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Cinespia is an organization that hosts on-site screenings of classic films in and around Los Angeles, California. Launched in 2002, Cinespia shows films from the 1930s through the 1990s mostly in open-air settings at historic locations. Its most popular series runs weekly from May through September on Saturday (and occasionally Sunday) nights at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In addition, it screens films, both contemporary and canonical, at other locations throughout the year. The al fresco Hollywood Forever screenings take place on the Fairbanks Lawn, so named for the adjacent crypt housing both Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Jr., and films are digitally projected against the west wall of the Cathedral Mausoleum, which houses the crypt of Rudolph Valentino among many others. Up to 3,500 patrons per screening bring blankets, pillows, picnic dinners, alcoholic beverages and candles and enjoy screenings under the stars, while a staff of 35 keep things running smoothly.〔 DJs play music before and after the screenings over a portable sound system, and guest DJs have included Carlos Niño, Andy Votel, Cut Chemist, the Gaslamp Killer, Dam-Funk, Peanut Butter Wolf and members of the Numero Group and Dublab collectives. Cinespia has appeared in the 2008 Best of L.A. issue of the ''LA Weekly'' and was named on the “16 Best Things in L.A.” by ''Los Angeles'' magazine. According to ''Vanity Fair'': “Cinespia captures the excitement of a drive-in movie date night of the 1950s but with a decidedly campy twist.” ==History== The series was the brainchild of John Wyatt, a set designer then in his mid-twenties.〔Rebecca Cathcart (), ''New York Times'', June 7, 2008〕 A student of influential film lecturer Jim Hosney at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California,〔Shawn Hubler (), ''Los Angeles Times'', June 27, 2007〕 Wyatt initially formed an Italian cinema club with friend Richard Petit, of which Cinespia is a natural evolution.〔 Both Wyatt and Petit were working for designer Brad Dunning at the time who was helping with the restoration of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The name Cinespia is a portmanteau word from the Italian ''cine'', or “movie theater,” and the third person singular conjugation of the verb ''spiare'', meaning “to observe,” or more commonly, “to spy.” Conjoined, ''cinespia'' was intended to suggest a film enthusiast or “watcher of films,” although the actual term for film buff in Italian is ''cinofilo''. ''Cinespia'', by contrast, means literally “he spies in the movie theater” or “cinema spy.”〔 After attending a Valentino birthday celebration at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2002, Wyatt approached the owners through a friend who worked there〔 and arranged a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s ''Strangers on a Train'' on July 20, 2002〔Matthew Duersten (), ''L.A. Weekly'', July 24, 2002〕 using two 35mm projectors with a changeover mechanism on the back of a pickup truck. Eighty people showed up for the initial screening, and a follow-up screening of Sam Fuller’s ''Pickup on South Street'' brought out an audience of a thousand. They showed four films the first season, favoring mid-century classics that might be rediscovered by a younger audience, and roughly 25 films every summer thereafter.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cinespia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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