Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema & Home 🎥 Viewing Options

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Subject: Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema & Home 🎥 Viewing Options - 4/8/2020

Cinemapolis - Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

Don't worry - you won't have don a headset or beam yourself into cyberspace, but starting this Friday, April 10th, Cinemapolis IS going virtual!

In response to the statewide “stay at home” order, we are offering a weekly slate of new films for patrons to view at home. We're collaborating with independent film distributors like Film Movement, Kino Lorber, Magnolia Pictures, and Oscilloscope Laboratories to sell patrons “virtual tickets” for online rentals of current first-run releases.

Prices will vary slightly depending on the studio, but in all cases, a portion of the proceeds come back to support operations at Cinemapolis while the theater is closed.

All virtual cinema titles available to rent can be screened online using a laptop or mobile device. Other options such as Roku, ChromeCast or Apple TV may be available depending on the platforms being used by each studio. Detailed instructions will be available at the time of purchase.

Just like our regularly scheduled film screenings, titles will only be available for a limited duration, and new titles will be added each Friday. The first week of new, virtual releases features four films: Bacurau, Corpus Christi, Once Were Brothers, and Saint Frances.

VIRTUAL CINEMA STARTING 4/10

We moved quickly and thoughtfully to launch these virtual cinema offerings, but they're new. Please be patient if there are some initial technical issues - know that we'll respond promptly.

Virtual Cinema goes live on FRIDAY, APRIL 10th.

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
BACURAU

"At once both more forceful and more inscrutable than Filho’s previous work, Bacurau plunges deeper into midnight territory as its core ideas take hold, its ghosts become literal, and its heroes take up arms."

-David Ehrlich, IndieWire

The first of several virtual titles that were scheduled to be part of this year's Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Bacurau is both powerfully political and unapologetically psychedelic. This darkly comic Brazilian thriller defies genre and was a jury prize winner at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
CORPUS CHRISTI

"Often moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all."

-Leslie Felperin, The Guardian

Cinemapolitans had only two days to see this Academy Award nominee in the theater prior to our closing, so Film Movement has made Corpus Christi available for our first set of virtual screening options. Don't miss it!

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
ONCE WERE BROTHERS

"Robertson [is] an articulate and ingratiating tour guide through all this glorious and eventually tortured history."

-Chris Willman, Variety

Another title that was on our screens just before the closure, Once Were Brothers is based on Robbie Robertson's memoir Testimony and chronicles the life and times of The Band. Get a virtual ticket for this one, and then click over to Amazon Prime for a double feature with The Last Waltz.

VIRTUAL CINEMA:

SAINT FRANCES

"It's truly refreshing to watch a film where nobody has anything figured out, where life proceeds messily and imperfectly. Saint Frances is unpredictable in a very human way."

-Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com

Winner of the Audience Award at last year's SXSW Festival, Saint Frances follows failing nanny Bridget (star and screenwriter Kelly O'Sullivan) as she deals personal heartaches and professional headaches, all while forming a special bond with the titular six-year-old and her two moms.

Memberships & Gift Cards Still Available Online

COMING SOON TO VIRTUAL CINEMA

Thanks again to everyone in the Cinemapolis family for your patience and understanding during these uncertain times. For daily doses of relief from the news, be sure to follow us on social media.

If you're on Instagram - share some of your favorite movie memories and tag us: @TheCinemapolis !

Hope to see you at the movies again soon!

Brett Bossard, Executive Director

Cinemapolis is proud to be a certified living wage employer. As a response to the Covid-19 crisis, the cinema is temporarily closed. All staff will receive full pay during this closure. The purchase of virtual screening tickets, gift cards, and theater memberships all help support Cinemapolis to compensate the staff throughout this unprecedented time.

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