[Press release from Cleveland Cinemas.]
While the 1970’s have been reduced to thoughts of 8-Track tapes, polyester
pantsuits and disco music in most people’s minds, it was also one of the best
decades for filmmaking. Iconic directors like Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and
Robert Altman emerged as key cinematic voices during this decade and some of
their most important films will be featured in Cleveland Cinemas 7 FROM THE ‘70s series.
Each
Wednesday at 7:00 PM starting on September 4th a great film from the
1970s will screen at a Cleveland Cinemas location. These digitally re-mastered
films are essential viewing and deserve to be seen on the big screen.
The films in
the series are as follows.
Title: MEAN STREETS (1973) – 40th
Anniversary Presentation
Date & Time:
Wednesday, September 4th, 7:00 PM
Location: Capitol
Theatre (1390 W. 65th St., Cleveland, OH)
Martin
Scorsese’s first film with Robert DeNiro is a semi-autobiographical and gritty look
at the streets on which the director grew up. Harvery Keitel stars as a
low-level mobster starting to climb the ranks and DeNiro is his childhood
friend who is plagued by gambling debts.
Title: MANHATTAN (1979)
Date &
Time: Wednesday, September 11th, 7:00 PM
Location:
Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH)
In
honor of the 12th anniversary of the September 11th
attacks we present Woody Allen’s ode to the city he loves the most. Featuring
stunning black & white cinematography by Gordon Willis and the music of
George Gershwin, “Manhattan” shows this great city at its most beautiful. Allen
stars as a TV producer going through a midlife crisis - looking for love,
happiness and the meaning to life’s biggest questions.
Title: NASHVILLE (1975) - ranked #59 on the AFI Top
100 American Films
Date &
Time: Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00 PM
Location:
Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65th St., Cleveland, OH)
Robert
Altman explores American culture and politics in the 1970’s in his Oscar-winning
film which follows dozens of characters whose lives unknowingly interconnect.
Title: BARRY LYNDON (1975)
Date &
Time: Wednesday, September 25th, 7:00 PM
Location:
Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH)
William
Makepeace Thackeray's novel about a social climbing Irishman is brought to
vivid life in Stanley Kubrick’s sumptuous period film which won four Oscars.
Title: DIRTY HARRY (1971)
Date &
Time: Wednesday, October 2nd, 7:00 PM
Location:
Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65th St., Cleveland, OH)
Clint
Eastwood’s iconic, ultra-tough San Francisco cop Harry Callahan is serving up justice
the only way he knows how... with his .44 Magnum. Callahan is on the case to
stop a rooftop sniper who is terrorizing the city in this first of the “Dirty
Harry” films.
Title: CHINATOWN (1974) - ranked #21 on the AFI Top
100 American Films
Date &
Time: Wednesday, October 9th, 7:00 PM
Location: Chagrin
Cinemas (8200 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH)
Jack
Nicholson stars as a private detective whose seemingly simple case leads him deeper
and deeper into the corrupt world of 1930’s Los Angeles. Featuring an Oscar-winning
screenplay by Robert Towne.
Title: THE EXORCIST (1973) - 40th
Anniversary Presentation
Date &
Time: Wednesday, October 16th, 7:00 PM
Location: Cedar
Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH)
A
young girl is possessed by the devil in this horror classic. Nominated for 10
Oscars, including Best Picture, The Exorcist remains one of the most unsettling and creepy films ever made.
Tickets are
$5 each and are available at the theatre box offices or online at
clevelandcinemas.com.
A ton of great, often grim films from the 70s.
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