| | Jim Jarmusch's Detroit-set ethereal vampire romance ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
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In ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, Adam and Eve (Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton) are sophisticated vampire lovers married for centuries. Their relationship is tested by the sudden arrival of Eve’s unruly younger sister from L.A. (Mia Wasikowska). Jim Jarmusch’s wry, laconic nocturnal fantasy is set largely within the underground music scene of a devastated Detroit, and asks the question of how to live a good life when you're eternal. Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, and John Hurt co-star. Here's the trailer.
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| | FAMILY WHITE ELEPHANTS Mary Jo Bole in Person!
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In her first feature film, FAMILY WHITE ELEPHANTS, prominent Cleveland-born-and-raised (now Columbus-based) artist Mary Jo Bole mines an eccentric inherited archive to trace her family tree, which includes industrial magnates like the Carnegies and Rockefellers on one side and Eastern European immigrant factory workers on the other. Piecing together stories via a collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera, and aided by interviews with her now deceased mother, Bole provides a familial front-row seat to the Gilded Age of Cleveland and its demise. Bole will answer audience questions after the Cleveland premiere screening. This event is presented as part of Art House Theater Day, a nationwide celebration of art house cinemas and independent film. See the trailer here.
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| | A milestone of Pre-Revolution Iranian Cinema is set in the moral drama DOWNPOUR
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DOWNPOUR, the entrancing 1972 first feature by esteemed Iranian moviemaker and theater director Bahram Beyzaie (Bashu, the Little Stranger) is one of the key works of Iran’s pre-revolution "New Wave." Restored from the only known film print, the work employs humor and style to tell of a newly-arrived schoolteacher who falls for the beautiful sister of one of his unruly students. But she is betrothed to a wealthy butcher. According to the Wall St. Journal, "what appears to be just a charming comic romance is in fact a sober indictment of life in shah-era Tehran." The Museum of Modern Art considers it "one of the most accessible and beloved Iranian New Wave films." Restored in 2011 by Cineteca di Bologna in association with The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project and Bahram Beyzai. Cleveland revival premiere. Here's the trailer.
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| | Discover best of independent filmmakers in 2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR
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Seven short films from January’s 40th Sundance Film Festival—fiction, nonfiction, and animation—make up 2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR, the latest edition of this popular annual program. Sundance is widely considered the premier American showcase for new independent short films, serving for four decades as the launchpad for many now-prominent filmmakers, including Andrea Arnold, Damien Chazelle, Sky Hopinka, and Taika Waititi. Four countries (USA, UK, Japan, and Spain) are represented in this year’s collection, and three festival award winners are included: Phoebe Jane Hart’s Bug Diner (Short Film Jury Award: Animation); Makoto Nagahisa’s Pisko the Crab Child Is in Love (Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing); and Àlex Lora Cercós’ The Masterpiece (Short Film Grand Jury Prize). For the complete program, visit www.sundance.org/shortstour. Cleveland premiere engagement. See the trailer here.
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| | 37-73, the visually inventive autobiographical work by Richard Myers - 50th anniversary
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37-73, Richard Myers’ surreal dream-memory piece about growing up in Massillon, Ohio, is an ideal introduction to the visually-stunning work of this NE Ohio-based (but nationally known) artist and indie filmmaker, a Cleveland Arts Prize recipient. Myers’ award-winning movies have been praised by Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, and many others. The film’s title references the year Myers was born and the year the film was shot. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, 37-73 screens from a 16mm print.
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| | Early fears of Artificial Intelligence in Cold-War era COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT
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In Joseph Sargent's 1970 movie COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT, U.S. government officials who apparently never saw 2001: A Space Odyssey assign control of the country’s nuclear weapons to a supercomputer. What could possibly go wrong? This early AI thriller from the future director of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a big favorite among those who know it. Shown from a Scope DCP. Here's the trailer.
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| This Week
Thu., July 25, 7:00 pm
Cleveland-born artist Mary Jo Bole in Person!
FAMILY WHITE ELEPHANTS
$12/$9
Fri., July 26, 7:00 pm
Sun., July 28, 8:30 pm
A vampire movie for old souls
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
$12/$9
Fri., July 26, 9:25 pm
Sat., July 27, 7:30 pm
7 int'l short films in
2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR
$12/$9
Sat., July 27, 5:00 pm
The film that helped pave the way for Iranian New Wave
DOWNPOUR
New Digital Restoration!
$12/$9
Sat., July 27, 9:40 pm
Sun., July 28, 6:30 pm
1970s Sci-Fi Thriller
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT
$12/$9
Sun., July 28, 4:30 pm
50th Anniversary! Surreal experimental film by Ohio-based artist Richard Myers
37-73
In 16mm!
$12/$9
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Next Week
LAST SUMMER
THE NATURE OF LOVE
HOUSE OF USHER (1960)
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER
THE SMALL BACK ROOM
BRICK AND MIRROR
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