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We meet at landmarks like the Cedar Lee, Capitol, Cinematheque, Art Museum, or a university/ library and often walk to a locally owned restaurant to engage others on the film's true meaning.
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NEW DATE THIS SATURDAY Pressure - Cedar Lee - Anatolia
Cedar Lee Theatre, 2163 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH, USI had to change the date due to another conflict.
It was twenty years ago today, we started the CIMG meetup. Appropriately, we bookend two WWII films Our first movie was about Sopthie Scholl, a German activisit. Pressure is about the Normandy invation.
I will share some stories of our 20 year run at dinner.MOVIE
Meet in the lobby before (optional) and afterwards.EATS
We will walk down Lee to the restaurant, about 5-10 minutes away across the street. We may be on the patio, weather permitting.DESCRIPTION
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.Trailer
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“If you think that a movie about weather forecasting would be duller than dishwater, think again. It makes a well-known historical event into a nail biting, suspenseful war time drama."HELP CHIP IN
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TASTE OF CHERRY (1997) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Indian Flame
Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, USAn Iranian man planning to commit suicide drives through the countryside in search of some stranger willing to give him a decent burial.
Here's the New YorkTimes video review (with several scenes from the film)
“At once a compelling human story and an utterly fresh piece of moviemaking, the picture reconfirms [director] Kiarostami's growing reputation as one of world film's most original talents.” - Christian Science Monitor
“The film has a remarkable austerity and starkness….It is Kiarostami's greatest film.” - The Guardian
Winner of the Palme d’Or (top prize) at the Cannes Film Festival.
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
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5:45 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid).
AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Indian Flame, 11607 Euclid Avenue, a one minute walk from the theater, directly across Euclid from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Click here for the menu
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THE WRONG MAN (1956) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Home Bistro
Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, USBased on true story. An honest, hard-working New York city musician (Henry Fonda), devoted husband and father of two, having been incorrectly identified by numerous eyewitnesses, is arrested and tried for a crime he did not commit.
“[Director] Alfred Hitchcock draws upon real-life drama for this gripping piece of realism.” – Variety (1957)
“Hitchcock’s ultimate point evokes cosmic terror: innocence is merely a trick of paperwork” – Richard Brody writing in The New Yorker (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
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5:00 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid).
AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Home Bistro, 12022 Mayfield Road, a ten minute walk from the Cinematheque. On exiting the Cleveland Institute of Art, walk south (away from Euclid Ave) on 116th Street/Circle Drive to Mayfield Road. Turn left on Mayfield, and Home Bistro is a little way up the hill, on the right-hand side of the street, just past Random Road, across from the Church. Click here for the menu
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SPIDER (2002) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Mama Santa's
Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, USThe mind of a schizophrenic man (Ralph Fiennes) endlessly replays his tortured childhood dominated by an abusive father (Gabriel Byrne).
“Brilliantly realized but bone-chillingly bleak…Spider is as harrowing a portrait of one man's tormented isolation as the commercial cinema has produced.” - New York Times
“audiences who respond to the director [David Cronenberg]’s strange hybrid world of reality and dark imagination will be gripped from the opening scenes through the taut final act” - Variety
Roten Tomatoes: 84%
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6:30 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid).
AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Mama Santa's, 12301 Mayfield Road, a ten minute walk from the Cinematheque. On exiting the Cleveland Institute of Art, walk south (away from Euclid Ave) on 116th Street/Circle Drive to Mayfield Road. Turn left on Mayfield, and Mama Santa is up the hill on the left side of the street, just past Trattoria Roman Garden, at the corner of 123rd Street. Click here for the menu
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