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Ithakid Film Fest
Before & After the Wall
Sundance Selects
Foreign Film
Oscar Nominees
Hitchcock 101
… and more!
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power of that image galvanized the environmental movement, and made people the world over understand
on a basic level how interconnected we all are as residents in a fragile ecosystem. Its repercussions have
echoed across the decades, and are still felt today as a new movement, with a keener sense of the globe’s fragility,
fights against global warming, pollution, habitat destruction and unnecessary wildlife loss.
In this calendar, we celebrate the activists who started the environmental movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s as well as the people who carry the torch today
with gestures large and small. We’ll also look at the increasingly treacherous survival of polar bears, and take a hard look at the pitfalls of gas drilling—an
issue of immense importance to Upstate New York, where industrial-scale hydro-fracturing drilling of the Marcellus Shale is poised to begin.
EARTH DAYS
We start with a screening of Earth Days on Wednesday, October 14, shown in advance of Sustainable Tompkins’ and Finger
E ARTH DAYS
Lakes Bioneers’ major regional conference entitled “We Make Our Future,” which will take place from October 16-18 at Ithaca
Oct 14 & 17
College and feature a live-via-satellite presentation of the national plenary addresses from Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) headSPLIT ESTATE
quarters in San Rafael, California. Bioneers is a 20 year-old, global forum that focuses on practical solutions for people and
Nov 3
the planet. By linking nationally renowned speakers with local topics and experts on the ground, the We Make Our Future
NO IMPACT MAN
Nov 5, 6, 7 & 10
conference aims to inspire a potent global-local approach to our environmental and social dilemmas. Citizens, policymakers,
FOR ALL MANKIND
youth, community leaders, and business owners are coming together to do the exciting work of co-creating our shared future
Nov 7 & 8
ICE BEARS OF THE BEAUFORT in the Finger Lakes Region. For more information about the conference, visit wemakeourfuture.org.
Nov 17
Earth Days is the moving story of the American environmental movement from the earliest awakenings stirred by Rachel
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD Carson and her book Silent Spring, to its triumphant 1970 Earth Day celebration and its increasing political victories throughout
Nov 30, Dec 1, 3, 5 & 6
that decade—and to its faltering in the conservative era of Reaganomics.
We now find ourselves in a new era of environmental activism, where we talk as
much about global warming as our own carbon footprint. One man who decided
to deal directly with his impact on the environment was Colin Beavan, who took
himself and his family on a year-long journey to discover just how much the
choices of three people could help to save the world. No back-to-the-land hippies
here, though—they lived in New York City, and Beavan’s wife is a latte-swigging,
Prada-loving senior writer for Business Week. Their journey in No Impact Man
creates a thoughtful, compelling and genuinely enjoyable film.
ICE BEARS OF THE BEAUFORT
Activism takes many forms, but the Yes Men have a style all their own. Pranksters
who got their start taking talking Barbies and G.I Joes, swapping the voice boxes, and putting them back on the shelves, they have evolved into impersonators
of corporate spokesmen who use their stolen notoriety to speak truth to power. Whether stating on the national news that Dow Chemical will reimburse
the families that suffered because of the toxic Bhopal gas leak (Dow stock tanked), or telling oil execs about the upside of Global Warming (victims can
be used to make candles!), the Yes Men’s audacity, as portrayed in The Yes Men Fix the World, is hysterically refreshing.
There isn’t a lot of humor in Split Estate, an eye-opening look at the impact of gas drilling in the Midwest. The recent natural gas boom has billed itself
as a clean alternative to fossil fuels and the beginning of energy independence, but the reality has
EARTH DAYS
been far more complicated, with landowners forced to accept drilling rigs right outside their front
doors, groundwater becoming contaminated, and public health, especially among children, suffering. This isn’t a Midwest problem, though, which will become clear when our screening of Split
Estate is introduced by Helen Slottje of Shaleshock, a grassroots group of Finger Lakes residents
who are concerned about protecting local communities and the environment from exploitation by
the energy industry with regards to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.
Oil and gas development affects a wide range of people and creatures around the world, and Ice
Bears of the Beaufort presents a colorful, intensely moving portrait of another population in
danger. The polar bears in this documentary, shot by a single resident of an Inupiat Eskimo village,
were abundant and thriving during the five years of shooting, but MORE SERIES…
in 2008 Alaska leased the region for offshore oil drilling. Filmmakers Jennifer and Arthur C. Smith III ‘75 will present
ITHAKID FILM FEST
the film and discuss the situation.
late fall 2009
oct 14—dec 13
Series cosponsored with Sustainable Tompkins, Finger Lakes Bioneers, the CU Sustainability Hub and the
Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future
Hitchcock 101
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UNMADE BEDS:
MESSY LOVE, HIPSTER STYLE
BEESWAX
Oct 22, 24 & 25
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
Nov 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14
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Dec 4, 5, 7–9 & 11 & 12
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oct 14
oct 15 All My Friends
Liverpool
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The Hangover
WSH
OTHERWISE NOTED ):
Le Combat dans l’ile
WSH
7:15
Liverpool
7:30
oct 25
Rope
Three Monkeys
[$4] WSH 4:30
Beeswax
WSH
7:15
WSH
9:15
Notorious
WSH
9:15
WSH
GENERAL
9:20
oct 22
WSH
The Hangover
WSH
7:15
9:30
Three Monkeys
WSH
WSH
nov 1
9:30
WSH
9:45
WSH
9:30
10:00
Three Monkeys
WSH
One, Two, Three
WSH
7:00
The Hangover
oct 23 One, Two, Three
[$4] WSH 4:30
URIS
7:15 Amarcord
Harry Potter
Prince
9:30 & the Half-Blood
URIS
9:30
Beeswax
WSH
W/GUEST
7:00
WSH
9:45
9:30
Oct 23, 25 & 26
THIRST (SOUTH KOREA)
Oct 28 - 30
STILL WALKING (JAPAN )
Nov 5, 7 & 8
DWANDO (INDIA)
Nov 6
K ATYN (POLAND)
Nov 20 & 22
CLASSIC SCI-FI
ALIEN : DIRECTOR’S CUT
Dec 2, 4 & 5
ALIENS
Dec 9, 11 & 12
RESTORED FOREIGN CLASSICS:
LE COMBAT DANS L’ILE
Oct 15, 17 & 18
AMARCORD
Oct 21 & 24
URIS
oct 17
Harry Potter
& the Half-Blood Prince
7:00
URIS
The Hangover
URIS
10:00
oct 24
Harry Potter
& the Half-Blood Prince
7:00
URIS
The Hangover
URIS
10:00
oct 31
[$2] WSH 8:00
9:45
nov 6 For All Mankind
WSH
9:30
for oct 14–nov 7
(see reverse for nov 8–dec 13)
UNMADE BEDS
of
(500)Days
Summer
ITHACA PREMIERE
D
wando (The Conflict)
Nov 6
Nov 6•7•9•11•13•14
A BACKWARDS LOOK at the relationship between Tom, a former
architecture student getting by in the greeting card industry, and
Summer, the boss’s new assistant. An exploration of relationships in
general, how they begin and end strangely and bring you someplace
altogether different—and, in this case, better. more at foxsearchlight.
com/500daysofsummer 35MM ‘SCOPE
DAN SMALLS PRESENTS•ITHACA PREMIERE
nov 7
(500) Days of Summer
URIS
The Hurt Locker
URIS
7:15
9:30
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NO COMPS, PASSES
OR DISCOUNT CARDS
directed by
Tim Rutili of Califone
with Angela Bettis & Califone
THIS UNIQUE FILM / MUSIC
event opens with ar t
rockers Califone doing
a 30-minute set of some
of their musical favorites
before we screen Tim
(Red Red Meat veteran) Rutili’s horror movie All My Friends Are
Funeral Singers, which will be shown with live music by the band.
The movie is an accompanying piece to Califone’s new album of the
same name. The perfect launch to the Halloween season! Advance
tickets available at dansmallspresents.com more at m-artistis.
com/allmyfriends.html VIDEO PROJECTION
2009>COLOR>2 HRS>USA
A
marcord
Oct 21•24
introduced by
film scholar Stuart
McDougal on Oct 24
com/amarcord 35MM
1974>COLOR>1 HR 51 MIN>ITALY
BEFORE & AFTER THE WALL•BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOMINEES
B
aader-Meinhof Complex
Oct 28•30 Nov 1
directed by Uli Edel
with Martina Ge Deck,
Moritz Bleibtreu,
Johanna Wokalek
A SPRAWLING LOOK
at the infamous left
wing collective The
Red Army Faction
w h o t e r ro r i ze d
1970 s G e r m a ny
with a wave of assassinations, bank robberies, kidnappings, and bombings. In the film,
a pair of lovers, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, are joined by a
journalist, Ulrike Meinhof, who abandons her family after writing about
the group, which makes her a convert to their philosophy of violent
overthrow. “Baader-Meinhof is an exploitation film on a socially
conscious subject, the equivalent of Steven Soderbergh’s Che having
a love child with The Fast and the Furious.” (LA Times) more at
baadermeinhofmovie.com 35MM
2008>COLOR>2 HRS 30 MIN>GERMANY
UNMADE BEDS•ITHACA PREMIERE
B
eeswax
Oct 22•24•25
directed by Andrew Bujalski
with Tilly Hatcher, Maggie
Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky
at
2009>COLOR>1 HR 40 MIN>USA
RESTORED PRINT!
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C
Le ombat
dans l’ile
Oct 15•17•18
directed by
Alain Cavalier
with Jean-Louis
Trintignant, Romy
Schneider, Henri Serre
THIS
REDISCOVERED
MASTERWORK of the French New Wave is “not to be missed. Cavalier’s
subtly committed and beautifully crafted thriller investigates the political
dilemmas of early 1960s France under the guise of a love triangle. It
stars three of the most accomplished actors of European cinema of
the period—Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Henri Serre
(Jim of Jules and Jim)—at their absolute peak here.” (Village Voice)
more at thefilmdesk.com 35MM
1962>B&W>1 HR 44 MIN>FRANCE
BEST FOREIGN FILM
OSCAR NOMINEES
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D
epartures
Oct 30 Nov 1•2
AN “UNCOMMONLY ABSORBING” (Roger Ebert) meditation on life and
the meaning of death, Departures tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi,
a recently unemployed cellist who embarks on a new career as a
“Nokanshi,” or one who prepares corpses for burial. Some shun him
for taking the job, but Daigo sees the importance of his work, and fully
devotes himself to acting as the gatekeeper between the departed and
those they leave behind. Winner of the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film. COSPONSORED WITH THE JAPAN US ASSOCIATION AND THE JGSM JAPAN
CLUB. more at departures-themovie.com 35MM
directed by Robert Stone
with Stewart Udall, Dennis Hayes, Stewart Brand
FROM ITS POST-WAR rustlings in the 1950s to that
first photo of our planet from outer space to the
wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration,
Earth Days is “a rapturous and enlightening
look at the history of the environmental movement in America.” (Entertainment Weekly) more at earthdaysmovie.
com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 30 MIN>USA
F
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directed by Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck
with Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Muhe, Martina Ge Deck
THIS GRIPPING POLITICAL thriller, set in 1984’s East Berlin, traces the lives
of a playwright and the Stasi agent who spies on him, as each confronts
the moral ambiguities of totalitarian terrorism in the waning days of
Soviet rule. Winner of the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film. more at sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers 35MM ‘SCOPE.
EARTH DAYS
SUNDANCE SELECTS
ITHACA PREMIERE
N
o Impact Man
Nov 5•6•7•10
H
alfmoon Files
Oct 27 (free)
with filmmaker
Philip Scheffner
directed by
Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
with Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin
THE CRACKLING WORDS of
Mall Singh, an Indian POW, are heard as he spoke into the phonographic
funnel on December 11, 1916 in Wünsdorf, near Berlin. Such recordings were produced as the result of a unique alliance between the
military, the scientific community and the entertainment industry. In
his experimental documentary The Halfmoon Files, Philip Scheffner
follows the traces of these voices to the origin of their recording. Like
a memory game—which remains incomplete right until the end—he
uncovers pictures and sounds that revive the ghosts of the past.
Scheffner’s haunting film transforms a previously obscure episode in
Indo-German history into a compelling meditation on the recorded
voice, the archive and cultural memory. COSPONSORED WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR
GERMAN CULTURAL STUDIES, THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES, AND THE DEPARTMENT
OF THEATRE, FILM AND DANCE. MAJOR FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE MELLON CENTRAL NEW
YORK HUMANITIES CORRIDOR, AN INITIATIVE GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W.
MELLON FOUNDATION, AND THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES CENTER. more at
www.halfmoonfiles.de VIDEO PROJECTION
2007>COLOR>1 HR 27 MIN>GERMANY
H
alloween Night at Cornell Cinema
Oct 31 ($2 all)
CORNELL CINEMA’S FRIGHT fest, the perfect precursor to your late-night
Halloween festivities, will feature some of the scariest coming attraction
trailers ever made, a spine tingling episode from The Twilight Zone and a
screening of one of the most frightening horror classics of all time—too
scary to mention by name! All costume-clad patrons will be entered
to win one of our frighteningly fabulous door prizes, including movie
posters, movie passes and other goodies, and there will be Halloween
candy treats for everyone!
angover
Oct 14•16•17•22•23•24
directed by Todd Phillips
with Bradley Cooper, Ed
Helms, Zach Gallfl anakis
F OUR GUYS WAKE up in
Vegas after a bachelor
party with no memory of
the night before, and no
groom. “A furiously paced, inventive and flat-out hilarious take on a
tried-and-tested formula. An exemplary bromantic comedy that doesn’t
sacrifice heart in pursuit of laughs, maintaining plenty of the former
and a superabundance of the latter.” (Empire) more at hangovermovie.
warnerbros.com 35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>1 HR 40 MIN>USA
H
arry Potter
& the Half-Blood Prince
Oct 16•17•18•23•24
directed by David Yates
with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter
EVERYONE’S FAVORITE TEENAGE wizards
are back for another year at Hogwarts,
which is under threat by the dark Lord
Voldemort, and is no longer the safe haven it once was. “By an order
of magnitude—the strongest (or at least the most mature, subtle and
emotional) entry in the series thus far.” (Portland Oregonian) more at
harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthehalf-bloodprince
35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>2 HRS 33 MIN>USA/UK
The
H
urt Locker
Oct 30 Nov 4•6•7
directed by
Katherine
Bigelow
with Jeremy
Renner, Anthony
Mackie, Brian
Geraghty
S ERGEANT F IRST
C L ASS William
James replaces
the slain leader
of a bomb squad in this film about the war in Iraq, terrorist bombings,
the psychic lives of soldiers, and the many and complicated ways in which
a country’s heroes are created from destruction. “Overwhelmingly
tense, overflowing with crackling verisimilitude, it’s both the film about
the war in Iraq that we’ve been waiting for and the kind of unqualified
triumph that’s been long expected from director Kathryn Bigelow.”
(LA Times) more at thehurtlocker-movie.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>2 HR 11 MIN>USA
IN 2006, WRITER Colin Beavan
pulled his not-always enthusiastic wife and two-year-old
daughter into a year-long experiment to discover how far
they could go to reduce their carbon footprint while still living in the
middle of New York City. “Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren’t
mutually exclusive, No Impact Man may be a socially progressive,
environmentally conscious film, but it goes down far easier than, say,
an all-natural, fiber-enriched peanut butter sandwich without a glass of
soy milk.” (Variety) more at noimpactproject.org VIDEO PROJECTION
2009>COLOR>1 HR 33 MIN>USA
directed by Philip Scheffner
“SPLIT ESTATE IS an eye-opening examination of the consequences and
conflicts that can arise between surface land owners in the western
United States, and those who own and extract the energy and mineral
rights below. This film is of value to anyone wrestling with rational,
sustainable energy policy while preserving the priceless elements of
cultural heritage, private enterprise above-ground, and the precious
health not only of people but the land itself.” (Gov. Bill Richardson,
New Mexico) more at splitestate.com VIDEO PROJECTION
2009>COLOR>1 HR 16 MIN>USA
ITHACA PREMIERE
till Walking
Nov 5•7•8
The ives of Others
Nov 4•7
directed by Al Reinert
directed by Debra Anderson
narrated by Ali MacGraw
S
2009>COLOR>1 HR 24 MIN>ARGENTINA
($3 adults/$2 kids
12 & under on Nov 7)
H
introduced by
Shaleshock
representative Helen Slottje
A RGENTINE DIRECTOR A LONSO’S fourth feature follows a merchant
sailor, Farrel, as his ship docks in Ushuaia, the southernmost city on
earth, and he disembarks to visit his remote hometown, from which he
departed decades earlier. In search of his mother, who may or may not
still be alive, Farrel frequently drinks, infrequently speaks and is hardly
welcomed when he finally reaches his destination. “Liverpool’s revelatory final shot—in which an object akin to Citizen Kane’s Rosebud is
presented for our contemplation—adds one last mysterious layer. Like
everything else in this enigmatic masterpiece, the image resonates with
myriad metaphorical possibilities.” (Time Out New York) 35MM
or All Mankind
Nov 7•8
The
S
plit Estate
Nov 3
2006>COLOR>2 HRS 17 MIN>GERMANY
ITHAKID FILM FEST•EARTH DAYS
The
M UMBLECORE PIONEER B UJALSKI ’S
third feature, “a warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie”
(Salon.com) follows two sisters (real-life twins Tilly and Maggie Hatcher)
living in Austin, one, the co-owner of a vintage store, the other, unemployed, as they navigate their romantic and business relationships.
“Beeswax, at first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary
life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie.” (A.O.
Scott, NY Times) COSPONSORED WITH PETRUNE, ITHACA’S OWN VINTAGE STORE;
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iverpool
Oct 15•19•20
BEFORE & AFTER THE WALL
1989>COLOR>1 HR 20 MIN>USA
FELLINI’S AFFECTIONATE SEMI -AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL film about the seaside town of Rimini under the fascists. Winner of the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar in 1974, this new restoration was supervised
by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno. more at janusfilms.
directed by Yojiro Takita
with Masahiro Motoki,
Ryoko Hirosue,
Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
E
arth Days
Oct 14•17
ITHACA PREMIERE
directed by Federico Fellini
with Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin
COUPONS FOR PETRUNE WILL BE GIVEN TO EVERYONE WHO PURCHASES A TICKET. more
EARTH DAYS•SUNDANCE SELECTS
ITHACA PREMIERE
THIS OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY about the Apollo VII missions to
the moon, compiled from thousands of hours of NASA footage, is both
a “trip movie of the Koyaanisqatsi variety” and a Buster Keaton-style
comedy. Spectacular views of the earth, moon and the vastness of space
are juxtaposed with astronauts stumbling around the moon collecting
moon rocks. VIDEO PROJECTION
RESTORED PRINT!
2009>COLOR>2 HRS 10 MIN>JAPAN
dwandothefilm.com 35MM
The
ll My Friends are Funeral Singers
Oct 16 ( $12 advance/$15 at the door)
The
THE STORY OF a woman who faces a serious ethical dilemma and the
neurosurgeon whose intervention guides her to a choice, saving an
innocent life in the process. In Bengali with English subtitles. more at
2009>COLOR>1 HR 30 MIN>INDIA
2009>COLOR>1 HR 35 MIN>USA
with live music by Califone
directed by Suman Ghosh
with Ananya Chatterjee,
Soumitra Chatterjee
more info at cinema.cornell.edu
EARTH DAYS
ITHACA PREMIERE
ITHACA PREMIERE
directed by
Lisandro Alonso
with Nieves Cabrera,
Giselle Irrazabal, and
Juan Fernandez
with filmmaker
Suman Ghosh ‘02
directed by Marc Webb
with Joseph GordonLevitt, Zooey Deschanel
beeswaxfilm.com VIDEO PROJECTION
Halloween Night at Cornell Cinema
nov 2 Split Estate nov 3
nov 4
nov 5 Dwando (The Conflict)
Departures
[$3/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER]
Still
Walking
W/FILMMAKER The Hurt Locker
The
Lives
of
Others
W/GUEST
[$4] WSH 4:30 Strangers on a Train
WSH 2:00
WSH
WSH
WSH 7:00
7:00
WSH 7:00
7:00
URIS 7:00
WSH 7:00
No Impact Man
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
The Pervert’s Guide
No Impact Man
No Impact Man
The
Hurt
Locker
(500)
Days
of
Summer
[$4] WSH 4:30
WSH 7:15 Departures
to the Cinema
WSH 9:45
WSH 9:30
WSH
URIS
9:45
9:45
WSH 9:15
Still Walking
[$4] SCPA 7:15
WSH 7:00
Strangers on a Train
The Lives of Others
W/GUEST
WSH
Oct 15, 19 & 20
THREE MONKEYS (TURKEY)
SAT
oct 27
oct 28
oct 29 Departures
oct 30
The Halfmoon Files
The Baader-Meinhof Complex Pray the Devil Back to Hell
WSH 7:00 The Hurt Locker
W/FILMMAKER
WSH 6:45
W/GUEST
URIS 7:00
7:00
[FREE] WSH 7:00
[FREE] WSH 7:00 The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Thirst
WSH 9:45 Thirst
Rope
Thirst
9:00
MORE FOREIGN FILM PREMIERES
LIVERPOOL (ARGENTINA)
MORE INFO: 255-3522
HTTP://CINEMA.CORNELL.EDU
oct 26
WSH
Dec 12
/ $5 S ENIORS / $4 S TUDENTS & K IDS 12 + U NDER
FRI
URIS
7:00
Amarcord
$6.50
oct 16 Le Combat dans l’ile
Harry Potter
Are
Funeral
Singers
WSH 7:00
WSH 7:15
7:00
W/LIVE MUSIC BY CALIFONE & the Half-Blood Prince
URIS 7:00
[$12 ADVANCE
Earth Days
Le Combat dans l’ile
$15 AT THE DOOR] The Hangover
WSH 9:15
WSH 9:15
WSH 7:30
9:00
oct 18
oct 19
oct 20
oct 21
Harry Potter
Notorious
Beeswax
Liverpool
One, Two, Three
& the Half-Blood Prince
WSH 7:00
WSH
WSH
Dec 5
THE NEVERENDING STORY
Look no further: you won’t fi nd three
more appealing films than these.
Sure, things are messy in these hipsters’
lives, particularly their love lives, but it’s
the kind of messiness that’s really fun
to watch! Mumblecore pioneer Andrew
Bujalski’s third feature, Beeswax,
achieves a new level of maturity in its
story of two sisters (real-life twins Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) living in hipster capital Austin,
falling in and out of relationships while the complications of a business situation involving a
vintage store play out. Spacey queen of hipster cinema, Zooey Deschanel, stars in the sleeper
hit of the summer, (500) Days of Summer, and if you weren’t already one of her fans, you
will be. And Unmade Beds, set among hipster bohemians squatting in East London, is a
gorgeous valentine to 20-something love and life, featuring a smashing soundtrack including
songs by Kimya Dawson, Daniel Johnston, Tindersticks, and (We are) Performance!
WED
Earth Days
Nov 21
LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE
Unmade Beds:
Messy Love,
Hipster Style
UNMADE BEDS
Films Oct 14–Nov 7 (see reverse for Nov 8-Dec 13)
[$4] WSH 4:30
Nov 7 & 8
KID FLIX MIX
Nov 14
Our Hitchcock series continues in this calendar with
eight more films—many of Hitchcock’s most well
known titles—and the fascinat- HITCHCOCK 101
ing documentary directed by NOTORIOUS
Sophie Fiennes (sister of Ralph Oct 19 & 20
OPE
and Joseph), The Pervert’s ROct
26 & 27
Guide to the Cinema, in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
which Slovenian philosopher Nov 2 & 3
Slavoj Zizek subjects several THE PERVERT’S GUIDE
of Hitchcock’s films, includ- TO THE CINEMA
Nov 3 & 10
ing Psycho, Vertigo, and REAR WINDOW
The Birds, to psychoanalytic Nov 9 & 10
JAMES STEWART IN ‘VERTIGO’
scrutiny. Zizek is often filmed PSYCHO
on the actual locations of the films he discusses, or on recreated sets, so you’ll see him on a motorboat in Bodega Bay in Nov 12 & 13
northern California, site of The Birds, and walking around locations for Vertigo. We’ll also be joined by three graduate VERTIGO
Nov 16 & 17
students from the English Department, who will introduce screenings of Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and THE BIRDS
Vertigo. You might want to purchase another notepad for the second half of our cinematic seminar, but don’t worry, there Nov 19 - 21
MARNIE
won’t be a final!
Nov 30 & Dec 1
Cosponsored with the Dept. of English and the Dept. of Theatre, Film & Dance
Special thanks to Lynda Bogel, Brian Fox at Swank and Paul Ginsburg at Universal
SUN
FOR ALL MANKIND
PETER PAN
‘UNMADE BEDS’ SCREENING DE C 4, 5, 7–9, 11 & 12
alphabetical film listing
On
Christmas Eve,
1968, the National
Aeronautic and Space
Administration gave humanity
its biggest gift. The Apollo 8
mission turned its eye away
from the matters at hand,
took a picture of the planet
Earth hovering in space, and
beamed it back to Houston.
HITCHCOCK 101
N
directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
with Hiroshi Abe, Yui
Natsukawa, Kazuya
Takahashi, and You
MASTER JAPANESE FILMMAKER Kore-eda’s (After Life, Nobody Knows) quiet gem of a film
offers a seriocomic portrait of a family gathered at the parents’ home
to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of the eldest son.
“One of the more accomplished and beautiful films released thus far
this year.” (Washington Post) COSPONSORED WITH THE JAPAN US ASSOCIATION AND
THE JGSM JAPAN CLUB.
more at ifcfilms.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 54 MIN>JAPAN
HITCHCOCK 101
S
trangers on
a Train
Nov 2•3
introduced by
Avery Slater (grad,
English) on Nov 3
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Farley Granger,
Robert Walker
CONSIDERED BY SOME to
be the best of Hitchcock’s American films, Strangers on a Train,
adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, is a chilling comedy. Walker
plays Bruno, a charming psychopath who desperately wants his father
dead. He tries to convince Farley Granger to commit the murder by
killing Granger’s inconvenient and adulterous wife. When this gesture is
rebuffed, Walker’s performance and the film go into high gear. 35MM
1951>B&W>1 HR 41 MIN>USA
otorious
Oct 19•20
ITHACA PREMIERE
T
hirst
Oct 28•29•30
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Cary Grant,
Ingrid Bergman
CARY GRANT PLAYS a federal
agent who, with the help
of Ingrid Bergman, tries
to track down a group of Nazi industrialists in Rio where they are
developing the atomic bomb. Classic Hitchcock. 35MM
1946>B&W>1 HR 41 MIN>USA
BEFORE & AFTER THE WALL
O
ne, Two, Three
Oct 21•23•24
J AMES C AGNEY PLAYS a Coca-Cola rep
working in Berlin, pre-Wall, in Wilder’s
corrosive satire that targets everything in
sight, including capitalism, consumerism
and Communism. “But in our taste-free,
post-Communist age, One, Two, Three
can now be seen as prophetic of the eventual Fall [of the Wall] itself, as
well as a latter-day classic of screwball comedy.” (Film Forum) 35MM
1961>COLOR>1 HR 48 MIN>USA
HITCHCOCK 101
ITHACA PREMIERE
P
ervert’s Guide
to the Cinema
Nov 3•10
directed by Sophie Fiennes
with Slavoj Zizek
“SLOVENIAN PHILOSOPHER SLAVOJ Zizek subjects more than 40 mostly
classic films, by directors ranging from Chaplin to Hitchcock, to psychoanalytic scrutiny...in [this] wildly entertaining, digressive lecture packed
with juicy clips that illustrate his points.The clips from Hitchcock and
[David] Lynch films are so numerous and Mr. Zizek’s comments so
incisive that after watching [this documentary] you may never see these
directors’ movies the same way again. It is almost as if those filmmakers
received instructions from Freud himself on how to visualize his ideas.”
(NY Times) more at thepervertsguide.com VIDEO PROJECTION.
2006>COLOR>2 HRS 30 MIN>UK
P
ray the Devil Back to Hell
Oct 29 (free)
with Janet Johnson Bryant, the Liberian
journalist featured in the film
T
hree Monkeys
Oct 23•25•26
directed by
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
with Yavuz Bingol,
Hatice Aslan, Rifat
Sungar, Ercan Kesal
TH E D I R E C TO R O F
Cannes hits Distant and Climates ventures into slightly pulpier
territory with this exemplary family drama. “A politician in the midst
of a re-election campaign is involved in a hit-and-run accident on a
dark country road. He persuades his driver, Eyup, to take the fall for
him, which will involve serving a relatively short prison sentence in
exchange for an unspecified but large sum of money...What follows,
while not exactly predictable, fits squarely within the logic of classic
film noir, where cold-eyed self-interest quickly becomes entangled with
unruly desires and the primal imperatives of honor and obligation.”
(NY Times) COSPONSORED WITH THE TURKISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION. more at
3monkeysmovie.com 35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>1 HR 49 MIN>TURKEY
M O V I E D E A L
CORNELL CINEMA’S
DISCOUNT C A R D
✭ Students: $35
✭ Seniors: $40 ✭ General: $50
directed by
Gini Reticker
CENTER FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE, THE DOROTHEA S. CLARKE PROGRAM IN FEMINIST
JURISPRUDENCE AND THE BERGER INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM. more at
praythedevilbacktohell.com VIDEO PROJECTION
2008>COLOR>1 HR 12 MIN>USA
HITCHCOCK 101
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR
R
ope
Oct 26•27
I N THIS LOOSE evocation of
the Leopold-Loeb case, two
young debonair New York City homosexuals murder an acquaintance
in response to their professor espousing the Nietzschean Superman’s
obligation to kill lesser men. A technical tour-de-force, composed of
just 12 shots. 35MM
1948>COLOR>1 HR 20 MIN>USA
ITHACA PREMIERE
✭ 10 admissions
✭ valid for 1 year
THE INCREDIBLE AND
uplifting story of how
a group of Christian
and Muslim women
joine d force s in
nonviolent protest
against Liberian dictator Charles Taylor
and the warlords
that terrorized the country in a ten-year bloody civil war. “Powerful
enough to make even the most cynical believe in the ability of ordinary
people to induce political change.” (Hollywood Reporter) Shortlisted for
Best Documentary Oscar in 2008. COSPONSORED WITH THE AVON GLOBAL
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with James Stewart, John
Dall, Farley Granger
KOREAN AUTEUR PARK Chanwook (Oldboy) follows up
his Vengeance trilogy
with this complex, funny, and erotic tale of a Catholic priest who finds
himself a vampire with a conscience. Going places Twilight or True
Blood dare not, Thirst is “a brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic
invention as well as a passionate and painful human love story.” (Salon.
com) more at filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/thirst 35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>2 HRS 13 MIN>SOUTH KOREA
directed by Billy Wilder
with James Cagney, Arlene Francis
The
directed by Park Chan-wook
with Song Kang-ho, Kim
Ok-vin, Shin Ha-Kyun
S P E C I A L G U E S T S L AT E F A L L 20 0 9
Oct 16
Oct 24
Oct 27
Oct 29
Nov 3
Nov 3
Nov 6
Nov 9
Nov 12
Nov 16
Nov 17
Nov 18
Nov 19
Nov 21
Califone performs live with All My
Friends are Funeral Singers
Film scholar Stuart McDougal introduces Amarcord
Filmmaker Philip Scheffner presents
The Halfmoon Files
Janet Johnson Bryant (Liberian journalist featured
in the film) presents Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Shaleshock representative Helen
Slottje introduces Split Estate
Avery Slater (grad, English) introduces
Strangers on a Train
Filmmaker Suman Ghosh ‘02 presents
Dwando (The Conflict)
Nicholas Roth (grad, English)
introduces Rear Window
Park Doing & Friends perform live with
Requiem for Analog TV Noise
Matthew Bucemi (grad, English) introduces Vertigo
Documentarians Arthur C. Smith III ‘75 and
Jennifer Smith present Ice Bears of the Beaufort
Professors Fredrik Logevall (History) &
Elizabeth Sanders (Govt) introduce Virtual
JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived
Director/writer Katherine Dieckmann
presents Motherhood
Philip Carli accompanies Peter Pan (1924)
WSH=W ILLARD S TRAIGHT THEATRE • URIS= URIS H ALL A UDITORIUM • SCPA=S CHWARTZ C ENTER
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Films Nov 8–Dec 13 (see reverse for Oct 14—Nov 7)
SUN
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nov 8
For All Mankind
[$4] WSH
Still Walking
WSH
TUES
nov 9
WED
nov 11
THUR
nov 12
$6.50
GENERAL
nov 15
Julie and Julia
[$4] WSH 4:30 Vertigo
SAT
FRI
9:20
WSH
9:30
nov 17
nov 18
nov 19
nov 20 Peter Pan W/LIVE MUSIC
nov 21
WSH 2:00
[$5
/$4
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12
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Katyn
Ice Bears of the Beaufort Virtual JFK: Vietnam
WSH 7:15 Julie and Julia
District 9
Seraphine
Motherhood
W/GUEST
W/FILMMAKERS if Kennedy Had Lived
URIS 7:15
[$4] WSH 4:30 URIS
WSH 7:00
W/FILMMAKER
WSH 7:15
W/GUESTS
District 9
7:15
WSH 7:15 The Birds
WSH 7:00
Seraphine
WSH 7:15
District
9
WSH
9:45
Revanche
WSH 7:15
Vertigo
URIS 9:45
Julie and Julia
The Birds
WSH 9:45
WSH 9:30 District 9
URIS 9:30
nov 22
The
Birds
WSH 9:45
WSH 9:15
WSH
9:45
Katyn
[$4] WSH 4:30
Cornell Cinema will not be showing films over Thanksgiving Break from Nov 23 - 29
Seraphine
nov 30
dec 1
dec 2
dec 3
dec 4 Lotte in Gadgetville
dec 5
WSH 7:15
WSH
[$3/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER]
2:00 Alien:
Mary and Max
Mary and Max
Marnie
The Yes Men Fix the World Mary and Max
Inglourious Basterds
WSH 7:15
WSH 7:15
WSH 7:15
WSH 7:00
WSH 7:15
URIS 7:00 Mary and Max
Director’s Cut
[$4] WSH 4:30 URIS 7:15
The Yes Men Fix the World Unmade Beds
Alien: Director’s Cut
The Yes Men Fix the World Marnie
Alien: Director’s Cut
Unmade Beds
Inglourious
WSH 9:20
WSH 9:20
WSH 9:20
WSH 9:45
WSH 9:15
URIS 10:15
WSH 7:15
Basterds
dec 6
The Yes Men Fix the World
URIS 9:45
WSH 9:20
The Yes Men Fix the World
WSH 4:30 [$4]
dec 7
dec 8
dec 9
dec 10
dec 11 The Neverending Story
dec 12
Student Films I
[$3/$2 KIDS 12 & UNDER] WSH 2:00 Inglourious
In the Loop
WSH 7:30 Unmade Beds
Aliens
In the Loop
Unmade Beds
WSH 7:15 Mary and Max
WSH 7:15
Basterds
URIS 7:00 In the Loop
WSH
WSH
7:15
7:15
WSH 7:15
[$4] WSH 4:30 URIS 7:00
dec 13
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds
Unmade Beds
Unmade Beds
Aliens
In the Loop
WSH 9:20 Unmade Beds
WSH 9:30
Aliens
URIS
WSH
WSH
nov 16
4:30 [$4]
Student Films II
WSH
WSH
9:20
WSH
7:30 Cornell Cinema will be closed Dec 14–Jan 23 for winter break.
THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX
The Great
Divide: Before
& After
The Wall
marks the 20 Anniversary
Best Foreign Film Oscar Nominees
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of
(500)Days
Summer
directed by Quentin Tarantino
with Brad Pitt, Christoph
Waltz, Eli Roth
Nov 6•7•9•11•13*•14
A BACKWARDS LOOK at the relationship between Tom, a former
architecture student getting by in the greeting card industry, and
Summer, the boss’s new assistant. An exploration of relationships in
general, how they begin and end strangely and bring you someplace
altogether different—and, in this case, better. more at foxsearchlight.
com/500daysofsummer 35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>1 HR 35 MIN>USA
NEW PRINT!
A
lien: Director’s Cut
Dec 2•4•5
directed by Ridley Scott
with Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit
RIDLEY SCOTT’S SCI-FI / HORROR classic about a
science crew that encounters an abandoned
spaceship filled with some kind of eggs, only
to discover that one of their own has become
host to the monstrous, acid-spouting alien,
hold up amazingly well. “A movie masterpiece.
And on the big screen, the chestbuster scene
just kills.” (Empire Magazine) 35MM ‘SCOPE
1979>COLOR>1 HR 56 MIN>USA
NEW PRINT!
A
liens
Dec 9•11•12
directed by James Cameron
with Sigourney Weaver,
Carrie Henn
JAMES CAMERON’S ALIENS
is not only one of the
rare sequels that surpass
the original, it is one of the most thrilling films of all time. Awakened
decades after her ordeal, Ripley is sent back to the Alien planet with
a host of Marines in tow to find out what happened to the colonists
who recently went missing. “One helluva roller coaster ride.” (Time
Out) 35MM ‘SCOPE
1986>COLOR>2 HRS 17MIN>USA
HITCHCOCK 101
The
B
irds
Nov 19•20•21
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren
A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC of a
small town on the California
coast that is inexplicably
besieged by vast flocks of birds that appear bent on eliminating the
human race by pecking it to death. 35MM
1963>COLOR>1 HR 59 MIN>USA
D
istrict 9
Nov 14•15•18•20•21
directed by Neill Blomkamp
with Sharlto Copley,
David James
A LIEN REFUGEES WHO fled
their own planet for Earth 20 years ago remain sequestered in South
Africa’s District 9 while the world’s leaders debate their fate in this Peter
Jackson-produced sci-fi action flick. “Madly original, cheekily political,
altogether exciting.” (Entertainment Weekly) more at district9movie.
SUNDANCE SELECTS
E ARTH DAYS
Oct 14 & 17
NO IMPACT MAN
Nov 7, 8 & 10
MOTHERHOOD
Nov 19
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Nov 30, Dec 1, 3, 5 & 6
MARY AND MAX
Dec 2–5 & 8
UNMADE BEDS
Dec 4, 5, 7–9 & 11 & 12
IN THE LOOP
Dec 10 - 13
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
MARY AND MAX;
THE YES MEN FIX
THE WORLD;
MOTHERHOOD
com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 52 MIN>USA
BEFORE & AFTER THE WALL
G
ood Bye Lenin!
Nov 11•14
directed by Wolfgang Becker
with Daniel Brühl,
Kathrin Sass
A QUICK-THINKING GERMAN teen tries to insulate his socialist mother
from the frightful shock of capitalist revolution in this hit political
comedy. 35MM
2003>COLOR>2 HRS 1 MIN>GERMANY
ITHAKID FILM FEST•EARTH DAYS
F
or All Mankind
Nov 7•8
directed by Al Reinert
THIS OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY
about the Apollo VII missions to the
moon, compiled from thousands of
hours of NASA footage, is both a
“trip movie of the Koyaanisqatsi
variety” and a Buster Keaton-style comedy. Spectacular views of the
earth, moon and the vastness of space are juxtaposed with astronauts
stumbling around the moon collecting moon rocks.
1989>COLOR>1 HR 20 MIN>USA
EARTH DAYS
I
ce Bears of the Beaufort
Nov 17
with filmmaker Arthur C.
Smith III ‘75 and
co-writer Jennifer Smith
collegetown
dryden rd.
N
IVE YEARS IN the making by a
I N F O Fsingle
★ All screenings open to the public G E N E R A L
resident of an Inupiat
★ Theatre locations: WSH - Willard Straight Theatre; URIS - URIS Hall Auditorium; SCPA - Schwartz
Eskimo village, Ice Bears
Center for Performing Arts Film Forum
of the Beaufort is a colorintense , cinematic f amily
★ Box office opens 20 mins. before and closes 30 mins. after showtimes
portrait of Alaskan polar bears never before captured on film. The
★ Ticket Prices: $6.50 general / $5.00 senior citizens / $4.00 students & kids 12 and under; matinees
documentary bears witness to Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast as critical
are $4
polar bear habitat, a habitat that is seriously threatened by offshore oil
G ★ Special ticket prices may apply to some shows
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development. more at icebearsofthebeaufort.com VIDEO PROJECTION
east ave.
★ Group rates available: call 255-3522 at least 1 day in advance
2008>COLOR>55 MIN>USA
tower rd.
★ Advance ticket sales available at the WSH Ticket Desk (open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri );
SUNDANCE SELECTS
Cornell Card and credit cards accepted
n the Loop
� uris hall garden ave. ★ Cornell Card can also be used to purchase tickets and discount cards at the WSH box office during
Dec 10•11•12•13
evening hours
directed by
barton
Armando Iannucci
★ Discount Cards (10 admissions, valid for 1 year)—$35 for students / $40 for senior citizens
with Peter Capaldi,
(62+over)/ $50 general—can be purchased at the WSH box office & URIS box offices during evening
statler
Tom Hollander,
hours, from the WSH Ticket Desk & SCPA box office (where Cornell Card and credit cards can be
James Gandolfini
hoy rd.
used) during their regular business hours and online by credit card at cornellcinematickets.com
INSPIRED BY THE lead-up
★ Rent the Willard Straight Balcony (seats 40) for just $150—call for details
to the Iraq War, In the Loop hilariously mocks what happens when
PG
the US and Britain prepare to go to war against an unnamed Middle
free after 5pm ★ Both URIS Auditorium & Willard Straight Theatre equipped with Dolby Surround Sound
Eastern country, and how the prospect of military engagement plays
walk to wsh < 10 mins! ★ Recorded info on screenings: call 255-3522 after 5pm weekdays; all day weekends
out within the respective administrations. “The language is brilliant,
★ To be added to our weekly email reminder list, send request to cjr20@cornell.edu
and the laugh lines come so quickly that you’d probably have to watch
or visit our website (http://cinema.cornell.edu)
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the movie twice to get them all.” (San Francisco Chronicle) more at
★ Foreign language films subtitled in English unless otherwise noted
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Cornell Cinema’s coming attractions
trailer made by Robert Ascher
N
directed by Martin Provost
with Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
($3 adults/$2 kids 12 & under)
TA R A NTI NO ’ S “ S PAG H E T TI
WESTERN but with World
War II iconography” casts
Brad Pitt as the leader of
a pack of Jewish avengers out for Nazi blood in this sprawling tale of
good, evil, and wiener schnitzel. more at inglouriousbasterds-movie.
*Grads pay just $2 on Nov
13, courtesy of the Big
Red Barn Professional &
Graduate Student Assoc.
directed by Marc Webb
with Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Zooey Deschanel
com 35MM ‘SCOPE
directed by Wolfgang Petersen
with Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach
A WITHDRAWN BOY finds a very special book that contains a magical
world on the edge of destruction that only he can save. “A fairytale of
the very best kind, with luscious effects which include a flying dragon,
a rock monster, a fairy princess (mercifully grave and untwee), and a
threat in whose vanquishing lies hope.” (Time Out) COSPONSORED WITH THE
FAMILY READING PROJECT. Recommended for ages 6 and up. 35MM ‘SCOPE
1983>COLOR>1 HR 34 MIN>USA
2009>COLOR>2 HRS 32 MIN>USA
J
ulie and Julia
Nov 13•14•15•20•21
NORA EPHRON’S HOMAGE to
all things culinary follows
blogger Julie Powell as she tries to make her way through every recipe
in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, while also
following Child herself as she developed her skills while living as a
newlywed in France in the mid-20th century. “One of the gentlest,
most charming American movies of the past decade. Its subject is less
food as something to cook than food as the binding and unifying element of dinner parties, friendship, and marriage.” (New Yorker) more at
julieandjulia.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>2 HRS 3 MIN>USA
K
IN 2006, WRITER Colin Beavan pulled his not-always enthusiastic wife and
two-year-old daughter into a year-long experiment to discover how far
they could go to reduce their carbon footprint while still living in the
middle of New York City. “Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren’t
mutually exclusive, No Impact Man may be a socially progressive,
environmentally conscious film, but it goes down far easier than, say,
an all-natural, fiber-enriched peanut butter sandwich without a glass of
soy milk.” (Variety) more at noimpactproject.org VIDEO PROJECTION
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VETERAN POLISH DIRECTOR
Andrzej Wajda’s story of the 1940’s Katyn massacre, which saw the
Soviets execute over 20,000 POWs and citizens detained after the
1939 invasion of Poland, a massacre that killed Wajda’s own father.
“The period sets, costumes and cinematography all superbly recreate the brutal era, grand illusions and everyday suffering of the Poles
under both the Nazis and the Soviets.” (Hollywood Reporter) more at
kochlorberfilms.com 35MM ‘SCOPE
2009>COLOR>1 HR 55 MIN>POLAND
ITHAKID FILM FEST•ITHACA PREMIERE
K
id Flix Mix
Nov 14 ($3 adults/$2 kids 12 & under)
directed by Sophie Fiennes
with Slavoj Zizek
“SLOVENIAN PHILOSOPHER SLAVOJ Zizek subjects more than 40 mostly
classic films, by directors ranging from Chaplin to Hitchcock, to psychoanalytic scrutiny...in [this] wildly entertaining, digressive lecture packed
with juicy clips that illustrate his points. The clips from Hitchcock and
[David] Lynch films are so numerous and Mr. Zizek’s comments so
incisive that after watching [this documentary] you may never see these
directors’ movies the same way again. It is almost as if those filmmakers
received instructions from Freud himself on how to visualize his ideas.”
(NY Times) more at thepervertsguide.com VIDEO PROJECTION.
2006>COLOR>2 HRS 30 MIN>UK
ITHAKID FILM FEST
P
eter Pan
Nov 21 ($5 adults/$4 kids 12 & under)
directed by various
THE WORLD RENOWNED New
York International Children’s Film Festival presents
this kaleidoscopic collection
of the best animated short
films from around the world.
The program features musical and narrative works from
Sweden, France, Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, and offers a spectacular array of traditional, CGI, collage, and stop motion animation
styles. Recommended for ages 3 and up. VIDEO PROJECTION
with live piano accompaniment
by Philip Carli
directed by Herbert Brenon
with Anna May Wong, Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence
BRENON’S FILM IS the first of the many cinematic
versions of the Peter Pan story, and it remains
arguably the best, expertly capturing the innocent
and enthralling magic of the tale. Recommended
for ages 5 and up. 35MM
1924>B&W>1 HR 45 MIN>USA
HITCHCOCK 101
P
COLOR>1 HR 5 MIN>VARIOUS
sycho
Nov 12•13
ITHAKID FILM FEST•ITHACA PREMIERE
otte from Gadgetville
Dec 5 ($3 adults/$2 kids 12 & under)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh
directed by Heiki Ernits
and Janno Põldma
THE FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH
animated film from Estonia is a sweet and gentlespirited tale, full of wacky
contraptions, and a warm
and refreshingly uncynical sense of humor.
Lotte lives in the seaside town of Gadgetville, a village crazy about
inventing Rube Goldberg-esque machines. Every year there is as
competition to show off the best homemade inventions, which Lotte’s
father always wins. But this year, the town is abuzz with the visit of
a mysterious stranger… Recommended for ages 4 and up. In English.
VIDEO PROJECTION
2006>COLOR>1 HR 21 MIN>ESTONIA
HITCHCOCK 101
M
arnie
Nov 30• Dec 1
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Tippi Heddren,
Sean Connery
A KLEPTOMANIAC SECRETARY
with an hysterical fear of
thunderstorms and an extreme aversion to the color red marries one of her bosses who attempts
to cure her in Hitchcock’s 49th film. 35MM
1964>COLOR>2 HRS 9 MIN>USA
SUNDANCE SELECTS
ITHACA PREMIERE
M
ary and Max
Dec 2•3•4•5•8
directed by Adam Elliot
with voices of Toni Collette, Philip
Seymour Hoffman, and Eric Bana
THIS FEATURE-LENGTH CLAYMATION
details the marvelous, tumultuous
relationship between Mary Daisy Dinkle, a friendless Australian girl with
a prominent birthmark, and Max Jerry Horovitz, an obese middle-aged
New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome. In the span of twenty years
they write dozens of letters, trade chocolates, and become each other’s
best—and only—friends. It’s a revelation: an intelligent animated film
that’s cute, dark, and innovative, all at the same time. COSPONSORED WITH
CORNELL MINDS MATTER. more at maryandmax.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 32 MIN>AUSTRALIA
SUNDANCE SELECTS•ITHACA PREMIERE
M
otherhood
Nov 19
with writer/director
Katherine Dieckman
UMA THURMAN PLAYS frazzled, blogging, mother-of-two Eliza Welch,
living in post-9/11 Manhattan, in native Ithacan Katherine Dieckman’s
day-in-the-life-of comedy. Eliza is a woman “on the verge” on her
daughter’s sixth birthday, which happens to coincide with a writing
contest Eliza hopes to win so she can reenter the work force and regain
an identity she thinks she’s lost. Look for the Gimme! bumper sticker
on Dieckman’s Volvo, which figures prominently in the film! more at
motherhoodthefilm.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 30 MIN>USA
M ASTER J APANESE FILMMAKER
Kore-eda’s (After Life, Nobody Knows) quiet gem of a film offers a
seriocomic portrait of a family gathered at the parents’ home to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of the eldest son. “One of
the more accomplished and beautiful films released thus far this year.”
(Washington Post) COSPONSORED WITH THE JAPAN US ASSOCIATION AND THE JGSM
JAPAN CLUB. more at ifcfilms.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 54 MIN>JAPAN
S
tudent Films I
Dec 6
directed by various
ervert’s Guide
to the Cinema
Nov 3•10
The
directed by Andrzej Wajda
with Maja Ostaszewska, Artur
mijewski, Pawe Ma aszy ski
directed by
Katherine Dieckman
with Uma Thurman,
Anthony Edwards,
Minnie Driver
directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
with Hiroshi Abe, Yui
Natsukawa, Kazuya
Takahashi, and You
directed by
Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
with Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin
HITCHCOCK 101
ITHACA PREMIERE
atyn
Nov 20•22
L
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Nov 5•7•8
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Nov 5•6•7•10
directed by Nora Ephron
with Meryl Streep, Amy
Adams, Stanley Tucci
WINNER OF SEVEN Cesar Awards (the French
equivalent of the Oscars), including best picture, Seraphine tells the true story of Seraphine de Senlis, a village cleaning woman who
was also a self-taught artist, whose work now
stands in some of the world’s most prominent
museums and galleries. “One of the most evocative films about an artist
I’ve ever seen.” (David Edelstein, New Yorker) With music by the late
Michael Galasso (father of our friend Kat), to whom we dedicate these
screenings. more at musicboxfilms.com/seraphine 35MM
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THE MASTER OF Suspense’s most financially
successful picture, this story of a man, his
mother, and a very creepy motel redefined
the psychological horror and suspense
genres and remains as terrifying as ever. 35MM
1960>B&W>1 HR 49 MIN>USA
HITCHCOCK 101
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ear Window
Nov 9•10
introduced by Nicholas
Roth (grad, English)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock; with James Stewart, Grace Kelly
H ITCHCOCK’S CLASSIC STORY of voyeurism and murder. Hitchcock,
himself, considered it his most “cinematic movie.” But Rear Window,
based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, is also one of the great nail-biters
in the history of suspense. 35MM
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E XCITING NEW WORK by the filmmakers in Marilyn Rivchin’s Film 3770
course, Intro to 16mm and digital filmmaking, with Media Assistant Randy
Hendrickson. The filmmakers are: Linda Barsi, Caitlin Cowie, Oliver
Dudman, Daniel Fipphen, Meagen Flaherty, Stephen Guilbert, George
Moujaes, Jacob Moskow, Ashley Mullen, Christine Nelson, Benjmin
Preston and Mario Rodriguez.
RUNNING TIME APPROX. 2 HRS
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tudent Films II
Dec 13
directed by various
PREMIERES OF NARRATIVE film and HD video projects from the intermediate production course, Film 4780, taught by Marilyn Rivchin with
Media Assistant Randy Hendrickson. These seasoned student filmmakers are: Matthew Chin-quee, You Never Know: Can a woman
who’s lost everything find her lottery ticket in time?; Shubhra Pandit,
The Matchbox: A young woman jogs her way back to reality; Jason
Ramsey, Jacob’s Birthday: Can a closeted gay teenager find someone
to connect with?; Alexander Scharfman, The Big Community: A
little crime in a big retirement community can only be solved by one
man… and his grandson; and Christian Madera, editor-collaborator on
multiple projects. And, see final (or selected) projects from the Summer
Animation Class, taught by visiting Prof. Lynn Tomlinson, with T.A. Eric
Becker. The animators are: Linda Barsi, Bing Bai, Oliver Dudman, Daniel
Fipphen, Gabriella Garza, Diamantina Espinosa, Chenxue Lu, Andrew
Rose, Maia Vidal, Jennifer Wong, Roxanne Yamins.
RUNNING TIME APPROX. 2 HRS
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11, courtesy of the Big
Red Barn Professional &
Graduate Student Assoc.
directed by Alexis Dos Santos
with Fernando Tielve, Deborah
Franìois, Michiel Huisman
“A YOUTHFUL MOVIE made
by, about, and largely for
youthful hipsters, Alexis Dos Santos’s Unmade Beds is an ambitious
neo-new wave portrait of wayfaring Europeans looking for love and
identity in the bohemian nooks of East London...Told as two interweaving stories, Unmade Beds alternates between the daffily tender tale
of a wild-haired, frequently drunk Spaniard, Axl, searching for his
long-lost British father, and the emo-inflected travails of heartbroken
French fille, Vera, navigating a new romance... Unmade Beds revels
in its art-pop sensibility, bursting with the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard
and Wong Kar-wai...The film has an intoxicating quality.” (Village Voice)
With a great soundtrack to boot, we promise you will fall in love with
this movie! In English, Spanish and French with English subtitles. more
at ifcfilms.com 35MM
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HITCHCOCK 101
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equiem for Analog
Television Noise
Nov 12
with mechanical
television pioneer
Park Doing and his
musical friends
SINCE THE FIRST television
broadcasts in the mid1920s, TV shows have been accompanied by the visual music of analog
noise. S-squiggles, vertical jumps, horizontal breaks, ‘snow storms’,
‘blue-outs’ and ‘green-outs’, ghosts and negative inversions are among
a myriad of ‘disturbances’ that make up a visual language that is as
integral to the television viewing experience as the shows themselves.
An FCC ruling brought this dance of analog signal and noise to an end
on June 12, 2009. Inspired by a funeral for analog TV noise held at
Anthology Film archives on that date, this evening a collection of Ithaca
video artists and musicians collectively celebrate and honor TV Noise.
Hosted by Park Doing, the evening includes works by video artists
John Criscitello, Nick Knouf, Claudia Pederson, Jason Livingston, and
Park Doing and musical performances by American Sphynx, Why the
Wires, Force Atomique, keyboardist Mike Stark and drummer Zaun
Marshburn. COSPONSORED WITH POPCORN YOUTH.
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evanche
Nov 13•14•16
directed by
Gütz Spielmann
with Johannes
Krisch, Irina
Potapenko,
Andreas Lust
THI S THRILLER BY
Austrian filmmaker
Gotz Spielmann
fo llow s e x- co n
Alex, a pimp’s assistant who falls
in love with one of his boss’s Ukranian hookers, Tamara. Alex plans
to rob a rural bank for cash so he and Tamara can get out of the sex
industry and live normally, but the job goes awry, along with their plans
for a better, more peaceful life. “Gorgeous, brooding, unpredictable.”
(Salon.com) more at janusfilms.com/revanche
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eraphine
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nglourious Basterds
Dec 4•5•7•10•11•12
directed by Arthur C. Smith III
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to foreign language films, getting your passport
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side of The Wall in 1984’s East Berlin, The Lives of Others
(winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2006)
traces the lives of a playwright and the Stasi agent who spies
on him, as each confronts the moral ambiguities of totalitarian terrorism in the waning days of Soviet rule.
The series concludes with the comedy Good Bye, Lenin!
Set during the early fall of 1989, the tale unfolds after a
woman has a heart attack and falls into a coma, thus missing
the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she awakes in the summer
of 1990, her son must shield her from any excitement as it
could be fatal. His elaborate efforts to conceal the end of the
socialist regime work for a while, but he can only do so much
to hide the arrival of capitalism and Coca-Cola.
Film series cosponsored with the Dept. of German
Studies, the Institute for German Cultural Studies,
and PG Kino.
To further explore the watershed events of 1989 and their aftermath, Cornell is hosting the interdisciplinary conference,
“1989 in Europe and the World” to be held on November
19 and 20 at the A.D. White House. Find more info about
the conference at international.cornell.edu/overview/
WSH
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Sundance Film Festival? Begun in the late 70s in
Salt Lake City with the name Utah/US Film Festival, this little festival that
could, really did, and then some. With Robert Redford there to shepherd it from
the very beginning, the goal of the original festival was to showcase strictly
American-made films and highlight the potential of independent film.
In 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah and changed its timing from
September to January. In the mid-‘80s, the name was changed to Sundance,
which matched the previously established Sundance Institute, both of which
were named after Redford’s character The Sundance Kid in the film Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Lots of today’s most well-known independent filmmakers, including Kevin
Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven
Soderbergh and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance, and the Festival
continues to launch the careers of new filmmakers.
But the atmosphere of the Festival has changed dramatically over the decades
from a low-profile venue for small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood system to a media extravaganza of Hollywood celebrities, distributors looking for the next big “indie” hit, paparazzi, and displays of the latest digital
technologies. The scope of the Festival has also changed and now includes international cinema and a showcase for more
experimental work.
Nestled within all the hype, glamour and glitz, though, one
can still find a lot of great film, and Cornell Cinema’s Late Fall
’09 Flicksheet is a testament to that fact, as it includes seven
wonderful films—both documentaries and features—that had
their premieres at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Three of the titles are part of our Earth Days series (No Impact
Man, Earth Days and The Yes Men Fix the World); one
is a great British comedy having a return engagement in Ithaca
(In the Loop); one was written and directed by Ithaca native
Katherine Dieckman and stars Uma Thurman (Motherhood);
and the remaining two, both Ithaca premieres (Mary and Max
and Unmade Beds) are two of the best films you’ll see this year.
Mary and Max, an animated feature about the unlikely friendship between an Australian girl (voiced by Toni Colette) and
a middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome (voiced by Phillip Seymour Hoffman), is darkly comic, touching and
insightful. Alexis Dos Santos’s Unmade Beds will make you want to be a 20-something hipster living in London, despite the
heartache and search for identity, because it all looks sooooo incredibly appealing, with its “art-pop sensibility, bursting with the
spirit of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-wai...The film has an intoxicating quality.” (Village Voice)
BEST FOREIGN FILM
As we like to say here at Cornell Cinema, we’re Ithaca’s year-round
OSCAR NOMINEES:
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX film festival, but in this particular calendar, we’re Ithaca’s very own
Sundance Film Festival!
Oct 28, 30 & Nov 1
happens every year with the Academy Awards. Films are nominated
for the Best Foreign Language Film that you’ve never even heard
of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
of, much less, seen. Clips from the films are shown, which look
and Cornell Cinema notes what was a monumental historical
intriguing, but that’s hardly the same as seeing the films in their
moment with a four-film series, kicking off with Billy THE GREAT
entirety. As it turns out, some of these films are never released in
Wilder’s 1961 James Cagney-starrer One, Two, DIVIDE: BEFORE
the US, or are released after the awards show. The latter was the case
Three, the production of which was interrupted
when the Berlin Wall was erected. That didn’t stop & AFTER THE WALL this year, when three of the nominated titles, including the Oscar
winner, received limited theatrical releases this summer.
NE, TWO, THREE
the film, though, a fast-paced satire which targeted OOct
21, 23 & 24
While we can’t help you with the Oscar office pool, we can at least
everything in sight: “capitalism, consumerism, THE BAADERfill in the gaps of your foreign film viewing by bringing three of
Communism…’ex’-Nazis, middle-class American MEINHOF COMPLEX
the nominees from last February’s Oscars: an Austrian film that
families, rock ‘n’ roll (East German torture methods Oct 28, 30 &
looks into the world of prostitutes and desperation; an historiinclude multiple spins of “Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie Nov 1
LIVES OF OTHERS cally-based German film about political resistance and anti-war
Yellow Polka–Dot Bikini”), The Coca-Cola Company THE
Nov 4 & 7
revolutionaries; and the winner of the 2008 Best Foreign Language
and the Cold War itself…. Based on a frenetic one-act GOOD BYE LENIN !
Film Academy Award, Departures, a Japanese film that meditates
play by Hungarian great Ferenc Molnar (Lilliom, basis Nov 11 & 14
on death, society, and the cello. Don’t miss what might be your only
of Carousel), Wilder’s adaptation set cynicism records
chance to see the films that were deemed the best from around the world
even for him that bugged many contemporary critics and
by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
Cagney himself…. But in our taste-free, post-Communist
age, One, Two, Three can now be seen as prophetic of
The Baader-Meinhof Complex is a sprawling look at the infamous left
the eventual Fall [of the Wall] itself, as well as a latter-day
wing collective The Red Army Faction who terrorized 1970s Germany with
classic of screwball comedy.” (Film Forum)
a wave of assassinations, bank robberies, kidnappings, and bombings. Shot
with a verité style and a raucous musical score, the film is packed with action,
and much of the dialogue is adapted verbatim from interviews and media
during the Faction’s reign of terror: the elaborate historical re-creation of
1970s Germany is one of the film’s great successes.
A meditation on life and the meaning of death, Departures tells the
EPARTURES
story of Daigo Kobayashi, a recently unemployed cellist who embarks on DOct
30, Nov 1 & 2
a
new
career
of
preparing
corpses
for
burial,
or
“Nokanshi.”
While
some
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
REVANCHE
Nov 13, 14 & 16
of his friends shun him for accepting such a “low-caste” position, Daigo
Nine years later, in 1970, in the still fragile German desoon realizes that the work is important, and necessary, and DEPARTURES
mocracy, the journalist Ulrike Meinhof helped secure the
begins to take pride in his work and perfect the art, acting as a
freedom of left-wing revolutionary Andreas Baader from
gatekeeper between the living and the dead, the departed and
prison, and the media dubbed the new coalition the The
those they leave behind.
Baader-Meinhof Gang. This radicalized group used violent
And Austrian filmmaker Gotz Spielmann gives us in Revanche
terrorist tactics to fight what they believed was the new face
a thriller about Alex, an ex-con and pimp’s assistant who falls
of fascism: American imperialism supported by the Gerin love with one of the hookers, a Ukranian woman named
man establishment, many of whom had a Nazi past. The
Tamara. Alex plans to take Tamara and substitute the trappings
history of the group is explored in the Oscar-nominated
of the sex industry with a normal life, but the bank heist that
The Baader-Meinhof Complex, an “explosive but scruwould have financed their escape goes awry and leaves them
pulously journalistic drama.” (Chicago Reader)
grappling with the lost dream of a better life.
Another gripping political thriller, this time set on the other
th
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ertigo
Nov 16•17
introduced by Matthew
Bucemi (grad, English)
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
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irtual JFK: Vietnam if
Kennedy Had Lived
Nov 18
introduced by Professors Fredrik Logevall
(History) & Elizabeth Sanders (Govt)
directed by Koji Masutani
VIRTUAL JFK INVESTIGATES one of the most debated “what if” scenarios
in the history of U.S. foreign policy: What would President Kennedy
have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963, and had
been re-elected in 1964? The film employs what Harvard historian Niall
Ferguson calls “virtual history,” assessing the plausibility of counterfactuals—“what ifs”—and the outcomes they might have produced. The
heart of the film deals with the question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? more at virtualjfk.com VIDEO PROJECTION
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es Men Fix
the World
Nov 30 Dec 1•3•5•6
The
directed by Andy Bichlbaum,
Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr
with Andy Bichlbaum,
Mike Bonanno
THE YES MEN, notorious pranksters who are the thorn in the foot of
corporate and government elephants, are back in action, taking on
(and hilariously impersonating execs from) Dow Chemical, Haliburton,
and Exxon, where they announce a new fuel made from the bodies of
victims of Global Warming. “A film complete with comedic interludes
and, yes, an underwater ballet, The Yes Men Fix the World is
as entertaining as it is effective.” (Sundance Film Festival) more at
theyesmenfixtheworld.com 35MM
2009>COLOR>1 HR 27 MIN>FRANCE/USA