🎉 Celebrate 10 Years of Cinematic Magic with Us!
You’re Invited to The Nightlight’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Weekend
Join us Saturday and Sunday, June 29–3, for a spectacular weekend of film and festivities. We’re excited to commemorate this milestone for our indie arthouse along with our truly amazing community.
We've curated an incredible itinerary of special screenings over two days that celebrate the magic and power of cinema, a reflection of the spirit in which The Nightlight was created:
A one-night-only 4K restoration screening of Milos Forman's Amadeus!
The beloved classic Cinema Paradiso — coming to The Nightlight's screen for the first time.
Newly restored Man Ray collection of short films.
COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU: SCREEN 2
Whether you’re stopping in for one our featured films, or you’d simply like to hang out and celebrate — we’ll also be giving tours of our new space before we kick off our Second Screen Expansion!
We can't wait to commemorate this milestone with our cherished community. Here's to the next ten years of bringing the magic and power of cinema to Akron.
We hope to see you there!
Saturday, June 29th
12:30 PM: Cinema Paradiso
3 PM: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
4 PM: Return to Reason (in the Lounge Screening Room) [$10.00 per ticket]
5:15 PM: Cinema Paradiso
8 PM: Amadeus [$50.00 per ticket]
8:30 PM: Return to Reason (in the Lounge Screening Room) [$10.00 per ticket]
Open House Tours: 12–6 PM
Sunday, June 30th
12:30 PM: Cinema Paradiso
3 PM: Thelma
4 PM: Return to Reason (in the Second Screening Room) [$10.00 per ticket]
5:15 PM: Cinema Paradiso
Open House Tours: 12–5 PM
The Films
Amadeus
Milos Forman’s multi-Oscar-winning epic “Amadeus” has received a major 40th-anniversary present thanks to the Academy Film Archive: a 4k digital restoration unveiled May 31st at the Academy Museum.
Fresh off of the 4K Restoration World Premiere at the prestigious Academy Museum in Los Angeles, The Nightlight has acquired rights to ONE screening of the new restoration long before it is re-released in theaters.
Tickets are $50, and all proceeds benefit The Nightlight Second Screen.
Cinema Paradiso
Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) instills in the boy a deep love of films. When Salvatore grows up, falls in love with a beautiful local girl (Agnese Nano), and takes over as the Paradiso’s projectionist, Alfredo must convince Salvatore to leave his small town and pursue his passion for filmmaking.
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and the Grand Prix prize at Cannes, this glorious film is full of cinema magic and is perfect for the big screen!
Return to Reason
These newly restored Man Ray films will be projected in the space where our future Second Screen will live!
The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929, Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L'Étoile de mer, and Les Mystères du Château du Dé represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism. In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Juxtaposing undulating geometric patterns, a twirling fairground ride, and a female nude, among other striking images, Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures.
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks