Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema 🎥 Updates for June 24, 2020

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Cinemapolis - Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

Work behind the scenes continues to get your favorite independent cinema up and ready for re-opening. While the governor's office has announced that cinemas will not be included in Phase 4, we expect guidelines to be announced very soon. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, we're still offering opportunities to enjoy great Cinemapolis Approved™ films at home. That includes a locally produced documentary that is available NOW. Filmmakers Sue Perlgut and Nils Hoover have chronicled an overlooked segment of theater history with their new film It's All Right To Be Woman Theatre. It's available for a limited time, so catch it soon, and join the filmmakers TONIGHT for a free Q & A!

We're also adding another three great new films on Friday, including our second Pride month feature and another award-winning international title that had been planned for this year's FLEFF.

We'll be bidding farewell to a few of our current favorites, so be sure to click over to see Papicha, Picture a Scientist, Shirley, and Tommaso soon. They're only available through tomorrow, Thursday, June 25th.

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

Ella Fitzgerald: It's Just One of Those Things

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO WOMAN THEATRE

Join us for an online talk back led by Dr. Sara Warner with filmmakers and troupe members!

TONIGHT - Wednesday, June 24 at 7 PM
REGISTER HERE to be part of the Q & A
(via Zoom).

The event will also be simulcast on Facebook.

From 1970 – 1976 It’s All Right To Be Woman Theater inspired audiences as they performed in non-traditional performance spaces in New York City, and traveled to women’s centers, colleges and universities and were seen on PBS. Founded by Sue Perlgut and Lynn Laredo the troupe created fresh and innovative forms of expression based on stories from their lives, at a time when women were beginning to break free from the roles that had traditionally defined them.

The troupe’s creation and work shaped the lives they lived and leaves a legacy that persists to this day for future generations.

Directors: Sue Perlgut, Nils Hoover

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
ELLA FITZGERALS: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

“An exhilarating and superbly filmed rags to riches tale of the supreme voice of jazz. Eagle Rock has smashed it again.”

-Paul Davies -Daily Express

Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald’s life, this documentary film explores how her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century.

Director: Leslie Woodhead
Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Ella Fitzgerald, Norma Miller

JOIN US FOR A LIVE Q & A ON
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 AT 7 PM

Producer Reggie Nadelon and author/music critic Will Friedwald will be joined by author Margo Jefferson and singer Camille Thurman.

This Q & A is FREE - REGISTER HERE.

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO

“This doc is always thoughtful and tightly edited, and it has an emotional impact that not many docs can equal.”

-Stephen Farber, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO examines the intersection of religion, sexual orientation and gender identity in America. In the wake of the Supreme Court case legalizing marriage equality, the Right has launched a new campaign to limit the rights of LGBTQ citizens across the country.

By telling the stories of four families struggling with these issues, the film offers healing, clarity and understanding to those caught in the crosshairs of scripture, sexuality, and identity.

Director: Daniel Karslake
Writers: Nancy Kennedy, Daniel Karslake

VIRTUAL CINEMA:
THE LAST TREE

“Thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics – filtered through a first-person perspective that itself oscillates between furious clarity and vivid confusion."

-Guy Lodge, Variety

The semi-autobiographical story of Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire,
moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his teens, Femi (Sam Adewunmi) is struggling with the culture and values of his new environment. Femi must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 00s.

Director: Shola Amoo
Writer: Shola Amoo
Stars: Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Tuwaine Barrett

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.

Thanks to our friends at Ithaca College, we're able to share a recording of their Honors Program Rapid Response Salon on Covid-19: Black People, Racist Rhetoric, Violence. Join City of Ithaca community leaders and Ithaca College faculty in their latest Rapid Response Salon conversation that focuses on Black people, racist rhetoric, and violence in the context of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and subsequent protests across the United States and the world.
Boots Riley's groundbreaking and genre-bending debut feature, Sorry to Bother You is now available to stream on Hulu.
Shirley Clarke's one of a kind snapshot of being Black and Queer in the 20th Century, Portrait of Jason is now available for free via the Criterion Channel.
Stanley Nelson's rich historical portrait of a movement, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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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