Advance Publicity

For Immediate Release
For more information,
Please contact Mary Fessenden
At 607.255.3883
Early Fall 2011 Advance Publicity
All films open to the public
Ticket Prices:
$7.00 general admission / $5.50 seniors / $4.50 students / $4.00 CU Grad Students and kids12 & under
$4.00 all for matinees (screenings that start before 6pm)
Special event prices may apply
WSH=Willard Straight Theatre; URIS=Uris Hall Auditorium;
SCPA=Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Film Forum
For more information visit http://cinema.cornell.edu
The Godfather
Sunday, August 21
7:00
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
Tuesday, August 23
9:15
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
1972 > USA > Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Francis Ford Coppola's epic of the Corleone family, with a digitally remastered soundtrack. A landmark in American
cinema. 35mm
2 hrs 52 min
New Print!
Bringing Up Baby
Monday, August 22
7:00
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
Wednesday, August 24
9:45
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
1938 > USA > Directed by Howard Hawks ‘18
With Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
Hepburn stars as a loony heiress whose pet leopard, Baby, steals a bone needed for a paleontologist (Grant) to
complete his dinosaur skeleton. The rapid-fire dialogue, zany story, and wacky characterizations, plus Cornell alum
Howard Hawks's whimsical direction make Bringing Up Baby the screwiest of screwball comedies and a truly
memorable film. 35mm
1 hr 40 min
New 30th Anniversary Print!
Raging Bull
Monday, August 22
9:15
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
Wednesday, August 24
7:00
WSH
Free to New Students with ID!
1980 > USA > Directed by Martin Scorsese
With Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
Scorsese's powerful film is not so much a boxing film or even a biography of Jake La Motta. It is more about the
human capacity to both self-destruct and to fight to survive, and about the awesome possibilities of the medium in
the hands of a master. De Niro and editor Thelma Schoonmaker ‘61 won richly deserved Academy Awards for their
work. 35mm
2 hrs 8 min
An Orientation to Cornell Cinema
with director Mary Fessenden & Student Advisory Board President Eric Horn
Tuesday, August 23
7:00
WSH
Free
Cornell Cinema is considered one of the best campus film exhibition programs in the country and you can find out
why tonight. Join us for FREE popcorn while you watch a slew of coming attractions 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)!
Thor
Thursday, August 25
8:00
WSH
Free
Friday, August 26
7:15
URIS
Saturday, August 27
10:00 URIS
2011 > USA > Directed by Kenneth Branagh
With Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins
Kenneth Branagh tackles the Marvel-meets-Norse Mythology of Thor, god of Thunder, son of Odin and half-brother
of the conniving god Loki. To learn humility, he is banished by his father to Earth from the mystical realm of Asgard,
where he is rescued by a pretty scientist (Portman) and must go in search of his magic hammer and avenge his
name. "It's not art, but it's mighty fun." (Entertainment Weekly) More at thor.marvel.com 35mm 'Scope
1 hr 54 min
Fast Five
Thursday, August 25
10:30 WSH
Free
Friday, August 26
9:45
URIS
Saturday, August 27
7:15
URIS
2011 > USA > Directed by Justin Lin
With Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel
The familiar faces of The Fast and the Furious franchise are together again in sunny Rio de Janeiro, where excop Brian and ex-con Dom team up to pull off one last heist. This time, the stakes are higher than ever with a drug
lord and a relentless federal agent on their tails. Fast Five is a big, loud, high-octane adventure that might just be
the best of the bunch. More at fastfivemovie.com 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 10 min
New Print!
The Conformist
Friday, August 26
7:15
WSH
Sunday, August 28
9:15
WSH
1970 > Italy > Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli
Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as the cold, middle-class protagonist whose cowardly need to conform renders him a
willing executioner for the fascists in 1938 Europe. Bertolucci and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro fashion a
compellingly decadent vision of Europe circa 1938, and the result is a "subtle anatomy of Italy's fascist
past...demonstrating how the search for normality ends in the inevitable discovery that there is no such thing."
(Time Out) Subtitled. 35mm
1 hr 56 min
New Print!
Breathless
Friday, August 26
9:45
WSH
2 Sunday, August 28
7:15
WSH
1959 > France > Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Over 50 years after its original release, Breathless remains as relevant and irreverent as it has always been. JeanPaul Belmondo and Jean Seberg -- playing a Bogart-like Parisian hood and his American girlfriend -- have become
cinematic icons, and the film remains a touchstone for today's contemporary directors. Subtitled. More at
rialtopictures.com 35mm
1 hr 30 min
Restored Print!
The Battleship Potemkin
Saturday, August 27
7:15
WSH
Tuesday, August 30
7:15
WSH
1925 > USSR > Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
With A. Antonov, G. Alexandrov, V. Barsky
For eight decades, Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece, likely the greatest cinematic realization of militant art, has
remained one of the most influential silent films of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen the film
subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from
dubious sources. Until now. In this all new restoration, dozens of missing shots have been replaced, and all 146
title cards restored to Eisenstein's specifications. Edmund Meisel's definitive 1926 score, magnificently rendered by
the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra in 5.1 Stereo Surround, returns Eisenstein's masterwork to a form as close to
its creator's bold vision as has been seen since the film's triumphant 1925 Moscow premiere. More at
kino.com/potemkin/index.html 35mm
1 hr 9 min
Vertigo
Saturday, August 27
9:15
WSH
with introduction by Prof. Sabine Haenni (Film)
Monday, August 29
7:00
WSH
Tuesday, August 30
9:00
WSH
1958 > USA > Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with James Stewart, Kim Novak
Hitchcock's brilliantly schematic, endlessly fascinating masterpiece of obsession starring James Stewart as Scottie
Ferguson, a detective who has been forced to retire because of a crippling pathological fear of heights, and Kim
Novak as the mysterious woman he is hired to trail, who becomes the object of his obsession. 35mm
2 hrs 8 mins
Bridesmaids
Monday, August 29
9:45
WSH
Wednesday, August 31
9:15
WSH
Friday, September 2
7:00
URIS
Saturday, September 3
9:45
URIS
2011 > USA > Directed by Paul Feig
With Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne
Kristen Wiig co-wrote and stars in this raucous, hilarious comedy that brings a wicked female edge to producer
Judd Apatow's formerly all-boy comedy club. "A film of great hilarity, humanity, idiosyncrasy and grade-A,
eyebrow-singeing raunch." (SF Chronicle) More at bridesmaidsmovie.com 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 5 min
Archival Print!
Badlands
Wednesday, August 31
7:00
WSH
Friday, September 2
9:40
WSH
1973 > USA > Directed by Terrence Malick
3 With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
The 70's best version of the Bonnie and Clyde story, this poetic and visually stunning film stars Martin Sheen and
Sissy Spacek as the young thugs in love and on the loose, headed towards the Badlands of Montana. Print courtesy
of the Academy Film Archive. 35mm
1 hr 35 min
Ithaca Premiere!
A Useful Life
Thursday, September 1
7:30
WSH
Saturday, September 3
7:30
WSH
2010 > Uruguay > Directed by Federico Veiroj
With Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto
For 25 years, Jorge has only known the Cinemateca Uruguaya, where attendance and funding are disappearing like
so many fades-to-black. When the venue closes, we follow Jorge through the streets of Montevideo as he begins to
search for a new life outside the movies. Shot in color but produced in alluring black and white, Veiroj's film is a
love letter to the silver screen, but also to life itself. "[F]or anyone who loves cinema in its purest form, this film
will be a revelation." (indieWIRE) Subtitled. Digital projection
1 hr 10 min
Super 8
Thursday, September 1
9:15
WSH
Friday, September 2
9:45
URIS
Saturday, September 3
7:15
URIS
Sunday, September 4
9:40
WSH
Friday, September 9
10:00 URIS
Saturday, September 10
10:00 URIS
2011 > USA > Directed by J.J. Abrams
With Amanda Michalka, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler
In 1979, a group of kids start filming a zombie movie. Though it starts out well, they soon realize they lack a
heroine, so they add the surprisingly talented Alice (Elle Fanning) to their project. While they are out shooting late
one night, however, they witness a horrible train derailment, and after this, strange things start happening around
town. When the military shows up, they know it's serious - and it's up to the teens to solve the mystery. "Loving,
playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year - of many years."
(Entertainment Weekly) More at super-8movie.com 35mm 'Scope
1 hr 52 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Queen to Play
Friday, September 2
7:00
WSH
Saturday, September 3
9:15
WSH
Sunday, September 4
7:00
WSH
2009 > France/Germany > Directed by Caroline Bottaro
With Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline
Helene is an overworked, middle-aged chambermaid who walks sleepily through life until the day she glimpses a
carefree couple playing chess at the fancy resort where she works. Her desire to learn the game reveals a hidden
talent and awakens an intellectual prowess that had previously been untapped. Helene trades chess lessons for
housecleaning with craggy ex-pat Dr. Kroger (Kline), but the student soon surpasses the teacher. "Caroline
Bottaro's tangy comic bonbon... compares the strategies of chess to the erotic maneuvers in a flirtatious pas de
deux that may be more satisfying than actual sex...." (NY Times) Shown with the hilarious silent Soviet short,
Chess Fever (1925, 28 mins). Subtitled. More at zeitgeistfilms.com 35mm
1 hr 37 min
4 Ithaca Premiere
!Women Art Revolution
Friday, September 2
9:15
Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca $7 all
Monday, September 5
9:15
WSH
Tuesday, September 6
7:15
WSH
2010 > USA > Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
With Miranda July, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B.
Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Marcia Tucker
Visionary feminist filmmaker (and former A.D. White Professor-at-Large) Lynn Hershman Leeson has trained her
camera on her colleagues and friends for 40 years. Here she brings their progressive struggles to integrate women
into the art scene and to politicize female art to the screen. From tête-a-mask conversations with Guerilla Girls to
congressional hearings about Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, the film investigates and celebrates the work of
such artists as Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, Nancy Spero, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann. Interviews, raw
footage, candid conversations, and chronicles of happenings are edited together to detail the development of the
feminist art movement and its contributions to the contemporary art world and an evolving political consciousness.
With an original score by Carrie Brownstein. More at zeitgeistfilms.com/!WAR/ Digital Projection
1 hr 23 min
Casablanca
Monday, September 5
7:00
WSH
Tuesday, September 6
9:15
WSH
1942 > USA > Directed by Michael Curtiz
With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Cornell Cinema plays it again, Sam, with this favorite of American classic cinema. Bogey plays American ex-patriate
Rick Blaine, "the cynical cafe boss... who doesn't give a damn about anything but himself," yet who's inwardly "an
idealist, a sentimentalist motivated by a deep-seated honesty" (Fifty Classic Motion Pictures)--of course. Based on
Cornell alum Murray Burnett's '31 play "Everybody Comes to Ricks." 35mm
1 hr 42 min
Days of Heaven
Wednesday, September 7
7:00
WSH
Friday, September 9
7:15
WSH
1978 > USA > Directed by Terrence Malick
With Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Winner of the 1978 Academy Award for Cinematography, Days of Heaven has been acclaimed by critics as one
of the most visually stunning films ever made. Starring a young Richard Gere as Bill, a hot-headed migrant worker
who goes to the Texas Panhandle in 1916 with his teenage sister Linda and his lover Abby, and Sam Shepard as
the rich but fatally-ill farmer who becomes the victim of their con game. 35mm
1 hr 35 min
Tree of Life
Wednesday, September 7
9:15
WSH
Friday, September 9
7:00
URIS
Saturday, September 10
7:00
URIS
Sunday, September 11
9:20
WSH
2011 > USA > Directed by Terrence Malick
With Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Man's relationship to God and son's relationship to father are driving forces in this beautiful film which takes an
unconventional approach to narrative, showing stages of the life of the universe intercut with the life of one Texas
family; metaphysical questions are posed while a million tiny events contribute to the entirety of one man's life
experience. Beautiful cinematography and stunning performances are just part of what makes the film so
compelling. More at www.foxsearchlight.com/thetreeoflife/ 35mm
2 hrs 19 min
5 Ithaca Premiere!
The Light Thief
Thursday, September 8
7:30
WSH
Saturday, September 10
7:30
WSH
2010 > Kyrgystan > Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat
With Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov
Aktan Arym Kubat writes, directs, and stars in The Light Thief, the poignant tale of an electrician whose open
heart bridges more than broken circuits between friends and neighbors in the developing post-Soviet world. A quiet
meditation on the monopolization of resources, both of the earth and of the heart, the film features a cast of
mostly non-professional actors and a wry humanity. Kyrgyzstan's official submission to the 2010 Academy Awards.
Subtitled. More at globalfilm.org Digital Projection
1 hr 20 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Story of a Tribe Called Quest
Thursday, September 8
9:30
WSH
Saturday, September 10
9:30
WSH
Sunday, September 11
7:15
WSH
Monday, September 12
9:45
WSH
2011 > USA > Directed by Michael Rapaport
With Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Mos Def, Ludacris
At once "a loving, magnetic, gloriously alive tribute to a golden age when a group of brilliant young black men and
women joined forces to reinvent hip-hop" (The Onion A.V. Club) and a stark portrait of how talented performers
can be torn apart by their own personal hang-ups, this documentary is a surprising and insightful look into the
story of one of music's most influential groups. Cosponsored with the CU Library's Hip Hop Collection. More at
sonyclassics.com/beatsrhymesandlife/ 35mm
1 hr 35 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Friday, September 9
9:30
WSH
Wednesday, September 14
10:15 WSH
Friday, September 16
10:00 WSH
Saturday, September 17
9:45
WSH
Sunday, September 18
7:15
WSH
2011 > USA > Directed by Rodman Flender
With Andy Richter, Jack Black, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Jack White
In 2010, it was legally declared that Conan O'Brien was not allowed to appear on television after going through a
nasty breakup with host network, NBC. In response to his banishment, and out of a love and palpable need for an
audience, he hit the road with his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour. This high-energy, no
holds barred documentary charts O'Brien's legally instituted fall from grace and shows him "being a real, vulnerable
person who happens to be a rich, famous TV star mourning the loss of his dream job." (Entertainment Weekly)
More at www.conanobriencantstop.com Digital Projection
1 hr 29 min
2001: A Space Odyssey
Monday, September 12
7:00
WSH
Tuesday, September 13
9:15
WSH
Thursday, September 15
9:45
WSH
1968 > USA > Directed by Stanley Kubrick
With 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
6 questions--without venturing any easy answers." (salon.com) If you haven't seen it on the big screen, you haven't
seen it. 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 19 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Fits and Spells
With program curator & filmmaker Michael Robinson
Tuesday, September 13
7:15
WSH
Directed by various
Examining and evoking altered states of consciousness to enthralling, humorous and haunting ends, these five
short films explore the cinematic possibilities of the manipulated mind. A portrait of one woman's LSD trip
becomes a mesmerizing riddle of perspective and landscape in Ben Russell's Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010,10
mins), while a home beauty routine gives way to a desert vision quest in Shana Moulton's Sand Saga (2008, 11
mins). In Peggy Ahwesh's The Ape of Nature (2010, 23 mins), an ensemble of hypnotized actors channel a
cacophonous recalling of the past, inspired by Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass. The program also includes Laida
Lertxundi's Cry When It Happens (2010, 13 mins), a mystical expedition across the urban and wild expanses of
southern California, and Jesse McLean's Magic For Beginners (2010, 20 mins), an essayistic look at the inherent
hysteria, melancholy and release of obsessive fandom.
1 hr 17 min
The Thin Red Line
Wednesday, September 14
7:00
WSH
Saturday, September 17
7:00
URIS
1998 > USA > Directed by Terrence Malick
With James Cazaviel, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody
A World War II epic that flirts more with Transcendentalism than historicism, the film imagines the Guadalcanal
battle as a standoff between man at his most frantic and nature at its most rapturous. 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 50 min
Ithaca Premiere!
The White Meadows
Thursday, September 15
7:30
WSH
Saturday, September 17
7:30
WSH
Monday, September 19
9:15
WSH
2009 > Iran > Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
With Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani
This utterly haunting allegory takes us on a journey with Rahman, a man of enigmatic means: he must collect the
tears of various island inhabitants, none of whom know the purpose behind his task. Set amid the stark beauties of
northern Iran, the film builds a far-removed and living world, one person and custom at a time. Cosponsored with
the Iranian Student Organization. Subtitled. More at globalfilm.org Digital Projection
1 hr 32 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Girlfriend
With filmmaker Justin Lerner ‘02
Friday, September 16
7:15
WSH
2010 > USA > Directed by Justin Lerner
With Evan Sneider, Jackson Rathbone, Shannon Woodward
Evan (Evan Sneider) has a crush: his neighbor, a single mother with rent and boyfriend problems. Evan also has
Down Syndrome. The film, quite clearly a labor of love crafted around Sneider (who has Down Syndrome and is a
long-time friend of director and Cornell alum Lerner), avoids some of the more melodramatic plot turns that could
arise in this situation, and proves "eminently respectful in its handling of this kindhearted, sexually curious
protagonist." (NY Times) More at girlfriendmotionpicture.com 35mm 1 hr 34 min
7 Submarine
Friday, September 16
7:15
URIS
Tuesday, September 20
9:30
WSH
Friday, September 23
7:15
URIS
Saturday, September 24
9:45
URIS
Sunday, September 25
7:15
WSH
2011 > UK/USA > Directed by Richard Ayoade
With Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine
Submarine is a darkly comic and fresh coming-of-age story about Oliver Tate, a fifteen-year-old who's in love. Or,
at least, he wants to be. But at the same time he pursues his beloved - the enigmatic and attractive Jordana – he's
also trying to keep his parents' floundering marriage afloat. Through all this, his cinematic, romantic, French New
Wave-inspired daydreams help him navigate his complicated teenage years. "A fresh and inventive cinematic voice,
[Ayoade]'s taken a subject that's been beaten half to death and brought it miraculously to life in his smart and
funny debut feature." (LA Times) More at warp.net/films/submarine 35mm 'Scope
1 hr 37 min
X-Men: First Class
Friday, September 16
9:30
URIS
Saturday, September 17
10:15 URIS
Sunday, September 18
9:15
WSH
Wednesday, September 21
9:45
WSH
Friday, September 23
9:30
URIS
2011 > USA > Directed by Matthew Vaughn
With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
X-Men: First Class takes us back to the very beginning of it all. As a prequel to the original films, the newest
installment of the Marvel saga follows Magneto (Fassbender) and Professor X (McAvoy) in their youth, many years
before they became the enemies - and powerful leaders - they are today. This time, as young men, they meet,
become friends, begin to explore their powers - and then begin to disagree about how to use them. "This X- Men
is indeed first class: an exciting, bold and thoroughly enjoyable summer blockbuster." (USA Today) More at xmenfirstclassmovie.com/ 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 12 min
Archival Print!
Within Our Gates
With introduction and live piano accompaniment by Philip Carli
Monday, September 19
7:00
WSH
1920 > USA > Directed by Oscar Michaux
With Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Released only months after the deadly 1919 race riots in Chicago, pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Michaux's
dramatic tale of rape, lynchings, and the devastated lives of poor sharecroppers caused national controversy. The
story concerns Sylvia Landry, a young southern woman with a dramatic past, who has come to Chicago to meet
with her fiancee. Perhaps because of its limited initial release, the film was believed lost for most of the 20th
Century. A single print, entitled "La Negra" was discovered in Spain in 1990, and it is from that copy that this film,
historically important as a document of the lives of black Americans, a searing critique of race relations in the
integrated South, and a foundational work of black filmmaking, has been restored. Print preserved by the Library of
Congress. 35mm
1 hr 19 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy
With filmmaker Randy Olson
Tuesday, September 20
7:00
WSH
Free
8 2008 > USA > Directed by Randy Olson
With Mitch Silpa, Brian Clark, Alex Thomas, Ifeanyi Njoku
A mockumentary, the movie is about a scientist-turned-filmmaker (Randy Olson) trying to make a documentary
about global warming that gives voice to scientists on both sides of the climate-change issue. Amazingly, the
comedy actually works, but what's most surprising is that "the film emerges...as an exceedingly clever vehicle for
making science engaging to a general audience, and also presents climate-change science in a more complex light
than the overtly partisan An Inconvenient Truth.... rather than bringing the global-warming debate to a close,
Sizzle reopens it, and only raises more questions." (Variety) Cosponsored with the Atkinson Forum in American
Studies. More at sizzlethemovie.com Digital Projection
1 hr 24 min
The New World
Wednesday, September 21
7:00
WSH
Saturday, September 24
7:00
URIS
2005 > USA > Directed by Terrence Malick
With Colin Farrell, Qorianka Kilcher, Christian Bale
The main event at American cinemas in 2005 was this gorgeous, seductive, and almost symphonically composed
portrait of the struggling Jamestown colony. The thwarted, mysterious love between John Smith and Pocahontas
is the backbone of the film, but the exquisite images and sweeping music truly drive the story, making The New
World "a sumptuous tone poem of epic emotional proportions." (Slant Magazine) Subtitled. 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 15 min
Ithaca Premiere
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
With filmmaker Andrej Ujicâ on September 22
Thursday, September 22
7:00
WSH
Sunday, September 25
3:45
WSH
2010 > Romania > Directed by Andrej Ujicâ
With Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu
Megalomaniacal tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu was President of Romania from 1965 to 1989, and much of his rule was
shot on film. Following in the tradition of Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera and Jean-Luc Godard's
Histoire du Cinema, Andrei Ujicâ's has edited together hours of footage into a stunning experimental
documentary. Ujicâ makes careful, dialectical edits, and adds a few sly sound effects, but for the most part, he
allows the raw footage and unedited rushes of propaganda films, state ceremonies, foreign visits, candid personal
shots, television coverage and more to illustrate the brutality and absurdities of Ceausescu's inescapable presence.
"Who knew that three hours of coarsely edited Romanian state propaganda culled from the ruinous Ceausescu era
between 1965 and 1989 could be so transfixing, illuminating and haunting? " (Time Out London) Cosponsored with
the Institute for European Studies. Subtitled. More at thefilmdesk.com/ANC/ Digital Projection
3 hrs
Ithaca Premiere!
Magic Trip
Friday, September 23
7:15
WSH
Saturday, September 24
9:45
WSH
Monday, September 26
8:45
WSH
Wednesday, September 28
9:45
WSH
2011 > USA > Directed by Alison Ellwood & Alex Gibney
With Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Neal Cassady, the Grateful Dead
In 1964 Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters bought a bus and filmed their trip from California to the New York
World's Fair. That footage finally sees light in this documentary, "The counter-cultural equivalent of an
archaeological dig-- or maybe an acid flashback-- [a] reconstruction of the LSD-fueled, bus trip-cum-rolling
revolution... long pinpointed as the start of the psychedelic '60s." (Variety) More at magictripmovie.com Digital
Projection 1 hr 30 min
9 New 35th Anniversary Print!
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Friday, September 23
9:15
WSH
Saturday, September 24
7:00
WSH*
Sunday, September 25
9:30
WSH
Wednesday, September 28
7:00
WSH
1976 > UK > Directed by Nicolas Roeg
With David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn
David Bowie makes his film debut as an alien who comes to Earth for water to take home to his parched planet. A
brilliant inventor and social neophyte, the film follows his interactions with American life on Earth, replete with
success, betrayal, greed, lust, elation, and bitter confusion. Roeg's film is an unconventional combination of seamy
sex scenes, encounters with enlightenment, and visually arresting human/alien interaction. Bowie is perfect as the
brilliant and naive interstellar visitor. More at rialtopictures.com 35mm 'Scope *The Saturday, Sept 24 show will
be followed by a “David Bowie versus The Talking Heads” dance party at 10pm at Pixel in Collegetown presented
by No Radio Productions.
2 hrs 19 min
Archival Print!
The Wild Party
Monday, September 26
7:00
WSH
Tuesday, September 27
9:30
WSH
1929 > USA > Directed by Dorothy Arzner
With Clara Bow, Fredric March
A light-hearted comedy set at an exclusive women's college, the film features "It" girl Clara Bow in her first "talkie"
as "the most popular party girl in a dorm full of highspirited flapper co-eds. Fredric March plays a dashing new
anthropology professor who captures Bow's heart but withholds his love until his young paramour learns to curtail
her frivolous ways." (UCLA Film & Television Archive) 35mm
1 hr 15 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Green Fire
With Stan Temple, Senior Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation
Tuesday, September 27
7:15
WSH
Free
2011 > USA/Mexico > Directed by Ann & Steve Dunsky, Dave Steinke
A portrait of legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy, the film provocatively examines
Leopold's thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges.
Cosponsored with the Lab of Ornithology. More at aldoleopold.org/greenfire/ Digital Projection
1 hr 14 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Films for One to Eight Projectors
With filmmaker Roger Beebe
Thursday, September 29
7:15
WSH
Directed by Roger Beebe
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the
Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, brings a
program of his recent multi-projector films to Cornell Cinema. In these films Beebe explores the possibilities of
using multiple projectors - running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously - not for a free-form VJ-type experience,
but for the creation of discrete works of expanded cinema. The show builds from the relatively straightforward
two-projector films The Strip Mall Trilogy and TB TX DANCE to the more elaborate three-projector studies
Money Changes Everything and AAAAA Motion Picture on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the
10 mysteries of space, Last Light of a Dying Star. For film descriptions, visit cinema.cornell.edu.16mm,
1 hr 30 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Puzzle
Friday, September 30
7:15
WSH
Saturday, October 1
7:15
WSH
Tuesday, October 4
7:15
WSH
2009 > Argentina/France > Directed by Natalia Smirnoff
With Maria Onoetto, Gabriel Goity
Maria del Carmen discovers on her 50th birthday that she has a talent for solving jigsaw puzzles, but she pursues
her new hobby in secret, with only the camera aware of her empowerment. As portrayed by María Onetto (The
Headless Woman), Maria "has the dignified bearing and mysterious expression of a middle-aged Mona Lisa... And
when she bursts into a happy grin near the end of the movie, she conveys the uncontainable joy of a liberated
sphinx." (NY Times) Subtitled. More at sundanceselects.com/films/puzzle 35mm
1 hr 27 min
Midnight in Paris
Thursday, September 29
9:45
WSH
Friday, September 30
7:00
URIS
Saturday, October 1
9:45
URIS
Sunday, October 2
7:15
WSH
Wednesday, October 5
9:30
WSH
Thursday, October 6
9:30
WSH
2011 > USA/Spain > Directed by Woody Allen
With Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams
Celebrated director Woody Allen's newest film is a study in nostalgia. Wilson stars as his well-meaning protagonist,
the screenwriter Gil, who, during a trip to Paris, grows disillusioned with his present and dreams instead of a bygone
era. He soon finds himself in a world populated by his heroes from the city's golden age, including Ernest
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso. As Gil falls in love with the Paris of the past, however, he learns
that he can't forget about the present. More at sonyclassics.com/midnightinparis 35mm
1 hr 40 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Bellflower
Friday, September 30
9:15
WSH
Saturday, October 1
9:15
WSH
Monday, October 3
8:45
WSH
2011 > USA > Directed by Evan Glodell
With Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson
There is a love story at the heart of Bellflower, but the flesh and bone around it is made up of the apocalypse-- or
the desire for it. The two guys in the movie spend all their time, when they are not chasing girls, preparing for the
end of the world: constructing flame throwers, custom cars, and other oddities. Glodell wrote, directed, starred,
and perhaps most importantly "also custom built the camera he used to shoot the movie along with many of the
film's weird gadgets and weapons. Like any mad scientist worth his salt, Glodell occasionally loses control of his
creation. But that's what we like to see mad scientists do: invent something truly crazy and brilliant and watch it
crash and burn." (IFC.com) More at www.bellflower-themovie.com Digital Projection
1 hr 46 min
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Friday, September 30
9:15
URIS
Saturday, October 1
7:00
URIS
Sunday, October 2
9:30
WSH
11 1977 > USA > Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr
"[The film] takes the favored dream of every UFO enthusiast (that the US government has been operating a coverup) and turns it into a majestic and finally unprecedented adventure story." (Time Out Film Guide) 35mm 'Scope
2 hrs 17 min
Dracula
Monday, October 3
7:00
WSH
Tuesday, October 4
9:15
WSH
1931 > USA > Directed by Tod Browning
With Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Cornell Cinema bids you welcome to Tod Browning's Dracula, the 1931 Universal Pictures classic that set the bar
for all vampire films before or since. From Bela Lugosi's iconic performance to Karl Freund's shadowy
cinematography, this is a quintessential big-screen experience that no film lover should miss. Often imitated yet
inimitable, parodied yet irresistible, this is where it all began. 35mm
1 hr 15 min
Ithaca Premiere!
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Wednesday, October 5
7:15
WSH
Thursday, October 6
7:15
WSH
Friday, October 7
9:15
Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca $7 all
2010 > France/Netherlands/UK > Directed by Sophie Fiennes
With Anselm Kiefer
A portrait of German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes by British director Sophie Fiennes (The
Pervert's Guide to Cinema), who shot the film in cinemascope to capture the world Kiefer created in and
around La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory where he established a studio estate in the South of France. The film
enters into direct contact with the raw materials Kiefer employs to build his paintings and sculptures - lead,
concrete, ash, acid, earth, glass and gold, giving privileged access to Kiefer's last days at La Ribaute prior to his
move to Paris, where he now lives and works. "A deeply serious meditation on artistic practice and expression."
(Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian) Subtitled. More at overyourcities.com Digital Projection
1 hr 45 min
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