🎥 Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema Listings for Mar 3, 2021 🎥

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Cinemapolis - Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

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Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

EXCITING NEWS! Our online reservation system for PRIVATE MOVIE PARTIES at Cinemapolis is NOW LIVE. After almost exactly a year of being closed in response to the pandemic, our entire staff is eager to dip our toes back into the water and offer up this very safe option for Cinemapolitans to enjoy movies the way they were meant to be seen—on the big screen.

Starting on March 12, you can bring your pod back to Cinemapolis for a private movie 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.

Find all the details and
RESERVE YOURS NOW AT CINEMAPOLIS.ORG.

NEW ON VIRTUAL CINEMA

VIRTUAL CINEMA
A FIRST FAREWELL

"...thrives on humanity rather than dogma, and offers poetry rather than propaganda. Bolstered by lush imagery and, perhaps more importantly, immensely naturalistic performances from its non-professional child actors, the film conjures up a quietly heartbreaking drama that works on multiple levels.”

–Clarence Tsui, Hollywood Reporter

Wang Lina’s experimental debut explores the sensitivity shared by narrative filmmaking and documenting reality, unveiling poetry from the minutiae of Uighurs’ life in Xinjiang like none other. Tailing an endearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home village surrounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugs viewers’ heartstrings with a story about treasures in his carefree childhood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personal advancement get weighed against another for this generation of minority children, who must bid many farewells to assimilate into the more widely acknowledged best life.

Uighur and Mandarin
with English Subtitles

DIRECTOR: Wang Lina

SCREENWRITER: Wang Lina

CAST: Isa Yasan, Kalbinur Rahmati, Alinaz Rahmati

VIRTUAL CINEMA
KEEP AN EYE OUT

"Equal parts Michel Gondry, Tex Avery and the Coen brothers. A fun exercise in genre-bending...well-orchestrated and amusing to watch.”

-Hollywood Reporter

The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, Keep An Eye Out is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers.

Between the opening sequence, when a man in just red briefs conducts a philharmonic orchestra in the open air, and the triple-meta denouement, Dupieux’s whip-smart script disregards audience expectations, the fourth wall, and the laws of time and space. You’ll never look at a protractor or an oyster the same way again.

French with English Subtitles

DIRECTOR: Quentin Dupieux

SCREENWRITER: Quentin Dupieux

CAST: Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize

Presented in collaboration with Ithaca Fantastik

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STRAY

“Elizabeth Lo’s sharp-eyed study of Istanbul strays is both the ultimate love letter to dogs and a multifaceted moral inquiry into humanity.”

—Tomris Laffly, Variety

Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.

The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them. Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Lo

SCREENWRITER: Elizabeth Lo

CAST: Zeytin, Nazar, Karta

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival RETURNS to Cinemapolis this year in a 100% virtual form! This year, the festival has expanded to a three week, all-online event from March 22 to April 11. Each week features seven amazing selections available to view at your leisure during that 7 day period. Explore our on-demand catalog at watch.eventive.org/FLEFF, and plan ahead for each week. Festival passes and individual tickets are NOW available to purchase.

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic.

Funding for the 2021 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is proviaded by Ithaca College, the major presenting sponsor, and the generosity of other outside funders including the Park Foundation, the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the Park Center for Independent Media, and other anonymous supporters.

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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