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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...

CinemaTalk, March-April 2018

02/14/18  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  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, May-June 2017

06/12/17  |  Posted by John Ewing  |  Posted in Cinematheque

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By John Ewing, Cinematheque Director Do I still have the same missionary zeal that I once had to get moviegoers to see films that I am wildly enthusiastic about? I wonder about this from time to...