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Cinemapolis - Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

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Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

A quick reminder that we are doing everything we can to ensure a CinemaSafe experience for staff and patrons alike as we come back to the movies. Following CDC guidance, and aligning with recent advisories from the Tompkins County Department of Health, we are continuing to require facemasks for ALL patrons, regardless of vaccination status, in all common areas of the cinema.

Patrons may remove their masks when seated and enjoying snacks in their screening room. Seating in each auditorium is limited to 50% of total capacity to allow patrons to sufficiently distance their party from other guests.

We have three new additions to our slate this weekend, so you'll want to get in before then to catch Pig, Roadrunner, and Summer of Soul. Their popular runs end on Thursday, August 12th!

OPENING FRIDAY, AUGUST 13

AILEY

94 min, PG-13

Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.

Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.

DIRECTOR: Jamila Wignot

Fri: 4:30, 7:30

Sat: 1:20, 4:30, 7:30

Sun: 1:20, 4:30

Thu: 4:30, 7:30

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SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF

94 min, NR

Art House Re-Opening Benefit! 100% of Your Ticket Supports Cinemapolis!

Donald Rugoff, was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff was a difficult (some would say impossible) person but was also the man who kicked art films into the mainstream. Rugoff’s impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business—from the studio classics divisions to the independent film movement to the rise of the Weinsteins—is undeniable.

Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure. The story is told through the eyes of former employee Ira Deutchman, who sets out to find the truth about the man who had such a major impact on his life, and to understand how such an important figure could have disappeared so completely.

DIRECTOR: Ira Deutchman

Fri & Sat: 5:00, 7:45

Sun: 1:40 PM

Thu: 5:00, 7:45

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SWAN SONG

105 min, NR

Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client’s dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job.

SWAN SONG is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering one’s sparkle, and looking gorgeous while doing so.

DIRECTOR: Todd Stephens

SCREENWRITER: Todd Stephens

CAST: Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans

Fri: 4:45, 7:15

Sat: 2:00, 4:45, 7:15

Sun: 2:00, 4:45

Thu: 4:45, 7:15

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CONTINUING IN THEATER

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SPECIAL ITHACA "SNEAK PREVIEW"

PETERSBURG RISING

58 min, NR

Featuring LIVE Q & A w/ producer Alan Blankstein

A portion of all tickets sold will benefit the Ithaca Montessori School Scholarship Fund

This a common American Story of economic boom-to-bust, with an unusual twist: an extraordinary group of leaders entered the picture to turn the tide by investing in children and their education. Petersburg was to be their model for the state, and perhaps the nation. Yet challenges remain enormous.

For more than a decade, Petersburg schools struggled, failed, and even lacked basic accreditation. Students dropped out in large numbers and faced tough times at home in one of the poorest communities in the state. Their future was bleak. Generations of children were lost.

When the superintendent of the neighboring district announced his retirement from a large, wealthy, successful district to act on his second doctorate in divinity, he was asked if he would consider instead running the poorest and lowest performing district in the state. This is that story, told through the struggles… and triumphs of 5 students we followed for a year.

ONE DAY ONLY

SUN, 8/15: 4:30 pm

"PAY WHAT YOU CAN" TICKETS

As you may have noticed, there's a rather large construction project that has begun all around the cinema. The Green Street Parking Garage has been temporarily closed and the ground level parking lot between us and City Hall has been removed as work begins on the Asteri Ithaca project.

This phenomal mixed-use project will add four new levels of parking, a brand new conference center, and more than 200 affordable workforce housing units to downtown. It will also make getting to the cinema a little more challenging for a while.

For the duration of the construction, we're recommending that all movie-goers park in the Cayuga Street garage and take the Creek Walk to the crosswalk on Green Street that leads directly to our door. Direct access from the Commons is detoured through scaffolding near Harold’s Square and toward City Hall.

If you need to drop off another patron, there are passenger drop off spots located just past the crosswalk in front of Urban Outfitters.

Be sure to leave a little early for your next trip to the movies, so you don't miss out on the great previews!

Hope to see you at the movies again soon!

Brett Bossard,
Executive Director

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