Cinemapolis Recommends - Virtual Cinema 🎥 Updates for September 2, 2020

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Greetings, Cinemapolitans,

We are heading into the weekend with another FOUR new additions to our slate of virtual cinema titles arriving on Friday.

And, summer may be winding down, be we're VERY excited to launch a new OUTDOOR viewing experience! You'll find more on our partnership with Serendipity for Movies on the Backlot below.

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

VIRTUAL CINEMA
AFRICAN VIOLET

“With strong, naturalistic performances and a vivid sense of place, Haqiqi’s film draws you into its characters’ lives, sharing their triumphs and challenges and creating understanding and building strong feelings of empathy.”

-Betsy Bozdech, AWFJ Women on Film

Middle-aged Shokoo finds out that ex-husband, Fereydoun, has been placed in a nursing home by their children. She, and second husband Reza, decide to take care of Fereydoun themselves, but in their own home.

In doing so, the relationship between Shokoo and Fereydoun is significantly transformed. This new situation affects Reza and Shokoo’s daily life and unexpected changes take place in the lives of all three characters.

Director: Mona Zandi Haqiqi
Writer: Hamidreza Bababeygi
Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Saeed Aghakhani, Reza Babak

Persian with English Subtitles

VIRTUAL CINEMA
DEEP IN VOGUE

“What you will see is state-of-the-art ballroom splendor — as done by the Brits — shot by people who savor each eye-popping image they captured. Every few minutes a new parade of moves and makeup and costumes and choreography splash across the screen.”

-Metrosource

DEEP IN VOGUE celebrates the colorful, queer, emotional and political stories of Northern Vogue and its people.

Over the course of a year, film makers Dennis Keighron-Foster and Amy Watson charted the build up to the Manchester ICONS Vogue Ball. Exploring themes from the internal politics of Vogue to its external politics like disenfranchisement of black youth, LGBT issues, a shrinking welfare state, a dearth of art spaces and modes of expression, a reductive and commercialized gay scene and a lack of safe spaces for the truly different.

The film explores the history of vogue and ballroom, in which Black and Latinx gay men and trans people sought an aspirational artistic outlet in the 1980s, in much the same way that gay, queer, trans and QTIPOC people seek a safe space today.

Directors: Dennis Keighron-Foster, Amy Watson
Stars: Joshua Hubbard, Asttina Mandella, Darren Pritchard

VIRTUAL CINEMA
GHOST TROPIC

CRITIC'S PICK

“‘Everybody needs a place to rest,’ Bruce Springsteen sings in one of his 1980s hits. This movie is a strong depiction of people who’ve richly earned such a place.”

-Glenn Kenny, NY Times

After work one night, Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb), a fifty-eight-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in Brussels, falls asleep on the last subway train, wakes up at the end of the line and has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her long, nocturnal voyage home, she has a series of encounters: with a security guard, a convenience store clerk, a group of teenagers. She asks for help and she gives it and slowly, steadily makes her way.

Director Bas Devos’s lightness of touch combines with the richness of Grimm Vanderkerckhove’s 16mm images to create a small wonder of humanistic storytelling. Ghost Tropic is a testament to the everyday drama of immigrant life and insists on the possibility of goodness and beauty, even in the dark of night.

Director: Bas Devos
Writer: Bas Devos
Stars: Saadia Bentaïeb, Laurent Kumba, Jovial Mbenga

Dutch and French with English Subtitles

VIRTUAL CINEMA
NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN

CRITIC'S PICK

“Herzog insists that what Chatwin gave the reader was ‘truth and a half.’ To elaborate as Chatwin did, Herzog implies, is a legitimate response to places that can’t help but exert a strong pull on the imagination. And of course, the truth-and-a-half principle figures heavily in Herzog’s own art – of which this film is a particularly outstanding example.”

-Glenn Kenny, NY Times

Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin, Karin Eberhard

CONTINUING ON VIRTUAL CINEMA

Cinemapolis is partnering with Serendipity Catering and Bar to take our show on the road! “Movies on the Backlot” will bring some of our greatest hits to the great outdoors for a series of socially distanced screenings on the lawn at Serendipity's Backlot.

Guests of the restaurant can enjoy these shows for free on Friday and Saturday nights. Capacity will be very limited, so early arrival is advised. Guests will be able to leave tips and purchase Cinemapolis merchandise via their contactless ordering system.

The series begins THIS weekend with Friday and Saturday screenings of the madcap Wes Anderson classic - The Grand Budapest Hotel! These shows begin at 9 pm.

COMING SOON TO VIRTUAL CINEMA

We're doing all we can to ensure that your favorite member supported art house cinema is safe and ready to open the doors as soon as state and local regulations allow us. In the meantime, we continue to need your support to deliver our online programming and to keep all of our living wage employees on the payroll.

Please consider renewing your membership or making an additional tax-deductible contribution today!

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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