Sat 9/24 @ 5PM
Sun 9/25 @ 6:30PM
If you’re a film buff who doesn’t get off on the blockbusters at the local metroplex, you might want to know about the first-ever national Art House Theater Day, dedicated to honoring those smaller, independent theaters that show thoughtful films, usually without a lot of explosions.
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, which has a long history of showing films no one else will show, is celebrating at its Peter B. Lewis Theater with a bunch of different films. It’ll start at 5pm with the 2014 collection New Faces of French Animation, featuring eight French short animated films, never before seen in Cleveland. There’s a special admission price of $2. Not suitable for children!
That will be followed at 6:40pm with a screening of the 1933 pre-code film Laugher in Hell (pictured), a bleak tale of crime and prison life directed by Edward L. Cahn. Admission is $8 and it will screen again on Sun 9/25 @ 6:30pm. It will be introduced by the writers of a book on Ohioan Jim Tully, who wrote the film.
Finally, at 8:30pm, there will be a double feature of two Cahn films from 1932, the western Law and Order and the gangster film Afraid to Talk. Warning: lots of violence! Admission for both films is $12.