[NEohioPAL] Silent films at the Cinematheque including GREED (1924) accompanied by Jeff Rapsis!

[Genevieve Schwartz]

Hello,



The Cinematheque has a few great silent films coming up in our Sept/Oct schedule including GREED (1924) with the return of silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis!



Below is a list of upcoming films at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11610 Euclid Ave. Tickets are $15-$11; $12-$8 for CIA/CSU I.D. holders, Cinematheque members, and those age 25 & under. We hope to see you there!


Thursday, September 1, at 6:45 pm &

Saturday, September 3, at 7:00 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!

Demoted Masterpieces

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

USSR, 1925, Sergei Eisenstein

Voted one of the 10 best films of all time in six of the seven previous decennial Sight & Sound magazine polls (1952-2002), this landmark Soviet silent is an electrifying, groundbreaking re-creation of a 1905 mutiny on a Czarist Russian battleship. The work contains perhaps the most famous single sequence in cinema history-the "Odessa Steps" massacre. A recording of Edmund Meisel's original music score provides the soundtrack. Subtitles. 35mm. 75 min. Special admission $13; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $10. No passes.


Friday, September 30, at 7:00 pm

Film Classics in 35mm!

Silent Movie Day!

Demoted Masterpieces

Jeff Rapsis accompanies

GREED

USA, 1924, Erich von Stroheim

Voted one of the 10 best films of all time in the first two Sight & Sound "greatest films" polls (1952 & 1962), Erich von Stroheim's unsparing silent film version of Frank Norris' novel McTeague chronicles how the love of money destroys the lives of three friends in 19th-century California. Originally 9-10 hours long, Greed remains the most mutilated masterpiece in screen history. Although the complete version is forever lost, what survives is impressive, indelible, and inflammatory; von Stroheim did not soften the harshness of his unflinching tale. New Hampshire's Jeff Rapsis, a Cleveland favorite, will provide live electronic keyboard accompaniment. "A true masterpiece of cinema. Even now its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock." -Time Out Film Guide. 35mm. Approx. 109 min. (at 24 frames per second). Special admission $15; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $12. No passes. www.jeffrapsis.com


Friday, October 14, at 7:00 pm &

Sunday, October 16, at 4:30 pm

Demoted Masterpieces

New 4K Restoration!

THE GENERAL

USA, 1926, Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman

Hailed by The Time Out Film Guide as "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made," Buster Keaton's funny and jaw-dropping Civil War silent finished among the 10 best movies of all time in Sight & Sound's 1972 and 1982 "greatest films" polls. Keaton plays a Southern train engineer who crosses enemy lines to retrieve a steam locomotive (a real steam locomotive; no CGI here) stolen by Yankee infiltrators-and then drive it back to the Confederacy with Union soldiers in hot pursuit. Features color tinting and a new orchestral score by Carl Davis. DCP. 79 min. https://cohenmedia.net/product/the-general


Thursday, October 27, at 6:45 pm

The Haunted Cinematheque

100th Anniversary!

WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES

aka HÄXAN

Sweden, 1922, Benjamin Christensen

This unique silent film is a semi-documentary exploring the Church's persecution of witches from the 15th through the 17th centuries-via vivid re-enactments of cases and purported incidents, like the Witches' Sabbath. (The Devil is played by filmmaker Christensen.) A huge hit among 1920s Surrealists, the film boasts stunning tableaux that evoke Bosch and Bruegel. We will show a recent restoration of the original version of this movie classic (with a newly recorded, authentic orchestral score) and not the jazzy 1967 re-release narrated by William S. Burroughs. "A weird and rather wonderful brew...Remarkable visual flair." -Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 105 min. www.janusfilms.com/films/1055

Thank you,
Genevieve Schwartz
Cinematheque Assistant Director

p.s. Our masking policy now align with the CDC's COVID-19 Community Level<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html> for Cuyahoga County<https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Ohio&data-type=CommunityLevels&list_select_county=39035&null=39035>. Every Friday, members of the COVID Task Force will check the CDC's assessment of Cuyahoga County and use that community level to determine the mask-wearing protocols for the following week. When the CDC's Community Level for Covid in Cuyahoga County is HIGH, all Cinematheque moviegoers this week will have to wear a mask for the duration of their visit. Learn more under the "Face Coverings<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2Ff9zgyg%2Fv9eh6t%2Fj4yzdl&data=05%7C01%7Cgbschwartz%40cia.edu%7C662049f80a44453cc35508da85316ce2%7C42ce327f3e7b42b098a675f41204ca58%7C1%7C0%7C637968744586941669%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=And6tAxQ0ybTfpMKDbhv%2Bcy6c8jo61lKhRSrd4Fnoh8%3D&reserved=0>" section at cia.edu/covid<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2Ff9zgyg%2Fv9eh6t%2Fzwzzdl&data=05%7C01%7Cgbschwartz%40cia.edu%7C662049f80a44453cc35508da85316ce2%7C42ce327f3e7b42b098a675f41204ca58%7C1%7C0%7C637968744586941669%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TjpahNNs2P7HsXrow%2BbBCF1zA1fi1Xq6SWMIJKKmzgc%3D&reserved=0>.

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