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A alphabetical film listing n E leg a n t W i n t e r Pa rty B e n ef i t f o r C o r n e ll C i n em a &&40 th Anniversary Celebrattion 104 Willard Straight Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 featuring a 9 pm screening of King VIdor’s Show People and the Charlie Chaplin Short Behind the Screen with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli S a t u r d a y, F e b r u a r y 6 t h s t a r t n i g a t 7: 30 pm i n W i l l a r d S t r a i g h t T h e a t r e flicksheet C ornell Cinema’s annual Elegant Winter Party has become a must-attend event on the social calendars Elegant Winter Party Masters of World Cinema Hits from the ‘70s Cities Inside Out Oscar Doc Nominees Ithakid Film Fest Quay Brothers Africana @ 40 Jewish Film Fest … and more! of cinema-loving Ithacans, and this year it doubles as a celebration of Cornell Cinema’s 40th anniversary, and that’s a lot of films to celebrate! Dress up in your winter best and join us for scrumptious hors d’oeuvres and desserts, courtesy of some of Ithaca’s finest dining and catering establishments, a cash bar, live music, drawings for an array of wonderful door prizes, and a 9 pm screening of the Charlie Chaplin short Behind the Screen, followed by King Vidor’s Show People, both with accompaniment by silent film pianist extraordinaire Dr. Philip Carli, all in the always elegant Willard Straight Theatre. oth short and feature take an insider’s look at Hollywood in the early years. Behind the Screen is a slapstick featuring Chaplin as a stagehand on a movie set under the thumb of a tyrannical boss named Goliath. Show People is a comedic satire of Tinseltown’s early days, and is considered silent film star (and lover of William Randolph Hearst) Marion Davies’s best performance. (Lucille Ball cited Davies as a huge comedic influence.) It also features cameo appearances by many of the great film stars of the day, including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, and John Gilbert, as well as an appearance by director King Vidor. In 2003, Show People was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Aside from all that, though, it’s just IMAGES FROM ‘SHOW PEOPLE’ a lot of fun, and we’ll be screening a lovely print from the Library of Congress. th ould there be a better way to greet the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, beat the winter blues, celebrate the 40 anniversary of your favorite repertory cinema, and have a fabulous evening—all at the same time—than attending our Elegant Winter Party? We think not! Proceeds from this event will help Cornell Cinema continue to provide its eclectic slate of cinematic offerings from around the world. Tickets: $45 general ($80 a pair) and $25 student ($40 a pair); available now at CornellCinemaTickets.com, and starting Monday, February 2 from 104 Willard Straight Hall, or by calling 607-255-3522. B C Cornell Cinema celebrates its 40 anniversary with… Hits from the ‘70s! th HITS FROM THE ‘70S YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN T Feb 1 & 2 L AST TANGO IN PARIS Feb 8 & 9 MONTY P YTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL Feb 13, 15 & 16 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Feb 22 & 23 DR . NO March 1 & 2 TAXI DRIVER March 6, 8 & 9 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE K ID March 11, 13 & 19 SMALL CHANGE March 15 & 16 hat’s right, Cornell Cinema turns 40 in 2010 and we’ve got events planned throughout the coming year to commemorate what is truly a monumental achievement (have you noticed there aren’t that many repertory cinemas around anymore??) It hasn’t been easy, to say the least, but by continually adapting to the changing cinema landscape over the past four decades, we have managed to maintain a stellar program with devoted past and present patrons. So, raise a glass to toast Ithaca’s year-round film festival and plan on attending as many films in this series as possible—ten of Cornell Cinema’s most popular films of the 70s—to show your support. Besides, it’s been years since some of these classics graced our screen. In addition, we’re holding a contest: every time you attend one of these screenings in this calendar, you’ll be eligible to cast a vote for which film you think was the most popular of the 70s. During spring break, we’ll collect all the correct entries and then draw three lucky winners from the bunch, who will be awarded one of three prizes: early spring 2010 1st Prize: A Ten-Admission Discount Card, valid for a full year 2nd Prize: Five guest passes, valid for a full year 3rd Prize: A Reel Culture T-Shirt URSULA ANDRESS IN ‘DR. NO’ …and remember, 40 is the new 20! Cheers to us! ‘LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET’ SCREENING FEB 26–28 Film captures the spark of creativity in these three excellent and enlightening documentaries, each about a different creative art. The series begins with Valentino: The Last Emperor, which takes the viewer behind the scenes of legendary couturier Valentino Garavani, one of the most celebrated fashion designers in ART DOCUMENTARIES X 3 history. Following the designer through his last collection before retiring, the film captures VALENTINO : THE the end of an era in global fashion. Visual Acoustics examines the photography of Julius L AST EMPEROR Shulman, called the greatest photographer of architecture in the world. Shulman made his Feb 20 & 21 ACOUSTICS name by beautifully photographing the work of such modern giants as Frank Lloyd Wright, VISUAL Feb 20, 21 & 23 Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, and Frank Gehry, especially in and around Los Angeles. L A DANSE Moving from the camera to the stage, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet gives the Feb 26 - 28 viewer an intimate look at one of the best dance companies in the world as they prepare for and perform in their demanding 7-ballet season, culminating with Waltz’s Romeo and Juliette. WSH=W ILLARD S TRAIGHT THEATRE • URIS= URIS H ALL A UDITORIUM • SCPA=S CHWARTZ C ENTER follow Cornell Cinema on Facebook and on Twitter! AFRICANA@40: LOOKING MORE SERIES… ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL BACK / MOVING FORWARD CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE BEHIND THE R AINBOW Feb 18 OF MEATBALLS Jan 30 TESTAMENT Feb 19 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE DORMITORIUM: FILM DECORS Feb 13 BY THE QUAY BROTHERS E ARTH Feb 20 & 27 TALES FROM THE BROTHERS QUAY Jan 26 & 28 FANTASTIC MR. FOX March 6 THE PIANO TUNER OF E ARTHQUAKES Jan 28 & 30 FOR P ERFORMING A RTS F ILM F ORUM • A DMISSION : ( UNLESS Dr. Philip Carli performs live piano accompaniment for Show People Festival Director John Columbus presents The 29th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Feb 18 Filmmaker Jihan El Tahir presents Behind the Rainbow Feb 19 Filmmaker John Akomfrah presents Testament Feb 25 Temple Grandin, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ‘56 Professor, and Producer Scott Ferguson ’82 present Temple Grandin Mar 2 Filmmaker Naomi Uman presents The Ukrainian Time Machine and other shorts Mar 13 Mary Brett Lorson and the Soubrettes perform live with Cyclonic: The Dance and Life of Eva Tanguay Mar 14 Mary Brett Lorson performs live piano accompaniment for The Wild Girl Feb 6 Feb 9 SPECIAL GUESTS E A R LY S P R I N G 2010 jan 24–mar 19 Art Documentaries x 3 OTHERWISE NOTED ): $6.50 Films Jan 24–Feb 20 (see reverse for Feb 21–Mar 19) SUN MON jan 25 jan 24 The Informant! The Informant! [$4] WSH 4:30 Whip It [$2 NEW STUDENTS W/ID] WSH 7:15 WSH Whip It WSH TUES jan 26 Tales from the 7:15 Brothers Quay WSH 9:30 The Informant! WSH WED Bright Star jan 27 WSH THUR jan 28 Tales from the 7:15 Brothers Quay WSH 7:00 Zombieland WSH FRI Bright Star 7:00 This Is It 9:45 The Piano Turner of Earthquakes 8:45 WSH 7:15 WSH 9:15 WSH 9:30 WSH 9:45 WSH WSH WSH URIS Zombieland URIS [$4] WSH Good Hair WSH 7:15 7:15 Last Tango in Paris feb 14 feb 15 Monty Python Where the Wild Things Are & The Holy Grail [$4] WSH 4:30 WSH SAT 7:15 WSH Bright Star WSH WSH 9:30 7:15 9:15 Zombieland [$4] WSH 5:00 A Serious Man WSH 7:15 WSH The Men Who 7:15 Stare at Goats WSH WSH feb 17 9:00 Monty Python & The Holy Grail WSH 7:00 City of God WSH The Men Who 9:20 Stare at Goats WSH feb 18 9:20 WSH Behind the Rainbow 7:00 9:45 W/FILMMAKER [FREE] WSH 7:00 City of God WSH W/FILMMAKER Where the Wild Things Are 7:00 URIS 7:15 10:15 WSH Pirate Radio 9:30 URIS 9:30 7:15 9:15 feb 6 URIS 7:15 URIS 9:30 Zombieland feb 13 Black Dynamite URIS The Men Who Stare at Goats URIS 7:15 9:15 Monty Python & The Holy Grail 9:30 [$3 ADULTS/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] [FREE] WSH Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 7:15 feb 19 Earth Testament URIS A Serious Man 7:30 WSH The Beaches of Agnes 7:00 URIS Whip It W/LIVE MUSIC 9:15 9:15 feb 16 WSH 9:20 URIS 9:35 [$45/$25 STUDENTS] WSH URIS jan 30 Zombieland 9:45 The Piano Turner of Earthquakes WSH 7:30 feb 5 ELEGANT WINTER PARTY Show People URIS 2:00 feb 8 The th feb 9 feb 10 feb 11 The Beaches of Agnes feb 12 Where the Wild Things Are 29 Annual [$3 ADULTS/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] WSH 7:00 The Men Who Last Tango in Paris WSH 2:00 The Garden Black Maria Film & Video Fest WSH 7:00 WSH 7:00 The Beaches of Agnes Stare at Goats W/GUEST The Garden WSH 7:00 Where the Wild Things Are [$4] SCPA 7:15 WSH 9:25 URIS 7:15 4:30 Capitalism: A Love Story [$4] WSH 5:00 [GRADS $2] A Serious Man The Cove WSH 9:30 Coco Before Chanel WSH 9:00 Coco Before Chanel Black Dynamite WSH WSH Coco Before Chanel MORE INFO: 255-3522 HTTP://CINEMA.CORNELL.EDU This Is It feb 7 The Cove / $5 S ENIORS / $4 S TUDENTS & K IDS 12 + U NDER [$3 ADULTS/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] 7:15 Whip It 9:45 GENERAL jan 29 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 8:45 feb 2 feb 3 feb 4 The Cove Cloudy with jan 31 Young Frankensteinfeb 1 Chinatown Capitalism: A Love Story Capitalism: A Love Story a Chance of Meatballs WSH 7:00 WSH 7:00 WSH 7:00 WSH 7:00 [$4] WSH 4:30 Good Hair A Serious Man Bright Star This Is It Young Frankenstein Good Hair WSH COMING IN MAY ANNIE HALL COMING IN JULY A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE WSH 2:00 Valentino: The Last Emperor [$4] WSH 5:00 Visual Acoustics WSH Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans WSH 7:15 9:15 feb 20 Pirate Radio URIS Where the Wild Things Are URIS 7:15 for jan 24–feb 20 Last Tango in Paris th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival HITS FROM THE ‘70S 29 The Feb 9 with festival director John Columbus directed by various NAMED FOR THOMAS Edison’s 1893 experimental motion picture studio, this touring festival features cutting edge films from prominent avantgarde, documentary and animation film and videomakers world-wide. Line-up at cinema.cornell.edu more at blackmariafilmfestival.org VIDEO PROJECTION . APPROX. RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 45 MINS B ad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Feb 18•20•22 directed by Werner Herzog with Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer IN WERNER HERZOG’S pulpy thriller, very loosely based on Abel Ferrara’s 1992 shocker Bad Lieutenant, Nicholas Cage gives a bravado performance as a drug-addicted cop whose grasp of reality and his own humanity begins to fracture. “[The film’s] maniacal unpredictability is such a blast that it reminds you just how tidy and dull most crime thrillers are these days.” (NY Times) more at badlt.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>2 HRS 1 MIN>USA MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA OSCAR DOCS: AND THE NOMINEES ARE… ITHACA PREMIERE B eaches of Agnes Feb 11•12•16 The directed by Agnes Varda with Agnes Varda LEGENDARY FILMMAKER AGNES Varda, the now 81-year-old grand dame of the French New Wave whose debut works predated the first films of Godard, Truffaut or Rivette, takes us for a stroll through this retrospective patchwork of her own films, photo albums, home movies, souvenirs, flea market finds, ruminations on everything from feminism to Fidel Castro, revelations about the changing nature of cinema, and poignant memories of husband Jacques Demy. “The images are as delightful, unexpected and playfully uninhibited as Ms. Varda, perhaps the only filmmaker who has both won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and strolled around an art exhibition while costumed as a potato (not at the same time).” (NY Times) Shortlisted for Best Feature Documentary Oscar. SUBTITLED more at cinemaguild. com/beachesofagnes 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>FRANCE AFRICANA@40 ITHACA PREMIERE B ehind the Rainbow Feb 18 [free] with filmmaker Jihan El Tahri directed by Jihan El Tahri with Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe, Pallo Jordan, Thabo Mbeki and Terror Lekota FOCUSED ON THE conflicts within the ANC, in power in South Africa after the end of Apartheid, this rigorous, complete and richly documented film deals with the fratricide struggle between Thabo Mbecki and Jacob Zuma. It is not restricted to the political analysis but also studies in depth their psychology. The destructive nature of power emerges and in particular the threats that hang over a country, the evolution of which is decisive for the future of the whole of the African continent. VIDEO PROJECTION. 2009>COLOR>2 HRS 4 MINS>SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE/EGYPT B lack Dynamite Feb 12•13 directed by Scott Sanders with Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson W HEN THE M AN 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. Joyfully embracing the blaxsploitation classics of the 70s, “Black Dynamite blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema deconstruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high.” (Entertainment Weekly) more at blackdynamitemovie.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 30 MINS>USA B right Star Jan 27•29•30 Feb 1 directed by Jane Campion with Ben Wishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider J A N E C A M PIO N (TH E Piano) returns to the screen with an indelible love story, fraught and poignant as any seen recently - except this one is set in 1818 and pertains to John Keats and his saucy neighbor in the two years before his untimely death of tuberculosis. Campion’s sure treatment of the period, her pitch-perfect actors, and the celebration of the poetry itself make for a transcendent experience: “It’s a tribute to all concerned, especially the letter-perfect actors and the wonderful language Campion has given them, that this film holds us from first to last even though history has told us exactly how it will end.” (Kenneth Turan, LA Times) more at brightstar-movie.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 59 MINS>UK/AUSTRALIA/FRANCE C apitalism: A Love Story Feb 2•4•8 directed by Michael Moore M ICHAEL M OORE , THE incendiary documentarian who has tackled the thorny issues of guns, 9/11, and health care, takes on capitalism in light of massive government bailouts and bank foreclosures. “[This] fireball of a movie could change your life. It had me laughing with tears in my eyes.” (Rolling Stone) more at capitalismalovestory.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>2 HRS>USA CITIES: INSIDE OUT C hinatown Feb 3 directed by Roman Polanski with Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston 9:45 JACK NICHOLSON’S PRIVATE eye is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city’s water supply in what “is undoubtedly one of the great films of the ‘70s.” (Time Out Film Guide) 35MM ‘SCOPE 1974>COLOR>2 HRS 11 MINS>USA C ity of God Feb 17•19 MARLON BRANDO, AS an American expatriate in Paris whose wife has just committed suicide, creates the compelling center of this dark film as he enters into a tragic sexual liaison with a stranger (Schneider). Considered by many to be Bertolucci’s fi nest achievement. One of the most frequently screened films in all of Cornell Cinema’s history. In English and French. directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund with Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora THIS B RAZILIAN GANG LAND epic, an exposé of the underbelly of Rio de Janeiro, is as kinetic and impassioned as GoodFellas or Amores Perros, and was an international sensation and multiple Oscar nominee. SUBTITLED more at cidadededeus.globo.com 35MM 2002>COLOR>2 HRS 10 MINS>BRAZIL ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL C $2 kids 12 & under Jan 30) 2009>COLOR>1 HR 33 MINS>USA/UK M directed by Terry Gilliam with the Monty Python Cast KING ARTHUR AND the Knights of the Round Table set out to find the most holy of grails, braving killer rabbits, holy hand grenades, and the knights who say “Nee!” in this absurdist comedy. Widely considered Python’s best film, this is a must-see for all fans of comedy and Camelot, even if you’ve already seen it a hundred times! more at directed by Anne Fontaine with Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola pythonline.com 35MM THE BROTHERS QUAY ITHACA PREMIERE forechanel 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>1 HR 45 MINS>FRANCE C THE Q UAYS SECOND feature after 1995’s Institute Benjamenta merges live action and animation in a vaguely 18th century imaginary world where a beautiful opera singer falls prey to an evil inventor on the eve of her wedding, and later becomes captivated by the doctor’s piano tuner who bears a resemblance to her lost lover. But the story is mainly a foundation for the Quays’ exquisite animated tableaux, the sets for which can be viewed in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome as part of the exhibition Dormitorium: Film Decors by the Quay Brothers from Jan 25–Feb 5. In Portuguese and English. SUBTITLED. more at zeitgeistfilms.com 35MM ‘Scope ove Feb 5•7•9 directed by Louie Psihoyos 2006>COLOR>1 HR 25 MINS> GERMANY/UK/FRANCE P irate Radio Feb 19•20•24•27 directed by Richard Curtis with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branaugh 2009>COLOR>1 HR 32 MINS>USA INSPIRED BY TRUE events, Pirate Radio is the rollicking story of a band of outlaw DJs who set up a radio station aboard an old tanker anchored in the North Sea during the mid-sixties. With a great soundtrack taking center stage (The Who, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, the Troggs, Beach Boys, and many others are represented), “Pirate Radio does what it sets out to do. It rocks.” (Miami Herald) more at ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL E arth Feb 20•27 [$3 adults/$2 kids 12 & under] directed by Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield EARTH, THE FIRST film in the Disney nature series, follows three animal families on their remarkable journeys across the great blue planet, doing what they need to do to survive. Up in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs make an appearance and look for food in the barren snows. In Africa’s considerably warmer Kalahari Desert, elephants fight off drought as they head for the promised lushness of the Okavango Delta. And, under the sea, a humpback whale and her calf navigate the 4,000-mile migration that is the longest of any for a marine mammal. Featuring “eye-popping, state-of-the-art nature photography” (LA Times), Earth is a knock-out! Recommended for ages 6 and up. more at disney.go.com/disneynature 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 35 MINS>UK/USA/GERMANY CITIES: INSIDE OUT The G arden Feb 10•13 directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy with Danny Glover, Darryl Hannah WHEN THE LARGEST community garden in the United States—in the middle of South Central LA—is threatened, the low-income Latinos who farm there band together to fight corrupt politicians, greedy developers, and racism to save their oasis. “This intricate and compelling documentary paints a saddening portrait of American politics.” (NY Times) Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. more at thegardenmovie.com 35MM filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/pirate_radio 35MM ‘SCOPE A 2009>COLOR>1 HR 56 MINS>UK/GERMANY/USA/FRANCE S erious Man Feb 3•5•6•10 directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen with Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind L ARRY GOPNIK IS a physics professor at a suburban midwestern college in 1967. “He’s on the tenure track; his son, Danny, is about to be bar mitzvahed; the world is in order and Larry is content. Enter the Coens, with banana peel.” What follows is a string of misfortunes out of the Book of Job, and “it’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than No Country for Old Men. Some have already labeled the film despicable. I think it’s Jewish Bergman and one of their very best movies—a pitch-black Old Testament farce in which God is either absent, absent-minded, or mad as hell. It’s a film to haunt you for a long time to come.” (Boston Globe) more at filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/a_serious_man 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 45 MINS>USA G directed by Jeff Stilson with Chris Rock, RavenSymone, and Ice-T S how People Feb 6 $45 general; $25 students (pairs $80/$40) THIS DOCUMENTARY, PRODUCED and narrated by comedian Chris Rock, delves into the multi-billion dollar industry behind hair care for black women. “Good hair” refers to a number of things: straightened, relaxed, weaved, or otherwise treated in accordance with the belief that the straighter, the better. “Spirited, probing and frequently hilarious, [Good Hair] coasts on the fearless charm of its front man and the eye-opening candor of its interviewees....” (NY Times) more at goodhairmovie.net 35MM COSPONSORED WITH THE CU WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER. 2009>COLOR>1 HR 36 MINS>USA I The nformant! Jan 24•25•26 directed by Steven Soderbergh with Matt Damon, Scott Bakula MATT DAMON PLAYS the feckless Mark Whitacre, an Archer Daniels Midland VP who volunteers to help the FBI expose a price-fixing scheme in the early 1990s. Whitacre’s motives are unclear, and then appear downright delusional once the FBI agents involved with him become less and less confident in the man’s ability to keep everything undercover. A human comedy-of-errors, based on true events. (Whitacre received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1983 in Nutritional Biochemistry!) more at theinformantmovie.warnerbros.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 48 MINS>USA live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli NO COMPS, PASSES OR DISCOUNT CARDS directed by King Vidor with Marion Davies, William Haines, Charlie Chaplin 2009>COLOR>1 HR 51 MINS>USA ART DOCUMENTARIES OSCAR DOCS: AND THE NOMINEES ARE… V alentino: The Last Emperor Feb 20•21 VALENTINO : THE L AST Emperor goes behind the catwalks and editorials to take the viewer into the unique world of one of the most famous and luminary fashion designers in history, Valentino Garavani. The film follows Valentino in the last days of his career as the head of one of the most celebrated fashion houses in the world, and gives the viewer an inside look at the relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. In English, Italian and French. SUBTITLED. more at valentinomovie.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 36 MINS>USA ART DOCUMENTARIES ITHACA PREMIERE V isual Acoustics Feb 20•21•23 directed by Eric Bricker narrated by Dustin Hoffman V ISUAL A COUSTICS CELEBRATES the life and career of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who expertly captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. “A really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality.” (Hollywood Reporter) more at juliusshulmanfilm.com VIDEO PROJECTION 2009>COLOR>1 HR 23 MINS>USA ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL W here the Wild Things Are Feb 12*•13•14•19•20 $3 adults/$2 kids 12 & under on Feb 13 *Grads pay just $2 on Feb 12, courtesy of the Big Red Barn Professional & Graduate Student Assoc directed by Spike Jonze with Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener THE CHILDREN ’ S CLAS SIC is writ large on the big screen by two big talents: director Spike Jonze ( Being John Malkovich) and writer Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). With Max Records as the King of All Wild Things and the wild things themselves voiced by James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forrest Whitaker, Paul Dano, and Chris Cooper, among others. Strange and psychologically loaded as the book, Jonze and Eggers’ film fleshes out the story behind Max’s meltdown and gives real pathos to the monsters he encounters. “As wish-fulfillments go, this is a movie lover’s dream.” (Wall Street Journal) Recommended for ages 8 and up. more at wherethewildthingsare. warnerbros.com 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>1 HR 41 MINS>USA W hip It Jan 24*•25•29•30 *$2 new students with ID Jan 24 directed by Drew Barrymore with Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Drew Barrymore AN ELEGANT WINTER PARTY 2008>COLOR>1 HR 20 MINS>USA ood Hair Feb 4•5•7 P iano Turner of Earthquakes Jan 28•30 directed by Quay Brothers with Amira Casar, Gottfried John OSCAR DOCS: AND THE NOMINEES ARE… THIS IS IT takes the viewer behind the scenes as the late King of Pop Michael Jackson developed, created, and rehearsed for his would-be concerts in London’s O2 Arena, before his untimely death. “What this strange yet strangely beguiling film does is capture one of pop culture’s great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity.” (Hollywood Reporter) more at thisisit-movie.com 35MM directed by Matt Tyrnauer with Valentino Garavani, Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford 1974>COLOR>1 HR 30 MINS>UK The T his Is It Jan 29•30•31 directed by Kenny Ortega with Michael Jackson onty Python and the Holy Grail Feb 13•15•16 C THE COASTAL J APANESE village of Taiji, where most of the world’s aquarium dolphins are trapped, harbors a dark secret – and a team of divers, activists and special effects experts are determined to expose it. “At once an astonishing feat of advocacy filmmaking and a white knuckle eco-thriller; think Michael Moore meets Michael Mann.” (Film Threat) Winner of multiple festival Audience Awards, the film was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and is shortlisted for Best Feature Documentary Oscar. more at takepart.com/thecove 35MM 1988>COLOR>1 HR 16 MINS>GHANA/UK HITS FROM THE ‘70S oco Before Chanel Feb 11•13•14 The en Who Stare at Goats Feb 12•13•15•17 more at themenwhostareatgoatsmovie.com 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>1 HR 21 MINS>USA B EFORE COCO CHANEL was synonymous with high fashion and expensive perfume, she was an orphan girl named Gabrielle, a café chanteuse who became a wealthy man’s mistress to sidestep outright prostitution. “This refreshing alternative to the usual potted biopic provides an absorbing look at a singular, steely determination as it was forged and annealed, long before it made itself known to the world.” (Washington Post) SUBTITLED more at sonyclassics.com/cocobe- M A SECRET MILITARY unit is determined to become “warrior monks” who can walk through walls, read enemy minds, and kill goats just by looking at them. Incredibly, this is based on true events. “A refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy.” (Baltimore Sun) directed by Chris Miller & Phil Lord with Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Neil Patrick Harris (voices) com 35MM ‘SCOPE H ISTORIC ARCHIVAL FOOTAG E , dream sequences and political reflections are interwoven to create a complex experiment that is intensified by the ritualistic music: twenty years after Ghana’s socialist experiment under Kwameh Nkrumah, a former activist returns to her home country as a reporter. She is supposed to do a report on Werner Herzog’s Cobra Verde, part of which was filmed in a former slave fort in Ghana. VIDEO PROJECTION. directed by Grant Heslov with George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey loudy with a Chance of Meatballs Jan 30•31 ( $3 adults A WHIMSICAL TOWN where food falls from the sky like rain suddenly starts experiencing violent pancake storms and pea soup fogs that threaten its very existence in this fun film based on the popular children’s book. A resident inventor may just have the solution to save his beloved town and its residents. “Any moviegoers possessed of funny bones will laugh their fool heads off.” (Washington Post) Recommended for ages 6 and up. more at cloudywithachanceofmeatballs. directed by John Akomfrah SUBTITLED 35MM 1973>COLOR>2 HRS 5 MINS>FRANCE/BRITAIN The T with filmmaker John Akomfrah directed by Bernardo Bertolucci with Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider CITIES: INSIDE OUT AFRICANA@40 estament Feb 19 [free] Feb 8•9 (see reverse for feb 21–mar 19) more info at cinema.cornell.edu FOR PARTY DETAILS, SEE BOX ABOVE LEFT C ONSIDERED SILENT FILM star Marion Davies’s best performance, Show People is a comedic satire of the early days of film, featuring cameos by many of the greats of the day, including Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. This entertaining look inside 1920s Hollywood reflects on the actual acting career of starlet Davies, whose real-life lover was newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Lucille Ball frequently cited Davies as a major comedic influence and all of Ball’s facial techniques and comic behaviors are startlingly apparent in Davies’ performance. 35MM 1928>B&W>1 HR 19 MINS>USA THE BROTHERS QUAY T ales from The Brothers Quay Jan 26•28 D REW BARRYMORE DIRECTS this “unreasonably entertaining movie” (Roger Ebert) about a rebellious Texas teen (Ellen Page) who trades in her beauty pageant crown for the raucous and rambunctious world of roller derby. “Clicks on so many levels—heartwarming family story, rough-and-tumble display of grrrl power and a secondary but tender and convincing romance.” (Hollywood Reporter) more at foxsearchlight. com/whipit 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>1 HR 51 MINS>USA HITS FROM THE ‘70S Y oung Frankenstein Feb 1•2 directed by Mel Brooks with Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman MEL BROOKS’ HILARIOUS parody of the original Frankenstein movies. 35MM 1975>B&W>1 HR 45 MINS>USA Z ombieland Jan 27•29•30 Feb 5•6 directed by Ruben Fleischer with Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin directed by The Brothers Quay SETS FROM THESE six shorts are on display in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome as part of the touring exhibition Dormitorium: Film Decors by the Quay Brothers (Jan 25–Feb 5.) These American-born, London-based twin brothers who possess “imaginations so wild you will forget everything you have come to expect from animated films” (Village Voice), are perhaps best known for their surreal shorts. Films: Street of Crocodiles (1986); Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984); The Epic of Gilgamesh (1985); Stille Nacht I (1988); and The Comb (1991). Most in recently struck new prints! 35MM/16MM A N UNLIKELY DUO of survivors (Harrelson and Eisenberg) and their pals take down as many zombies as they possibly can in every way imaginable in this gory, “wicked fun” zombie romp. “The four protagonists aren’t about to let something as minor as the complete breakdown of society get in the way of having a good time, and their fun proves infectious.” (Onion AV Club) more at zombieland. 1985-1991>COLOR/B&W>1 HR 22 MINS>UK 2009>COLOR>1 HR 20 MINS>USA com 35MM ‘SCOPE WSH=W ILLARD S TRAIGHT THEATRE • URIS= URIS H ALL A UDITORIUM • SCPA=S CHWARTZ C ENTER FOR P ERFORMING A RTS F ILM F ORUM • A DMISSION : ( UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED ): $6.50 Films Feb 21–Mar 19 (see reverse for Jan 24—Feb 20) SUN MON TUES feb 21 feb 22 feb 23 Visual Acoustics Visual Acoustics A Clockwork Orange 24 City WSH 7:15 [$4] WSH 4:30 WSH A Clockwork Orange feb 28 Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Dr. No WSH mar 2 The Ukrainian Time Machine WSH La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet [$4] WSH Oscar Nominated 4:00 Shorts: Live Action! Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation! WSH WSH $9.99 [$4] WSH 11:00am Fantastic Mr. Fox Taxi Driver WSH 35 Shots of Rum WSH [$4] WSH 11:00am The Wild Girl Small Change W/LIVE MUSIC [$4] WSH 2:00 Precious WSH WSH WSH 4:30 WSH 9:20 7:00 $9.99 mar 3 7:00 WSH Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation! WSH Fantastic Mr. Fox 35 Shots of Rum The Sun 9:30 WSH WSH WSH SAT [$3 ADULTS/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] WSH URIS 7:00 35 Shots of Rum [$4] WSH 5:00 9:30 Fantastic Mr. Fox The Sun 10:00 WSH 9:15 mar 16 WSH 9:15 9:30 WSH mar 17 The Greening of Southie WSH WSH 5 9:00 Disgrace [GRADS $2] URIS 7:15 9:25 mar 19 Disgrace 7:00 WSH 9:25 WSH WSH Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid WSH 7:00 Pirate Radio The Road 7:00 9:30 URIS WSH 9:45 10:00 URIS mar 6 7:15 URIS Red Cliff URIS 7:15 9:45 mar 13 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid URIS The Road URIS 7:15 9:30 MOVIE DEAL c o r n e l l CORNELL cinema will DISCOUNTCINEMA’S CARD not screen films during spring break (mar 20–27) JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ITHACA PREMIERE $ 9 .99 Mar 7•9•11 directed by Tatia Rosenthal with the voices of Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush BASED ON THE short stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret, this beautifully crafted claymation feature ponders the meaning of life through the lives of a dozen people living in a Sydney apartment complex. “[Israeli animator] Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that’s enchanted, enchanting, and meaningful, too.” (Entertainment Weekly) Not for kids! more at 9dollars99movie.com 35MM 2008>COLOR>1 HR 18 MINS>ISRAEL/AUSTRALIA Taxi Driver 9:30 mar 12 Cyclonic Fantastic Mr. Fox 7:00 W/LIVE MUSIC & DANCE 9:15 mar 18 7:00 Precious WSH 2:00 WSH Red Cliff 7:00 URIS [$3 ADULTS/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] Fantastic Mr. Fox WSH 2:00 7:15 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action! [$4] WSH 5:00 Red Cliff URIS 9:45 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet WSH 7:45 URIS URIS mar 10 mar 11 Precious $9.99 The End of Poverty? WSH 7:15 WSH 7:00 7:15 Disgrace Butch Cassidy and The Road the Sundance Kid feb 27 Red Cliff mar 5 Fantastic Mr. Fox 7:15 for feb 21–mar 19 MORE INFO: 255-3522 HTTP://CINEMA.CORNELL.EDU feb 26 Earth 7:00 24 City 10:00 WSH mar 9 WSH M WSH alphabetical film listing / $5 S ENIORS / $4 S TUDENTS & K IDS 12 + U NDER WSH 7:00 Lemon TreeWSH 7:00 The Road Small Change 9:15 Cities: Inside Out 7:00 WSH FRI The Paris Opera Ballet 10:00 mar 4 The Sun 7:15 Red Cliff WSH 9:15 9:30 Taxi Driver WSH 9:15 7:15 W/GUESTS WSH 7:00 7:00 Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg mar 15 Temple Grandin Pirate Radio Oscar Nominated 9:15 WSH 9:30 Shorts: Animation! W/FILMMAKER 35 Shots of Rum [$4] SCPA 7:15 WSH mar 8 Lemon Tree mar 14 Precious 7:00 WSH THUR feb 25 La Danse: WSH Dr. No [$4] WSH 4:30 [$4] WSH 9:45 7:15 mar 7 Disgrace WSH mar 1 11:00am [$4] feb 24 7:00 Valentino: The Last Emperor Bad Lieutenant: WSH 7:15 Port of Call New Orleans WSH WED GENERAL ✭ 10 admissions ✭ valid for 1 year MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA CITIES: INSIDE OUT•ITHACA PREMIERE 24 City Feb 24•26 directed by Zhang Ke Jia with Joan Chen, Lv Liping, Zhao Tao 24 C ITY CHRONICLES the conversion of an aircraft parts plant into a mixed-use high-rise development that will cover 3.3 million square feet and house 60,000 people, weaving together stories of three generations of factory workers in an experimental fiction-nonfiction hybrid. The film takes place in Chengdu City in Sichuan Province, and portrays “a culture on the verge of erasure with the advent of redevelopment and gentrification…reflecting the idea of a city built from the rubble of abandoned, forgotten histories” (Strictly Film School), as China transitions from planned to market economy. In Mandarin and Shanghainese. SUBTITLED more at cinemaguild. com/24city 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 52 MINS>CHINA/HONG KONG/JAPAN MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA CITIES: INSIDE OUT ITHACA PREMIERE 35 Shots of Rum Mar 3•5•6•8 directed by Claire Denis with Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Gregoire Colin ✭ Students: $35 ✭ Seniors: $40 ✭ General: $50 Masters of World Cinema — New Work CLAIRE DENIS, ONE of France’s most gifted filmmakers, offers one of her finest films yet with 35 Shots of Rum, based loosely on her mother’s relationship with her grandfather and an homage to Ozu’s Late Spring (1949). Starring the wonderful Alex Descas as a long-widowed African immigrant who works as a train conductor, and Mati Diop as his daughter, a college student, the two live in a suburb of Paris where their easy relationship is on the brink of change, as Diop’s character is wooed by a handsome neighbor (Colin). One of the best reviewed films of 2009. (see reverse for jan 24–feb 20) JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA ART DOCUMENTARIES ITHACA PREMIERE La more info at cinema.cornell.edu D anse: The Paris Opera Ballet Feb 26•27•28 directed by Frederick Wiseman CALL IT BALLET immersion. In documentary auteur Wiseman’s latest (and second film about this subject) we are dropped into the center of Palais Garnier, the neo-Baroque opera house where the legendary Paris Opera Ballet company rehearses and performs. Very little exists in the way of traditional documentaries—“traditional” not being Wiseman’s style—so a viewer not well-versed in ballet terms or business matters should sit back, relax, and take pleasure in this privileged peek into the inner-workings of an artistic behemoth. “A superb portrait of the perennial pas de deux between art and commerce.” (eyeweekly.com) L emon Tree Mar 14•16 directed by Eran Riklis with Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory A PALESTINIAN WIDOW’S livelihood is threatened when her lemon grove is marked for destruction by her Israeli government minister neighbor. The grove, situated along the Green Line, serves as a metaphorical divide between two cultures, a delineation between powerful and powerless, and a tangible reminder of the countless battles fought by people in the region. As Salma takes a stand against the Israeli government with the help of a handsome young lawyer and begets sympathy from her neighbor’s cultured yet browbeaten wife, there is a distinct uproar of support among the news media that threatens to embarrass her opponent. Winner of the Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Lemon Tree is “a wrenching, richly layered feminist allegory as well as a geopolitical one.” (NY Times) In Arabic, Hebrew, French and English. SUBTITLED more at lemontreemovie.com 35MM 2008>COLOR>1 HR 46 MINS>ISRAEL/GERMANY/FRANCE O scar Nominated Shorts Animation! Feb 25•26•28 Live Action! Feb 27 Mar 1 SUBTITLED more at zipporah.com/films/37 VIDEO PROJECTION 2009>COLOR>2 HRS 39 MINS>FRANCE/USA FROM PAGE TO SCREEN ITHACA PREMIERE D directed by various isgrace Mar 12•14•18•19 AS WE GO to press the Oscar nominations for best animated and live action shorts have not been decided, but we have no doubt these will be terrific programs. Nominations will be announced on February 2, so we’ll get the info up on our website soon after. See all the nominees before the winner is declared at the Academy Awards Ceremony on March 7! VIDEO PROJECTION directed by Steve Jacobs with John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney B A S E D ON TH E Booker Prize winning novel by J.M Coetzee, Disgrace takes us into the heart of the ethical complexities of post-apartheid South Africa, as a disgraced university professor—played convincingly by Malkovich—is forced to confront irrevocable changes in his country. “The austere economy of Coetzee’s writing, crisply adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli, plays out the melodrama with quietly brooding menace.” (Village Voice) In English, Xhosa, Afrikaans and Zulu. SUBTITLED 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>2 HRS>AUSTRALIA/SOUTH AFRICA HITS FROM THE ‘70S D r. No Mar 1•2 directed by Terence Young with Sean Connery, Ursula Andress BOND : SEAN CONNERY. Villain: Joseph Wiseman, in the title role, as an outrageous precursor of Darth Vader. Bond Girl: Ursula Andress, emerging from the surf in a killer bikini. Best line: “World domination—the same old dream.” 35MM RUNNING TIMES: TBA P irate Radio Feb 19•20•24•27 directed by Richard Curtis with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branaugh INSPIRED BY TRUE events, Pirate Radio is the rollicking story of a band of outlaw DJs who set up a radio station aboard an old tanker anchored in the North Sea during the mid-sixties. With a great soundtrack taking center stage (The Who, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, the Troggs, Beach Boys, and many others are represented), “Pirate Radio does what it sets out to do. It rocks.” (Miami Herald) more at filminfocus. com/focusfeatures/film/pirate_radio 35MM ‘SCOPE 2009>COLOR>1 HR 56 MINS>UK/GERMANY/USA/FRANCE FROM PAGE TO SCREEN P recious Mar 12•14•15•18 ost films that 1962>COLOR>1 HR 51 MINS>UK SUBTITLED more at cinemaguild.com/35shots 35MM directed by Lee Daniels claim to be 2009>COLOR>1 HR 40 MINS>FRANCE/GERMANY ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL with Gabourey Sidibe, about cities, in arth ad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, ornell Cinema’s Early Spring 2010 Flicksheet boasts five Ithaca premieres of recent work by five of the world’s truth, are not. Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz Feb 20•27 most renowned filmmakers, and each one is among the makers’ best films. Agnès Varda has been making Feb 18•20•22 There are many films THE FILM STARS newcomer features and documentaries, both with a distinct experimental style, since the 1950s, and her latest, The directed by Werner Herzog [$3 adults/$2 kids] that feature cities in a Gabourey Sidibe as the titular with Nicholas Cage, Eva Beaches of Agnes (2009), is a thoroughly enjoyable self-referential work, which recently won France’s directed by Alastair glamorous, but passive, Claireece “Precious” Jones, an obese, illiterate, pregnant, 16-year-old Mendes, Val Kilmer Cesar Award for best documentary film. Fothergill & Mark Linfield way. At best, one learns African American girl living with her abusive mother. Things begin to I N W ERNER H ERZOG ’ S EARTH, THE FIRST film in the Disney nature series, follows three animal Frederick Wiseman, a contemporary of Varda’s, has produced a tremendous body of documentaries since the 1960s, from these films how turn around when Precious meets a lovely teacher, Miss Rain, and when pulpy thriller, ver y families on their remarkable journeys across the great blue planet, doing films offering intimate depictions of social institutions. His latest, La Danse (2009), reveals the inner workings of cities look, but gain little Social Services finally become involved. “Precious avoids the traps of loosely based on Abel what they need to do to survive. Up in the Arctic, a mother polar bear the Paris Opera Ballet, from discussions about health care coverage for the dancers to observations of dancers and insight into how they well-meaning, preachy lower-depths realism. It howls and stammers, Ferrara’s 1992 shocker and her two cubs make an appearance and look for food in the barren choreographers breaking down complex movements into their constituent gestures. are or how they work. but it also sings.” (NY Times) more at weareallprecious.com 35MM Bad Lieutenant, snows. In Africa’s considerably warmer Kalahari Desert, elephants fight MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA But there is value in the THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE Aleksandr Sokurov is a generation younger, and has been hailed as the successor THE BEACHES OF AGNES COSPONSORED WITH THE CU WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER. Nicholas Cage gives a off drought as they head for the promised lushness of the Okavango THE BEACHES OF AGNES (AGNES VARDA) to the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, making poetic films exploring 2009>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>USA depiction of a city as a bravado performance Feb 11, 12 & 16 Delta. And, under the sea, a humpback whale and her calf navigate the dynamic unit, a character every bit as vital and rich as an individual actor. And the medium of cinema 24 CITY (ZHANG-KE JIA) a variety of themes, many specifically Russian in nature, since the 1980s. The Sun (2005)—just now making its way to American screens—is the third in Mr. ed Cliff as a drug-addicted cop whose grasp of reality and his own humanity 4,000-mile migration that is the longest of any for a marine mammal. is uniquely suited to depict with visceral clarity the city’s complexity, taking into account political, Sokurov’s trilogy about 20th-century dictators, which began with Moloch (1999), about Hitler, and continued with Taurus (2001), about the dying Lenin. The Feb 24 & 26 begins to fracture. “[The film’s] maniacal unpredictability is such a blast Feb 26•27 Mar 3•5•6 Featuring “eye-popping, state-of-the-art nature photography” (LA economic and cultural dimensions. Sun is a fascinating act of historical imagination, depicting Hirohito’s last days as Emperor. L A DANSE (FREDERICK WISEMAN) that it reminds you just how tidy and dull most crime thrillers are these directed by John Woo Times), Earth is a knock-out! Recommended for ages 6 and up. more Feb 26 - 28 days.” (NY Times) more at badlt.com 35MM In this calendar, Cornell Cinema and the Department of City and Regional Planning present a series French filmmaker Claire Denis, a contemporary of Sokurov, was raised in colonial Africa, and this upbringing has had a profound effect on her filmmaking. Her with Tony Leung, Takeshi at disney.go.com/disneynature 35MM 35 SHOTS OF RUM (CLAIRE DENIS) 2009>COLOR>2 HRS 1 MIN>USA that explores cities as full characters in the drama. We begin with Roman Polanski’s classic Chinatown debut feature film Chocolat (1988), was a semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism and her recent 35 Shots of Rum (2008), portrays an Kaneshiro, Chang Chen March 3, 5, 6 & 8 2009>COLOR>1 HR 35 MINS>UK/USA/GERMANY th HITS FROM THE ‘70S•NEW PRINT! (1974), which explores the central urban planning dilemma, water, of Los Angeles’s early 20 century THE SUN (A LEKSANDR SOKUROV) JOHN WOO’S IMMENSE and inAfrican immigrant and his daughter living in Paris, reflecting the new face of Europe. CITIES: INSIDE OUT March 4 – 6 growth. A sordid subplot tries to steal the show, but the city never fades as a presence. L.A. is a formidable tense tale of a Han dynasty utch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Finally, there is the youngest of the bunch, Chinese filmmaker, Jia Zhangke, born in 1970, who is regarded as a leading figure of the “Sixth Generation” movement ITHACA PREMIERE general determined to take down two warlords that stand in the way adversary years later in The Garden (2008), the Oscar-nominated documentary about a group of in Chinese cinema. 24 City is a fascinating hybrid of both fiction and non-fiction, which weaves together the stories of three generations of factory workers into an oral history of post-revolutionary Mar 11•13•19 The nd of of expanding the Empire. The warlords band together to defeat the Latinos fighting City Hall and the deep pockets of a developer to save the biggest community garden in China and a bracing meditation on the massive physical and psychological changes transforming the country. directed by George Poverty? general, and change the fate of China forever. “Anyone who enjoys the nation, incongruously located in the South Central neighborhood. Roy Hill stylized hyper-violence should be enthralled by this long, sweeping, Mar 10 husband Jacques Demy made, the film itself is a reminder with Paul Newman, CITIES: INSIDE OUT Two depictions of cities in economic and social flux come from opmurderously vivid dramatization of ancient Chinese warfare, circa Robert Redford has become a tradition for us to host a Sunday morning Jewish directed by we go to press, we of all that Agnes Varda has contributed to cinema over her posite sides of the world. In 24 City (2009), an aircraft parts plant CHINATOWN Philippe Diaz A.D. 208.” (SF Chronicle) In Mandarin. SUBTITLED more at redclifffilm. S TARRING THE HE ARTFilm Festival in March, and this year you can join us at 11am Feb 3 know the f if teen long career, including both documentaries and features, as is converted into a high-rise development in Sichuan Province, and with John com 35MM ‘SCOPE THROBS of the day, Newman and Redford, as two affable bandits, and for three great films with Jewish themes (with additional evening THE GARDEN well as a voice and presence like no other. You’ll leave the films that have been shortthe process highlights the social disparity running rampant in China Christensen, Feb 10 & 13 2009>COLOR>2 HRS 28 MINS>CHINA Katharine Ross as their gorgeous moll, Butch Cassidy is a playtheatre after watching The Cove and want to write a letter to screenings for late risers). As added enticement, complimentary listed to be one of the five as the nation retools from a planned to a market-based economy. William Easterly, Amartya Sen CITY OF GOD ful—even hilarious—Western that borrows from both Peckinpah’s FROM PAGE TO SCREEN nominees for Best Documen- the Japanese embassy; you’ll leave the theatre after watching bagels & coffee are offered at the morning screenings. This year we Feb 17 & 19 Similarly, in The Greening of Southie (2008) the first entirely DIRECTOR DIAZ TRAVELS to the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns The Wild Bunch and Truffaut’s Jules and Jim. Dedicated to our feature the delightful Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, by the maker of The oad 24 CITY tary Feature of 2009. We’d Beaches, and want to write a love letter to Agnes! “green” residential building is constructed in the working-class neighof Kenya to give voice to the human cost of global capitalism in his own dynamic duo: Tyler and Dan. Thanks you guys: you’re the best! Feb 24 & 26 love to be able to screen all We’re not sure what you’ll want to do after seeing Valen- The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, telling the humorous Mar 10•12•13•17 borhood of South Boston, by union workers who will never be able devastating, radical critique of the colonialist enterprise as inextricable 35MM ‘SCOPE 35 SHOTS OF RUM and eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. Berg was fifteen titles for your conto afford living there. tino: The Last Emperor, but we do agree with the LA from the current global economic model. Diaz proposes a historidirected by John Hillcoat March 3, 5, 6 & 8 1969>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>USA with Viggo Mortensen, Kodi sideration (actually, we’ve Times that it’s an “unexpectedly involving documentary.” the creator, principal writer, and star of “The Goldbergs,” a popular cal-analytical framework that posits a direct link between the legacy THE END OF POVERTY? In Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum (2009), which intimately radio show for 17 years, which became television’s very first character- HITS FROM THE ‘70S Smit-McPhee, Charlize March 10 already shown Food Inc.), of colonization and the current unequal distribution of wealth that Made by Vanity Fair writer and editor Matt Tyrnauer, the depicts a mixed-race middle-class suburb of Paris, the college student Theron, Robert Duvall A lockwork Orange THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE daughter of an African immigrant and metro train conductor debates but instead we’re offering film follows the lives and careers of the Italian design guru driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Next up is $9.99, a stop motion leaves much of the world’s population in a stunning state of poverty. March 17 THE SCREEN ADAPTATION of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakly haunting novel puppet animation film, based on the surreal short stories of Etgar Feb 22•23 C OSPONSORED WITH THE C OALITION FOR P AN -A FRICAN S CHOLARS . SUBTITLED more at three of the fifteen, three we and his business partner Giancarlo Giammetti. Valentino colonialism in her classes, railing against the ways “the global South” about a father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic America Keret, one of the leading voices in Israeli contemporary literature. theendofpoverty.com 35MM think are top contenders for directed by Stanley Kubrick made the short-list whereas the more financially successful is perpetually indebted to the industrialized world. These ideas are fleshed out in The End of is “compellingly enervating and a marvel in the filmmaking process.” We end with Lemon Tree, which is based on a true story about life with Malcolm McDowell 2008>COLOR>1 HR 46 MINS>USA the five nominee slots. fashion doc, The September Issue, considered a realPoverty? (2009), a documentary that posits a direct link between the legacy of colonialism THE COVE (Film Threat) more at theroad-movie.com 35MM ‘SCOPE around the Green Line. Starring Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, A DAPTED FROM ANTHONY ITHAKID FILM FESTIVAL life Devil Wears Prada, did not. Fashion critics, at least, First up is The Cove, which and the current unequal distribution of wealth that leaves much of the world’s population in a 2009>COLOR>1 HR 59 MINS>USA who won the Best Actress Award from the Israeli Film Academy for Burgess’s 1962 novel, Stanley Kubrick’s classic is set in a vaguely antastic Mr. Fox stunning state of poverty. To make its case, the film travels to the shantytowns of Kenya and the was recently awarded the top prize by the National Board of Review and say Tyrnauer has earned one of the five nominee spots, due her portrayal of a widow whose livelihood is HITS FROM THE ‘70S socialist future and depicts a dreary, Orwellian England overcome by slums of Brazil to give voice to the human cost of global capitalism. Another film in the series tied with another one of our selections, The Beaches of Agnes, for the to having shadowed one of the notoriously most difficult threatened when her lemon grove is marked JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Mar 4•5•6•7•12* NEW PRINT! roving gangs of teenage thugs. Gang-leader Alex, after assorted crimes, people to work with in the industry (he documented a full YOO HOO, MRS GOLDBERG goes there as well: City of God (2002), one of the city’s darkest characterizations, set in Rio award from the LA Film Critics. Winner of the Audience Award at last year’s mall Change [$3 adults/ for destruction by her Israeli government Feb 28 & March 2 is finally apprehended and quite forcibly, most inhumanely set on the Sundance Film Festival, Roger Ebert declared it a certain Oscar nominee. two years of the designer’s life). More than that, though, de Janeiro’s favelas. minister neighbor. painfully straight and narrow. 35MM $9.99 Mar 15•16 $2 kids on Mar 6] the work paid off, in what we think will land him one of Variety wrote “Eco-activist documentaries don’t get much more compelling Join us for this eclectic group of films that reveal the city from the inside out. 1971>COLOR>2 HRS 17 MINS>BRITAIN The Festival is cosponsored with March 7, 9 & 11 directed by Francois *Grads pay just $2 on Mar than The Cove, an impassioned piece of advocacy filmmaking that follows the coveted slots. L EMON T REE Temple Beth El, Tikkun v’Or, Cornell March 14 & 16 Truffaut yclonic: The Dance 12, courtesy of the Big PRECIOUS ‘Flipper’ trainer-turned-marine crusader Richard O’Barry in his OSCAR DOCS Hillel Jewish Student Union and the with Georgy Desmouceaux Red Barn Professional & & Life of Eva Tanguay efforts to end dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan.” Featuring amaz- AND THE NOMINEES ARE… Program of Jewish Studies. TRUFFAUT, A MASTER of Graduate Student Assoc ing cinematography and a great score in a film that plays more like THE COVE Mar 13 directed by Wes Anderson the French New Wave, a thriller than anything else, we have to agree with Roger. Feb 5, 7 & 9 with the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman scored his greatest European success since The 400 Blows with this ★ All screenings open to the public with live music by INDIE DIRECTOR WES Anderson (The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling The Beaches of Agnes, made by the grand dame of the THE BEACHES OF AGNES film. He constructed an intricate and graceful mosaic around the lives Mary Brett Lorson ★ Theatre locations: WSH Willard Straight Theatre; URIS URIS Hall Auditorium; SCPA Schwartz Feb 11, 12 & 16 Reading a good book is a marvelously visual process in its Limited) turns his inimitable style to Roald Dahl’s classic children’s French New Wave, Agnes Varda, now in her 80s, was the most of several children in the town of Thiers, France, and although the story Center for Performing Arts Film Forum VALENTINO : THE and the Soubrettes own, unique, way—the scenes occur in our mind’s eye, as novel, and the stop-motion results are, truly, fantastic. “An adventure well reviewed documentary of the year according to metacritic. L AST EMPEROR abounds with charm and vitality, the film also ranks with Truffaut’s ★ Box office opens 20 mins. before and closes 30 mins. after showtimes T HIS MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION vivid as any Technicolor concoction on a movie screen. The in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.” (Rolling com, and the distinction is well-deserved. A beautiful, playful Feb 18 & 21 deeper and more ambitious films, demonstrating a vision of childhood is the brainchild of local mulure of adapting those images to an actual screen is too great ★ Ticket Prices: $6.50 general / $5.00 senior citizens / $4.00 students & kids 12 and under; matinees Stone)Recommended for ages 7 and up. more at fantasticmrfoxmovie. and insightful look back at her life and the movies she and her that is profound and wise, realistic and entertaining. SUBTITLED 35MM sician Mary Lorson, whose for most screenwriters and directors, and countless novels are $4 com 35MM 1976>COLOR>1 HR 44 MINS>FRANCE F L I C K S H E E T grandmother was the costumer have undergone the transformation, to wildly varied results. 2009>COLOR>1 HR 27 MINS>USA/UK ★ Special ticket prices may apply to some shows MASTERS OF WORLD CINEMA for legendary vaudevillian Eva T A F F PG =parking garage In this calendar, we present three of the latest successes, each S CITIES: INSIDE OUT east ave. ITHACA PREMIERE PLEASE NOTE ALL PARKING SIGNS! ★ Group rates available: call 255-3522 at least 1 day in advance Tanguay, who Lorson describes =parking lot, staying true to its source material and fleshing it out with ITHACA PREMIERE tower rd. GRAPHIC DESIGNER ROSS HAARSTAD P open after 5pm west ave. The un ★ Advance ticket sales available at the WSH Ticket Desk (open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri ); mcgraw as “contradiction personified. day hall stellar performances, a strong director’s vision, and a tight reening of The tower *behind wsh E D I T O R M A R Y F E S S E N D E N Mar 4•5•6 Cornell Card and credit cards accepted Tough but puny, maternal but screenplay. Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by *behind anabel taylor willard straight Southie � uris hall garden ave. ★ Cornell Card can also be used to purchase tickets and discount cards at the WSH box office during unmarriageable, smart but undirected by Aleksandr Sokurov Sapphire wears its pedigree in its title, the heart wrench- MANAGING EDITOR CHRISTOPHER RILEY *along south ave. ho delta upsilon via south ave. with Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi educated, appealing but bizarre,” with a style of dancing like no other. P � plaza Mar 17 evening hours ing and controversial 1996 novel about Clareece “Precious” W R I T E R S C H R I S T I N A F I N G E R *near *near edgemoor lane via south ave. sage hall IN AUGUST 1945, with Tokyo under siege Tanguay starred in two silent films: Energetic Eva! (1916) and The directed by Ian Cheney gannett Jones, an obese and abused black teenager pregnant with barton ★ Discount Cards (10 admissions, valid for 1 year)—$35 for students / $40 for senior citizens S I N E A D LY K I N S , A S I A by American forces, Emperor Hirohito campus rd Wild Girl (1917)–screening March 14–and Mitzi Gaynor portrayed T HE CONSTRUCTION OF delta upsilon FROM PAGE TO SCREEN: her second child at 16. Aus(62+over)/ $50 general—can be purchased at the WSH box office & URIS box offices during evening statler olin hall BONACCI, MOLLY WINDOVER made his first ever address to the Japanese her in the bizarre The I Don’t Care Girl (1953). Lorson has been the first truly “green” tralian director John Hilcoat THREE RECENT ADAPTATIONS hours, from the WSH Ticket Desk & SCPA box office (where Cornell Card and credit cards can be people, who were not as stunned by his south ave. P researching Tanguay’s life and writing songs inspired by it for a full-length P residential building in P hoy rd. adapted Cormac McCarthy’s used) during their regular business hours and online by credit card at cornellcinematickets.com THE ROAD command to cease all fighting as they were to simply hear the voice of anabel taylor central ave. stage play. Tonight’s program displays part of that exploration, including Boston was a luxury condo in South Boston, and this insightful docuP March 10, 12, 13 & 17 stewart ave. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Mary Fessenden — Director / Programmer ★ Rent the Willard Straight Balcony (seats 40) for just $150—call for details their reincarnated sun god. “This engrossing, supremely assured movie” what she calls the “Eva Tanguay dance detective project,” which takes myron taylor mentary tracks its rise as well as its problems, from the unsympathetic edgemoor lane PRECIOUS The Road to screen with Christopher Riley — Managing Director PG (Village Voice) chronicles, in an act of historical imagination taking place March 12, 14, 15 & 18 ★ Both URIS Auditorium & Willard Straight Theatre equipped with Dolby Surround Sound center stage tonight with live music, theatrical readings about Tanguay, snee hall attitudes of the union workers to the failures of environmentallyfree after 5pm powerful visuals of a father Paul Dimmick — Head Projectionist schwartz center primarily in a bunker beneath the imperial palace, the events leading DISGRACE short original dance films that imagine what Eva’s dancing may have been friendly materials. Funny and poignant, this is the story of bold ideas ★ Recorded info on screenings: call 255-3522 after 5pm weekdays; all day weekends walk to wsh < 10 mins! and son trying to survive in for performing arts Christina Finger — Administrative Asst March 12, 14, 18 & 19 up to that monumental speech, including meetings between Hirohito � like, and a clip from The Wild Girl depicting the real Eva dancing, and unlikely environmentalists, and points to the future of how we live. a post-apocalyptic America. ★ To be added to our weekly email reminder list, send request to [email protected] collegetown PG Ross Haarstad — Graphic Designer and General MacArthur, and the historic renunciation of the emperor’s which Lorson will be seeing for the first time. A talk-back with Lorson more at greeningofsouthie.com VIDEO PROJECTION And Disgrace, the Booker Prize-winning novel by J.M or visit our website (http://cinema.cornell.edu) �= screening locations Ian Crovisier — Head House Mgr east bufffalo st. dryden rd. divine status. In English and Japanese. SUBTITLED more at lorberfilms. and the other performers will follow. VIDEO PROJECTION / 35MM 2008>COLOR>1 HR 13 MINS>USA eddy st. N Coetzee, transports us back to post-apartheid South Africa, ★ Foreign language films subtitled in English unless otherwise noted Monica Parrillo — Head Box Officer com/thesun 35MM APPROX RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 30 MINS where a fallen professor, played by John Malkovich, must face 2005>COLOR>1 HR 55 MINS>RUSSIA/ITALY/SWITZERLAND/FRANCE uncomfortable realities. Better than the book? That’s not an cinema phone: Cornell Cinema’s coming attractions A P ROGRAM OF THE D EPARTMENT OF T HEATRE , F ILM AND D ANCE . C OSPONSORED BY THE O FFICE OF THE D EAN OF S TUDENTS . C ORNELL C INEMA RECEIVES MAJOR SUPPORT FROM THE U NDERGRADUATE AND G RADUATE AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDENT A SSEMBLIES AND PUBLIC argument we’ll take up. Great cinema? Absolutely. FUNDS FROM THE N EW Y ORK S TATE C OUNCIL ON THE A RTS . C ORNELL C INEMA ’ S V ISITING F ILMMAKER P ROGRAM IS FUNDED , IN PART , WITH A GRANT FROM THE A CADEMY F OUNDATION , THE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ARM OF THE A CADEMY OF M OTION P ICTURE A RTS AND S CIENCES 607.255.3522 trailer made by Robert Ascher C B E R Jewish Film Festival It Oscar Docs – And the Nominees Are… As B E R C F From Page to Screen: 3 Recent Adaptations G E N E R A L P A R K I N I N F O S C G S T A F F G h t t p : // c i n e m a . c o r n e l l . e d u S HITS FROM THE ‘70S T axi Driver Mar 6•8•9 directed by Martin Scorsese with Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster MARTIN SCORSESE’S CLASSIC vision of the New York underworld follows a taxi driver who goes on a rampage when he blows his chance with a beautiful socialite and fails to save a child prostitute from the streets. 35MM 1976>COLOR>1 HR 53 MINS>USA ITHACA PREMIERE T emple Grandin Feb 25 with Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ‘56 Professor Temple Grandin and Producer Scott Ferguson ’82 directed by Mick Jackson with Claire Danes, Catherine O’Hara, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn CLAIRE DANES STARS in this biopic about Temple Grandin, scientist, innovator, professor of animal science at Colorado State University, renowned animal welfare activist, much-in-demand veteran of the speaking circuit, and arguably the world’s most accomplished and well-known adult with autism. Her experience growing up with severe autistic symptoms allowed her unique insights into the behavior of cows and other animals, leading her to her life’s work of developing more humane methods and facilities for livestock handling. This new biopic from HBO chronicles her life in the 1960s and 1970s, beginning with her high school years and ending after she had established her business, Grandin Livestock Handling Systems. VIDEO PROJECTION 2010>COLOR> 1 HR 48 MINS>USA The U krainian Time Machine Mar 2 with filmmaker Naomi Uman directed by Naomi Uman UMAN HAS BEEN making 16mm films since the late 1990s and is known for her signature handmade aesthetic, often shooting, hand-processing and editing her films with the most rudimentary of practices, films that have been screened in museums and festivals around the world. In 2006 she set off on a reverse journey that her great grandparents made from the Ukraine in 1906, hoping to experience what it is like to be an immigrant. She began life in a small village where people still live as if it were 100 years ago, not knowing the language or anyone there. Tonight we’ll show four short films she’s made as part of what she calls The Ukrainian Time Machine: Clay (12 min), Coda (3 min), Kalendar (10 min) and On This Day (5 min), as well as some of her earlier work. more at canyoncinema.com 16MM COSPONSORED WITH THE CENTRAL NEW YORK PROGRAMMERS GROUP AND PRESENTATION FUNDS FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER. ART DOCUMENTARIES OSCAR DOCS: AND THE NOMINEES ARE… V alentino: The Last Emperor Feb 20•21 directed by Matt Tyrnauer with Valentino Garavani, Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford, Giancarlo Giammetti VALENTINO : THE L AST Emperor goes behind the catwalks and editorials to take the viewer into the unique world of one of the most famous and luminary fashion designers in history, Valentino Garavani. The film follows Valentino in the last days of his career as the head of one of the most celebrated fashion houses in the world, and gives the viewer an inside look at the relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. In English, Italian and French. SUBTITLED more at valentinomovie.com 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 36 MINS>USA ART DOCUMENTARIES ITHACA PREMIERE V isual Acoustics Feb 20•21•23 directed by Eric Bricker narrated by Dustin Hoffman V I SUAL A COUSTIC S CELE BRATES the life and career of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who expertly captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. “A really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality.” (Hollywood Reporter) more at juliusshulmanfilm.com VIDEO PROJECTION 2009>COLOR>1 HR 23 MINS>USA The W ild Girl Mar 14 with live piano accompaniment by Mary Lorson directed by Howard Estabrook with Eva Tanguay and Tom Moore EVA TANGUAY STARS as a gypsy girl in this Selznick-produced comedy, which was intended to capture on screen, and capitalize on, Tanguay’s lusty stage vitality. One of Tanguay’s many nicknames was “The Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous,” and boy, did she, with both her on- and offstage antics. Local musician Mary Lorson has been researching Tanguay’s life and writing songs inspired by it for a full-length stage play—see Cyclonic program on Mar 13—and this screening is part of that process. Read more about the first “rock star” of the 20th century, Eva Tanguay, at slate.com/id/2236658/ pagenum/all/ 35MM 1917>B&W>1 HR 10 MINS>USA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ITHACA PREMIERE Y oo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Feb 28 Mar 2 directed by Aviva Kempner with Gertrude Berg, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Susan Stamberg DOCUMENTARIAN AVIVA KEMPNER revives the memory of Gertrude Berg, writer, producer, and star of “The Goldbergs,” for which Berg won the firstever Best Actress Emmy. The film critiques the “collective forgetfulness in the age of information... [with] a generous helping of old kinescopes... and admirers, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” (NY Times) more at mollygoldbergfilm.org 35MM 2009>COLOR>1 HR 32 MINS>USA