Cheryl, a Movie Group member of ours, had the privilege to be the associate producer and lead actress of a high quality indie action film shot primarily in Cleveland. They had excellent locations such as the Plain Dealer Pavillion, Shooters, Penthouse Condos, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, a 5.5 million $ mansion, and a resort area in Virginia.

This is being hosted in conjunction with the New in Town meetup.
http://newintown.meetup.com/67/

You can view the trailer and stills at http://www.GreaterThreat.com.

The $10.00 includes the use of the facility, appetizers, mixers for cocktails, and the showing of the movie.
Cheryl recommends you BYOB and DRESS TO IMPRESS!!!!!

You won't want to miss this unique event!!!

7:00 EATS: Cocktails and Hor's D'Oeurves. The clubhouse is very near 480 and should be easy to find.

9:00 MOVIE: Plan to see the the excitement.

10:30 DISCUSSION: Meet & Greet actors/ Socializing

DESCRIPTION: A T.V. investigative reporter ( Cheryl Goodlin ) discovers an international sex slave operation when a young girl is mistakenly kidnapped. She turns to an old flame for help, but when he insists she stay out of it, she begins her own investigation. Meanwhile the father, with a mysterious past, turns vigilante and teams up with a close friend and FBI agent to bring his little girl home.

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MOVIE LINKS:

** Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee), Cleveland Heights, 2163 Lee Road. http://www.clevelandcinemas.com/cinemadrilldown.asp?intCin=2921

PARKING: Paid Parking is now 24 X 7, so bring a couple of quarters. Credit cards work in the garage. A free parking lot is on Edgewood road, one block west of Lee road at Cedar.

** Cinemateque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=this

PARKING: They have a free parking lot.

** Cleveland Museum of Art Panorama Series, 11150 East Blvd. http://www.clevelandart.org/educef/viva2005/film/Film.asp

PARKING: They have an attendant parking garage. There is also street parking.

** Movie Reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

** NOTE TO FIRST TIME GOERS: If this is your first movie with the group, there is no fee to attend.

This group has been successful partly because members have a genuine interest in meeting fellow independent movie goers. We don't always know where to look for you, especially first timers.

We have multiple meeting places: 1. Entrance door to the movie in the theater hallway 5-10 minutes before the movie starts, 2. By the Marquee (or entrance door) after the movie, or 3. Reserved table at a restaurant under the name "Movie Group".

We don't always sit together in the movie theater but if you see a bunch of people talking about good movies they have seen, it is probably us. Please join in. We are always happy to get new people involved.

** NOTE TO ALL: In the world of Independent films, it is recommended that you check back a few days before the event to make sure the movie, restaurant, location or time has not changed.

Our next movie is a series of What Ifs. How would things be different if Kennedy had lived? What similarities to Vietnam can be found in today's world?

7:00 MOVIE
Meet at the ENTRANCE DOOR 10 minutes ahead of time or look for the group inside the theater or meet us afterward outside the entrance door. This is the art museum, not the Cinemateque.

8:30 EATS AND DISCUSSION
Earlier this winter, a few of us had rave reviews about L'Albatros Brasserie & Bar at 11401 Bellflower Rd. (216) 791-7880. It is about a 10 minute walk from the museum. We will try for the patio for what I believe will be an interesting discussion.

Please let us know your dinner plans on your RSVP so that we can either save you a seat at the "Movie Group" table or plan to meet you at the movie. Checks are processed in groups of 2 or 3 so please bring cash to pay for your meal.

If you don't see us when you walk in, ask to be seated with the Movie Group.

http://www.indiewire.com/images/uploads/iw9/movies/PX74-38-no4.jpg

DESCRIPTION
This new piece of speculative history employs films clips and analyses of the crises faced by President John F. Kennedy to ponder how the Vietnam War might have unfolded had Kennedy not been assassinated.

REVIEW
Assembles an amazing array of recorded conversations and vintage newsreel, and offers up enough press conference footage to make one nostalgic for the days when an uncowed, penetrating press really did serve the public interest...
http://movies.tvguide.com/virtual-jfk-vietnam-kennedy-lived/review/295322

FEE
Goes toward charges incurred for using the MeetUp website. You can access PayPal or pay your fee to the Organizer at the event.
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MOVIE LINKS:

Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee), Cleveland Heights, 2163 Lee Road. http://www.clevelandcinemas.com/cinemadrilldown.asp?intCin=2921

PARKING: Paid Parking is now 24 X 7, so bring a couple of quarters. Credit cards work in the garage. A free parking lot is on Edgewood road, one block west of Lee road at Cedar.

Cinemateque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=extended

PARKING: They have a free parking lot.

Cleveland Museum of Art Panorama Series, 11150 East Blvd. http://www.clevelandart.org/events/film.aspx

PARKING: They have an attendant parking garage. There is also street parking.

Movie Reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

SENKI (SHADOWS)
Macedonia/Germany/Italy/Bulgaria/Spain, 2007, Milcho Manchevski
The latest film from the director of Before the Rain is a sensuously photographed supernatural mystery-thriller in which a Macedonian (the country not the town) doctor who has survived a serious car crash starts encountering strange phenomena and weird people who seem to be telling him something (though in cryptic phrases or unfamiliar languages). Macedonia’s official entry for the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. “You won’t be bored…Well acted and very sexy.” –The NY Times. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 130 min. Adults only! There is nudity, but as far as I can tell, it is done in a tasteful manner, bj.

5 p.m. Eats
Considering the early starting time (7 p.m.), plan on getting a quick burger, salad or tapas and a glass of wine at Palette at the Glidden House, 1901 Ford Dr., 216.231.8900. It’s a short walk from Cinematheque. Weather permitting, you might find us next door on Sergio’s patio. It is a 5 minute walk from Cinematheque. Of course, cash is king here.

Please let us know your dinner plans on your RSVP so that we can either save you a seat at the "Movie Group" table or plan to meet you at the movie. Checks are processed in groups of 2 or 3 so please bring cash to pay for your meal. If you don't see us when you walk in, ask to be seated with the Movie Group.

7 p.m. MOVIE
Meet at the ENTRANCE DOOR 5 minutes ahead of time or look for the group inside the theater or meet us afterward outside the entrance door. We’ll try to save seats in the front row of the upper section, center. The flick is 130 minutes, so expect to be out around 9:20 p.m.

9:30 p.m. Discussion and drinks/coffeeThe film is rather long, but if we are so inclined, we can head over to the Barking Spider for wine, beer or coffee on the patio. They don’t serve food so it’s BYOF.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2869039091_efb3de8665.jpg?v=0

DESCRIPTION
“SHADOWS is a film about sex and death, and a few important things in between. It is an old-fashioned, slow-burn of a film. SHADOWS is in many ways my most personal film to date, a story of what happens if lady Macbeth had lived today and survived to have a grown-up son. This man, Lazar, would try to come to terms with her overbearing presence and her transgressions of the past. It is scary, but it offers no cheap thrills, sound bites nor easy solutions. It is about a man trying to have a dialogue with the dead, and becoming more alive for that experience.” Milcho Manchevski, director

REVIEW
The film has premiered at several international film festivals, the first being the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was well received with one of the festival's film critics calling it "Manchevski’s most ambitious film to date". Other critics, such as Patrick McGavin of Screen Daily, called it “ambitious and capably mounted (Manchevski) retains a very fine eye for composition, aided by the sensuous, beautiful work of Italian cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti. The movie's standout quality is the sexy, revealing work of the vibrant, highly alluring young actress Vesna Stanojevska, a professional musician making her film debut. She injects the film with an erotic intensity”..

FEE
Goes toward charges incurred for using the MeetUp website. You can access PayPal or pay your fee to the Organizer at the event.
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MOVIE LINKS:

Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee), Cleveland Heights, 2163 Lee Road. http://www.clevelandcinemas.com/cinemadrilldown.asp?intCin=2921

PARKING: Paid Parking is now 24 X 7, so bring a couple of quarters. Credit cards work in the garage. A free parking lot is on Edgewood road, one block west of Lee road at Cedar.

Cinemateque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=extended

PARKING: They have a free parking lot.

Cleveland Museum of Art Panorama Series, 11150 East Blvd. http://www.clevelandart.org/events/film.aspx

PARKING: They have an attendant parking garage. There is also street parking.

Movie Reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Apparently, the Lemon Tree was not ripe enough so we will be going to see Sugar, also a favorite at the Film Festival. It is a sports movie for people who don't usually watch sports movies (because how much fun is it to watch a movie where you know the whole plot 5 minutes into the movie).

6:00 EATS
In light of the early starting time, plan on getting a quick bite at the Stone Oven. It is a little over a 5 minute walk to the theater. Of course cash is king here.

If you don't see us when you walk in, look for us in the center section.

7:05 MOVIE
Meet at the ENTRANCE DOOR 5 minutes ahead of time or look for the group inside the theater or meet us afterward outside the entrance door.

AFTER MOVIE DISCUSSION
We will head to Jimmy's for beet cake, beer and good conversation.

http://mimg.sulekha.com/english/sugar/Stills/sugar-9.jpg

DESCRIPTION
Miguel Santos, a.k.a Azucar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macoris, struggles to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at the Kansas City Knights baseball academy, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States' minor league system. Miguel travels from his tight knit community in the Dominican Republic to a small town in Iowa, corn country, where he and a couple other Latin American teammates are the only Spanish-speaking people in the vicinity. As Miguel struggles with the new language and culture, despite the welcoming efforts of his host family, he is faced with an isolation he never before experienced. When his play on the mound falters, he begins examining more closely the world around him and his place within it, and ultimately questions the single-mindedness of his life's ambition

REVIEW
terrifically human account of a young Dominican pitcher's discomfiting odyssey from his tiny village to a major league training camp to A-ball in the American Midwest..
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/S/Sugar_2009/2009/04/17/9139931-sun.html

FEE
Goes toward charges incurred for using the MeetUp website. You can access PayPal or pay your fee to the Organizer at the event.
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MOVIE LINKS:

Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee), Cleveland Heights, 2163 Lee Road. http://www.clevelandcinemas.com/cinemadrilldown.asp?intCin=2921

PARKING: Paid Parking is now 24 X 7, so bring a couple of quarters. Credit cards work in the garage. A free parking lot is on Edgewood road, one block west of Lee road at Cedar.

Cinemateque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=extended

PARKING: They have a free parking lot.

Cleveland Museum of Art Panorama Series, 11150 East Blvd. http://www.clevelandart.org/events/film.aspx

PARKING: They have an attendant parking garage. There is also street parking.

Movie Reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

NOTE TO FIRST TIME GOERS: If this is your first movie with the group, there is no fee to attend.

This group has been successful partly because members have a genuine interest in meeting fellow independent movie goers. We don't always know where to look for you, especially first timers.

We have multiple meeting places: 1. Entrance door to the movie in the theater hallway 5-10 minutes before the movie starts, 2. By the Marquee (or entrance door) after the movie, or 3. Reserved table at a restaurant under the name "Movie Group".

We don't always sit together in the movie theater but if you see a bunch of people talking about good movies they have seen, it is probably us. Please join in. We are always happy to get new people involved.

NOTE TO ALL: In the world of Independent films, it is recommended that you check back a few days before the event to make sure the movie, restaurant, location or time has not changed.

Vampyr - aka The Strange Adventure of David Gray
Cinematheque Elite
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Danish Prints

France/Germany, 1932, Carl Dreyer

Here’s a 35 mm archive print (from the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen) of the most spectral of all vampire films—and one of the creepiest. It tells of a traveler who arrives at a village and notes the locals’ strange and sinister behavior. Director Dreyer skimps on narrative clarity to concentrate instead on haunting imagery and a claustrophobic mood of dread. No subtitles but few needed; some spoken translation will be provided; 75 minutes. Special admission $10, Cinematheque members and CIA students & staff $7; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.

9 p.m. - Afterward we can slip off to the Palette wine bar in the castle-like, ghostly Glidden House mansion for some discussion and a fine glass of Imperial Tokay or perhaps caffeine-laden brew to help us stay awake, alert and on-guard all night lest we be overwhelmed in our slumber………

Palette at the Glidden House (next to Sergio’s)
1901 Ford Dr.
Cleveland, OH, 44106
216.231.8900

7:15 MOVIE: Meet at the ENTRANCE DOOR 5 minutes ahead of time or look for the group inside the theater or meet us afterward outside the entrance door.

AFTER MOVIE DISCUSSION: We will head to Palette for wine, coffee, tapas and good conversation.

DESCRIPTION: Rotten Tomatoes: A stunningly photographed tale of horror, beautifully capturing an aura of fear and otherworldly menace. A young man stops at an inn, and discovers the village is rife with strange goings-on... murders, sudden illnesses, and weird skulking creatures. Then a doctor asks him to help a desperately sick girl by donating blood, and before long, the weakened wayfarer is lost in hallucinations, imagining himself buried alive... or could it be real?

REVIEW: “ Almost entirely devoid of the outright thrills associated with the genre, while managing to be one of the creepiest, most unsettling movies you're ever likely to see….Carl Dreyer’s horror film is one of the most perfect examples of German Stimmung——mood——in the cinema….Vampyr plays upon many archetypal fears of modern horror (science, doctors, disease, women, insanity, premature burial), but its power lies in its disorienting visual effects…If you've never seen a Carl Dreyer film and wonder why many critics, myself included, regard him as possibly the greatest of all filmmakers, this chilling horror fantasy is the perfect place to begin to understand.

FEE: Goes toward charges incurred for using the MeetUp website. You can access PayPal or pay your fee to the Organizer at the event.
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MOVIE LINKS:

Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee), Cleveland Heights, 2163 Lee Road. http://www.clevelandcinemas.com/cinemadrilldown.asp?intCin=2921

PARKING: Paid Parking is now 24 X 7, so bring a couple of quarters. Credit cards work in the garage. A free parking lot is on Edgewood road, one block west of Lee road at Cedar.

Cinemateque, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd. http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=extended

PARKING: They have a free parking lot.

Cleveland Museum of Art Panorama Series, 11150 East Blvd. http://www.clevelandart.org/events/film.aspx

PARKING: They have an attendant parking garage. There is also street parking.

Movie Reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

NOTE TO FIRST TIME GOERS: If this is your first movie with the group, there is no fee to attend.

This group has been successful partly because members have a genuine interest in meeting fellow independent movie goers. We don't always know where to look for you, especially first timers.

We have multiple meeting places: 1. Entrance door to the movie in the theater hallway 5-10 minutes before the movie starts, 2. By the Marquee (or entrance door) after the movie, or 3. Reserved table at a restaurant under the name "Movie Group".

We don't always sit together in the movie theater but if you see a bunch of people talking about good movies they have seen, it is probably us. Please join in. We are always happy to get new people involved.

NOTE TO ALL: In the world of Independent films, it is recommended that you check back a few days before the event to make sure the movie, restaurant, location or time has not changed.