This Sunday promises to be a big day at the Esquire Theatre. As part of Cincinnati’s newest holiday tradition, the Second Annual Interactive White Christmas event will be taking place. Both screenings of the classic movie White Christmas starring Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney have already sold out, but you can still celebrate the spirit [...]
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Five Reasons to See Redlegs at the Esquire Theatre This Weekend
This weekend the Esquire Theatre will host the Cincinnati premier of Redlegs, a locally-shot film by a Cincinnati native, Brandon Harris. Showtimes are 1:15, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:10, and tickets can be purchased either online or at the door. It’s running for at least a week, but here are 5 reasons to see it this [...]
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Art House Jamboree: A Perfect Evening
The Art House Jamboree celebrating the 101st anniversary of The Esquire Theatre was a perfect evening. Although the underlying focus was serious–the role community plays in people’s lives– people laughed through the whole event.
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Esquire Theatre’s Art House Jamboree: A Chance to Show Some Love
What were you doing in 1911? Not much, you say? Yeah, me too. But I know something about what other people were doing, and that happened to be the year the Esquire Theatre on Ludlow Avenue in Clifton opened its doors. To celebrate the fact that The Esquire not only survived 101 years but [...]
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Vertigo on the Big Screen This Friday, October 19
It has reached the point where we can see almost any movie we want in the comfort of our own home. At the same time, because we have the history of cinema at our fingertips opportunities to watch classic films on the big screen are increasingly rare—and you’d be hard-pressed to find a film more [...]
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‘Newport: Gangsters, Gambling, Girls’ at the Esquire Theatre
It’s turning out to be a highly competitive week for this year’s Cincinnati Film Festival when it comes to bragging rights for neighboring cities. Sure, Cincinnati can boast about its beer history in The Cincinnati Beer Story, which played at the Emery Thursday night, but the folks living right across the river in Newport, [...]
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A Fine Way to Kick off the Cincinnati Film Festival
Along with reminding people that the Cincinnati Film Festival begins this Thursday, I wanted to point out that the lead-off movie will kick things off in style. The Cincinnati Beer Story focuses on the history of beer-making (and, come to think of it, beer drinking) in Cincinnati. With micro-breweries popping up everywhere and Moerlein Lager [...]
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The Cincinnati Film Festival Returns September 6 – 14
The Cincinnati Film Festival is returning to Cincinnati on September 6-14. Today I had a chance to talk to Executive Director of the festival, Katharine Steele, about the event. For this, the third year, the primary (but not the sole) location will be the Esquire Theatre in Clifton, and as I talked to Katharine it became clear that along [...]
Rastaman Vibrations at the Esquire
I had a chance to see the Bob Marley documentary at the Esquire Theatre last night, and I’m glad I did. Strangely, I may have enjoyed the early part of the movie the most. The first 45 minutes or an hour focused on Bob Marley before he broke (Catch a Fire in 1973 was the [...]
Bob Marley Comes to the Esquire Theatre
Although this happened back in college, I can still remember a friend from Cleveland coming back after a break and speaking with a gleam in his eyes as he described a Bob Marley concert in Cleveland. My friend made it clear that from the time Marley took the stage to the last encore there was [...]
Utopia & Alcohol
I’m sure that most people reading this blog feel as if they’re living in a utopia, but something happened recently that will make our world even better. For what seems like years (maybe it was just the anticipation) rumors have been circulating about a change at The Esquire Theatre on Ludlow Avenue that will [...]