| | 1966 coming-of-age comedy YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW opens new three-film series "Francis Ford Coppola: Adolescence Now"
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Francis Ford Coppola’s breakthrough 1966 film YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW is a French New Wave-inspired comedy about a 19-year-old virgin (Peter Kastner), living in a NYC boarding house, who tries to shake his over-protective parents and make it with a go-go dancer (Elizabeth Hartman). The great supporting cast includes Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Julie Harris, and Karen Black, and the soundtrack includes songs by the Lovin’ Spoonful. It's the first film in our new series "Francis Ford Coppola: Adolescence Now." See it in a 4K DCP Saturday at 5:00 pm or Sunday at 8:15 pm.
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| | REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD features the first appearance of John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Doors, Alice Cooper, and other legendary musicians performed before 20,000 fans at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival music festival in September, 1969. Ron Chapman's new film REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD is a behind-the-scenes look at that one-day concert that has been called "the second most important event in rock and roll history." Culminating in John Lennon's first public performance with the Plastic Ono Band, the festival almost didn’t happen. Catch the Cleveland theatrical premiere of this Canadian/French co-production Sunday at 6:30 pm. Here's the trailer.
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| | Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci star in CASINO, Martin Scorsese's epic of 1970s Las Vegas -- which will be shown from 4K DCP, not 35mm, as previously announced
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Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci star in CASINO, Martin Scorsese’s bravura 1995 epic of 1970s Las Vegas, about a Chicago bookmaker with Mafia connections who is sent west to manage the Tangiers casino and hotel. Things go swimmingly for him—until they don’t. Goodfellas co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi co-wrote the screenplay, adapting his nonfiction book. Don Rickles co-stars. Casino will show from a 4K DCP (not a 35mm print, as promised in our print calendar) Saturday at 7:00 pm. Special admission is $15; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $12. No passes or twofers will be honored or accepted. Watch the trailer here.
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| | Dying dad searches for a new family for his young son in moving NOWHERE SPECIAL
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Uberto Pasolini's touching, understated drama NOWHERE SPECIAL stars James Norton (Little Women) as a 35-year-old single father who learns that he is dying, prompting him to look for a new family for his three-year-old son. IndieWire considers this new British film "one of the great father-son movies." Catch its Cleveland theatrical premiere Sunday at 4:00 pm. See the trailer here.
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| | Slapstick epic HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS returns for its fourth raucous engagement
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In Mike Cheslik's HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, a 19th-century trapper battles scores of buck-toothed varmints (all played by humans in mascot costumes) who have destroyed his applejack distillery. This wordless, wildly inventive, live-action comic book-cum-videogame -- the indie comedy sensation of 2024 -- returns by popular demand Friday at 9:00 pm. Here's the trailer.
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| | Unauthorized trans Batman satire THE PEOPLE’S JOKER returns by popular demand
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Vera Drew’s semi-autobiographical Batman satire THE PEOPLE’S JOKER—about an aspiring clown (Drew) in a Gotham City where comedy is outlawed—is a gutsy, gonzo work that reimagines the origin story of the Caped Crusader’s nemesis as a trans coming-of-age tale. This indie favorite returns by popular demand Friday at 7:00 pm. Here's the trailer.
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| This Week
Fri., July 5, 7:00 pm
Back by Popular Demand!
Batman satire and trans origin story
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER
$12/$9
Fri., July 5, 9:00 pm
Back Again by Popular Demand!
Indie Upper Midwest slapstick epic
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
$12/$9
Sat., July 6, 5:00 pm
Sun., July 7, 8:15 pm
Francis Ford Coppola: Adolescence Now
coming-of-age comedy in 1960s NYC
YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW
$12/$9
Sat., July 6, 7:00 pm
Robert De Niro,
Sharon Stone,
Joe Pesci in
Martin Scorsese's
Las Vegas epic
CASINO
Showing in 4K DCP
instead of 35mm.
$15/$12
Sun., July 7, 4:00 pm
Moving father-son tale
NOWHERE SPECIAL
$12/$9
Sun., July 7, 6:30 pm
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Chuck Berry, Little Richard in
REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD
$12/$9
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Next Week
THE OUTSIDERS
A PRINCE
COMA
IT (1927)
SEVEN SAMURAI
introduced by
Grafton Nunes
TIME OF THE HEATHEN
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