Sun 2/20 @ 2:30PM
Double-Stop is a nearly-forgotten film shot in Cleveland at the height of the city’s racial tensions in the ’60s. The movie features actors on location in University Circle, Shaker Heights and Bratenahl — and they even hired the Cleveland Orchestra for two days of shooting. This film comes out of hiding (or wherever films disappear to) for a special screening on Sun 2/20 @ the CIA Cinematheque. The filmmakers and stars will be there in person!
About the movie:
It tells of a cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra (Jeremiah Sullivan) and his wife (Mimi Torchin) who choose to let their son (Billy Kurtz) participate in the busing program that was intended to integrate the Cleveland schools. But when the cellist sees a schoolyard reality that’s much rougher than he had imagined, he impulsively pulls his kid out of school, against the wishes of his more doctrinaire-liberal spouse. Never released on video or DVD and unseen for decades, Double-Stop was written and directed by a then-23-year-old Clevelander Gerald Sindell. (His older brother Roger co-wrote and produced it.)
CIA Cinematheque – 11141 East Blvd. – Cle
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