Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art

Showing 7/25-28: Only Lovers Left Alive, Ohio-based artists' films, Sundance shorts, and more! https://t.e2ma.net/message/nf633i/v9eh6t

Opening 7/18-21: RUMBLE FISH, Keaton's THE NAVIGATOR, and more! https://t.e2ma.net/message/j0rb3i/v9eh6t

Who won the Coffee House at University Circle gift certificate at Thursday's screening of A PRINCE? None other than John Cameron Ewing! You have one more chance to see the film (and be a winner) tonight, Sun., 7/14 at 6:30pm. https://www.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2024/07/a-prince

If you've been thinking about seeing THE NATURE OF LOVE, you're in luck. Expanding nationwide this month, check for your local showtimes.

Opening 7/11-14: Seven Samurai, The Outsiders, & more! https://t.e2ma.net/message/rad91i/v9eh6t

We show the new 4K restoration of SEVEN SAMURAI Sat., 7/13 at 6:30pm, introduced by film scholar Grafton Nunes.

'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, the #2 movie of the year (behind DUNE 2), shows tonight, July 5, at 9:00pm at the Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art!

2024 Midyear Report: twice the Zendaya, hundreds of beavers and a record number of Indian films • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine Twice the Zendaya, hundreds of beavers and a record number of Indian films mark our halfway Top 25 of 2024. The list also includes new movies coming to this month’s NY Asian Film Festival. Our team reads the sands as the Shai-Hulud continues to ride the top spot.

Opening 7/5-7: Casino, Hundreds of Beavers, The People's Joker & more! https://t.e2ma.net/message/j03o1i/v9eh6t

Heartfelt thanks to everybody who attended one or more of my three favorite films yesterday at the Cleveland Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art. And apologies again for the inept short that preceded each of those feature-length masterpieces. -John Ewing

Perhaps you have no interest today in seeing three of the best movies ever made (Orson Welles' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at 2 pm; Yasujiro Ozu's LATE SPRING at 4 pm; and George Stevens' SHANE at 7 pm). But how about three of the most undistinguished movies ever made? On his last day as Cinematheque director, John Cameron Ewing presents the only three films he ever directed, all short comedies, one before each of the features mentioned above: THE FIRST PICTURE SHOW at 2 pm; THE VENDING MACHINE at 4 pm; and THE MYTH OF NARCISSUS at 7 pm. We'd like to tell you that these newly restored mini-movies are themselves worth the price of admission. But they're not. However, the feature attractions definitely are!

Yes, it's a great western. But it is so much more. See for yourself Sun at 7 pm.

SHANE | Cinematheque John Ewing’s all-time favorite film is the one that hooked him on movies almost 60 years ago. George Stevens’ celebrated western concerns a feud between cattlemen and homesteaders in late 19th-century Wyoming—and the mysterious stranger who sides with the “sodbusters.” Based on a novel by ...

https://coolcleveland.com/2024/06/cinematheques-new-director-says-hello-its-outgoing-director-says-farewell-with-film-screenings/

Cinematheque’s New Director Says Hello & Its Outgoing Director Says Farewell with Film Screenings | CoolCleveland Sat 6/29 @ 6:45PM Sun 6/30 @ 2PM, 4PM & 7PM This is the week that Cleveland’s independent film organization, the Cleveland Institute of Art... READ MORE

If you've never seen this exquisite film, don't miss it. Sunday at 4 pm.

LATE SPRING | Cinematheque John Ewing’s favorite movie by his second-favorite filmmaker, Yasujiro Ozu, is a piercingly beautiful family drama in which an elderly widower tries to marry off his devoted grown daughter—who doesn’t want to leave him. Ozu’s two greatest actors—Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara—star, and they...

https://thelandcle.org/stories/john-ewing-talking-movies-with-the-man-who-co-founded-cinemathequebefore-he-rides-into-the-sunset/

John Ewing: Talking movies with the man who co-founded Cleveland's Cinematheque…before he rides into the sunset – The Land For nearly four decades, John Ewing has served as director at the Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland’s University Circle district. On June 30, he will show his final three films — three of his all-time favorites — before, like Alan Ladd in Shane, he rides off on his ho...

"Magnificent" is right. See Orson Welles' sophomore masterpiece Sun at 2 pm.

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS | Cinematheque John Ewing’s favorite movie by his favorite filmmaker, Orson Welles, is not Citizen Kane but the director’s follow-up to that masterpiece. Ambersons is an elegiac chronicle of the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family at the beginning of the 20th century, during the rise of the automobile. Muti...

https://clevelandmagazine.com/entertainment/film-tv/articles/after-10-000-movie-screenings-cleveland-cinematheque-founder-to-retire

After 10,000 Movie Screenings, Cleveland Cinematheque Founder to Retire John Ewing, who founded the Cleveland Cinematheque in 1984, will step away from the organization after screening some of his favorite movies this weekend. By Annie Nickoloff

Meet the Cinematheque's next director when Bilgesu Sisman introduces and does a Q&A after one of her favorite films. Sat at 6:45 pm.

SANS SOLEIL (SUNLESS) | Cinematheque The Cinematheque’s new director, Bilgesu Sisman, will introduce and answer audience questions after a screening of one of her favorite movies (also voted the 59th greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound magazine poll). Regarded as the feature-length masterpiece of French documentaria...

It's nominally about a legendary, long-gone cinema in London. But it's also a tribute to all repertory movie theaters, including us. Celebrate rep cinema with us Friday at 8:45 pm.

SCALA!!! | Cinematheque Subtitled Or the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits, Scala!!! is a tribute to London’s legendary Scala Cinema, which from 1978 to 1993 presented a changing-daily program of double-bills and all-nighters ...

https://www.news-herald.com/2024/06/25/cia-cinematheque-saying-goodbye-to-ewing-hello-to-sisman-this-weekend/

CIA Cinematheque saying goodbye to Ewing, hello to Sisman this weekend On June 30, John Ewing will retire as director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque after more than four decades and — wait for it — 9,000-plus films shown. That’s a lot of American class…

Opening 6/27-30: Hitchcock's Blackmail, John Ewing's top three & more! https://t.e2ma.net/message/33nu0i/v9eh6t

We've shown the silent version of this 1929 Hitchcock classic but never the seminal sound version, which is 10 minutes longer and was the first British "talking picture." But we remedy that oversight Fri at 7 pm and Sat at 5 pm. 35mm print, too.

BLACKMAIL (sound version) | Cinematheque Hitchcock’s first sound feature was also Britain’s first all-talkie. One of Hitch’s best, the innovative film tells of a young woman who is blackmailed after killing an attempted ra**st. Blackmail also exists as a silent feature that’s ten minutes shorter than the sound version. 35mm. 85 min...

Our "partnership presentation" at this year's Cleveland International Film Festival comes to our own screen Thu at 6:45 pm.

GREEN BORDER | Cinematheque The acclaimed and award-winning new epic from the master Polish director of Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, In Darkness, and others was denounced by Polish government officials as “a collection of blatant lies,” Nazi-like propaganda, and more. Addressing the current migrant crisis with anger a...