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CinemaTalk, March-April 2018

02/14/18  |  Posted by Cinematheque  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director Dan Talbot, who died in late December at age 91, was a longtime exhibitor and distributor of art films. He ran the New Yorker Theater, a repertory house on the Upper...

CinemaTalk, March-April 2017

02/15/17  |  Posted by Cinematheque  |  Posted in Cinematheque

By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director For the most part, I have been very happy with the Cinematheque’s new location in the growing “Uptown” district on Euclid Avenue east of Mayfield Road. (We’ve been here since August...

CinemaTalk, Nov-Dec 2016

11/07/16  |  Posted by Cinematheque  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing Is there still a year-round audience for new foreign-language films in Cleveland? Or are most northeast Ohio moviegoers content to watch them only once a year, when they play as part of the Cleveland...

Cinema Talk

03/02/16  |  Posted by Cinematheque  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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Are Oscar voters racist? Some have implied as much. This is because, for the second year running, there are no people of color among the 20 actors nominated in the Academy Awards’ four acting categories...

CinemaTalk

01/11/16  |  Posted by Cinematheque  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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In May 2007 I traveled to the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago to see a movie that I thought I would never be able to show at the Cinematheque: Jacques Rivette’s 1971 French New...