🎥 Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema Listings for Mar 12, 2021 🎥

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Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

Our first weekend of PRIVATE MOVIE PARTIES filled up fast, but more slots are available through the rest of March. Details on that below. In the meantime, you can still enjoy Cinemapolis from the comfort of your own home through our virtual cinema offerings.

This week, we're adding three new titles to the slate, each a festival favorite from the past year. The mix includes another scary treat from our friends at Ithaca Fantastik, a radical narrative/doc hybrid from Ephraim Asili, and an innovative new documentary from former Ithacan, Slawomir Grünberg.

As always, the full listing of all current and upcoming virtual films, including those titles ending tomorrow, can be found on our Virtual Cinema page.

NEW ON VIRTUAL CINEMA

VIRTUAL CINEMA
HONEYDEW

“Reviving the spirit of ’70s North American rural horror while very much still feeling like a film tapped into out contemporary moment, Honeydew is one of the wildest, weirdest horror films of the year.”

—Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ Women on Film

HONEYDEW tells the story of a young couple (played by Spielberg and Barr) who are forced to seek shelter in the home of an aging farmer (Kingsley) and her peculiar son, when they suddenly begin having strange cravings and hallucinations taking them down a rabbit hole of the bizarre.

DIRECTOR: Devereux Milburn

WRITER: Devereux Milburn

CAST: Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley

Presented in collaboration with Ithaca Fantastik

VIRTUAL CINEMA
THE INHERITANCE

“A joyous celebration of Blackness. THE INHERITANCE is alive, drunk off the colors and textures of West Philadelphia.”

— Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire

After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective.

A scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus — based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group — weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985.

DIRECTOR: Ephraim Asili

WRITER: Ephraim Asili

CAST: Nozipho McClean, Eric Lockley, Chris Jarell, Julian Rozzell Jr.

VIRTUAL CINEMA
STILL LIFE IN LODZ

"Grünberg effectively incorporates archival photos and footage, drawings, and lyrical, illustrative bits of animation into this brief but rich documentary, which ends on a lovely note that brings Elbaum's journey full circle."

—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

A large still-life painting hung on the wall above Lilka Elbaum’s childhood bed in Lodz, Poland. This painting hung on this very spot perhaps since the building was first inhabited in the late 1890s. Until the war these were Jewish families, then during the war, a German family, and then after the war, Lilka’s Jewish family. Hence, the painting ultimately became a silent witness to the tragic history of Lodz’s Jews.

The painting was removed from the apartment in October 1968, when Lilka’s family, along with the majority of Polish Jews, were expelled from Poland.

In the film “Still Life in Lodz”, the metaphor of the painting is used to tell the story of Lilka Elbaum, now living in Boston, who returns to Lodz in search of objects from her memory.

DIRECTOR: Slawomir Grünberg

WRITERS: Lilka Elbaum, Slawomir Grünberg

PRIVATE MOVIE PARTIES AT CINEMAPOLIS!

Bring your pod back to the movies for a private screening for up to 15 guests! Imagine snacking on popcorn, laughing with friends and family, and enjoying your favorite film in the privacy and comfort of your own auditorium.

Base rate for a party starts at $250 for up to 2.5 hours, with a discounted rate of $200 for Cinemapolis members. Additional film and concession purchase charges may apply. Dates now available through March, with April and May reservation slots coming soon.

RESERVATIONS AND DETAILS AT CINEMAPOLIS.ORG

Festival passes and individual tickets are NOW available to purchase.

CONTINUING ON VIRTUAL CINEMA

For the first month of our new Private Movie Party program, party hosts must provide their own Blu-ray or DVD to screen.

Negotiations are underway to add a rotating selection of newly released films as an option in future months. Pending updates to state guidelines for movie theaters and the return to a regular release schedule of new films, Cinemapolis will re-open for regularly scheduled public screenings at some point this Summer.

Hope to see you at the movies again soon!

Brett Bossard,
Executive Director

COMING SOON TO VIRTUAL CINEMA

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