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CinemaTalk, September-October 2019

09/05/19  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By JOHN EWING, Cinematheque Director. In my last column, I extolled some of the virtues of digital projection of movies (as opposed to film projection, which the Cinematheque did exclusively for well over 25 years). But...

CinemaTalk, July-August 2019

07/03/19  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director It’s been almost four years since the Cinematheque entered the brave new world of digital cinema. This happened in August of 2015, when we moved from our home of 29 years,...

CinemaTalk, May-June 2019

04/24/19  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director If you saw Green Book, then you should see the real Dr. Donald Shirley in the 2010 documentary Lost Bohemia on May 5. (Shirley is the classically trained African American pianist...

CinemaTalk, March-April 2019

03/01/19  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director. I recently was a guest on Cleveland Cinemas’ weekly podcast. After the recording session, I mentioned to the show’s two co-hosts, Dave Huffman and Aaron Spears, that I was going straight...

CinemaTalk, July-August 2018

06/21/18  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director When I first heard about Gary D. Rhodes’ book The Perils of Moviegoing in America, 1896-1950 (Continuum, 2012), I had to find a copy because, well, moviegoing doesn’t exactly seem...