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cornell cinema fall 2014 calendar grid: all shows in willard straight theatre (except where noted)
regular prices: $8.50 general • $6.50 seniors • $6 CU grad students• $5.50 students & kids 12 + under
sun
mon
24 AUG
tues
25 AUG
26 AUG
Orientation to Godzilla: The
The Freshman
Cornell Cinema Japanese
7:15
FREE to All
Original
Vertigo
wed
thur
27 AUG
Vertigo
28 AUG
fri
29 AUG
sat
30 AUG
Captain America:
The Wind Rises
The Winter Soldier
7:00
The Grand
7:00 Captain America:
7:15
7:15
FREE
to
all
CU
Students
7:15 Budapest Hotel
The Winter Soldier
Godzilla: The
9:15 The Grand
9:45 Japanese Original Divergent
9:45
The Freshman
Budapest Hotel
10:00
9:30
9:30
1 SEPT
2 SEPT
The Wind Rises
7:00
X-Men: Days of
Future Past
9:45
7 SEPT
Only Lovers
Left Alive
8 SEPT
9 SEPT
7:00
X-Men: Days of
Future Past
3 SEPT
FREE to all CU Students
4 SEPT
5 SEPT
2001: A Space
Odyssey
The Fault in
Our Stars
15 SEPT
10 SEPT
16 SEPT
11 SEPT
12 SEPT
6:45
22 SEPT
2014 Sundance Film Shaft
Fest Shorts on Tour
24 SEPT
7:15
28 SEPT
20 SEPT
Walking the
2014 Sundance
Camino: Six Ways Film Festival
to Santiago
Shorts on Tour
7:30
30 SEPT
7:00
9:30
5 OCT
6 OCT
w/intro
1 OCT
2 OCT
The Internet’s Own Ilo Ilo w/filmmaker
Boy: The Story of
via Skype
Aaron Swartz
7:00
w/intro Robocop
& discussion
w/intro
7:15
7 OCT
① Superfly
8 OCT
FREE
7:15
Burning Bush, Pt. 2
9:30
26 SEPT
Mood Indigo
A Hard Day’s Night
7:00 See Special Events for
Pt. 1 on Oct 4 or 5
15 OCT
7:45
Viola
9:30
13 OCT
14 OCT
w/intro
7:15
Ghost in the Shell
7:15
7:15 ② Foxy Brown
3 OCT
9:30
9 OCT
10 OCT
4 OCT
to Pt. 1
10:00
11 OCT
FALL BREAK
9:30
9:15
16 OCT
17 OCT
18 OCT
How to Train
Northern Lights
Northern Lights
7:15 Your Dragon 2
w/filmmaker
w/intro
$5/$4 kids 12 & under
7:15
7:00 Ghost in the Shell
2:00
9:15
Ghost in the Shell
Willy Wonka and the
9:15
Chocolate Factory
See Special Events for
ticket pricing
FALL BREAK
26 OCT
Othello
Apocalypse
Now Redux
28 OCT
27 OCT
23 OCT
Ida
7:00
Apocalypse
Now Redux
8:45
29 OCT
Doors: 7:15
Film: 8:15
fri
24 OCT
Jodie Mack: Let
Your Light Shine
7:00
2 NOV
25 OCT
Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory
$10/$8 students $5/$4 kids 12 & under
2:00
7:15
20,000 Days
on Earth
30 OCT
(FREE) 7:15
sat
w/filmmaker &
performance Ida
9:45
7:15
20,000 Days
on Earth
31 OCT
The Cabinet of
The Deer Hunter
Farmland
7:15 Dr. Caligari
w/panel Cleopatra Jones
7:15
w/live music
discussion
($5.50 all) 4:30
9:00
1 NOV
DARK
(FREE) 8:00
4 NOV
3 NOV
SAGE
5 NOV
6 NOV
7 NOV
7:15
$14/$12 students
8 NOV
The Lost World
The Normal
The Night
Enter the Dragon
Suitcase of Love
Metropolis
music
Heart
w/live music $7/$5w/live
7:15 and Shame
of Fools
kids 12 & under
& intro
7:15
w/filmmaker
w/filmmaker
2:00
DARK
(FREE) 7:15
Snowpiercer
7:15 The Son of the Sheik
w/live music
9:30
$12/$10 students
7:15
Snowpiercer
Metropolis
9 NOV
Snowpiercer
11 NOV
10 NOV
Claudine
($5.50 all) 4:00
12 NOV
Magical Universe
7:15
7:15
7:15
13 NOV
14 NOV
16 NOV
18 NOV
17 NOV
Special IIFFF prices Car Wash
19 NOV
9:30
20 NOV
Breaking the Frame Film TBA
w/filmmaker
& Carolee
check our website
Schneemann
7:15
double-feature
regular ticket price
9:45
15 NOV
Robot & Frank
w/intro Häxan: Witchcraft See the World with
the Ages Animated Shorts!
7:15 Through
w/live music $5/$4 kids 12 & under
Witchfinder General
(FREE) 7:00
2:00
Special IIFFF prices
White Zombie
SAGE Black Sunday*
Cold in July
5:00
w/filmmaker The Wicker Man*
9:45
7:00
The Exorcist*
7:15
9:00
*Special IIFFF prices
① We Are What
We Are (Somos
lo que hay)
② We Are
4:30
What We Are
w/filmmaker
ticket pricing
Film: 7:15
Dance Party:
9:15
Bush, Pt. 1
2014 Sundance Film Burning
includes admission to
Festival Animated
Pt. 2 on Oct 4 or 5
Shorts on Tour
7:00
7:30 Burning Bush, Pt. 2
Robocop
free w/admission
9:45
Vinylmania
Free with admission to ② Black Caesar
2014 Sundance Film
Festival Animated
Shorts on Tour
thur
22 OCT
Othello
doublefeature
2:00
27 SEPT
Tarnation
Rocks in My Pockets Ai Weiwei:
Rocks in My Pockets
w/filmmaker
w/filmmaker The Fake Case
7:30
w/intro
7:15
7:15
7:00 Vinylmania
doubleregular ticket prices; feature
includes adm. to Pt. 2
wed
21 OCT
($5.50 all) 4:30 ① Coffy
7:30
7:00 A Hard Day’s Night
9:45
7:15 Mood Indigo
9:45
29 SEPT
Burning Bush, Pt. 1
Gallipoli
25 SEPT
Elektro Moskva
w/intro
9:00
12 OCT
19 SEPT
17 SEPT
23 SEPT
22 Jump Street
4:30
18 SEPT
9:30
Sneak Preview!
7:00
Mood Indigo
10:00
2014 Sundance Film 22 Jump Street
9:30
9:15 Fest Shorts on Tour
21 SEPT
tues
13 SEPT
9:15
The Fault in Our Stars
Projection
Walking the
Performance
Camino: Six Ways
w/live to Santiago
performance
7:15
$10/$8 students
7:15 22 Jump Street
9:40
Gallipoli
6 SEPT
Looking
Lawrence of Arabia for Adventure
Eric & Mary Ross
The Epic of Everest
w/intro includes GRINGO TAILS Ultimedia Concert
7:15
7:15
w/live music The Fault in
6:45
7:00 Our Stars
Gringo Trails
$12/$10 students
7:30 Odyssey
14 SEPT
How to Train
Your Dragon 2
The Day the Earth A Summer’s Tale
A Summer’s Tale
7:00
Stood Still
① Guess Who’s
7:00
w/intro
X-Men: Days of
Coming to Dinner?
Only Lovers
7:00
w/intro
Future Past
Left Alive
7:15 Only Lovers
9:30
9:30
Left Alive
② Story of a
9:20
3-day Pass
double-feature
Free w/adm to LOOKING
FOR ADVENTURE 2001: A Space
9:45
20 OCT
The Grand
7:00 Budapest Hotel
9:15
New Students Get in for FREE Sunday–Friday! 31 AUG
mon
19 OCT
CLOSED FOR SCREENINGS NOV 21–30 (THANKSGIVING)
VISIT OUR WEBSITE IN NOVEMBER FOR OUR DECEMBER SCHEDULE
7:00
title index
S = Special Events (immediately below) • 1 = This Side • 2 = Flip Side
2a Ghost in the Shell
1a Godzilla – The
Japanese Original
1a The Grand
Budapest Hotel
2h Gringo Trails
1e Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner
S3 A Hard Day’s Night
S6 Häxan: Witchcraft
Through the Ages
2d How to Train
Your Dragon 2
2g Ida
2g Ilo Ilo
2e The Internet’s Own
Boy: The Story
of Aaron Swartz
S5 Jodie Mack: Let
Your Light Shine
1e Cleopatra Jones
1e Coffy
2c Cold in July
2a The Day the Earth
Stood Still
1d The Deer Hunter
1a Divergent
2f Elektro Moskva
1e Enter the Dragon
1b The Epic of Everest
S1 Eric & Mary Ross
Ultimedia Concert
2d Ernest & Celestine
S8 The Exorcist
2e Farmland
2b The Fault in
Our Stars
1e Foxy Brown
1a The Freshman
1c Gallipoli
2b 20,000 Days
on Earth
2a 2001: A Space
Odyssey
2b 22 Jump Street
2e Ai Weiwei: The
Fake Case
1d Apocalypse
Now Redux
1e Black Caesar
1e Black Dynamite
S8 Black Sunday
2f Breaking the Frame
2g Burning Bush
S6 The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari
1a Captain America:
The Winter Soldier
1e Car Wash
1e Claudine
1c Lawrence of Arabia
2h Looking for
Adventure
S7 The Lost World
2f Magical Universe
S7 Metropolis
2f Mood Indigo
2e The Night of Fools
2i The Normal Heart
1b Northern Lights
2f Only Lovers
Left Alive
1a An Orientation to
Cornell Cinema
1b Othello
S2 Projection
Performance
2a Robocop
2a Robot and Frank
2f Rocks in My
Pockets
2d See the World with
Animated Shorts!
1e Shaft
2b Snowpiercer
S7 The Son of
the Sheik
1e Story of a
3-Day Pass
2f Suitcase of
Love & Shame
1b A Summer’s Tale
2b Sundance Shorts
– Animation
2b Sundance Shorts
Narrative & Docs
1e Superfly
2i Tarnation
1a Vertigo
2f Vinylmania
2g Viola
2h Walking the
Camino: Six Ways
to Santiago
2c We Are What
We Are
2c We Are What
We Are (Somos
le que hay)
S8 White Zombie
S8 The Wicker Man
S4 Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate
Factory
1a The Wind Rises
S8 Witchfinder
General
1a X-Men: Days of
Future Past
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Presenting the “Reversible” Calendar Grid: 1. Fold on the dotted line below • 2: Flip the flicksheet to the other side and voilà: you can look at the Calendar Grid underneath the series descriptions on the other side!
S① A Celebration of the Moog Synthesizer
Sept 12
j Advance tickets
Advance tickets for special
events can be purchased
24/7 online at
CornellCinemaTickets.com
Sept 4
Elektro Moskva (2013)
Intro by Prof Trevor Pinch (STS)
See Everything Old is New Again (2F) for more info.
thereminist Eric Ross and his Avant Ensemble, including Trevor Pinch (Cornell)
and Peter Rothbart (IC). The evening will feature music on the theremin, as well
as Analog and digital synths, guitars, percussion and electronic wind instruments,
and will be accompanied visually with work by the late video/computer artist
Mary Ross, whose work will be deposited in Cornell’s Rose Goldsen Archive of
New Media Art. The event is cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts,
the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series and the History Center of Tompkins County.
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
Oct 23•26
“The soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam
epic is probably most commonly remembered for its iconic
uses of Ride Of The Valkyries and The Doors’ The End. But
behind these moments of inspired synchronization lies an
impressive and imposing synth-driven soundtrack created, for
the most part, by Coppola himself and his composer father
Carmine.” (musicradar.com)
See Vietnam War & SDS (1D) for more info.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Intro by Prof Charles Van Loan (Computer Science)
See You, Robot (2A) for more info.
in the standard theatrical projection of the 35mm changeover system. Two projectionists perform
within the cinema theater to critically unmask the otherwise masked cinematic apparatus in a dazzling
abstract play of sights and sounds. The dual-projection changeover system in which two identical 35mm
projectors alternate back-and-forth in their restorative reassembly of feature-length films provides the
theatrical platform and oblique precursor to historical movements in the field of Expanded Cinema.
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder have collaborated on various expanded cinema projects since
2000. Their performances and installations have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, Sundance, Serralves Foundation in Porto, Oberhausen Film Festival, and Viennale in Vienna.
Cosponsored with the CCA.
(2011-2014)
With live projector performance
by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
j $10 general/$8 students & seniors
S⑤
OCT 18
A Willy Wonka
Chocolate Soirée!
j Soirée & Film: $12 general/$10 students
Film only: regular ticket prices
Featuring a live cineperformance by Jodie Mack
j $10 general / $8 students + seniors
slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should
Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell,” A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie
musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most
deliriously entertaining movies of all time.” (Janus Films) Join us for this special screening and then stick around for a Beatles-themed Dance Party, deejayed by our own
mop-topped Bob Proehl! The Dance Party will also feature a cash bar (beer/wine) and
complimentary snacks!
You can also view the film only on Sept 26
Cornell Cinema welcomes back the Cambridge-based Alloy Orchestra for a weekend engagement during which they’ll perform their original scores with three great
films. The Alloy has been creating original scores for restored silent films since the early ‘90s and have emerged as the best, and best-known, silent film accompanists
in the world, each year premiering their latest work at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival. The three-man ensemble—Roger C. Miller on synthesizer, Terry Donahue
on junk percussion, accordion, saw and banjo, and Ken Winokur on junk percussion and clarinet— wows Ithaca audiences every time they
visit, so don’t miss out! Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Dept of Performing and Media Arts, and the Ithaca
Son of the
Sheik
Motion Picture Project.
Nov 7
Metropolis (1927)
j $14 general/$12 students & seniors
intro by Prof Ross Knepper (Computer Science)
directed by Fritz Lang; cast: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
The definitive restoration of Fritz Lang’s dystopian epic about life and revolution in a futuristic city was made
Oct 30
possible after 25 minutes of footage, long thought forever lost, was discovered in Argentina in 2008. Tonight the Alloy
Orchestra returns for an encore performance of its updated original score for the legendary film. This event typically sells
out, so plan accordingly! Cosponsored with the Dept. of Computer Science. We will also screen the film with recorded
soundtrack on Nov 9.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2 HRS 27 MINS > GERMANY > DCP
Nov 8
The Lost World (1925)
j $7 adults/$5 kids 12 & under
directed by Harry O. Hoyt; cast: Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
Painstakingly restored by the George Eastman House when missing footage was found in Prague
FREE
several years ago, The Lost World, praised by Leonard Maltin as “the granddaddy of all prehistoric
monster movies,” was hailed as the greatest sensation ever filmed when it opened in New York in 1925.
with live music by Dennis James on organ
directed by Robert Weine; cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt
1 HR 48 MINS>USA>DVD
An extraordinary combination of expressionist visual style and psycho-
logical horror story, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the most striking and
influential of all silent films. Dr. Caligari is a deranged hypnotist who spreads
death from his traveling carnival. His star attraction is Cesare, a spidery
sleepwalker who obeys Caligari’s every command. Perfect for Halloween
eve! Cosponsored with the Dept. of Music and the Ithaca Motion Picture
Project as the grand finale of Silent Movie Month in Ithaca.
1 HR 12 MINS > GERMANY > DVD
Häxan: Witchcraft Through
the Ages (1922) FREE
Nov 14
Nov 8
directed by Benjamin Christensen
Prepare for a crash course in witchcraft! Swedish director Benjamin
Christensen explores different notions of hell, witchcraft and superstition
using narrative vignettes brought to life by stunning visuals, use of color, and
animations. The film was banned in the United States for many years for its
graphic content. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Surrealism and
Magic at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, organized by the Johnson
Museum and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Kroch Library,
CU. Supported in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca International
Fantastic Film Festival, French Studies Program, Cornell Cinema, Department
of Music, and the Ithaca Motion Picture Project.
directed by George Fitzmaurice; cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky
The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed
him he seeks revenge.
International Fantastic Film Festival
S⑧ Ithacawww.ithacafilmfestival.com
The IIFFF will run for 5 days this year, offering an
expanded experience of fantastic film culture for
genre fans. Between retrospectives, fantastic film
competitions, and special concerts and parties, the
organizers promise something for everyone ! This
year’s retrospective, taking place at Cornell Cinema,
will focus on Witchcraft in Popular Imagination in
collaboration with the Johnson Museum’s exhibition:
“Magic and Surrealism“ (Aug 30 – Dec 21). The festival
will also include an international short and feature film
competition, an action series (Reel Volality), Fantastic
Documentary, and Midnighters. Check out the IIFFF
website for details & descriptions !
1 HR 44 MINS > SWEDEN > DVD
1Ⓐ Orientation Week
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
j $12 general/$10 students & seniors
1 HR 8 MINS>USA>DCP
taking place at Cornell Cinema & Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca
Nov 12–16
Nov 13 Witchfinder General (1963)
Introduced by Prof. Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College)
presented with a live, original score performed by the
New York City-based new music collective Transit
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Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a
S⑦ The Alloy Orchestra Returns!
We’re excited to return to Cornell’s magnificent non-denominational Sage
Chapel, designed by Cornell’s first professor of architecture in 1875, for two
more not-to-be-missed events this fall, including another Halloween Organ
Extravaganza with Dennis James, and a rare screening of the classic witchcraft
silent, Häxan, presented with a live, original score by New York City–based new
music collective TRANSIT (featuring Cornell DMA candidate David Friend).
directed by Michael Reeves; cast: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy
1 HR 28 > UK > 35MM
Nov 15 Black Sunday (1960)
directed by Mario Bava; cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson
1 HR 27 MINS > ITALY > 35MM
Nov 15 The Wicker Man (1973)
directed by Robin Hardy; cast: Edward
Woodward, Christopher Lee
1 HR 27 MINS > UK > DCP
Nov 15 The Exorcist (1974)
directed by William Friedkin; cast: Linda
Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow
2 HRS 12 MINS > USA > DCP
Nov 16 White Zombie (1932)
directed by Victor & Edward Halperin;
cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy
please note : special IIFFF ticket prices apply and Cornell
Cinema Six Passes and guest passes cannot be used.
1 HR 7 MINS > USA > DCP
Black Sunday
NEW STUDENTS are invited to attend for FREE through Friday, Aug 29!
The Freshman (1925)
directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor; cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
Aug 24•26
Godzilla: The Japanese Original (1954)
directed by Ishiro Honda; cast: Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi
“The grandaddy of Japanese monster movies returns in a 60th anniversary restoration that will knock you back like its title character’s nuclear breath!” (Time Out NY)
Aug 26•28
Vintage funnyman Harold Lloyd plays a hysterically naive college freshman whose
efforts to be a BMOC (Big Man on Campus) are doomed to failure in this classic comedy.
Shown in a recent 2K digital restoration with a new score by Carl Davis.
1 HR 38 MINS >JAPAN > DCP
1 HR 16 MINS >USA > DCP
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
directed by Anthony & Joe Russo; cast: Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan
Aug 29*•30
Vertigo (1958)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock; cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Aug 24•27
Cited by the acclaimed British film journal Sight & Sound in their 2012 decennial critics’
poll as the greatest film of all time, toppling Citizen Kane, which held
the spot for 60 years.
While struggling to adjust to the modern world and his role in it post-The Avengers,
Aug 25
An Orientation to Cornell Cinema
with Cinema Director Mary Fessenden (FREE TO ALL)
Join
at-
us for FREE popcorn while you watch a slew of coming
tractions trailers, student films & other cool shorts;
find out how you can become involved with the
organization; and win door prizes (including
movie posters, movie passes and t-shirts)!
1 HR 30 MINS
The Grand
Budapest Hotel (2014)
directed by Wes Anderson;
cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray
Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
A fabulous romp that recounts the
adventures of Gustave H, a legendary
concierge at a famous European hotel
in the 1920s.
Aug 25•27•28
Godzilla
2 HRS 16 MINS > USA > DCP ‘SCOPE
2 HRS 19 MINS > USA > DCP ‘SCOPE
The Wind Rises (2013)
directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Aug 30 Sept 1
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has singlehandedly redefined
the medium of animated cinema as an art form to be taken seriously.
His latest, and what he says will be his last, tells the story of Jiro
Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a Japanese fighter
plane, during World War II.
Godzilla: The Japanese Original (1954)
See Orientation Week (1A)
Oct 16•17
Aug 26•28
A Summer’s Tale (1996)
directed by Eric Rohmer
cast: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Lenglet, Gwenaelle Simon
The plot of this 1996 film by French New Wave master Eric Rohmer,
newly restored and in its first American theatrical release, centers on love
at the beach. When Gaspard (Poupaud), a recent University grad, goes
on vacation, multiple women start to play the role of ‘girlfriend’ for him,
and his overlapping commitments start to catch up to him. Sometimes
likened to Richard Linklater’s ‘Before’ series, Rohmer’s Summer’s Tale
is about the repartee and calculation and trepidation that come with a
young person’s whirlwind romance.
Sept 5•6
*Shows FRIDAY AUG 29 (Captain America:
The Winter Soldier & Divergent) free to all
CU students courtesy of Welcome Weekend
1Ⓒ WWI in the Ottoman Empire
1 HR 53 MINS > FRANCE > DCP
The Epic of Everest (1924)
directed by Captain John Noel
Sept 13
Filmed in brutally harsh conditions with a hand-cranked camera,
Everest is the official record of George Mallory’s and Andrew Irvine’s
legendary expedition, shown in a stunning restoration by the British Film
Institute National Archive that has transformed the quality of the surviving elements of the film and reintroduced the original colored tints and
tones. The film also provides the earliest filmed records of life in Tibet.
It is unknown whether Mallory or Irvine made it to the summit before
they died; if they did, they would have beat Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
Norgay by 30 years. The film’s soundtrack boasts a newly commissioned
score by Simon Fisher Turner (The Great White Silence, Caravaggio).
1 HR 25 MINS > UK > BLURAY
Northern Lights (1978)
intro by Prof Jeff Cowie (ILR) on Oct 16
directed by John Hanson, Rob Nilsson; cast: Robert
Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano
Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Northern
Lights recounts a North Dakota farmer’s effort in 1915 to organize the
Nonpartisan League, which championed cooperative farming efforts
over out-of-state corporate interests and banks that were quick to
threaten foreclosure. The film is as much a history lesson as an exemplary
piece of independent filmmaking. Shown in a restored black & white
print courtesy of Cinema Conservancy.
1 HR 35 MINS > USA > 35MM
Oct 22•26
Othello (1952)
intro by Prof Barbara Correll (English) Oct 22
directed by Orson Welles
cast: Orson Welles Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote
You’ve never seen cinematic Shakespeare until you’ve seen it performed by Orson Welles. This Othello
story of a general betrayed
by his self-serving lieutenant
is one of the great tragedies
of the stage, but in front of
Welles’s camera it takes on
a life all its own. A stunning
cinematic achievement, it
breathes anew thanks to a
recent restoration.
directed by Gordon Parks; cast: Richard
Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Gwenn Mitchell
In this Blaxploitation classic, Richard
Roundtree plays the complicated man who’s
got the pad, the women, the clothes, and
the attitude he needs
to take on the white
Mafia. With an Oscar
and Grammy-winning
soundtrack by Isaac
Hayes.
1 HR 40 MINS >
USA > BLURAY
DOUBLE BILL!
Superfly (1972)
directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.;
cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee
Black Caesar (1973)
directed by Larry Cohen; cast: Fred
Williamson, D’Urville Martin
Oct 6
Considered one of the most controversial and
popular “classics” of the Blaxploitation genre, Superfly stars Ron O’Neal as the coke-dealing Priest,
named as such because he carries his samples in
a crucifix. When he decides he wants out of “the
life,” he plans his biggest deal yet, but the Mob
he works for has other ideas. Featuring a fantastic
soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. Shown with Black
Caesar, aka The Godfather of Harlem, featuring
James Brown’s ‘Ain’t It Cool to Be Boss’.
1 HR 33 MINS / 1 HR 36 MINS > USA > DVD
DOUBLE BILL!
Coffy (1973) /
Foxy Brown (1974)
both directed by Jack Hill; both starring Pam Grier
Coffy was one of the first Blaxploitation films
to feature a woman in a central role, and Grier is
a knock out as a nurse out to get the men responsible for her sister’s addiction. As big, bad Foxy
Brown, Grier plays a woman bent on revenge for
the death of her boyfriend.
Oct 20
1 HR 31 MINS / 1 HR 34 MINS > USA > DVD
In conjunction with the Cornell
Institute for European Studies’
new Ottoman & Turkish
Studies Initiative (OTSI), whose
theme this year is World War
I in the Ottoman Empire,
in commemoration of the
centennial anniversary of the
Great War, Cornell Cinema
presents two classic WWI films.
“The experience of the people
of the Middle East and the
Balkans is rarely examined in
studies of World War I,” says
Mostafa Minawi, OTSI project
director and assistant professor
of history. “But it’s very
important to understand the
lasting impact of the war on this
area of the world.”
1Ⓓ
Gallipoli
Sept 10
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Intro by Prof Mostafa Minawi (History)
directed by David Lean; cast: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif
The story of an enigmatic adventurer—some say he was a young graduate of
Oxford—who molded a motley group of desert warriors into an army and drove
the Germans and Turks out of the Middle East. The widescreen cinematography
detailing his rise and fall is stunning. Shown in spectacular 4K digital restoration.
3 HRS 45 MINS > US/UK > DCP
Sept 25•28
Gallipoli (1981)
Intro by Prof Mostafa Minawi (History) on Sept 25
directed by Peter Weir; cast: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee
This haunting film about a disastrous British military maneuver on the Gallipoli
peninsula in the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) highlights Australia’s rejection of the colonial power after the British used Australian and New Zealander
forces to minimize their own loss. The significance of the Gallipoli campaign and
those who lost their lives in it is commemorated every April 25 by Anzac Day.
1 HR 51 MINS > AUSTRALIA > 35MM
The Vietnam War & Cornell SDS
Members of the Cornell Chapter of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), anti-war activists from
the 60s and 70s, will return to campus for a Cornell Sesquicentennial event organized by Prof. Isaac
Kramnick and will talk with students about that time and their lives after. In advance we present
two classic anti-war films. The reunion and related events will take place on Nov 10 & 11.
1 HR 30 MINS > USA > DCP
1Ⓔ Blaxploitation, Baby: Macho Men, Gangstas & Supermommas!
In conjunction with Professor DOUBLE BILL!
Cheryl Finley’s Blaxploitation Sept 3 Guess Who’s Coming
Film and Photography to Dinner? (1967)
course, we present a series directed by Stanley Kramer; cast: Spencer
Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier
of Blaxploitation films—
Story of a 3-Day Pass (1968)
remembered for their huge
directed by Melvin Van Peebles
Afros, enormous guns, cast: Harry Baird, Pierre Doris, Nicole Berger
slammin’ soundtracks, sex, Intro by Prof Cheryl Finley
drugs, nudity, and violence— Tracy and Hepburn, in their final collaboraalong with some companion tion, star as parents of a girl who surprises
films, exploring the portrayal them with the news of her interracial marriage.
of the black body
In Story of a 3-Day Pass, a black American
in contemporary
soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white
girl in France.
society.
1 HR 48 MINS /1 HR 27 MINS
Cosponsored
> USA > DCP/DVD
with University
Sept 22 Shaft (1971)
Courses.
The Freshman
2 HRS 6 MINS > JAPAN > DCP
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
See Special Events (S3)
Sept 26•27
X-Men: Days
of Future Past
Divergent (2014)
directed by Neil Burger; cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James
Based on the bestselling science fiction novel of the same name, the film follows
Tris, a young woman who discovers she is Divergent, or unclassifiable, and as
such, is a danger to the system. This show is FREE to all Cornell students courtesy
of the Welcome Weekend Committee!
Vertigo
The Freshman (1925)
See Orientation Week (1A)
2 HRS 11 MINS > USA > DCP ‘SCOPE
Aug 29*
1 HR 40 MINS >USA > DCP
Classic Restorations
X-Men: Days
of Future Past (2014)
directed by Bryan Singer; cast: Hugh Jackman, James
McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
In the seventh installment of the franchise, the
X-Men must send Wolverine back through time to
alter events in order to avoid the present-day neargenocide of the mutant race.
Aug 31 Sept 5•7
America’s hero Steve Rogers faces an unexpected Soviet threat from the past. The August
29 show is FREE to all Cornell students courtesy of the Welcome Weekend Committee!
2 HRS 8 MINS > USA > DCP
Aug 24•26
Coffy
j Film only @ 7:15: $8 general / $6 students
j Film & Dance Party: $12 general / $10 students
j Dance Party only @ 9:15 (doors open 9:00): $5
1 HR 15 MINS > USA >16MM
S⑥ Cinema in Sage
1Ⓑ
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
followed by a Beatles-themed Dance Party!
Jodie Mack:
Let Your Light Shine
OCT 24
singing live with Dusty Stacks of Mom
(2013, 41 mins), an animated rock opera
paying affectionate tribute to her mother’s
ailing poster business. “Through exquisite layering and Mack’s trademark cut ‘n’ paste stroboscopic animation techniques, it’s impossible not to be reminded of our collective adolescent
bedrooms or student kitchens. The film is eulogy to now near-defunct forms of cultural production
and exchange, including analogue filmmaking, which have been all but extinguished by digital
technology. “ (BFI London Film Festival) Jodie Mack is an experimental animator, performer and
installation artist who teaches at Dartmouth. Her short films prod the hierarchies of aesthetic
value and the tension between high and low, questioning the role of abstract animation in a
post-psychedelic climate. Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project was presented at last year’s
Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival. Cosponsored with the CCA. [PF]
Student Advisory Board has an event for you! Join
us behind the screen for a pre-movie chocolate
soiree featuring an array of chocolate treats
and chocolate-compatible mocktails
provided by The Hotel School’s Beverage
Club! (Check our website for more details
closer to the event date.) Following
the reception, join us for a screening of the charmingly eccentric
fantasy film, Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory (1971).
Soirée starts at 7:15pm and film
at 8:15pm.
Eric Ross performs on the theremin
[Ultimedia Concert]
A CINE-DANCE EVENT FEATURING A 50TH
ANNIVERSARY DIGITAL RESTORATION OF
SEPT
27
The highlight of this program is Mack
Oompa-Loompa-Doopity-Doo, the Cornell Cinema
Cornell Cinema offers a classic
moviegoing experience in
the beautiful and historic
Willard Straight Theatre,
and is considered one of the
best campus film exhibition
programs in the country,
showing a wide variety of
films every month, including
recent hits, cult favorites,
classics, world cinema and
more. We also host visiting
filmmakers and live music/
film performances: big city
events in small town Ithaca!
The regular undergraduate
student ticket price is just
$5.50 (graduate students pay
$6), and even cheaper with
the purchase of a Six Pass for
$27 (good for six admissions
to regularly priced events and
valid for a full year).
S③
This live collaborative cinematic work reflects and refracts the role of projectionist-as-performer
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Sept 24
Don’t miss this special electronic music performance with composer and master
SEPT 17
S④
Eric and Mary Ross Ultimedia Concert
j $12 general/$10 students & seniors
please note:
Six-passes, comps & guest passes
cannot be used for special events
S②
in conjunction with The History Center’s exhibition “Switched-On: The Birth of
the Moog Synthesizer,” taking place in downtown Ithaca through May 31, 2015.
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
directed by Jack Starret; cast: Tamara Dobson,
Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes
Oct 28
Tamara Dobson is an Amazonesque narc who takes on a drug
queenpin in this estrogen-oozing action extravaganza.
1 HR 29 MINS>USA>DVD
Enter the Dragon (1973)
directed by Robert Clouse; cast: Bruce Lee, John Saxon
Nov 5
For comparison’s sake, this bone-crushingly violent, elegantly
choreographed Bruce Lee flick is generally considered to be the
best of the immensely popular cheaply made martial arts genre.
1 HR 38 MINS > USA/HONG KONG > BLURAY
Claudine (1974)
directed by John Berry; cast: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones
Nov 10
A Black welfare comedy about a mother of six unruly kids
and the man she loves.
1 HR 32 MINS> USA > DVD
Car Wash (1976)
directed by Michael Schultz; cast: Richard
Pryor, Otis Day, George Carlin
Nov 17
A comic and insightful depiction of a day in the life of a group
of car wash employees in 1970s Los Angeles.
1 HR 37 MINS > USA > DCP
Black Dynamite (2009)
directed by Scott Sanders; cast: Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall
Dec 1
When The Man murders his brother and poisons the ghetto’s
malt liquor, the ex-CIA, kung fu-choppin’, all-around baadasss
Black Dynamite vows to clean up the streets. Dynamite joyfully
embraces the Blaxsploitation classics of the 70s.
1 HR 30 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Apocolypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
directed by Francis Ford Coppola; cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando
Oct 23•26
A modern adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: the
story of a lone soldier’s mission to find a crazed Green Beret who
has set up his own fiefdom on the Vietnamese/Cambodian border. The definitive film on war, morality, and the human condition.
The Redux version of Coppola’s Vietnam epic added 49 minutes
of footage, including new scenes with Brando and a sequence
at a French plantation; and amped up the color and the sound,
making the physical experience of the film even more profound.
3 HRS 22 MINS > USA> DCP
The Deer Hunter (1978)
directed by Michael Cimino; cast: Robert DeNiro, John
Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Oct 29
A group of small-town Pennsylvania factory workers’ lives
are forever changed when they enlist in the army to fight in Vietnam. Like few films before or since, director Michael Cimino’s
three-hour character study sweeps grandly through the human
soul in search of light in dark times. This “brutally memorable”
film earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and
Best Director.
3 HRS 3 MINS > USA > DCP
2Ⓐ You, Robot: Machine Autonomy in the Computer Age
film favorites
In honor of the 50th
anniversary of the
founding of Cornell’s
Department of
Computer Science,
we are happy to
present this timely
series, proposed by
the department “to
shed light on the
public’s perception
of our field. Movies
with a robotic
theme are an
excellent vehicle
for doing this
because robots
are a metaphor
for how society
thinks about
computers.”
Cosponsored
with the Dept.
of Computer
Science.
The Day the Earth
Stood Still (1951)
Sept 4
Intro by Prof Charles Van Loan (CS)
directed by Robert Wise; cast: Michael
Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
The world is thrown into hysterics when a spaceship
lands in Washington, D.C. and from it emerges a humanlooking alien, Klaatu, and his intimidating robot, Gort. A
sci-fi classic for the ages!
1 HR 32 MINS > USA > DCP
Sept 12•14 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
directed by Stanley Kubrick; cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
The film that defined science fiction was released over
40 years ago but it still packs a wallop. “With music and
mind-blowing visuals, Stanley Kubrick created a wildly
popular avant-garde film that asked all of the biggest questions—without venturing any easy answers.” (salon.com) If
you haven’t seen it on the big screen, you haven’t seen it.
2 HR 19 MINS > USA > DCP ‘SCOPE
Oct 2•3
RoboCop (1987)
Intro by Prof Walker White (CS) Oct 2
directed by Paul Verhoeven; cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen
Robocop is an armored and computerized Lancelot
created by a sinister security company from the body of a
deceased police officer, yet beneath his metal casing there
is still a spark of his former identity, which drives him to fight
against the machinations of his evil corporate re-creators.
1 HR 27 MINS > JAPAN > BLURAY
Metropolis (1927)
Robot & Frank (2012)
intro by Prof Ashutosh Saxena (CS)
2Ⓔ Doc Spots
Sept 11•13•14
Need more info about these
recent arthouse & Hollywood
hits? Visit our website!
The Fault
in Our Stars (2014)
directed by Josh Boone;
cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort
2 HRS 6 MINS > USA > DCP
Sept 18•20•21
22 Jump Street (2014)
directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller;
cast: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill
1 HR 52 MINS > USA > DCP
Sept 19•20•21 Sundance Film
Fest Short Film Tour 2014
Eight narrative & documentary shorts from
the 2014 edition of the January Festival.
1 HR 34 MINS > DCP
Oct 3•5 Sundance Film Fest Short
Animated Film Tour 2014
An all-animated shorts program from the 2014
edition of the January Festival.
1 HR 30 MINS > DCP
Oct 24•25 20,000 Days
on Earth (2014)
directed by Iaian Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Chronicles 24 hours in the life of musician
Nick Cave, blending fact and fiction.
1 HR 37 MINS > UK > DCP
Nov 6•8•9 Snowpiercer (2013)
directed by Joon-ho Bong; cast: Chris Evans,
Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt
2 HRS 6 MINS > SOUTH KOREA/US > DCP
Intro & post-screening discussion led by Tracy
Mitrano, director of IT Policy and Institute
for Computer Policy and Law at Cornell
Filmmaker Rising: Jim Mickle on
2Ⓒ Adaptation,
Remakes and Don Johnson
The Hollywood Reporter
wrote about Mickle
at the 2014 Sundance
Film Festival: “A year
after delivering one of
the genuine surprises
of Sundance 2013
with his compellingly
nuanced cannibal
family feast We Are
What We Are, Jim
Mickle returns to
breathe vigorous
Cold in July
new life into the
pulpy neo-noir, Cold
Nov 14 Cold in July (2014)
in July…. [He]
Filmmaker Jim Mickle in person (visit
continues to show
not confirmed at press time)
that he’s among the
cast: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson
most distinctive genre
filmmakers on the
indie scene with this
cracked but flavorful
thriller.” If scheduling
permits, Mickle will
join us for this trio of
films. Cosponsored
with IIFFF.
Nov 16 We Are What We Are
(Somos lo que hay) (2010)
directed by Jorge Michel Grau
cast: Francisco Barreiro, Adrián
Aguirre, Miriam Balderas
The Internet’s Own Boy
directed by Brian Knappenberger
A programming prodigy and pioneering developer
behind such Internet staples as RSS and Reddit, Aaron
Swartz also did groundbreaking work in political organizing around information access and restrictions.
His political work ensnared him in a two-year legal
nightmare that ended when he took his own life at the
age of 26. “This film is a personal story about what we
lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its
relationship to civil liberties.” (takepart.com)
1 HR 45 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Oct 27
Farmland (2014)
FREE
Followed by a panel discussion (panelists TBA) Most Americans have never stepped foot on a farm
or ranch or even talked to the people who grow and
raise the food we eat. Farmland takes an intimate
look at the lives of farmers and ranchers in their 20s,
all of whom are now responsible for running their
farming businesses. Sponsored by the College of Ag
& Life Sciences, New York Beef Council, New York
Pork Producers, and New York Corn and Soybean.
1 HR 17 MINS > USA > DCP
Ai Weiwei: The
Fake Case (2013)
Oct 9
Intro by Ellen Avril, Curator of Asian
Art at Cornell’s Johnson Museum
directed by Andreas Johnsen
Nov 3
The Night of Fools (2014)
FREE
Filmmaker Rami Kimchi in person
A Jewish underground movement in Algeria
during WW2 with 400 men succeeds in taking over
the city of Algiers, in which there are about 25,000
French pro-Nazi soldiers. They keep control for one
night, handing it over to the Americans, who land
on the city’s shores the next morning. A docudrama
sponsored by the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies.
A man dies unexpectedly in Mexico City, leaving his widow and three children devastated and
destitute, at a loss without their hunter father,
who supplied the family’s food: human flesh,
consumed in ritual ceremonies. “This promising
first feature [was] ... arty enough to have secured
a slot in the [2010] New York Film Festival.” (J.
Hoberman, Village Voice)
1 HR 30 MINS > MEXICO > 35MM
We Are
What We Are (2013)
Nov 16
Filmmaker Jim Mickle in person (visit
not confirmed at press time)
Cast: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner
“Against all the odds, Stake Land director
Jim Mickle has cooked up a controlled, affecting ‘companion piece’ that honors the Mexican
original while deepening its themes.” (Time Out
London) “The film is that rare modern horror
movie that doesn’t simply fabricate its scares
with the standard bag of postproduction tricks.
Instead it builds them via a bracing command of
traditional suspense tools... This is polished film
craft.” (Hollywood Reporter)
1 HR 45 MINS > USA > BLURAY
1 HR > ISRAEL >BLURAY
1 HR 26 MINS > DENMARK/CHINA/UK > DCP
Northern Lights (1980)
intro by Prof Jeff Cowie (ILR) on Oct 16
Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine
featuring a live cine-performance by Jodie Mack
Suitcase of Love and Shame (2013)
Filmmaker Jane Gillooly in person (not confirmed at press time)
Tom and Jeanne had an affair in the 1960s and poured their lust, happiness, frustration,
and sadness into reel-to-reel tapes that they would send to each other, knowing that each
was as excited to receive the message as the other was to record it. Bought for $100 off
eBay, director Jane Gillooly’s latest film is a mashup of over 60 hours’ worth of Tom and
Jeanne’s reel-to-reel tapes, and a collage of evocative images from the same time period.
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Filmmaker/animator Signe Baumane in person Oct 8
Sept 12 Eric & Mary Ross
Ultimedia Concert
See Special Events (S1)
Sept 17 Projection
Performance (2011-2014)
1 HR 10 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Magical Universe (2014)
directed by Jeremy Workman
Nov 12
1 HR 28 MINS > DCP
See Special Events (S2)
Elektro Moskva (2013)
Based on the hard-boiled novel by Joe R.
Lansdale, this Texas-based crime drama follows
Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall) through the aftermath of shooting and killing an intruder in his
family’s home. “There’s a lot to admire in Cold
in July, but its chief virtue is unpredictability.
Most movies these days sleepwalk through their
formulaic paces, but you’ll never guess where
this one is going based on the way it begins.”
(Chicago Sun-Times)
1 HR 42 MINS > USA > DCP
The Internet’s Own Boy:
The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Oct 1
1 HR 42 MINS > USA > DCP
1 HR 38 MINS > USA > BLURAY
The Lost World (1925)
58 MINS > DVD
Controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is endlessly fascinating. This new documentary “picks up
where Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry left
off, serving as not just an update, but an even more
galvanizing call for reform. Ai’s voice carries louder
than ever before.” (Variety)
1 HR 20 MINS > FRANCE> DCP
Everything Old is New Again…
Oct 16•17
See Classic Restorations (1B)
Oct 24
See Special Events (S4) [PF]
Nov 6
2 HR 11 MINS > FRANCE > DCP
Oct 8•10
2 HRS 3 MINS > UK > DCP
An animated retelling of the Latvian-born director’s and her family’s
brushes with madness and depression. Through surreal imagery, laced
with dark humor and metaphors, Baumane looks at the effects that a
genetic predisposition to sadness and madness can have on one’s rocky,
and potentially wonderful life. There’s nothing CGI here: each of the
129,600 frames in Rocks has been hand crafted. With 28 stop motion
paper maché sets and approximately 23,000 drawings, the film is a feat
of animation craft! Cosponsored with Cornell Minds Matter. [PF]
with live projector performance by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
Recluse. Artist. Friend. These three words are the defining characteristics of octogenarian outsider artist Al Carbee, whom filmmaker Jeremy Workman befriended and documented
for over a decade in Carbee’s gigantic house in Maine, spurred on by the VHS tapes Carbee
would send in between visits. The bond that they share, coupled with Carbee’s extraordinarily
out-there art (most of which features Barbies), makes for a film that shows that friendship,
and wonder, know no bounds for the creative.
Oct 9•10 Vinylmania (2012)
directed by Paolo Campana
SNEAK PREVIEW!
Sept 24
intro by Prof Trevor Pinch (STS)
directed by Dominik Spritzendorfer & Elena Tikhonova
2Ⓖ
1 HR 20 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Nov 19
Breaking the Frame (2012)
Filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska & Carolee Schneemann in person
A poetic documentary portrait of artist Carolee Schneemann. A pioneer of performance
and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, working in Super 8 and 16mm, Schneemann
has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity. Cosponsored with FGSS.
1 HR 15 MINS > ITALY > BLURAY
1 HR 29 MINS > AUSTRIA > DCP
3 HRS 51 MINS > CZECH REPUBLIC > DCP
Ilo Ilo (2014)
with Filmmaker Anthony Chen via Skype
directed by Anthony Chen; cast: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen
Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the
film follows the drama of a middleclass family and the Filipino
immigrant they hire as their live-in maid and nanny. Winner
of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Best First
Feature, Chen’s intimate storytelling is that of a seasoned filmmaker. In Mandarin, Tagalog & English with English subtitles.
1 HR 40 MINS > CANADA > BLURAY
Viola (2012)
A dazzling and delightful mystery
about love and its follies from filmmaker
Matías Piñeiro—named one of “20
Directors to Watch” by the New York
Times—Viola follows a young woman
who joins a small Shakespeare theater
company in Buenos Aires and becomes
entangled in a seductive roundelay
of romantic dalliances, intrigue and
revelation. A riff on Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night.
1 HR 5 MINS > ARGENTINA > DCP
Oct 23•25 Ida (2013)
directed by Pawel Pawlikowski; cast:
Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska
Looking for Adventure, Gringo Trails and Walking the
Camino are cosponsored with Cornell Abroad.
Sept 13 The Epic of
Everest (1924)
See Classic Restorations (1B)
A Summer’s Tale (1996)
See Classic Restorations (1B)
Sept 5•6
Sept 11 Looking for Adventure (2013)
includes admission to Gringo Trails
directed by Kimi Takesue
Filmmaker Jonathan
Caouette in person
Sept 18•19 Walking the
Camino: Six Ways
to Santiago (2013)
directed by Lydia Smith
“Exploring with rigorous formal composure the ‘strains,
pleasures, and choreography’ of group tourism in Peru,
documentary filmmaker Kimi Takesue has created a unique
ethnography of Andean culture: both its commodification for
the exotic-seeking traveler, and the sublime elements that effectively inspire pilgrimages of universal beauty.” (Jay Kuehner,
Northwest Film Forum)
Six travelers trek 500 miles
from southern France to northwestern Spain, where, according
to legend, the Apostle James is
buried. The pilgrims, ranging
in age from three to 73, face a
30-day trip of self-exploration
against obstacles such as the
sun, the wind, rain, blisters, joint
pain, and more. “Over time,
Camino becomes a noun, verb
and state of mind. As weights are
shed—from both the pack and
the soul—everyone is somehow
changed. Religious quest or not,
one priest says, ‘the Camino is
pure medicine…’ (Daniel Gold,
NY Times)
43 MINS > USA/PERU > BLURAY
On the verge of taking her vows of
nunhood, Anna, an orphan in 1960’s
Poland, discovers a family secret tracing back to the country’s years of Nazi
occupation which leads her on an
exploration of the past to decide
her path for the future. “Riveting, original and breathtakingly
accomplished on every level.”
(RogerEbert.com)
Sept 11 Gringo Trails (2013)
FREE with admission to Looking for Adventure
directed by Pegi Vail
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving
it? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of
Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali
to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, Gringo
Trails traces stories over 30 years to show the
dramatic long-term impact of tourism
on cultures, economies, and the
environment.
1 HR 20 MINS > POLAND/
DENMARK > DCP
Gay filmmaker Caouette has been
filming, journaling, photographing, and
investigating his family since the age of 11,
leading to this formally explosive collage
of memories, fantasies, and nightmares.
A half a dozen major reviewers called it
“a masterpiece.” Shown with Caouette’s
amazing new music video that chronicles
the history of gay rights in America in just
nine minutes.
1 HR 38 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Nov 4 The Normal
Heart (2014)
directed by Ryan Murphy; cast: Mark
Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Julia Roberts
In the early 80s AIDS was already
ravaging communities, yet public awareness and governmental response barely
existed. Ned Weeks was not one to go quietly into the night. HBO’s dramatization
of Larry Kramer’s largely autobiographical
play stars Ruffalo as the outspoken and
out-of-the-closet Weeks who founds an
advocacy group while dealing with the
effects of AIDS on those around him.
1 HR 24 MINS > USA > DCP
1 HR 19 MINS
> BLURAY
Looking for Adventure
1 HR 39 MINS > SINGAPORE > DCP
2 HRS 12 MINS > USA > BLURAY
Rocks in My Pockets
(by visiting filmaker Signe Bumane, Oct 8)
Visiting Filmmakers
Sept 17
Sandra Gibson
& Luis Recoder
Oct 2
Anthony Chen
via Skype
Oct 7Jonathan
Caouette
Oct 8
Signe Baumane
Oct 15Matías Piñero
Oct 24Jodie Mack
Nov 6Jane Gillooly*
Nov 14, 16 Jim Mickle*
Nov 19Marielle
Nitoslawska
& Carolee
Schneemann
*not confirmed at press time
Have a great semester and see you at the movies!
Visiting Musicians
Sept 12
Eric Ross, Trevor Pinch,
Peter Rothbart (theremins,
synths & more)
Oct 30Dennis James (Sage
Chapel organ)
Nov 7 & 8 The Alloy Orchestra
Nov 14TRANSIT, a new music
collective from NYC
Northern Lights (shown in a restored 35mm print)
Keeping it Reel-to-Reel
Sept 25 & 28Gallipoli
Oct 16 & 17 Northern Lights
Nov 13
Witchfinder General
Nov 15
Black Sunday
Nov 16
We Are What We Are
(Somos lo que hay)
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gannett
delta upsilon
campus rd
P
edgemoor lane
PG
myron taylor
free after 5 pm
snee hall
schwartz center
for performing arts
N
walk to wsh < 10 mins!
PG
eddy st
east buffalo st
cinema phone:
607.255.3522
garden ave
lots free after 5pm
P =parking
behind wsh
behind anabel taylor
along south ave.
near delta upsilon via south ave.
near edgemoor lane via south ave.
west ave
Cornell Cinema is a program of the Department of Performing
and Media Arts. It receives major support from the Student
Assembly and the Graduate & Professional Student Assembly;
and support from the College of Arts & Sciences.
Visiting filmmaker events marked with a [PF] are
additionally supported by Electronic Media & Film
Presentation Funds, a program of NYSCA, administered
by the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Cornell Cinema is made possible by the
New York State Council on the Arts with
the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature.
Cornell Cinema teams up with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender
Studies Film Series to present these two special programs. For events taking
place elsewhere, visit blogs.cornell.edu/lgbtstudies/events
Oct 7 Tarnation (2003) free
Filmmaker Matías Piñeiro in person
cast: Agustina Mu, Alessio Rigo de Righi
Oct 4•5 Burning
Bush, Pt. 1
& Pt. 2 (2014)
directed by Agnieszka
Holland; cast: Tatiana Pauhofová, Jaroslava Pokorná After
opening on the sacrifice of Jan Palach, a student from Prague
who set himself on fire in protest against the 1969 Soviet
occupation of Czechoslovakia, Burning Bush continues
to explore Palach’s legacy and the fight for freedom in
both personal and public realms, through the story of
Dagmar Buresova, the lawyer who risked representing
Palach’s family in a trial against a Communist politician.
“Ms. Holland…turns a sprawling story into a tight and
suspenseful ethical thriller.” (NY Times) Part 1: 2 hrs 40 mins;
Part 2: 1 hr 20 mins). One admission price for both parts,
which can be seen in one day or over the course of two.
Oct 2
2Ⓑ More Film Favorites
Oct 16•17•19 Ghost in
the Shell (1996)
directed by Mamoru Oshii
As stunning as any animation film you’ll
likely see, surpassing in details even the
best computer animation to date, Mamoru
Oshii’s meditation on the effect of runaway
technology on the very human notion of
individuality and existence is a cyber-film
par excellence.
Nov 7
j $14 general/$12 students & seniors
intro by Prof. Ross Knepper (CS)
See Special Events: Alloy (S7)
Also playing Nov 9 w/ recorded soundtrack.
Nov 13
directed by Jake Schreier; cast: Frank
Langella, Peter Sarsgaard, Susan Sarandon
Set in the near future, Robot & Frank
tells the story of an aging former jewel
thief whose son gives him a robotic home
healthcare aide to cook and clean for him.
Soon, Frank bonds with the robot, and tests
just how far it will go to assist him.
1 HR 29 MINS > USA > DCP ‘SCOPE
1 HR 43 MINS > USA > BLURAY
2Ⓓ IthaKid Film Festival
In addition to a number of docs screening in other series in this
Flicksheet (see Everything Old is New Again and Looking for Adventure),
we present these four, two sponsored by other academic units on
campus and offered for free. All four include a live component!
Bring the kids! Each year, on Saturdays in the late fall and early spring,
Cornell Cinema and the Ithaca Youth Bureau present the IthaKid Film Fest,
a series of unusual children’s programs, most offered at the low price of just
$5 for adults and $4 for kids 12 and younger. The screenings take place in the
beautiful Willard Straight Theatre at 2pm, where reasonably priced popcorn
is available. Please note: there won’t be IthaKid shows on Nov 1, 22 & 29.
Oct 18•19 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
directed by Dean DeBlois; cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett
Five years since teaching the dragon-slaying Vikings to live in peace with their former foes, Hiccup and
Toothless must again come to the rescue when evil Drago seeks to take advantage of the new humandragon bond and create a dragon army of his own. Recommended for ages 7+
Oct 25 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
directed by Mel Stuart; cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum • (also showing Oct 18 [see Special Events (S4)])
Oompa-Loompa-Doopity-Doo, we’ve got a silly movie for you. Wilder plays Willy Wonka in a factory
full of grisly goodies in this classic. Recommended for ages 8+
Nov 8
with live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra!
j $7 adults/$5 kids 12 & under • See Special Events: Alloy (S7) • Recommended for ages 7+
Nov 15 See the World with Animated Shorts! (2014)
This program of shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2014 offers everything from dancing pastries
to edible rocks to a beautiful fish made out of sand. Filled with whimsical creatures, stunning animation
and heartwarming stories about what it means to be a family, these films will take you to the moon and
back. Recommended for ages 5+. Complete line-up at cinema.cornell.edu
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner; voices: Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall
Dec 6•7
Based on the children’s book by Gabrielle Vincent, this Oscar-nominated animated film features the tale
of Celestine—a mouse—and Ernest—a bear—who form an unlikely friendship. Recommended for ages 6+
2Ⓕ
Sept 25•26•28 Mood Indigo (2013)
directed by Michel Gondry; cast: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou
Sept 4•6•7 Only Lovers
Left Alive (2014)
directed by Jim Jarmusch; cast: Tilda Swinton,
Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska
Talk about lovers of retro gadgets and stop motion animation—Michel
Gondry is the man! “The French filmmaker’s gonzo homemade aesthetic
is off the leash entirely” (The Playlist) in Mood Indigo, in which wealthy
and lonesome Colin meets beautiful and enchanting Chloe at a cocktail
party in Paris and falls into a whirlwind romance tinged with sadness.
Featuring a pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and other whimsical
devices, the film is moviemaking-magic!
“Jim Jarmusch is a connoisseur of all things vintage, and you could argue that Adam [the vampire
played by Tom Hiddleston] is not so much a character as an answer to the director’s retro prayers.
He owns a long white Jaguar XJS; plays vinyl on a
turntable; collects beautiful old guitars…and, when
his wife Skypes him on her iPhone, receives her flickering image on an ancient, cuboid TV.” (New Yorker)
Before DCP, IM, CGI, and MP3s,
there was celluloid, vinyl, reel-to-reel tape and TVs,
16 millimeter, 35 millimeter, sprocket holes & reels:
Handcrafted, tactile, something to feel!
Don’t throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again
[Lyrics to “Everything Old is New Again” by Peter
Allen & Carole Bayer Sager]
Cosponsored with Science & Techology Studies
The visceral experience of playing a record and listening to the
needle bump along the grooves and scratches is not lost. With a global
resurgence of interest in vinyl, Paolo Campana’s film—subtitled When
Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute—follows the most diehard of
vinylmaniacs to try and discover just what it is about records that draws
us in, and continues to fascinate us. In English/French/Italian/Japanese/
Czech, with English subtitles. Cosponsored with Angry Mom Records.
Welcome to the weird and definitely wired world of avant garde rock musicians, DIY circuit
benders, vodka-swilling dealers and urban archaeologists/collectors, all fascinated with obsolete
Soviet-era electronic synthesizers that were the by-product of the KGB and Soviet military, created
in the off-hours by scientist/inventors cobbling together spare transistors and wires. The film features rare archival footage, including the last 1993 interview with famed inventor Leon Theremin.
Contemporary World Cinema 2Ⓗ Looking for Adventure:
2Ⓘ LGBT Film Series
Tourists, Travelers and Explorers
Aug 30•31
Oct 15
The Wind
Rises (2013)
See Orientation
Week (1A)
Viola
Five stellar
recent foreign
language films
in addition to an
in-person visit
by Argentine
filmmaker
Matías Piñeiro
and a postscreening Q & A
via Skype with
Singaporean
filmmaker
Anthony Chen,
whose Ilo Ilo
won the Camera
d’Or at the
2013 Cannes
Film Festival.
Burning
Bush and Ida
cosponsored
with CIES.
a note from director Mary Fessenden
I need to wrap this up, even though I’d love to tell you more about all our upcoming
visitors and films. I will make one more recommendation, though, and it’s this: if you’ve
ever used the Internet (and I bet most of you have!), then you should see The Internet’s
Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, screening on October 1. It’s an important film.
With 80+ films and special events lined-up, this semester promises to be a doozy! All but two
events will take place in the beautiful Willard Straight Theatre, equipped with the best digital
projection in town, the only 35mm projection, and new speakers as of this summer! Two events,
both featuring live music, will take place in the magnificent Sage Chapel (see Special Events
section for details), and they’re both offered for FREE!
To make the most of all Cornell Cinema has to offer, we highly recommend purchasing
one of our economical Six-Passes (see details below) because you’re going to want to
come a lot! Also, if you haven’t already, sign up at our website to receive our weekly
e-blast so you don’t miss any of the fun or last-minute additions to our schedule. And,
keep in mind, advance tickets for most of our special events can be purchased online at
CornellCinemaTickets.com.
New students (undergrads & grads) are invited to check us out for FREE, Sunday, August 24 –
Thursday, August 28, and all CU students get in for FREE, courtesy of the Welcome Weekend
Committee, to shows on Friday, August 29.
The semester’s range of films is mind-boggling: everything from silent films from the 1920s,
featuring the recent British Film Institute restoration of The Epic of Everest (1924), to
over ten Blaxploitation films from the 1970s; a series of witchcraft films and a series about
the history of robots in films from 1927–2012; two Vietnam War classics from the 70s, as well
as two stunning films about WWI in the Ottoman Empire. And, as always, a great selection
of contemporary documentaries, animated shorts and features, foreign-language and
independent films.
The series Everything Old is New Again amasses a treasure trove of great films and special
events, including five visiting filmmakers, three live performances, a sneak preview (Elektro
Moskva), Michel Gondry’s latest, and more. Special visitors include Latvian-born animator
Signe Baumane, a frequent collaborator of indie animator Bill Plympton, with her feature
Rocks in My Pockets, a “funny film about depression,” which continues her history of creating
work that tackles adult subjects with humor. In 1999 she achieved permanent residency status
in the U.S. as an impressively titled Alien of Extraordinary Ability, and when you see the film,
you’ll know why! We’ll also be joined by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker and performance
artist, Carolee Schneemann, in conjunction with a screening of a new film about her called
Breaking the Frame.
CORNELL CINEMA STAFF
Mary Fessenden — Director / Programmer
Railey Jane Savage — Manager
Teresa Alvis — Cinema Assistant
Paul Dimmick — Head Projectionist
Ross Haarstad — Graphic Designer
Julia Vasta — Head House Manager
Bruno Fong Martinez — Head Box Officer
★All screenings open to the public
★All foreign language films subtitled in English unless otherwise noted
★All screenings in Willard Straight Theatre unless otherwise noted in calendar grid
★ All major credit cards accepted at our box office
★ Tickets: $8.50 general / $6.50 seniors (62+) / $6 CU graduate students /
$5.50 students & kids 12 and under • matinees are $5.50 all
★Six Passes (6 admissions, valid for 1 year): $40 general / $35 seniors / $27 students
★Passes can be purchased at the WSH box office during evening hours, and
from the WSH Ticket Desk during their regular business hours
★Special ticket prices apply to some shows, advance tickets for which
are often available at CornellCinemaTickets.com
★Passes, Six Pass Cards & Comps are for regularly priced events;
not good for shows with special ticket prices
★Advance ticket sales for regular shows available at the WSH
Ticket Desk, open 11am–5pm Mon–Fri
★Group rates available by calling 255-3522 at least 1 day in advance
★Rent the Willard Straight Balcony (seats 40)–call for details
★Box office opens 20 mins. before and closes 30 mins. after showtimes
★Recorded information on screenings can be obtained by calling
255-3522 after 5pm weekdays; all day weekends
★To be added to our weekly email reminder list, sign up on our website
★For more information on Cornell Cinema, visit our website at cinema.cornell.edu
Cornell Cinema’s concession stand features a
tantalizing array of snacks from Ithaca’s very
own Greenstar Cooperative Market; the local, fair
trade supplier of delicious organic goodies. Yum!
Join Cornell Cinema’s Facebook group (and/or weekly email list)
for info about previously unannounced screenings & sneak previews;
other schedule updates; giveaways; special guests and more!
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collegetown
★= screening locations
dryden rd
Many free parking options after 5 pm weekdays & all day on weekends.
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Cornell University
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Godzilla: The Japanese Original screening August 26 & 28 in a glorious 60th anniversary restoration!
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