Cinema Center at Indiana Tech

You know us as Cinema Center Downtown, We hope you’ll recognize us at our new location — Cinema Center at Indiana Tech!

You are cordially invited to the first screening.

Andorfer Student Commons - Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech)
1600 East Washington Blvd. - Just down the road from Cinema Center,
-Look for the Big Round Building!

The Big Sleep - Thursday, August 26th at 6:30 & 9PM at Indiana Tech

"You begin to interest me, vaguely."
So says Dorothy Malone to Humprey Bogart in film noir classic, "The Big Sleep."
We hope you’ll be very interested in our new, second home.
Join us for the premiere screening in the new theater in the Andorforer Commons at Indiana Tech for a special screening of the pre-release version of the film noir classic, "The Big Sleep."

Thursday, August 26th, 2004 at 6:30pm. and 9:00 pm.
Tickets are $4.00. Additional donations are always welcome.
Members can reserve seats if they choose, by calling 426-3456.

Why start with "The Big Sleep?"
We have lots of good reasons. "The Big Sleep" is the first movie Cinema Center ever presented back in 1976. Our film loving founders started with a film full of sparks directed by legendary film director Howard Hawks, who was born in Goshen, Indiana. We have shown it many times over the years, including a special screening for our 20th anniversary party at first permanent home, downtown in the Hall Center. We want honor their hard work and tenacity, and we’re a bit superstitious.

And, this is a special presentation of the recently discovered pre-release version of "The Big Sleep." Cinema Center audiences may think they know this film, but the film most audiences know is not the film as originally shot. "The Big Sleep" was in the can ready for theaters before "To Have and Have Not," was released. Once audiences sparked to the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, Warner Brothers asked for reshoots to "The Big Sleep" which were duly made and added the famously coy dialogue about horse racing, making a sexier if somewhat less comprehensible.

The original edit of the film was discovered several years ago sitting on a shelf. True, the 1944 version sacrifices some very suggestive dialogue, but the chemistry between the stars is still undeniable. And the movie actually makes sense!

Bogart, Bacall, Malone, blackmail, gambling, murder, drinking, drugs, tough men, cool women…
What more do you need?
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Cinema Center at Indiana Tech Movies for 8/27-9/2

The Door in the Floor
"Extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explosive subject matter, The Door in the Floor is also a model of page-to-screen adaptation."—Rolling Stone. "A thoughtful, melancholy story of love, loss, pain, betrayal and the lingering after-effects of tragedy."—Variety. "[I]t's so strong and the performance by Basinger and by Bridges and this young actor, there's such good work and there are some quiet moments of grief that really hit you ..."—Richard Roeper. "It's easily the most robust and compelling movie ever spun off from Irving's work."—Entertainment Weekly. 111 min. Rated R for strong sexuality and graphic images, and language.
Friday at 6:30PM & 8:45PM, Saturday at 6:30 & 8:45PM, Sunday at 2PM & 4:15PM,
Monday at 7PM, Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 7PM, Thursday at 7PM

The Door in the Floor
"The Door in the Floor" is a compelling, beautifully acted drama about a couple ill-equipped to deal with tragedy. Transposing one section of John Irving's novel "A Widow for One Year" from 1958 to the present, writer-director Tod Williams has crystallized the story's searing, darkly comic events through the prism of a haunted marriage. As the central couple, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger are variously charming, repellent and heartbreaking. Bridges' indelible portrayal of a dissolute children's book author could reap the major award this fine actor has yet to receive. Williams' adaptation shifts the focus from the little girl born into a shattered household to the coming-of-age of a teenage boy caught smack in its middle. It's been years since Ted and Marion Cole's two sons died in an accident--the details of which are not revealed until late in the film--but their memory maintains a terrible grip on the family. Four-year-old Ruth (Elle Fanning) ritualistically communes with photos of the dead brothers she never met, and seems to know them better than she does her emotionally absent parents. Into the chasm steps 16-year-old Eddie (Jon Foster), an aspiring writer hired as a summer assistant for Ted, a bestselling writer-illustrator who says with practiced disingenuousness, "I'm just an entertainer of children and I like to draw." (The film's title is the name of one of his books.) Though he's asked to type minor revisions, in truth Eddie's chief role is that of chauffeur for the hard-drinking, license-deprived Ted. Eddie falls hard for Marion, who finds respite from her paralyzing grief in their affair. Ted, meanwhile, indulges his taste for lonely women under the transparent cover of artist's modeling sessions. Mimi Rogers bares it all in a brave, harsh portrait of the desperate Hamptonite currently caught in a mutually exploitive entanglement with Ted. Widescreen camerawork underscores the divide between the serene Long Island setting, suffused with summer light, and the domestic chaos beneath the moneyed surface. "Extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explosive subject matter, The Door in the Floor is also a model of page-to-screen adaptation."—Rolling Stone. "A thoughtful, melancholy story of love, loss, pain, betrayal and the lingering after-effects of tragedy."—Variety. "[I]t's so strong and the performance by Basinger and by Bridges and this young actor, there's such good work and there are some quiet moments of grief that really hit you ..."—Richard Roeper. "It's easily the most robust and compelling movie ever spun off from Irving's work."—Entertainment Weekly. 111 min. Rated R for strong sexuality and graphic images, and language.

Posted by Admin at August 24, 2004 11:29 AM