Somm (October 2nd at the Cleveland Museum of Art Morley Lecture Hall)

[SOMM screens Wednesday October 2nd at 7:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Morley Lecture Hall.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Recently a gentlemen in Ohio made headlines and became a viral celebrity by posting on YouTube his remorseful confession to having committed a drunk driving fatality and intent to turn himself in.

I haven't watch the video yet. I'm afraid I'd be sorely tempted to make my own YouTube video mea culpa about my own shameful secret - that I, Charles Cassady Jr., am a lifelong nondrinker (not even while driving!) and abstainer from alcohol. Yet I am somehow an Ohioan - though my new book project requires some study of UFO lore. Maybe I'll find I was stranded here by the aliens from my home planet in some sort of sadistic experiment.

SOMM Film and Wine Tasting Events with Filmmaker Q&A

[Press release from Cleveland Cinemas.]

 

Wine lovers will have reason to rejoice the week of August 26th. The Capitol Theatre and the Cedar Lee Theatre will be screening the new documentary SOMM about the Court of Master Sommeliers.  Directed by Cleveland native, Jason Wise, SOMM is a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world.

 

The film screens at the Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65^th St., Cleveland) on Tuesday, August 27th at 7:00 PM and at the Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts.) on Wednesday, August 28th at 7:00 PM.  There will be a Q&A via Skype with Jason Wise following each showing.

 

Tasting events before each screening will be held at the following partner locations:

 

The 2012 Ohio Independent Film Festival kicks off with wine and a movie

[Press release from the Ohio Independent Film Festival.]

The 2012 Ohio Independent Film Festival presents a wine tasting and screening of the documentary BOOM VARIETAL  on Thursday May 17th at 7 pm.

 This year’s film festival will kick off with a wine tasting at the Arts Collinwood Café preceding a documentary detailing the history of Malbec wine production in Argentina. Currently, fifth in the word for wine production, Argentina, is the leader in producing “Malbec “ originally a French wine and now one of the most popular wines through the world.