Fri 7/16 @ 6:45PM and Sun 7/18 @ 1:30PM
A city reinventing itself: It’s a topic us Clevelanders love to hear about because, well, we’re eager for reinvention. That’s why My Tale of Two Cities should resonate well in the 216. Even though the film isn’t about Cle (though the director did grow up here), it’s about a rust belt town that has resurrected itself. Can you guess which town it is…? OK… it’s Pittsburgh!
After the Fri premiere, filmmaker Carl Kurlander will join Tami Brown of Positively Cleveland and Ivan Schwarz, executive director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, to talk about the film’s theme of people and communities reinventing themselves.
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… [A] Hollywood screenwriter (St. Elmo’s Fire) and TV producer (Saved by the Bell) who recently left L.A. to move back to his hometown of Pittsburgh, shows how the once-moribund “Steel City” has resurrected itself. This fond tribute to our Rust Belt rival might prove instructive for Clevelanders. Kurlander, who grew up in Cleveland, will answer questions after both screenings. Cleveland premiere. “A story of comebacks and coming back.” –Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (USA, 2008, color, DVD, 85 min.)
Cleveland Museum of Art – 11150 East Blvd.
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