PREMIERE SHOWCASEJuly 1 – August 31 (16 different programs)

The first Cleveland showing of new films by Werner Herzog, KasperCollin, Bill Morrison, Matías Piñeiro, and others, plus a new documentary

on lacrosse featuring lacrosse great Jim Brown. Yes, that Jim Brown.SAT 7/1 7:15 PM OBIT.SUN 7/2 8:45 PM OBIT.THU 7/6 8:45 PM THE LEVELLINGFRI 7/7 9:15 PM QUEEN OF THE DESERTSAT 7/8 6:40 PM QUEEN OF THE DESERTSUN 7/9 8:10 PM THE LEVELLINGTHU 7/13 8:35 PM THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKIFRI 7/14 7:30 PM THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKIFRI 7/14 9:25 PM I CALLED HIM MORGANSAT 7/15 6:45 PM SPIRIT GAME: PRIDE OF A NATIONSUN 7/16 4:15 PM I CALLED HIM MORGANSUN 7/16 8:10 PM SPIRIT GAME: PRIDE OF A NATIONTHU 7/20 6:45 PM ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTSFRI 7/21 7:15 PM HEAL THE LIVINGSUN 7/23 4:00 PM HEAL THE LIVINGSUN 7/23 8:50 PM ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTSFRI 7/28 7:30 PM MANIFESTOSAT 7/29 6:40 PM 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOURSUN 7/30 6:30 PM 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOURSUN 7/30 8:25 PM MANIFESTOTHU 8/3 8:30 PM DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIMESUN 8/6 3:30 PM DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIMETHU 8/10 8:50 PM HARMONIUMFRI 8/11 9:30 PM TOMORROWSAT 8/12 6:45 PM TOMORROWSUN 8/13 8:15 PM HARMONIUMTHU 8/17 6:45 PM HERMIA & HELENAFRI 8/18 9:30 PM I AM THE BLUESSUN 8/20 6:30 PM I AM THE BLUESSUN 8/20 8:40 PM HERMIA & HELENATHU 8/31 6:45 PM GRAPHIC MEANS: A HISTORY OF GRAPHIC

DESIGN PRODUCTION

C I N E M A T A L K

BY JOHN EWING, CINEMATHEQUE DIRECTOR

Ifirst saw a movie by the late Swedish nature filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff sometimebetween 1976 and 1983, when I was running the Canton Film Society in my

hometown of Canton, Ohio. The CFS was sponsored by the Stark County DistrictLibrary, for whom I worked, so it was less a film society than a film series thatshowed free 16mm movies every Thursday night at a branch library.

For the most part, the Canton Film Society rented the films it presented. Butsometimes if would supplement its feature presentation with a short movie fromthe library’s collection of 16mm films. Sucksdorff’s 1948 short A Divided Worldwas one of these add-ons.

I knew from the very first frames that this was not going to be a routine edu-cational short subject. The movie opened with a logo for Janus Films, thevenerable American art house distributor of masterpieces by Ingmar Bergman,Akira Kurosawa, and many others. The opening chords of a Bach organ fantasiathat constitutes the soundtrack of this wordless, moody outdoor drama (alongwith animals’ cries and the ominous sound of wind in trees) also tipped me offthat A Divided World was not going to be your garden-variety nature film. Lastbut not least, the movie was in black and white—a far cry from Disney’s colorful,popular, Oscar-winning series of short and feature-length nature films, “True-LifeAdventures.”A Divided World is set in a snow-covered Swedish forest in the dead of winter

and tells a story of predators and prey. But it does so with some of the most beau-tifully lit and photographed animal footage ever captured on film. I wondered howSucksdorff got these close-ups of a rabbit, a fox, an ermine, and an owl. (Now Iknow: he waited.) But there was more than wildlife in the work. What was thedeal with the bubbling pool at the beginning of the movie, the illuminated church(obviously a model) in the background of some later shots, and the farmsteaddepicted at the film’s end? This cryptic nine-minute wonder seemed to be somesort of allegory.

Intrigued, I constructed an elaborate interpretation. Sucksdorff was depictingnothing less than the evolution of life on earth—from the primordial swamp (thebubbling ooze) to the savage wilderness on terra firma where only the strong sur-vive. From there he moves to a representation of human cultivation andcivilization, and finally to an elevated spiritual realm where there is perhaps sal-vation and deliverance from death. (The owl who watches over everything seemsto symbolize some sort of all-seeing, superior being. It eventually intercedes onbehalf of a weaker creature, rescuing it from the jaws of its killer, and lifting it sky-ward above the fray.)

That’s certainly a lot of metaphorical/metaphysical baggage for a one-reelnature movie, and it could very well be hooey. Perhaps the title, A Divided World,says it all; this is simply a story in which animals are killed and eaten by other ani-mals—an artsy rendering of a food chain. Or is the “divided world” of the filmdivided between animals and humans, life and death, the mortal and the divine,flesh and spirit? You can make up your own mind when we show it on July 15.

Whatever the meaning, I was knocked out by the fluid cinematic poetry of thisminiature movie when I first saw it decades ago. I immediately vowed to learnmore about Sucksdorff and see as many of his other short films and features asI could. I had some success and was not disappointed. (Some of his other shortsalso seemed to be allegories.) Since then Sucksdorff and his career have becomea reclamation project for me, especially now that he’s been dead for 16 years andis mostly forgotten.

2017 is the centennial of Sucksdorff’s birth, so I have programmed two of hisfeatures and eight of his short films for showings in July—three of them in new dig-ital restorations from the Swedish Film Institute. Catch as many as you can.

Construction update.Now that the multi-use Centric project is rising on Mayfieldto the south and west of the Cleveland Institute of Art (completion is still a yearaway), a new building at the northeast corner of CIA will start going up in July.This is a residence hall for art institute students. It will occupy the property atEuclid and E. 117th Street that has been a parking lot for Happy Dog patrons andother University Circle visitors. (Before that it was the location of the ClevelandFood Co-Op.)

As I write this in early June, it is unknown how this construction will impact trafficflow on E. 117th to and from the Cleveland Institute of Art lots (Lot 73 and the AnnexLot), where Cinematheque patrons can park for free. But I have been assured thatthose two lots will remain open for Cinematheque use all summer, as will EntrancesC and A into the building. Any future updates will be posted on our website.

Gloria Pridemore and Daniel Erb, two Cinematheque ticket sellers, graduatedfrom the Cleveland Institute of Art in May. I congratulate them. But since they areno longer work-study students, they are no longer eligible to continue working forthe Cinematheque. I warned both of them that this would happen, but they choseto finish their degrees anyway. I guess they had other priorities.

ENDLESS POETRY:THE FILMS OFALEJANDRO

JODOROWSKY

HERMIA & HELENA

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A SECOND LOOKJuly 1 – August 27 (16 different programs)

Film classics in new restorations, second-run movies you may havemissed when they were first-run films, and three rarely shown works by

David Lynch.SAT 7/1 5:00 PM THE STRAIGHT STORYSAT 7/1 9:10 PM CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITYSUN 7/2 4:15 PM CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITYSUN 7/2 6:30 PM THE STRAIGHT STORYSAT 7/8 5:00 PM BROKEN LULLABYSAT 7/8 9:10 PM FRANTZSUN 7/9 4:00 PM FRANTZSUN 7/9 6:30 PM BROKEN LULLABYWED 7/19 7:00 PM STOP MAKING SENSETHU 7/20 8:45 PM BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTSSAT 7/22 5:00 PM BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTSSAT 7/22 9:25 PM THE LOVE WITCHSUN 7/23 6:30 PM THE LOVE WITCHTHU 7/27 6:30 PM GIANTTHU 8/3 6:45 PM FLOORSHOWFRI 8/4 7:30 PM RESERVOIR DOGSFRI 8/4 9:30 PM INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY NO. 1 & RABBITSSAT 8/5 9:15 PM RESERVOIR DOGSSUN 8/6 6:00 PM DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLERTHU 8/10 6:45 PM ACCIDENTSUN 8/13 4:00 PM ACCIDENTSAT 8/19 6:45 PM MAURICESUN 8/20 3:30 PM MAURICETHU 8/24 6:45 PM IL BOOM (THE BOOM)SAT 8/26 8:15 PM KEDISUN 8/27 4:15 PM IL BOOM (THE BOOM)SUN 8/27 8:25 PM KEDI

AT THE CIRCUS

JULY / AUGUST 2017

NOW IN OUR FOURTH DECADE!

7 FEATURESJULY 13 – AUG 25

IL BOOM

LATE MARX BROTHERSJuly 28 – August 31 (6 films)

The Marx Brothers’ last six features may not be as revered as their firstseven. But they’re still Mark Brothers movies, and a Marx Brothers movie

is funnier than most comedies you will see. More importantly, the last sixfilms starring Groucho, Harpo, and Chico are almost never shown theatri-cally. We rectify that situation in July and August, completing a cycle of MarxBrothers classics that we began in July and August of 2010.FRI 7/28 9:30 PM ROOM SERVICESAT 7/29 5:00 PM ROOM SERVICESAT 8/5 5:00 PM AT THE CIRCUSSAT 8/12 5:00 PM GO WESTSUN 8/13 6:30 PM GO WESTTHU 8/17 8:35 PM THE BIG STORESAT 8/19 5:00 PM THE BIG STOREFRI 8/25 8:00 PM A NIGHT IN CASABLANCASAT 8/26 9:55 PM A NIGHT IN CASABLANCASUN 8/27 6:30 PM LOVE HAPPYTHU 8/31 8:45 PM LOVE HAPPY

DIVIDED WORLDS: THE FILMS OF ARNE SUCKSDORFF

July 6-16 (3 different programs)The hierarchies of the natural world (including man’s place in it) are ex-

plored in three programs of poetically conceived, impeccably pho-tographed nature documentaries by the late, great Swedish filmmaker whowas born 100 years ago. Special thanks to Brian Belovarac, Janus Films;Kitty Cleary, MoMA; Johan Ericsson, Svenska Filminstitutet; Layne Murphy,Budget Films; Melinda Smerek, CSU Michael Schwartz Library.THU 7/6 6:45 PM THE GREAT ADVENTUREFRI 7/7 7:15 PM THE GREAT ADVENTURE SAT 7/15 5:00 PM SHORT FILMS BY ARNE SUCKSDORFFSUN 7/16 6:30 PM THE FLUTE AND THE ARROW

THE GREAT ADVENTURE

THE FLUTE AND THE ARROW

ENDLESS POETRY: THE FILMS OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

July 13 – August 25 (7 films)Director, screenwriter, playwright, poet, novelist, actor, composer, comic

book writer, clown, mystic, magus, shaman, spiritual advisor, and ther-apist—the Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has been manythings during his 88+ years on this planet. Born in Chile in 1929, he foundrefuge from an unhappy childhood in reading and writing poetry, and laterin the theater. He studied mime in France and became involved in the The-ater of the Absurd and the Theater of Cruelty in both Paris and Mexico City.“Jodo” turned to movies in the 1960s; in the 1970s, his shocking,surrealist/spiritual “spaghetti Western” El Topo became history’s first mid-night movie hit. He followed El Topo with another visually stunning, cosmic“head trip,” The Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky was on his way. But he expe-rienced a major setback when his next project, a grandly conceived, multi-million-dollar, all-star adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel Dune,was scrapped for lack of funding.

Despite further failures and long periods when he was not making movies,Jodorowsky has survived. For the past few decades, he seemed to turn upevery 10-15 years with a “comeback” film. Resurrected as a counterculturehero and inspiring arts advocate in Frank Pavich’s 2013 documentary Jodor-owsky’s Dune, and currently directing a series of autobiographical spectaclesthat evoke Amarcord by his beloved (and similarly phantasmagorical) FedericoFellini, Jodorowsky now seems here to stay. At last.THU 7/13 6:45 PM JODOROWSKY’S DUNESAT 7/15 8:50 PM JODOROWSKY’S DUNEFRI 7/21 9:20 PM ENDLESS POETRYSAT 7/22 6:55 PM ENDLESS POETRYSAT 7/29 8:35 PM THE DANCE OF REALITYSUN 7/30 3:30 PM THE DANCE OF REALITYSAT 8/5 6:50 PM SANTA SANGREFRI 8/11 7:15 PM THE HOLY MOUNTAINSAT 8/12 9:05 PM THE HOLY MOUNTAINFRI 8/18 7:00 PM EL TOPOSAT 8/19 9:30 PM EL TOPOTHU 8/24 8:35 PM FANDO AND LISFRI 8/25 9:45 PM FANDO AND LIS

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JULY 1-2

Saturday, July 1, at 5:00 pm &Sunday, July 2, at 6:30 pmFilm Classics in 35mm!THE STRAIGHT STORY

France/UK/USA, 1999, David LynchDavid Lynch’s only G-rated feature (made betweenLost Highway and Mulholland Drive) is one of hisbest and most acclaimed works. Based on a truestory, it’s a surreal road movie in which Alvin Straight(Richard Farnsworth), an elderly man from Iowa,undertakes a 240-mile journey on a riding lawnmower to visit his estranged, ailing brother in Wis-consin (Harrry Dean Stanton) and make amends.With Sissy Spacek; music by Angelo Badalamenti.112 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA &CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8;no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Saturday, July 1, at 7:15 pm &Sunday, July 2, at 8:45 pm

OBIT.USA, 2016, Vanessa Gould

How do you summarize a person’s entire life in afew hundred words—and do it on deadline? That’sthe unique challenge facing the skilled (and widelyread) writers on the New York Times obituarydesk, which is the subject of this fascinating—and surprisingly funny—new documentary. Re-veals how subjects are chosen, how death noticesare placed, and who warrants tightly guarded “ad-vance obits.” “An enjoyable behind-the-sceneslook at one of journalism’s odder jobs.” –Holly-wood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 94 min.

Saturday, July 1, at 9:10 pm &Sunday, July 2, at 4:15 pm

CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITYUSA, 2016, Matt Tyrnauer

Journalist and urban activist Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was the author of the seminal 1961 bookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities. Thevisionary Jacobs perceived the vitality and diver-sity of life in America’s urban neighborhoods at atime when most city planners (like New York’s“master builder” Robert Moses) saw only unsightlyslums that needed to be razed and then replacedwith sterile planned communities of monolithichigh rises. During the early 1960s, Jacobs wenthead to head with the autocratic and near-om-nipotent Moses over his plan to build an express-way through the middle of Manhattan. And shewon. This new film tells her important, inspiring,and still relevant story. DCP. 92 min.

Sunday, July 2, at 6:30 pmTHE STRAIGHT STORY

See 7/1 at 5:00 for description

Sunday, July 2, at 8:45 pmOBIT.

See 7/1 at 7:15 for description

JULY 6-9

Thursday, July 6, at 6:45 pm &Friday, July 7, at 7:15 pm

The Films of Arne SucksdorffTHE GREAT ADVENTUREDET STORA ÄVENTYRET

Sweden, 1953, Arne SucksdorffPerhaps the most celebrated work by the greatSwedish nature filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff (whowas born 100 years ago), this poetic, painstak-ingly photographed feature follows two Swedishfarm boys who coexist with foxes, lynx, and otherwild animals—and secretly domesticate an ot-ter—over the course of four seasons. We willshow a DCP from Sweden, affording moviegoersa rare chance to see this multi-award-winningclassic with English subtitles instead of Englishnarration. 77 min. Preceded at showtime bySucksdorff’s Oscar-winning Symphony of a City(aka Rhythm of a City/Människor i stad, 1947,DCP, 20 min.), an impressionistic portrait of Stock-holm. Special admission $11; members, CIA &CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8;no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Thursday, July 6, at 8:45 pm &Sunday, July 9, at 8:10 pm

THE LEVELLINGUK, 2014, Hope Dickson Leach

A young English woman training to be a veterinarian(Ellie Kendrick of Game of Thrones) returns to thefamily farm—and to her hated father—after herbrother dies, an apparent suicide. Shocked by thestate of the property after being ravaged by floods,she must come to terms with her upbringing—andwith herself—as part of a painful emotional reckon-ing. This acclaimed debut feature was one of Sight& Sound magazine’s three “films of the month” forJune. Cleveland theatrical premiere. DCP. 83 min.

Friday, July 7, at 7:15 pmTHE GREAT ADVENTURE

See 7/6 at 6:45 for description

Friday, July 7, at 9:15 pm &Saturday, July 8, at 6:40 pmQUEEN OF THE DESERT

Morocco/USA, 2015, Werner HerzogNicole Kidman and James Franco star in WernerHerzog’s epic historical drama about GertrudeBell (1868-1926), an English writer, explorer, car-tographer, archaeologist, and political adminis-trator who worked for decades in the Middle East.

She’s been called the female Lawrence of Arabiaand helped establish the modern state of Iraq.With Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence. Cleve-land theatrical premiere. DCP. 128 min.

Saturday, July 8, at 5:00 pm &Sunday, July 9, at 6:30 pmFilm Classics in 35mm!World War I + 100BROKEN LULLABY

aka THE MAN I KILLEDUSA, 1932, Ernst Lubitsch

The great German émigré Ernst Lubitsch directedthis Hollywood classic that was remade last yearby François Ozon as Frantz (see 7/8 at 9:10). Itfollows a guilt-ridden young French soldier who,after the 1918 armistice, travels to Germany tomeet the family of a young soldier he killed duringthe war. With Lionel Barrymore. Print from theUniversal Pictures studio archive! “Perhaps themost neglected of Lubitsch’s great films.” –NYTimes. 76 min. Special admission $11; members,CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & un-der $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Saturday, July 8, at 6:40 pmQUEEN OF THE DESERT

See 7/7 at 9:15 for description

Saturday, July 8, at 9:10 pm &Sunday, July 9, at 4:00 pm

World War I +100FRANTZ

France/Germany, 2016, François OzonThis remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 drama Bro-ken Lullaby (see 7/8 at 5:00) is one of the mostmature and emotionally affecting works by the vet-eran French director of Swimming Pool and In theHouse. The film focuses on a young Germanwoman, shattered by the death of her betrothedduring the Great War, who one day encounters amysterious young Frenchman who proceeds to in-sinuate himself into her life and that of her fiancé’sgrieving parents. Subtitles. DCP. 113 min.

Sunday, July 9, at 6:30 pmBROKEN LULLABY

See 7/8 at 5:00 for description

Sunday, July 9, at 8:10 pmTHE LEVELLING

See 7/6 at 8:45 for description

JULY 13-16

Thursday, July 13, at 6:45 pm &Saturday, July 15, at 8:50 pm

The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyJODOROWSKY’S DUNE

USA/France, 2013, Frank PavichThis recent documentary is a look back at a moviethat was never made—a grand, multi-million-dollarfilm version of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novelDune that was to have been Alejandro Jodor-owsky’s follow-up to El Topo and The Holy Moun-tain. With art direction by H.R. Giger and Frenchcomic book artist Moebius, special effects by DanO’Bannon, music by Pink Floyd, and a cast con-sisting of Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger,and David Carradine, Dune was going to be amovie to remember. All it lacked was financing. Thedocumentary shows and animates some of thehundreds of drawings and sketches from the projectthat still survive, to give a sense of what might havebeen. Equally animated is the ebullient and inspiringJodorowsky, then 85, as he walks us through hisvisionary almost-masterpiece that, even withoutbeing made, influenced Star Wars, Alien, and othersci-fi films that followed. DCP. 90 min.

Thursday, July 13, at 8:35 pm &Friday, July 14, at 7:30 pm

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI

HYMYILEVÄ MIESFinland/Sweden/Germany, 2016, Juho

KuosmanenThis sweet, modest, dryly funny debut feature wasone of the most endearing and acclaimed debutfilms of last year, winning its first-time director the“Discovery” prize at the 2016 European FilmAwards. Set in 1962 Finland (and inspired by areal person), the movie tells of a country bakerturned boxer who contends for the world feather-weight championship at the same time he is tryingto win the woman of his dreams. So he’s conflicted;does he want to be a national hero or just a simplelover and suitor? “Remarkable.” –Variety. Clevelandpremiere. Subtitles. DCP. 92 min.

Friday, July 14, at 9:25 pm &Sunday, July 16, at 4:15 pmI CALLED HIM MORGAN

Sweden/USA, 2016, Kasper CollinThe new jazz film from the Swedish director ofMy Name Is Albert Ayler explores the circum-stances surrounding the shocking death of cele-brated jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shotduring a 1972 gig at an East Village jazz club byhis common-law wife Helen. “I Called Him Morganisn’t just the greatest jazz documentary sinceLet’s Get Lost, it’s a documentary-as-jazz.” –TheGuardian. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 92 min.

Saturday, July 15, at 5:00 pmFilm Classics in 16mm!

The Films of Arne SucksdorffSHORT FILMS BY ARNE SUCKSDORFF

Sweden, 1941-51, Arne SucksdorffThis program consists of seven short nature films(including A Divided World) by the great Swedishfilmmaker who was born 100 years ago. All werepainstakingly shot in Sweden and India, and theyfeature an assortment of mammals and birds. To-tal approx. 81 min. Special admission $11; mem-bers, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25& under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Saturday, July 15, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, July 16, at 8:10 pm

SPIRIT GAME: PRIDE OF A NATIONUSA, 2017, Peter Spirer, Peter Baxter

Lacrosse originated with the Iroquois, and thisnew documentary follows the Iroquois NationalsLacrosse Team on their historic journey to the2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. Forthe first time ever, the finals were held on Nativesoil—in Onondaga in upstate New York, the cap-ital of the Iroquois Confederacy. With Jim Brown(a lacrosse great as well as a football great). “Itsfocus is on spiritual matters as well as the physi-cal.” –Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times. Cleveland pre-miere. DCP. 102 min.

Saturday, July 15, at 8:50 pmJODOROWSKY’S DUNE

See 7/13 at 6:45 for description

Sunday, July 16, at 4:15 pmI CALLED HIM MORGAN

See 7/14 at 9:25 for description

Sunday, July 16, at 6:30 pmThe Films of Arne SucksdorffTHE FLUTE AND THE ARROW

EN DJUNGELSAGASweden, 1957, Arne Sucksdorff

Arne Sucksdorff’s first film in color and scope is setin India, where members of the ancient, agriculturalMuria tribe are menaced by a jungle predator (aleopard) believed to be possessed by demons. Mu-sic by Ravi Shankar. Subtitles. DCP from Sweden.78 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA &CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8;no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Sunday, July 16, at 8:10 pmSPIRIT GAME: PRIDE OF A NATION

See 7/15 at 6:45 for description

JULY 19-23

Wednesday, July 19, at 7:00 pmJonathan Demme, 1944-2017

STOP MAKING SENSEUSA, 1984, Jonathan Demme

Tonight the Cinematheque joins art house the-aters across the U.S. in celebrating the life ofJonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning filmmakerwho died earlier this year at age 73. Demme’sfirst documentary is one of the greatest concertfilms ever made, showcasing David Byrne andthe Talking Heads just after they achieved wide-spread success. Wear your biggest suit, put onyour dancing shoes, and go! DCP. 88 min.

Thursday, July 20, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, July 23, at 8:50 pm

ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTSWSZYSTKIE NIEPRZESPNE NOCE

Poland/UK, 2016, Michal MarczakTwo twentysomething Polish men, unfettered byresponsibilities or thoughts of mortality, choose toexperience life at its fullest—roaming the city atnight, floating from encounter to encounter, chain-smoking, drinking, and partying with only instinctand desire as their guides. This immersive, intoxi-catingly shot paean to youth is almost pure sensa-tion, and won a “best director” prize at Sundance.Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 100 min.

Thursday, July 20, at 8:45 pm &Saturday, July 22, at 5:00 pmNew Digital Restoration!

BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTSUSA, 1983, Billy Woodberry

Here’s a new restoration of one of the key worksof the “L.A. Rebellion” movement of the 1970sand 1980s that produced such prominent African-American filmmakers as Charles Burnett (Killerof Sheep), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust),and Haile Gerima (Sankofa). Billy Woodberry’sindie classic, written and shot by Burnett, wasadded to the Library of Congress’ National FilmRegistry in 2013. It’s a neorealist drama thatchronicles the devastating toll that joblessnesstakes on a South Central L.A. married couple andtheir children. “Passionately recommended.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum. Preceded at showtime byWoodberry’s 13-min. short The Pocketbook(1980), inspired by Langston Hughes’ short story“Thank You, Ma’am.” Cleveland revival premiere.DCP. Total 93 min.

Friday, July 21, at 7:15 pm &Sunday, July 23, at 4:00 pm

HEAL THE LIVINGRÉPARER LES VIVANTS

France/Belgium, 2016, Katell QuillévéréIn this gripping tale that movingly demonstrates theprofound connections between total strangers, atragedy shatters one French family but an organtransplant lifts another. One of the best reviewedfilms of the year! With Tahar Rahim, EmmanuelleSeigner, and Anne Dorval. “A wrenching medicaldrama that blends dazzling formal polish withrawest emotion...Sublimely compassionate.” –Va-riety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 104 min.This film supported by a generous grant from Mai-son Française de Cleveland.

Friday, July 21, at 9:20 pm &Saturday, July 22, at 6:55 pm

The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyENDLESS POETRY

POESÍA SIN FINChile/France, 2016, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s follow-up to his autobio-graphical film The Dance of Reality (see 7/29 at8:35) picks up the story of his life when he is ayoung man in his 20s, as he tries to find himselfand his way in the world. Having moved from the

sticks to Santiago with his repressive father (whodoesn’t want a poet in the family) and his mother(who sings all her dialogue in an operatic voice),young Alejandro (now played by the director’syoungest son, Adan) finds friendship and suste-nance in the capital city’s bohemian quarter, aneye-opening, mind-expanding night world of artand sex, poetry, passion, and possibility. “The mostaccessible movie [Jodorowsky] has ever made,and it may also be the best.” –Variety. Adults only!Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 128 min.

Saturday, July 22, at 5:00 pmBLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTSSee 7/20 at 8:45 for description

Saturday, July 22, at 6:55 pmENDLESS POETRY

See 7/21 at 9:20 for description

Saturday, July 22, at 9:25 pm &Sunday, July 23, at 6:30 pmFilm Classics in 35mm!Back by Popular Demand!

THE LOVE WITCHUSA, 2016, Anna Biller

Anna Biller’s extravagantly praised new film is asly, sexy, visually splendiferous feminist fantasyabout a beautiful and dangerous young witch whouses spells and potions to get men to love her—usually with unhappy results. Imitating (and sub-verting) 1960s-1970s European and Americancolor exploitation films, this lavishly designed workwas actually shot and printed on 35mm film—and that’s how we’ll show it. Adults only! 120min. Special admission $11; members, CIA &CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8;no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Sunday, July 23, at 4:00 pmHEAL THE LIVING

See 7/21 at 7:15 for description

Sunday, July 23, at 6:30 pmTHE LOVE WITCH

See 7/22 at 9:25 for description

Sunday, July 23, at 8:50 pmALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

See 7/20 at 6:45 for description

JULY 27-30

Thursday, July 27, at 6:30 pmNew Digital Restoration!

GIANTUSA, 1956, George Stevens

James Dean (in his last screen appearance beforehis untimely death), Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson,and Dennis Hopper star in this Texas-sized epic setin the Lone Star State. It’s a sprawling, two-gener-ation saga about a wealthy cattle baron and hisbeautiful bride, and a less refined neighbor and rivalwho rises from ranch hand to oil tycoon. GeorgeStevens’ follow-up to Shane won him the Oscar forBest Director. Giant is co-presented by MOCACleveland, where several paintings of James Dean,including one inspired by this film, can be seen inthe exhibition “Keith Mayerson: My AmericanDream” through 9/17. DCP. 201 min. Special ad-mission $11; Cinematheque & MOCA members,CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under$8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Friday, July 28, at 7:30 pm &Sunday, July 30, at 8:25 pm

MANIFESTOGermany/Australia, 2015, Julian Rosefeldt

In this film version of a multi-screen art installationby German video artist Julian Rosefeldt, achameleon-like Cate Blanchett recites assorted20th-century artistic manifestos (for Dadaism, Fu-turism, Minimalism, Surrealism, Dogma 95, et al.)while playing 13 different characters (CEO, sani-tation worker, punk rocker, nuclear scientist,teacher, funeral orator, et al.) in a series of playful,often funny vignettes. Placing zealots’ philosoph-ical fighting words into the mouths of non-artistsin a variety of mundane settings results in someincongruous delights—like a TV anchorwomandelivering Sol LeWitt’s notes on Conceptual Art,or a suburban Southern mom reciting Claes Old-enburg’s Pop Art prayer before serving a turkeydinner. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 95 min.

Friday, July 28, at 9:30 pm &Saturday, July 29, at 5:00 pmFilm Classics in 35mm!Late Marx BrothersROOM SERVICE

USA, 1938, William A. SeiterGroucho, Harpo, and Chico star in this film versionof a popular Broadway comedy, about a pennilesstheatrical producer who’s desperately trying to raisemoney for a new play while avoiding being thrownout of the hotel where he and his company areholed up. With Lucille Ball and Ann Miller. 78 min.Special admission $11; members, CIA & CSU I.D.holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes,twofers, or radio winners. The first 75 moviegoersattending Room Service on Friday night will get afree scoop of Mitchell’s ice cream before the film.

Saturday, July 29, at 6:40 pm &Sunday, July 30, at 6:30 pm

2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORTFILM TOUR

Canada/Chile/Poland/Sweden/USA, 2016-17, various directors

Come Swim, directed by actress Kristen Stewart,is one of seven international short films includedin this new program of Sundance favorites. Themix of fiction, documentary, and animation rangesfrom laugh-out-loud comedies to contemplativereflections on the contemporary world. It also in-cludes the 2017 Short Film Jury Award winnersfor U.S. Fiction and International Fiction. Full pro-gram details can be found at sundance.org/festi-vals/short-film#tour. Cleveland premiere. Somesubtitles. DCP. Total 95 min.

Saturday, July 29, at 8:35 pm &Sunday, July 30, at 3:30 pm

The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyTHE DANCE OF REALITY

LA DANZA DE LA REALIDADChile/France, 2013, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s prequel to Endless Po-etry (see 7/21 at 9:20) is “something very closeto a masterpiece,” according to the NY Times ,and “maybe Alejandro Jodorowsky’s best film”(Village Voice).” In it, the self-proclaimed “psy-chomagician” filmmaker returns to the coastalChile of his childhood to tell a singularly strangetale of growing up. The result is a Spanish-lan-guage Amarcord that blends autobiography withmetaphor, myth, and poetry, and teems with in-delible images. Subtitles. DCP. 133 min.

Sunday, July 30, at 6:30 pm2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT

FILM TOURSee 7/29 at 6:40 for description

Sunday, July 30, at 8:25 pmMANIFESTO

See 7/28 at 7:30 for description

AUGUST 3-6

Thursday, August 3, at 6:45 pmCinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!

Film Classics in 16mm!FLOORSHOW

USA, 1978, Richard MyersThis key shot-in-northeast Ohio feature by the deanof Ohio filmmakers, Richard Myers, won first prizeat the 18th Ann Arbor Film Festival. It’s a kaleido-scopic consideration of films, filmmaking, and lifethat prompted the L.A. Times to declare: “There’sprobably no filmmaker more successful in trans-mitting his imagination to the screen than Ohio ex-perimentalist Richard Myers.” 90 min.

Thursday, August 3, at 8:30 pm &Sunday, August 6, at 3:30 pm

Cinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME

USA, 2016, Bill MorrisonThe latest found-footage assemblage from themaker of Decasia continues Bill Morrison’s fasci-nation with the archaeology of early cinema. Daw-son City, in the Yukon Territory just south of theArctic Circle, was the destination of thousands ofprospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush of thelate 19th century. It was also the final resting placefor hundreds of nitrate prints of silent movies thatwere shipped there (the last stop on a film distribu-tion circuit) and never returned. Buried in—and pro-tected by—the permafrost, this cache of movieswas accidentally uncovered by a bulldozer in 1978.It proved a gold mine to film historians, with manypreviously lost rarities. Morrison pairs clips fromthese rediscovered films with other archival footage,interviews, period photographs, and a score bySigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somersto relate the unique history of this Canadian GoldRush town and the life cycle of a singular film col-lection. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 120 min.

Friday, August 4, at 7:30 pm &Saturday, August 5, at 9:15 pm

Cinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!Film Classics in 35mm!25th Anniversary!RESERVOIR DOGS

USA, 1992, Quentin TarantinoIn 1993 (a year before Pulp Fiction) we wrote thefollowing: “Mark our words: first-time writer/direc-tor Quentin Tarantino made one for future filmhistory books with this savage, stylish, tightly-plotted thriller about the bloody aftermath of abungled jewel heist. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth,Steve Buscemi, and Michael Madsen will live foryears as Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, andMr. Blonde.” If you didn’t believe us then, thendon’t miss seeing Reservoir Dogs this timearound, in a 35mm color & scope print that hasbeen newly struck for the film’s 25th anniversary.Adults only! 99 min. Special admission $11; mem-bers, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25& under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Friday, August 4, at 9:30 pmCinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!

David Lynch Double Feature!INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY NO. 1:

THE DREAM OF THE BROKENHEARTEDUSA, 1990, David Lynch

RABBITSUSA, 2002, David Lynch

Two little-known works by David Lynch, neithermade for theatrical release. Industrial SymphonyNo. 1 is a film version of an avant-garde musicalplay by Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti;it constitutes something of a bridge between Wildat Heart and Twin Peaks. When a guy (NicolasCage) dumps his gal (Laura Dern), her shattered“dreamself” (Julee Cruise) sings a series of achinglovesongs. Sometimes she’s floating above a stagelittered with junk; sometimes she’s backed up bydancers. Rabbits is a four-episode adaptation ofLynch’s eight-episode web series. Scott Coffey,Laura Elena Harring, Rebekah Del Rio, and NaomiWatts play humanoid rabbits in an ominous livingroom setting. As it pours rain outside, they delivernon-sequitur dialogue and occasionally sing, whilean eerie laugh track and applause from an unseenaudience heighten the atmosphere of anxiety andmenace. DVD. Total 93 min. Screening courtesyof ABSURDA/Asymmetrical Productions.

Saturday, August 5, at 5:00 pmCinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!

Film Classics in 35mm!Late Marx BrothersAT THE CIRCUS

USA, 1939, Edward BuzzellThe Marx Bros try to save a bankrupt circus fromconniving creditors in this three-ring comedy that

co-stars Margaret Dumont. Groucho sings “Lydiathe Tattooed Lady.” Archive print! 87 min. Specialadmission $11; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders,and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers,or radio winners.

Saturday, August 5, at 6:50 pmCinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!

Film Classics in 35mm!The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

SANTA SANGREItaly/Mexico, 1989, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Set in a world of circus freaks and religious fa-natics, Alejandro (El Topo) Jodorowsky’s surreal,sensational south-of-the-border tale concerns aninsane young man who becomes the arms—anddoes the nefarious bidding—of his mutilated, arm-less mother. Print courtesy of the Academy FilmArchive. No one under 18 admitted! Subtitles.123 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA& CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under$8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Saturday, August 5, at 9:15 pmRESERVOIR DOGS

See 8/4 at 7:30 for description

Sunday, August 6, at 3:30 pmDAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIMESee 8/3 at 8:30 for description

Sunday, August 6, at 6:00 pmCinematheque 31st Anniversary Weekend!

New Digital Restoration!DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLERDR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER

Germany, 1922, Fritz LangPrior to directing Metropolis and M, the great FritzLang exploited the fear, social unrest, and deca-dence of post-WWI Germany (and foreshadowedHitler) with this famous, visually stunning silent epicabout a criminal genius, hypnotist, and master ofdisguise (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) who wreaks eco-nomic havoc and plots to take over the world. Com-prised of two parts (The Great Gambler and TheInferno) that were released one month apart, thisseminal crime drama was recently restored by threeGerman film archives. The resulting “authorized”version is not only the longest available cut of thefilm, but also the one that most closely representsLang’s original vision. English intertitles. Music track.Blu-ray. 270 min. Special admission $12; members,CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under$9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

AUGUST 10-13

Thursday, August 10, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, August 13, at 4:00 pm

50th Anniversary!New Digital Restoration!

ACCIDENTUK, 1967, Joseph Losey

The second collaboration between screenwriterHarold Pinter and director Joseph Losey starsDirk Bogarde—just like their first one, 1963’s TheServant. But this is a color movie—in which aplacid Oxford summer is disrupted by the arrivalof a pretty Austrian student who ignites sexual,social, and intellectual conflicts among two mid-dle-aged professors and another student. WithStanley Baker, Michael York, and Delphine Seyrig.Cleveland revival premiere! DCP. 105 min.

Thursday, August 10, at 8:50 pm &Sunday, August 13, at 8:15 pm

HARMONIUMFUCHI NI TATSU

Japan/France, 2016, Kōji FukadaIn this compelling, unsettling new drama from themaker of 2011’s striking Hospitalité, a married cou-ple’s suppressed tensions rise to the surface whena mysterious former acquaintance (TadanobuAsano), just released from prison, goes to work inthe husband’s metal shop and begins living withhim and his family. “Proclaims the arrival of a majortalent.” –Japan Times. Adults only! Cleveland pre-miere. Subtitles. DCP. 118 min.

Friday, August 11, at 7:15 pm &Saturday, August 12, at 9:05 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

THE HOLY MOUNTAINLA MONTAÑA SAGRADA

Mexico/USA, 1973, Alejandro JodorowskyJodorowsky’s follow-up to his midnight hit El Topo(see 8/18 at 7:00) is perhaps the strangest andmost visually splendiferous of his career. The filmcharts a spiritual quest toward enlightenment inwhich an alchemist (Jodorowsky) leads a Christ-like thief and seven other disciples (each repre-senting one of the planets) to the Holy Mountain.There they will overthrow the immortal beings whosecretly rule the universe. “Not even Buñuel with abrainful of Woodstock’s bad brown acid could havemade something this gloriously screwy.” –Time Out.No one under 18 admitted! Subtitles. 35mm. 114min. Special admission $11; members, CIA & CSUI.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; nopasses, twofers, or radio winners.

Friday, August 11, at 9:30 pm &Saturday, August 12, at 6:45 pm

TOMORROWDEMAIN

France, 2015, Cyril Dion, Mélanie LaurentThe new film by actress turned director MélanieLaurent (Inglourious Basterds) is a documentaryabout global climate change that foregoes doomand gloom prophecies to focus on the good thingsthat countless individuals around the world aredoing to combat the problem. “Required viewingfor anyone wondering what they could do to pitchin and save the planet.” –Hollywood Reporter.Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 118 min.

Saturday, August 12, at 5:00 pm &Sunday, August 13, at 6:30 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!Late Marx Brothers

GO WESTUSA, 1940, Edward Buzzell

Groucho, Harpo, and Chico head West to becomerich, but instead become embroiled in a crookedland-grab scheme. Lots of musical numbers andsome hilarious sequences—especially the trainchase climax (which includes gags concocted byan uncredited Buster Keaton). 81 min. Specialadmission $11; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders,and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers,or radio winners.

Saturday, August 12, at 6:45 pmTOMORROW

See 8/11 at 9:30 for description

Saturday, August 12, at 9:05 pmTHE HOLY MOUNTAIN

See 8/11 at 7:15 for description

Sunday, August 13, at 4:00 pmACCIDENT

See 8/10 at 6:45 for description

Sunday, August 13, at 6:30 pmGO WEST

See 8/12 at 5:00 for description

Sunday, August 13, at 8:15 pmHARMONIUM

See 8/10 at 8:50 for description

AUGUST 17-20

Thursday, August 17, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, August 20, at 8:40 pm

HERMIA & HELENAArgentina/USA, 2016, Matías Piñeiro

The latest Shakespeare-inspired film from Argen-tinian director Matías Piñeiro (his first in English)focuses on a young Buenos Aires theatre directortranslating A Midsummer Night’s Dream while liv-ing in New York. The text resonates with her ro-mantic and family life, which we come to knowvia a series of lyrical scenes and flashbacks. “Asunny Shakespearean pleasure.” –Village Voice.Cleveland premiere. DCP. 87 min.

Thursday, August 17, at 8:35 pm &Saturday, August 19, at 5:00 pm

Late Marx BrothersTHE BIG STORE

USA, 1941, Charles ReisnerThe last of the Marx Bros’ MGM films follows two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho) as he un-covers a department store manager’s nefariousplot to take control of the whole operation. WithHarpo, Chico, and Margaret Dumont. DVD. 83 min.

Friday, August 18, at 7:00 pm &Saturday, August 19, at 9:30 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

EL TOPOSpain/Mexico, 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s trippy, sexy, undergroundepic was the first midnight-movie hit, and becamea counterculture touchstone during the early 1970s.The film is a surreal, symbol-laden religious allegorydisguised as an ultraviolent spaghetti western—about a mystical master gunfighter (Jodorowsky)who dispatches a lot of people before seeking re-demption. John Lennon proclaimed it a master-piece. No one under 18 admitted! Subtitles. 35mm.125 min. Special admission $11; members, CIA &CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8;no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Friday, August 18, at 9:30 pm &Sunday, August 20, at 6:30 pm

I AM THE BLUESUSA, 2015, Daniel Cross

This new documentary takes viewers on a musicaljourney through the swamps of the LouisianaBayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta,and Moonshine-soaked BBQs of the North Mis-sissippi Hill Country. The film visits longtime bluesmusicians, some in their 80s and 90s, who oncetoured the Chitlin’ Circuit and still live in the DeepSouth—among them, 2017 Grammy winnerBobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, and Henry Gray.Cleveland theatrical premiere. DCP. 106 min.

Saturday, August 19, at 5:00 pmTHE BIG STORE

See 8/17 at 8:35 for description

Saturday, August 19, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, August 20, at 3:30 pmNew 4K Digital Restoration!

MAURICEUK, 1987, James Ivory

James Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Gravesstar in this meticulous Merchant/Ivory adaptationof an E.M. Forster novel—a tale of homosexualityin a less enlightened age. Set against the stiflingconformity of pre-World War I English society, thefilm follows two Cambridge students who, for fearof humiliation and possible imprisonment, mustkeep their feelings for each other secret. WithBen Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter. Cleve-land revival premiere. DCP. 141 min.

Saturday, August 19, at 9:30 pmEL TOPO

See 8/18 at 7:00 for description

Sunday, August 20, at 3:30 pmMAURICE

See 8/19 at 6:45 for description

Sunday, August 20, at 6:30 pmI AM THE BLUES

See 8/18 at 9:30 for description

Sunday, August 20, at 8:40 pmHERMIA & HELENA

See 8/17 at 6:45 for description

AUGUST 24-27

Thursday, August 24, at 6:45 pm &Sunday, August 27, at 4:15 pmNew Digital Restoration!IL BOOM (THE BOOM)

Italy, 1963, Vittorio De SicaNever before released in the U.S., this Italianclassic from the exalted director/screenwriter teamof Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini (The Bi-cycle Thief, Shoeshine, Umberto D.) is a comedyabout the country’s post-WWII economic boom.Top Italian comic Alberto Sordi (The White Sheik,I Vitelloni, Mafioso) stars in the movie, playing aninept, debt-ridden contractor who struggles tomaintain the high standard of living enjoyed byhis frivolous wife. But when a super-rich matronoffers him a permanent way out of debt, he mustdecide whether the price is too high. Clevelandrevival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 88 min.

Thursday, August 24, at 8:35 pm &Friday, August 25, at 9:45 pm

The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyFANDO AND LIS

FANDO Y LISMexico, 1968, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Inspired by a play by Spanish writer FernandoArrabal, Alejandro (El Topo) Jodorowsky’s first fea-ture caused a riot when it premiered at the Aca-pulco Film Festival. The movie follows a youngman and his paraplegic girlfriend as they journeythrough a desolate wasteland on their way to themythical city of Tar, which promises them enlight-enment. Along the way they have a series ofdreamy, surreal encounters worthy of Buñuel,David Lynch, or John Waters. “An adorable, pre-posterous mutant film.” –Village Voice. No one un-der 18 admitted! Subtitles. DCP. 96 min.

Friday, August 25, at 8:00 pm &Saturday, August 26, at 9:55 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!Late Marx Brothers

A NIGHT IN CASABLANCAUSA, 1946, Archie Mayo

This independent production is perhaps the fun-niest of the late Marx Bros films. Intended as aparody of the Bogart-Bergman classic but soft-ened into a general spoof of wartime melodramasafter Warner Bros threatened a lawsuit, the filmis set in postwar Casabalanca, where Grouchobecomes the unwitting new manager of a hotelwhere his predecessors have been serially mur-dered. Harpo and Chico help identify and thwartthe killer—an escaped Nazi war criminal (Sig Ru-man). 85 min. Special admission $11; members,CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & un-der $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

Friday, August 25, at 9:45 pmFANDO AND LIS

See 8/24 at 8:35 for description

Saturday, August 26, at 8:15 pm &Sunday, August 27, at 8:25 pm

KEDITurkey/USA, 2016, Ceyda Torun

The picturesque city of Istanbul is home to thou-sands of stray cats who live independently be-tween two worlds, neither wild nor tame. Thisgentle, gorgeously shot documentary, part naturefilm and part travelogue, profiles a handful ofthese felines, all with unique personalities, as wellas the kind, cat-loving city residents who oftencare for them. Subtitles. DCP. 79 min.

Saturday, August 26, at 9:55 pmA NIGHT IN CASABLANCA

See 8/25 at 8:00 for description

Sunday, August 27, at 4:15 pmNew Digital Restoration!IL BOOM (THE BOOM)

See 8/24 at 6:45 for description

Sunday, August 27, at 6:30 pm &Thursday, August 31, at 8:45 pm

Late Marx BrothersLOVE HAPPY

USA, 1949, David MillerA young Marilyn Monroe makes a brief but memo-rable appearance in the Marx Bros’ final film. Basedon a story by Harpo and originally intended as avehicle just for him, the film was reworked by co-writers Frank Tashlin and Ben Hecht to includeparts for Groucho and Chico. It’s about a group ofyoung actors who are trying to stage a musical re-vue when they become unwittingly involved withsome dastardly diamond thieves. Blu-ray. 91 min.

Sunday, August 27, at 8:25 pmKEDI

See 8/26 at 8:15 for description

AUGUST 31

Thursday, August 31, at 6:45 pmGRAPHIC MEANS: A HISTORY

OF GRAPHIC DESIGN PRODUCTIONUSA, 2017, Briar Levit

This new documentary explores how graphic de-sign production was accomplished before the ad-vent of the desktop computer almost three decadesago. From the 1950s and into the 1990s, it tookingenious analog machines and tools, and skilledhands, to marry images and type on meticulouslyprepared paste-up boards that were then deliveredto the printer. Cleveland premiere. DVD. 85 min.Screening co-sponsored by AIGA Cleveland,Cleveland Digital Publishing Users Group (CD-PUG), and the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society(NOIS). AIGA, CDPUG, and NOIS members $7.

Thursday, August 31, at 8:45 pmLOVE HAPPY

See 8/27 at 6:30 for description

T H E C L E V E L A N D I N S T I T U T E O F A R T C I N E M A T H E Q U E T H E C L E V E L A N D I N S T I T U T E O F A R T C I N E M A T H E Q U E

CINEMATHEQUE STAFFDirector: John Ewing

Assistant Director: Tim Harry Projectionists: Mike Glazer,

Tom Sedlak, Les Vince Box Office: Steve Fitch, Maeve

McNamara, Genevieve Schwartz, MJ Tigert, Jace Vidumsky

ADMISSION PRICESUnless noted, admission to each film is $10;members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and thoseage 25 & under $7. An additional film on thesame day costs an extra $7 (or the memberprice for that movie).

PARKING & MORE INFOFree parking for filmgoers is available in theCleveland Institute of Art’s Lot 73 and AnnexLot. Both are accessed from E. 117th Street,off Euclid Avenue. (Handicapped patronsshould park in Lot 73.) Enter the CIA throughbuliding entrances C or A. For further informa-tion, visit cia.edu, call (216) 421-7450, or emailcinema@cia.edu