My Schedule for the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival (2019)
It will soon be time once again for the Cleveland International Film Festival. M and I bought some tickets last night, and highlighted some others that we may opt to see later. Our selections are heavily weighted toward the first weekend of the festival, which is solely a matter of what happened to look interesting. Let's start with the nine total tickets that were purchased.
Saturday, March 30
Decade of Fire @ 9:30am. M asked me to mark movies she might like when I was going through the program guide. I tried not to mark things that looked like depressing documentaries about her line of work, but this one about how politics led to major housing struggles in the Bronx seemed to interesting to miss. She separately marked it herself on her read through and still wanted to go even though this morning show is the only one we could make work. We're both going.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool @ 7:00pm. Despite the title, this is less focused on the iconic album than on his whole life. I'm going.
The Show's the Thing: The Legendary Promoters of Rock @ 9:15pm. I'm a sucker for documentaries about small slivers of larger things I like. This works. I'm going.
Sunday, March 31
Ghost Fleet @ 8:50pm. Another potentially depressing documentary that we both wanted to see, this one covers slavery in sea food fishing.
Wednesday, April 3
Meeting Gorbachev @ 8:25pm. New films by Werner Herzog are catnip for me, regardless of the topic.
Saturday, April 6
Walking on Water @ 12:25pm at the Art Museum. Documentary about a large piece of installation art by Christo. We are both interested; M got to visit The Gates.
We may well stop there, but here are a few other things we were at least interested in that might conceivably fit in our schedules. There's no way we would do all of these.
Both of Us
Los Reyes
The Map to Paradise
M
New Homeland
Well Groomed
Midnight Traveler
Me
Jay Myself
There are many more I had at least some interest to, but I've decided I'm not going to go nuts on films this year. I'm at six right now, and I doubt I'll even get to ten.
Saturday, March 30
Decade of Fire @ 9:30am. M asked me to mark movies she might like when I was going through the program guide. I tried not to mark things that looked like depressing documentaries about her line of work, but this one about how politics led to major housing struggles in the Bronx seemed to interesting to miss. She separately marked it herself on her read through and still wanted to go even though this morning show is the only one we could make work. We're both going.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool @ 7:00pm. Despite the title, this is less focused on the iconic album than on his whole life. I'm going.
The Show's the Thing: The Legendary Promoters of Rock @ 9:15pm. I'm a sucker for documentaries about small slivers of larger things I like. This works. I'm going.
Sunday, March 31
Ghost Fleet @ 8:50pm. Another potentially depressing documentary that we both wanted to see, this one covers slavery in sea food fishing.
Wednesday, April 3
Meeting Gorbachev @ 8:25pm. New films by Werner Herzog are catnip for me, regardless of the topic.
Saturday, April 6
Walking on Water @ 12:25pm at the Art Museum. Documentary about a large piece of installation art by Christo. We are both interested; M got to visit The Gates.
We may well stop there, but here are a few other things we were at least interested in that might conceivably fit in our schedules. There's no way we would do all of these.
Both of Us
Los Reyes
The Map to Paradise
M
New Homeland
Well Groomed
Midnight Traveler
Me
Jay Myself
There are many more I had at least some interest to, but I've decided I'm not going to go nuts on films this year. I'm at six right now, and I doubt I'll even get to ten.