The late Rip Torn tears up the screen as dissipated country singer in neglected 1973 music-movie classic PAYDAY
The late renegade thespian Rip Torn gives perhaps his greatest screen performance in PAYDAY, an authentically raw, rarely revived music-movie classic. Torn plays a low-wattage country-western star (and all-around brash bastard) who recklessly overindulges in drink, drugs, and dames while touring the rural South in a big Cadillac. Torn even does his own singing. The NY Times calls Daryl Duke's 1973 film "a brilliant, nasty little chrome-plated razor blade of a movie" and "a ‘road picture’ that is not, for once, a sentimental odyssey, but rather a clear-eyed study of people whose lives are linked to the road, how they behave and what becomes of them." See it in 35mm on Saturday at 6:35 pm. Special admission is $12; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9. No passes, twofers, or radio winners will be honored or accepted. This screening is presented with generous support from Nick Amster. Here's the trailer.
Cleveland-shot film version of NATIVE SON receives Cleveland theatrical premiere
Set in contemporary Chicago but largely shot in Cleveland last year, NATIVE SON is the film directorial debut of celebrated visual artist Rashid Johnson. It is an adaptation of Richard Wright’s seminal 1940 novel about the black experience in America. Ashton Sanders (Moonlight) plays Bigger Thomas, a young African American man from the inner city who takes a job as live-in chauffeur for a wealthy white businessman. Bigger experiences a seductive new world of money and power and enters into a precarious relationship with his boss’s daughter (Margaret Qualley of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood). Johnson’s movie resonates with his visual art, including sculptural works like Shea Wall (1970/2017), shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland's 2017 exhibition, A Poet*hical Wager. KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) co-stars in the film, and the screenplay is by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Native Sonreceives its Cleveland theatrical premiere this Wednesday, October 16, at 7:00 pm. Admission is free, but tickets are required and donations will be accepted (suggested donation $10-$7). The screening is courtesy of HBO (special thanks to Chad Martinez) and is co-presented by moCa Cleveland (special thanks to Megan Lykins Reich). moCa's Gund Curatorial Fellow, La Tanya Autry, will lead an audience discussion after the screening. If screening is sold out, we will form a rush line in case of unclaimed seats. Ticket holders must be seated by 6:50 pm to guarantee their seat. Here's the trailer.
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