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Robert (Rob) Spadoni is a film scholar and associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, where he teaches various film courses. He has also just written a new book, A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films (University of California Press, 2014). Tonight Rob will introduce a classic French film and sell and sign copies of his new book after the screening. Cleo from 5 to 7, a masterpiece by the only woman director associated with the French New Wave,is also one of the great “real-time” movies. In it, a French nightclub singer finds the pleasures and realities of Parisian life heightened during the two hours she waits for a cancer diagnosis. Michel Legrand did the music. Look for Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina in the silent comedy that Cleo watches.