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11610 EUCLID AEUE, CLEELAD, 44106 THE LIFE ARTISTIC: JULY / AUGUST 2016 WES ANDERSON + MARK MOTHERSBAUGH July and August 2016 programming has been generously sponsored by TE LIFE AUATIC ... AUATIC TE LIFE 4 FILMS! ALL 35MM PRINTS! JULY 7-29, 2016 THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CINEMATHEQUE 11610 EUCLID AVENUE, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE, CLEVELAND OHIO 44106 The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque is Cleveland’s alternative film theater. Founded in 1986, the Cinematheque presents movies in CIA’s Peter B. Lewis Theater at 11610 Euclid Avenue in the Uptown district of University Circle. This new, 300-seat theater is equipped with a 4K digital cinema projector, two 35mm film projectors, and 7.1 Dolby Digital sound. Free, lighted parking for filmgoers is currently available in two CIA lots located off E. 117th Street: Lot 73 and the Annex Lot. (Those requiring disability park- ing should use Lot 73.) Enter the building through Entrance C (which faces E. 117th) or Entrance E (which faces E. 115th). Unless noted, admission to each screening is $10; Cinematheque members, CIA and Cleveland State University I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $7. A second film on LOCATION OF THE the same day generally costs $7. For further information, visit PETER B. LEWIS THEATER (PBL) cia.edu/cinematheque, call (216) 421-7450, or send an email BLACK IL to [email protected]. Smoking is not permitted in the Institute. TH EACH FILM $10 • MEMBERS, CIA, AGE 25 & UNDER $7 • ADDITIONAL FILM ON SAME DAY $7 OUR 30 ANNIVERSARY! FREE LIGHTED PARKING • TEL 216.421.7450 • CIA.EDU/CINEMATHEQUE BLOOD SIMPLE TIKKU INGTON TE LIFE ATISTIC: C I N E M A T A L K ES ADES AK TESBAU ul 72 (4 lms) obody creates cinematic universes like es Anderson. is whimsical, BY JOHN EWING, CIEATEUE DIECT intricately detailed realms (an exclusive private high school, vintage he April death of Sheldon igod, who was the co-founder, artistic director, New ork City, a ship in the editerranean, et al.) nominally exist in Tand public face of the ew ayfield epertory Cinema in Little Italy from the real world, but they actually reside only in the designy, movie- and 1975 to 1985, has gotten me thinking about that old theater. literature-fueled imagination of the director. Anderson’s movies are Located at 12300 ayfield oad (a short walk from where the Peter B. Lewis often like dollhouses or art installations on screengloriously artificial, Theater is now), the ew ayfield was the Cinematheque of its day. It played populated by oddball characters, and telling funny/melancholy stories of classic films and cult films, as well as new art films that were too specialied for the region’s commercial art houses (which back then included the eights Art love and desire, dreams, loss, loneliness, and unachieved ambitions. Theatre on Coventry, the Colony on Shaker Square, the orld East at illtop To whom would one turn for music for such precious, playful, and A SECD LK Plaa, the orld est at Kamm’s Plaa, the illage at I-271 and Chagrin, and, poignant works Anderson picked ark othersbaugh, a composer and starting in 1977, the Cedar Lee in Cleveland eights). Sheldon, who had a Ph.D. fellow visual artist (originally from Akron) who demonstrated an affinity June 30 – August 21 (18 different programs) in English and taught at Baldwin allace and later at Tri-C (he also once taught a for color and concept and quirk as a founding member of DE and as wo restored classics by King u, two more by Penelope Spheeris, and film course at the Cleveland Institute of Art, I have learned), would introduce most the composer for Pee-wee’s Playhouse. e scored Anderson’s first four Tassorted other classics (and some CIFF reruns) you may have missed. of the C screenings. e stood in a spotlight directed at one of the theater’s features. othersbaugh is the subject of Myopia, an exhibition at the Plus a visit by the dean of hio filmmakers, ichard yers. front rows and, after clearing his throat, would talk briey about the history and TU 6/30 6:00 P TE FITS reputation of the film he was about to show, and also dish on the picture’s stars. useum of Contemporary Art Cleveland through August 28, so we and TU 6/30 7:30 P A TUC F E Sheldon loved classic ollywood movies (and they’re what packed the theater on CA have teamed up to show all four of the Anderson/othersbaugh FI 7/1 7:00 P TE FITS summer nights), but he also showedand introducedother types of films: inter- collaborations in uly, all from 35mm. CA members pay only $8 to any PREMIERE SHOWCASE FI 7/1 8:30 P A TUC F E national classics, weird contemporary indies like Liquid Sky and Eraserhead, and of them. Special thanks to Deidre McPherson, MOCA. SAT 7/2 5:00 PM NOTORIOUS new foreign works by Fassbinder, Tarkovsky, and others. People loved Sheldon, July 2 – August 29 (16 different programs) TU 7/7 6:45 P BTTLE CKET SUN 7/3 6:30 PM NOTORIOUS and his enlightening and enthusiastic talks are what they best remember about he first Cleveland showing of major new films by France’s Arnaud FI 7/8 9:15 P BTTLE CKET TU 7/7 8:40 P F AFA the ew ayfield (along with the regular clunk of wooden armrests falling to the Desplechin, Iran’s ohsen akhmalbaf, Poland’s Andrej ulawski, THU 7/14 6:45 PM RUSHMORE SAT 7/9 5:00 P F AFA oor during screenings). T Spain’s Carlos Saura, South Korea’s ong Sang-soo, and others. Plus FI 7/15 9:15 P USE SAT 7/9 6:55 PM DRAGON INN Architecturally and aesthetically, the C was undistinguished. (It made visiting filmmaker Peter Flynn at a special show paying tribute to our three THU 7/21 6:45 PM THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS SAT 7/9 9:10 P TE DECLIE F ESTE CIILIATI our old Aitken Auditorium look like the Palace) The theater was on one level projectionists FI 7/22 9:15 P TE AL TEEBAUS SU 7/10 6:30 P TE DECLIE F ESTE CIILIATI (no balcony). Tickets were sold in the exterior foyer, and there was a small in- TU 7/28 6:45 P TE LIFE AUATIC IT STEE ISSU SUN 7/10 8:30 PM DRAGON INN terior lobby separated from the auditorium only by curtains, as I recall. The the- SAT 7/2 7:05 PM MY GOLDEN DAYS FI 7/29 9:15 P TE LIFE AUATIC IT STEE ISSU TU 7/14 8:40 P KAIKAE 89 ater probably seated 400-500, and the seats were old and rickety (see armrest SAT 7/2 9:30 PM BRIDGEND DE PALMA I, FI 7/15 7:00 P KAIKAE 89 comment above). Located off the lobby in the north wing of the theater was the SUN 7/3 3:45 PM MY GOLDEN DAYS SAT 7/16 5:00 P BLACK IL Casablanca Bar, which served wine and beer in addition to more conventional SUN 7/3 8:35 PM BRIDGEND SU 7/17 3:30 P BLACK IL movie concessions. FI 7/8 7:00 P KAILI BLUES SAT 7/23 5:00 PM DOUGH Like the Cinematheque, the ew ayfield was a calendar house, with a printed SU 7/10 4:00 P KAILI BLUES SUN 7/24 4:15 PM DOUGH schedule that spanned, I think, three months. It played many double features, and SAT 7/16 6:45 P IKTIA SAT 7/30 5:00 P KI F A generally was open only ednesdays (or Thursdays) through Sundays. The bill SAT 7/16 9:40 PM THE PRESIDENT SAT 7/30 7:00 P AT A LEL A usually changed weekly. But during the summer, and at some other times, the the- SUN 7/17 1:15 PM THE PRESIDENT SU 7/31 1:15 P KI F A ater operated seven days a week, with a program change every two or three days. TU 7/21 8:55 P TIKKU TU 8/4 6:45 P AKA with filmmaker ichard yers hat else can I tell you about the ew ayfield The movie theater scene in FI 7/22 7:00 P CSS FI 8/5 7:45 P ITLEACE im armusch’s Stranger Than Paradise was shot there. The C had a female SAT 7/23 6:55 PM ARGENTINA SAT 7/23 8:40 PM COSMOS SAT 8/6 5:00 PM STRANGE VICTORY projectionist, Kathy Chambers, who was perhaps the only woman in the local FI 8/7 3:30 P STAE ICT operators union. Sheldon once showed a program of silent Laurel and ardy SUN 7/24 6:30 PM ARGENTINA FU, SE, SCA: SU 7/24 8:15 P TIKKU SU 8/7 3:30 P TE E LD (172-min. extended cut) shorts with live klemer music accompaniment. It proved very popular and some SEVEN BY BRIAN DE PALMA SAT 8/13 9:25 PM BLOOD SIMPLE people still talk about it. THU 7/28 9:05 PM DE PALMA FI 7/29 7:00 P DE PALA Auust 62 (7 lms) SUN 8/14 6:30 PM BLOOD SIMPLE I attended the ew ayfield regularly during its decade-long history. In 1984, SAT 8/20 8:20 PM MULTIPLE MANIACS SAT 7/30 9:45 P 2016 SUDACE FIL FESTIAL ST FIL TU lagiarist, misogynist, emotionless technicianBrian De Palma has before the Cinematheque was established, I even presented a series of midnight SAT 8/20 10:10 P TE DECLIE F ESTE CIILIATI PAT II: movies there.
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