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 Cinematheque, officially begins its new era. Its co-founder and longtime (38 years!) director John Ewing begins the retirement he announced last year, and new director Bilgese Sisman takes charge.
Sisman will host a “meet the new director” program on Saturday June 29 when she screens one of her favorite movies, the 1983 French documentary film Sans Soleil (Sunless), by director Chris Marker. It’s “an evocative collage of sights captured by the globe-trotting filmmaker in Japan, Africa, Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco, accompanied by his insights about memory, history, society, and technology,” they tell us. Following the screening Sisman will take questions from the audience.
On Sunday, Ewing will wave goodbye with screenings of three of his favorite films: Orson Welles’ 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons at 2pm; Yasujiro Ozu’s 1949 Late Spring at 4pm; and George Stevens’ 1953 western Shane at 7pm. Ewing will introduce all three. Not only will Ewing introduce each film—long day for him with many tears likely shed!—but each will be preceded by one of three silent comedy shorts Ewing made in 1962 while a student at Denison University
In addition, the gallery just outside the theater has copies of Ewing’s pre-Cinematheque film series fliers on display, including brochures for the Stark County District Library’s Canton Film Society screenings from 1976 through 1983 and Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library’s Monday Cinema showings from 1984 to 1986.
Go here for more information and tickets.