[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Belgian
filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who was scheduled to appear at the Cleveland
Institute of Art Cinematheque on Saturday, October 19, has had to
cancel her appearance due to personal reasons that will keep her in
Belgium.
However,
the film she was to have presented on 10/19, her most recent feature
ALMAYER’S FOLLY, will still be shown at 7:30 pm, as will her 1975 work
JEANNE DIELMAN, showing Sunday, October 6, at 6:30 pm in what was to
have been a “warm up” for her visit. Ticket prices to ALMAYER’S FOLLY
have been reduced to $9; Cinematheque members $7; age 25 & under $6.
The Cinematheque will try to reschedule Ms. Akerman for a later date.
The
cancellation has opened up three slots in the Cinematheque’s October
schedule. These will be filled with two Cleveland first-run films,
EUROPA REPORT and OUR NIXON, both described below.
Saturday, October 19, at 9:55 pm &
Sunday, October 20, at 8:15 pm
EUROPA REPORT
USA, 2013, Sebastián Cordero
In this “staggeringly beautiful” (Film Comment)
new sci-fi thriller, video recordings from cameras on a spaceship
headed for Jupiter are scoured for clues that might explain what
happened to the six male and female astronauts on this ill-fated
international mission. Did they actually find life on Europa, the
planet’s fourth moon, as they set out to do? With Embeth Davidtz,
Michael Nyqvist (the Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days). Cleveland theatrical premiere. Blu-ray. 90 min. www.magpictures.com
Sunday, October 20, at 6:30 pm
OUR NIXON
USA, 2013, Penny Lane
This
intimate, eye-opening look at the Nixon presidency is culled from 500
reels of never-before-seen Super 8 color “home movies” shot by
high-level White House staffers (including convicted Watergate
conspirators H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman) between 1969 and 1973.
Accompanying the footage are choice audio tracks from TV interviews and
secret White House tapes. You’ve never seen the Oval Office, Tricia’s
wedding, Nixon’s trip to China (and much more) like this! “A
brisk, eye-opening documentary about the Nixon White House as seen from
the inside…[A] triumph of editing…A must-see for anyone interested in
Americana.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 84 min. www.ournixon.com
Admission
to either of these two films is $9; Cinematheque members $7; age 25
& under $6. All movies will show in the Aitken Auditorium of the
Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. in University Circle,
telephone (216) 421-7450, www.cia.edu/cinematheque
A revised blurb for ALMAYER’S FOLLY is below.
Saturday, October 19, at 7:30 pm
ALMAYER’S FOLLY
LA FOLIE ALMAYER
Belgium/France, 2011, Chantal Akerman
Chantal
Akerman’s most recent film had the third highest overall metacritic.com
score of 2012 (92 out of 100)! An adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s first
novel (but updated by many decades), it’s a dreamy, hypnotic film about a
brooding European treasure hunter living in the lush jungles of
Southeast Asia who tries to reconnect with his estranged, embittered
mixed-race daughter, now grown, when she returns home after being
educated in Europe. “Five stars (highest rating)…Uniquely enthralling.” –Time Out New York. Subtitles. 35mm. 127 min. Admission $9, members & CIA I.D. holders $7, age 25 & under $6; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
I notice Chantal Akerman cancelled her trip to Cleveland once the Indians failed to get to the World Series in the playoffs. Coincidence? Mais non! Either that or she found out belatedly that LeBron's no longer here.
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