| | Grafton Nunes introduces Akira Kurosawa's riveting action epic SEVEN SAMURAI
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Voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in an international poll conducted by BBC Culture in 2018, Akira Kurosawa’s stirring 1954 epic, SEVEN SAMURAI, is set in 16th-century Japan, where a ragtag bunch of out-of-work samurai join together to protect a poor farming village from marauding bandits. Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura star in this influential classic that will be introduced Saturday at 6:30 pm by Grafton Nunes, film scholar and former President + CEO of the Cleveland Institute of Art. This 4K restoration includes an intermission. Special admission is $14; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $11. No passes or twofers will be honored or accepted. Here's the trailer.
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| | French master Bertrand Bonello's COMA is a neo-Lynchian mystery vying for cult status
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From Bertrand Bonello, the director of The Beast and Zombi Child, comes COMA, the tale of an 18-year-old girl, homebound and perpetually online during a global health crisis, who falls under the spell of a mysterious vlogger named Patricia Coma. Eventually, the lines between the teen’s dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur—rendered on screen with a dazzling mix of animation and live action. Catch the Cleveland premiere engagement of the 2022 FIPRESCI Award winner for Best Film on Friday at 7:00 pm or Sunday at 8:15 pm. Watch the trailer.
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| | Magnetic Clara Bow becomes the "It Girl" in Badger and Sternberg's comedy IT (1927)
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Clara Bow (whom Taylor Swift sings about in her Tortured Poets Department album) rocketed to stardom in Clarence Badger and Josef von Sternberg's blockbuster silent film IT (1927). Bow plays a poor but spunky department store clerk who has designs on her handsome, wealthy boss. The film proved so popular that Bow was known ever after as the "It Girl." Gary Cooper co-stars. See the new 4K restoration with a music track Saturday at 5:00 pm.
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| | Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of the classic coming-of-age novel THE OUTSIDERS
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An amazing cast of future stars—Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze—shines in Francis Ford Coppola’s THE OUTSIDERS. Based upon S. E. Hinton’s novel of the same name, the film tells the story of two teen gangs from opposite sides of the tracks in 1960s Tulsa. Tom Waits, Sofia Coppola, and Hinton herself also appear. This 1983 film shows from a 35mm scope print of the original theatrical version (not the expanded "complete novel" cut) Thursday at 6:45 pm and Friday at 8:45 pm. Special admission is $14; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $11. No passes or twofers will be honored or accepted. See the trailer here.
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| | The wrong-man thriller TIME OF THE HEATHEN explores postwar guilt and faith
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Once thought lost but recently rediscovered and newly restored, the 1961 indie-film anomaly, TIME OF THE HEATHEN, is the only movie by theater actor/director/teacher Peter Kass. Shot in upstate New York and set four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the film tells of a Bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the killing of a Black housekeeper and then is himself accused of the crime, leading him to flee with the woman’s deaf-mute son. This B&W movie’s somber mood of post-traumatic distress and collective guilt eventually explodes into a psychedelic climax. Cinematography by the experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and score by the avant-garde composer Lejaren Hiller add on to the arresting atmosphere. The film receives its Cleveland revival premiere in a 4K restoration Sunday at 4:30 pm. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Lightbox Film Center, University of the Arts at Illuminate Hollywood laboratory, in collaboration with Corpus Fluxus and Audio Mechanics from the 35mm picture, soundtrack negative and the original ¼” stereo master recording of Lejaren Hiller’s score. Funding provided by Ron and Suzanne Naples. Here's the trailer.
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| | A PRINCE paints a quiet, literate portrait of gay desire in the French countryside
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John Waters’ second favorite film of 2023 (and part of the Cahiers du Cinéma’s top ten list), A PRINCE is a painterly, pastoral tale of a gay horticulture student and gardener whose relationships with three older mentors—his school’s principal, his botany teacher, and his employer—expand his knowledge of plants and unleash his sexuality. Pierre Creton's quiet, meditative work relays its story largely through voiceover; one of the three narrators is Mathieu Amalric. The filmmaker plays the older version of the main character. NY Times deems this French film a "Critic’s Pick," calling it "spellbinding." Catch the Cleveland premiere engagement Thursday at 8:40 pm or Sunday at 6:30 pm. Here's the trailer.
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| This Week
Thu., July 11, 6:45 pm
Fri., July 12, 8:45 pm
Francis Ford Coppola: Adolescence Now
THE OUTSIDERS
In 35mm!
$14/$11
Thu., July 11, 8:40 pm
Sun., Jul. 14, 6:30 pm
A botanist's queer sexual awakenings in
A PRINCE
$12/$9
Fri., July 12, 7:00 pm
Sun., July 14, 8:15 pm
Enigmatic and poetic lockdown mystery COMA
$12/$9
Sat., July 13, 5:00 pm
Sternberg & Badger's blockbuster comedy
IT (1927)
4K restoration!
$12/$9
Sat., July 13, 6:30 pm
Grafton Nunes presents
SEVEN SAMURAI
New 4K restoration!
$14/$11
Sun., July 14, 4:30 pm
Reckoning with postwar America in
TIME OF THE HEATHEN
4K restoration!
$12/$9
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Next Week
KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA
BANEL & ADAMA
THE NAVIGATOR
RUMBLE FISH
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
BUCKEYES GO! VINTAGE “ROAD MOVIES” MADE IN OHIO
introduced by Neil McCormick of Cinécraft
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