perennial holiday favorite it’s known as today. The ultimate feel-good classic from director Frank Capra was a box-office disappointment when it was initially released in 1946. Due to a clerical error in 1974, the film went into public domain and was then shown on every low-rent local access channel in varying degrees of quality for years and was released on VHS by a variety of fly-by-night home video companies – including the infamous colorized version. In 1993 Republic Pictures enforced its claim to the film’s copyright. It stopped being televised as often but by then everyone, especially Joe Williams, had fallen in love with its charms and taken to heart its message: It’s not so much about what you leave behind when you die, but it’s more about how you use your life while you live.
Saturday morning August 8th you and your family will have the opportunity to see IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE on the big screen (not the colorized version though) and celebrate the life and career of a fine journalist and film lover at The Tribute to Joe Williams.
A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1439550629706670/
The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130
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