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Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 3: Meeting Jacob
"Hearts flutter and race, the moon's on the wane Tarts mutter their dream, hopes the night will ordain Come schemers and dancers, cherry delight As a Cleveland-bound Greyhound, and it cuts through the night." - "Drunk on the Moon" by Tom Waits, 1974 Chapter 3: Meeting Jacob Song ...
Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne
"cleveland - there are parts of me you will not understand for centuries." – e.i. levi, 1968 Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne Song Selection: Dan Auerbach - Mean Monsoon (Keep It Hid) Downtown Cleveland birthed creepy alleys. These alleys have their own corners, their own smells and their...
Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 1: Welcome to Cleveland
Cleveland Poster January 2012; Photos and design: A. Sukhoy Nearly five years ago I set out with the ambitious goal of writing my first script. Since then, it's been rewritten, edited, re-edited, read by several producers, a few family members and even some friends; people who generously gave o...
40 Turning on You.
[caption id="attachment_2115" align="alignleft" width="261" caption="Seventh birthday party, Chicago"][/caption] "You could've done anything -- if you'd wanted And all your friends and family think that you're lucky. But the side of you they'll never see Is when you're left alone ...
Tyler Davidson: Take 5 – Spirit Awards and Back to Sundance
Tyler Davidson’s N.E. Ohio produced cinematic masterpiece Take Shelter recently got nominated for five Independent Film Spirit Awards: Best Film, Best Director (Jeff Nichols), Best Lead Actor (Michael Shannon), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Chastain) and the Piaget Producer’s Award. Th...
The Way
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. four and a half slates out of five In today’s fiscally challenging times, personal film projects are risky. And, yet, the present creates the perfect timing for films that focus less on big budgets and more so on craftsmanship. Audience segment...
The Ides of March
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. three and a half slates out of five “The Ides of March” is a testosterone packed political thriller starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. Clooney plays Ohio governor Mike Morris, an ambitious family man and politician who has hired Stephe...
Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez: Father and Son find The Way Back to Cleveland
It’s no secret that Martin Scorsese is my favorite director. And, for two decades, Goodfellas was my favorite film. Until The Departed came out and seduced me into frequent repeat watch, signaling something new and something brilliant with each viewing. One of the best performances in the ensemb...
African Elephant Crossing at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo: Quiet Giants
This Spring, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opened its new African Elephant Crossing. Vast in size and scope, the Crossing, along with feeding and other accommodations, provides a new home for animals that are still endangered for the ivory their horns provide, all the while trained to be humans' en...
Looking Back at The Avengers Shoot: Appetite for Destruction
Cleveland’s exploding. The cinema scene this summer is bringing numerous movie productions to N.E. Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Film Commission has worked tirelessly to attract these projects, including Fun Size, Boot Tracks, Falling Backwards and I, Alex Cross. Of all the movies coming to town, th...
