Cinematheque (Cleveland Institute of Art) — Attraction in Cleveland

The Cleveland Cinematheque at the Cleveland Museum of Art shows films from all over the world, generally Thursday through Sunday nights 50 weeks out of the year. People in cinema from Peter Greenaway, Ray Harryhausen, Horton Foote (who won the Academy award for best adapted screenplay of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD), John Waters, Crispin Glover, Jim Jarmush, Willem Dafoe and others have come to the Cinematheque to show and share about films in which they've been involved. Just last night, February 4th, Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Coles Tews came with their films LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER (2018) and HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2020) a Cleveland theatrical and Cleveland premiere. And some beavers came with! As "The Alliance of Women Film Journalists" said "'Has to be seen to be believed...Starts strange, gets stranger, and yet remains resolutely adorable."

Films yet to be screened in February 2024 include THE PIANIST (Oscars for best actor,director, and adapted screenplay), several films by John Ford, AMÉLIE, Buster Keaton in SHERLOCK JR. (100 years old!), a documentary on ENNIO aka ENNIO: THE MAESTRO, CASABLANCA (along with another Bogart film IN A LONELY PLACE and two more of the ZAZ films - TOP SECRET! and THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD! (they do lie their...

The great thing about Cinematheque is that you get the opportunity to see movies that you probably would not get to see in a theater any other way. We love going there and supporting their endeavors to promote the non-blockbusters that tell real stories. We saw Every Littlw Thing, about a woman who runs a hummingbird rehab and release facility. It's a beautiful story. I highly recommend it. And I got to see it in a theater solely BECAUSE of Cinematheque promoting this movie at the behest of the Audubon society. It's hard to be heard in the modern art world. Cinematheque gives voice and a platform to projects that would not often see the light of day otherwise. They also show classic films on the big screen, which is another type of rare opportunity. I highly recommend supporting them and checking out...

Just looked at Cinema Talk for January – February 2025 and I was so disappointed to see that your theatre is focusing on one-sided narratives when it comes to Israel. You throw about terms like “occupation.” There is no occupation. What there is are more than 100 citizens of Israel, some of whom are Arab being held is Gaza. Will you show any films about that? No, because you don’t care about facts, you only care about perpetrating myths. Will you show a film about all the offers of land for peace Israel offered? No, because that goes against...