Akron’s New Indie Cinema Announces Opening Date and Films

[Press release from the Nightlight Cinema.]

 

Akron Film+Pixel has announced that the new downtown Akron venue, The Nightlight Cinema, will be open to the public starting on July 1, 2014. The one-screen theater, made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be showing five films during its first weeks, including Akron native Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, a brand new restoration of the 1964 Beatles classic A Hard Day’s Night, and Life Itself, a new documentary about the life of the late film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert.

 

“We are very excited to open The Nightlight with a movie by one of Akron’s most prominent natives,” said Steve Felix, director of Akron Film+Pixel. “Together, these films represent the programming planned for the future of the theater: independent works by modern filmmakers and retro classics restored for the big screen.”

Dope Island: The Haunted Movie Theaters of Cleveland

Article by Charles Cassady, Jr.

To get us into the Halloween mood let us note local movie houses that claim to be haunted - not by bad remakes or unwanted PARANORMAL ACTIVITY sequels, but rather by traditions and legends of unearthly, disturbing, well, paranormal activity. And a strange recurrence of the numeral five...

Those Lips, Those Eyes ( August 6th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[THOSE LIPS, THOSE EYES screens Saturday August 6th at 7 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Yes, it was me. I was one of maybe 20 or so people in the audience (alongside my poor embarrassed-by-the-sex-scenes mom) who saw the locally-filmed, locally themed 35mm release THOSE LIPS, THOSE EYES in a real live movie-house during its 1980 small-scale release. Even then, I supported local filmmaking. (fat lot of good it would end up doing me), even this coming-of-age comedy-drama. And I had high hopes for the ostensible subject matter, community theater. Yes, today you couldn't pay me to go to live theater (well, yes, you could pay me, but it would have to be a lot, and I would like the option of not showing up), but back in my innocent teenage years I was most active in it.