Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema 🎥 Updates for June 17, 2020

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Cinemapolis - Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

As summer begins in Ithaca, we're hard at work developing plans and procedures for getting the cinema once again open to the public. While we know that our region should be entering "Phase 4" of the New York State reopening plan by the end of the this month, there has yet to be complete published guidelines and safety requirements for cinemas. We will open only after we can be sure that our patrons and staff will be in the safest environment possible to enjoy the movie-going experience. That should be some time in July. Stay tuned for more info as it develops!

In the meantime, we're still offering opportunities to enjoy great Cinemapolis Approved™ films at home. This Friday, we're adding another FIVE new virtual cinema offerings to the slate, including a FREE title from local film company Photosynthesis Productions, an award-winning dramedy just in time for Juneteenth, the first of three titles celebrating Pride Month, and two more films presented in collaboration with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. We're also bidding farewell to a few virtual favorites. If you haven't yet seen Parkland Rising, Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy, and Lucky Grandma, click over soon. They're only available through tomorrow, Thursday, June 18th.

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 VIRTUAL CINEMA

FREE VIRTUAL CINEMA:
CIVIL WARRIORS

“Writ large, CIVIL WARRIORS portrays a people’s historical strivings amidst adversity and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of liberty, citizenship, and justice for all.”

-Margaret Washington

They stood up to fight for freedoms they themselves barely had, stood up to be counted as men in a country that called them ‘boys.’ They fought and died, but their stories go largely untold. CIVIL WARRIORS tells the true story of 26 African-American men from one county in upstate New York who enlisted in the US Colored Troops and fought in the Civil War.

Directors: Che Broadnax, Deborah C. Hoard
Writer: Ben Porter Lewis
Stars: Sean Eversley Bradwell, Jonathan Flanigan, Levan D. Hawkins

Made available for FREE screenings by Photosynthesis Productions

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
MISS JUNETEENTH

“Nicole Beharie is a revelation, breathing a life and passion into Godfrey Peoples’ history-rich script.”

-Tre’vell Anderson, XTRA MAGAZINE

Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen—she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to become Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else.

Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples

Writer: Channing Godfrey Peoples

Stars: Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
QUEEN OF LAPA

“A brilliant, tender and gracious exploration of what it means to be trans, a sex worker, and liminal in today’s Brazil.”

-Katya Kazbek, SUPAMODU

A proud transgender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new generation of transgender sex workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, rivalries, and quests for love of sex workers, as Muniz’s guides them in a city full of hostility towards its LGBTQ community.

Directors: Theodore Collatos, Carolina Monnerat

Subtitled in English

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF NOAH PIUGATTUK

“One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a comedy of manners that is no laughing matter. The latest film from Zacharias Kunuk (The Fast Runner, Searchers) sees Inuit-settler relationships humorously and tragically lost in translation.”

-Pat Mullen, POV Magazine

Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team, just as his ancestors did. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Writers: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk
Stars: Kim Bodnia, Apayata Kotierk, Benjamin Kunuk

Features English Subtitles

Presented in collaboration with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
TAZZEKA

“Tazzeka has a lot to say about the passion that fuels people, the way society treats immigrants, and how those two elements interrelate."

-Bobby LePire, Film Threat

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant.

Director: Jean-Philippe Gaud
Writers: Mariannick Bellot, Jean-Philippe Gaud
Stars: Mahdi Belemlih, Ouidad Elma, Olivier Sitruk

Subtitled in English

Presented in collaboration with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

CONTINUING ON VIRTUAL CINEMA

RECOMMENDED VIEWING

The art of film provides a unique space where we can grapple with and illuminate contemporary issues. As our nation continues to come to terms with its long history of racial violence and inequities, we encourage all Cinemapolitans to watch, read, and listen to black voices; act in support of anti-racist causes; and donate to organizations that are providing services and aid to movements of social protest for racial justice.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project chronicles the fascinating life and work of a visionary archivist and activist. It's now streaming free via PBS.
The New York Times names Da 5 Bloods, the latest Spike Lee joint, a Critic's Pick. It's now streaming on Netflix.
Cheryl Dunye broke new ground as the first out Black lesbian to direct a feature film. She also wrote and stars in The Watermelon Woman, which is now streaming for free via the Criterion Channel.
Roger Guenveur Smith delivers a tour de force as the enigmatic co-founder of the Black Panther Party in A Huey P. Newton Story. Smith's one-man stage show was brought to the screen by Spike Lee for a 2001 broadcast. It's now streaming on Hulu.

COMING SOON TO VIRTUAL CINEMA

While we're waiting to get back to the business of watching movies at the cinema, we'd love to hear from you on Twitter! Share your favorite #CinemapolisMemories and tell us what you'll do on your first visit back to the theater. Be sure to tag us -

@The Cinemapolis

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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