Sat 9/29-Sun 9/30
Every cinema buff knows Cleveland’s nearly 40-year-old Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. But just a decade ago, Akron got its own little nonprofit movie theater that shows independent and art films, Nightlight Cinema.
And it’s celebrating its tenth anniversary the same weekend the Cinematheque is bringing in its first new director since it was founded. It’s got two days of special screenings planned, including restored films and Nightlight debuts. It will also be having an open house to tour the space that will soon (hopefully; it’s raising money now) become its second screen to double its capacity to show new, old, cult, foreign and other interesting non-mainstream films.
Its big fundraising event during the weekend is a screening of a newly restored version of Milos Forman’s Amadeus on Saturday at 8pm. It will also have multiple screenings of Return to Reason, comprising four films from the 1920s by surrealist photographer Man Ray, and Cinema Paradiso, a film that is, appropriately, about a boy who falls in love with film and is encouraged by a local movie projectionist to leave his small Italian town to pursue filmmaking.
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Akron, OH 44308