Meyer, No Name Cinema co-founder and returning CCA employee Justin Rhody and newly-minted Cinema Director Paul Barnes.
The screening event falls under the CCA’s Closer Looks series and will also include a panel discussion with board member and film educator David N. Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak are among the stars in the 1958 movie, which stands as a fairly accessible way to kick things off. The first film to play at the surviving space? Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a movie about a guy who becomes so obsessed with someone that he.does stuff and maybe also has vertigo. After the board of Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts unceremoniously announced on April 6 that it would close the nonprofit’s cinema and Tank Garage visual arts gallery space-not to mention the bizarre yet reportedly successful informal pledge drive spurred by board member Ellen Premack that followed-the embattled arts org plans to reopen its cinema (and only its cinema) on Thursday, May 11 (not today, as previously announced).
