- Film scholar Miseong Woo (Yonsei University), East Asia Program’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Korean Studies
- introduces Spirits’ Homecoming
- Mon Oct 31 @ 6:15 (Free)
- Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris (via Skype)
- presents her 1981 breakthrough doc about L.A.’s punk scene: The Decline of Western Civilization with Q & A facilitated by Prof Tom McEnaney (Comp Lit)
- Tues Nov 1 @ 7:00
- Filmmaker Gustav Deutsch & Art Director Hanna Schimek
- present Shirley: Visions of Reality
- Wed Nov 2 @ 7:00
- The Alloy Orchestra
- perform their new score for the French silent avant-garde classic L’Inhumaine
- Thur Nov 3 @ 7:00
- $12/$10 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
- The Alloy Orchestra
- perform their new score for E.A. Dupont’s Weimar silent classic Varieté
- Fri Nov 4 @ 7:00
- $12/$10 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
- The Alloy Orchestra
- perform their score for a new digital restoration of Vertov’s iconic Soviet silent Man with a Movie Camera
- Fri Nov 4 @ 9:15
- $12/$10 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
- PuppHitz Director Scott Hitz
- presents Heather Henson’s Puppet Dreams: a Puppet Film Festival
- Sat Nov 5 @ 2:00
- $5 / $4 kids 12 & under
- The Alloy Orchestra
- perform their acclaimed score for the definitive restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
- Sat Nov 5 @ 7:15
- $14/$12 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
- Actress Lily Gladstone
- introduces & holds a Q&A after Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women
- Sun Nov 6 @ 7:00
- Dr. Christopher Clark (Lab of Ornithology)
- introduces & holds a Q&A after Sonic Sea
- Mon Nov 7 @ 7:00 (Free)
- Filmmaker Zou Xueping
- presents her doc Foolish Village
- Tues Nov 8 @ 5:00 (Free)
- as part of The Memory Project (free Chinese food between screenings)
- Filmmaker Liu Xiaolei
- presents her doc A True Believer
- Tues Nov 8 @ 7:15 (Free)
- as part of The Memory Project
- Filmmaker Zhang Mengq
- presents his doc Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM
- Wed Nov 9 @ 5:00 (Free)
- as part of The Memory Project (free Chinese food between screenings)
- Filmmaker Wu Wenguang
- presents his doc Investigating My Father
- Wed Nov 9 @ 7:15 (Free)
- as part of The Memory Project
- Tenzin Chopak, Peter Dodge & Bill King
- perform Chopak’s score to A Page of Madness
- Sun Nov 13 @ 2:00
- as part of the Ithaca Fantastik
- Cinema Director Mary Fessenden & Manager Doug McLaren
- present An Orientation to Cornell Cinema
- Mon Aug 22 @ 7:00 (Free to all)
- Cinema Director Mary Fessenden
- introduces the Don Fredericksen Memorial Screening of Walkabout
- Wed Aug 24 @ 7:00 (Free to new CU students (undergrad, grad & transfer) w/ ID)
- Steven Strogatz (CU Mathematics)
- introduces and holds a Q&A after The Man Who Knew Infinity
- Tues Aug 30 @ 7:15 (Free to ALL CU students)
- Larry Jackson ’70 (former studio executive and Welles’ collaborator)
- introduces and holds a Q&A after Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight
- Wed Aug 31 @ 7:15
- Composers Michael Gordon & Julia Wolfe (Bang on a Can)
- present and discuss scores for their Collaborations with Bill Morrison (archival filmmaker)
- Wed Sept 14 @ 7:15
- Also, catch them in concert Thur Sept 15 @ 8:00 in Sage Chapel.
- Filmmaker Penny Lane
- presents NUTS!
- Thur Sept 15 @ 7:00
- Film scholar Miseong Woo (Yonsei University), East Asia Program’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Korean Studies
- introduces Under the Sun
- Mon Sept 19 @ 7:00
- Cornell faculty Chuck Greene (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences), Toby Ault (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) & Robert Howarth (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- participate in a post-screening panel discussion of Time to Choose
- Tues Sept 20 @ 7:00
- Cornell Faculty Oneka LaBennett, Noliwe Rooks, Samantha Sheppard and Dehanza Rogers
- conduct a panel discussion after a screening of Beyoncé’s Lemonade
- Thur Sept 22 @ 7:15 (*Free)
- *The event is free but one must obtain a ticket in advance from the Willard Straight Resource Center, available starting Mon Sept 19 at 10am
- FULL TITLE: The Aesthetics and Style of Race, Gender and Politics: Beyoncé’s Lemonade
- Film scholar Miseong Woo (Yonsei University), East Asia Program’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Korean Studies
- introduces The Lovers and the Despot
- Mon Sept 26 @ 7:00
- Filmmaker Peter Galison (via Skype)
- holds a Q&A after Containment
- Tues Sept 27 @ 7:00 (Free)
- Film Scholar Olga Gershenson (UMass, Amherst)
- presents the recovered Soviet film about the Holocaust, Eastern Corridor
- Thur Sept 29 @ 7:00 (Free)
- Director Robert Lieberman, producer Deborah Hoard ’78 and editor David Kossack
- present their newest film: Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia
- Mon Oct 3 @ 7:00
- The Invincible Czars
- perform their original score for F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu
- Thur Oct 13 @ 7:30 in Sage Chapel
- $10 / $8 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
- Filmmaker Tia Lessin ’86
- presents Citizen Koch
- Mon Oct 17 @ 6:45
- Producer Tia Lessin ’86
- will hold a Q&A after a screening of Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next
- Tues Oct 18 @ 7:00
- CU Prof Emeritus Tony Ingraffea (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- holds a Q&A after Before the Flood
- Thur Oct 20 @ 4:45 (Free)
- Filmmaker Benson Lee (via Skype)
- holds a Q&A after Seoul Searching
- Mon Oct 24 @ 7:00
- Filmmaker Salima Koroma
- presents Bad Rap
- Tues Oct 25 @ 7:00 (Free)
- Jesse McLean
- presents her work during An Evening with Media Artist Jesse McLean
- Wed Oct 26 @ 7:15
- Dr. Philip Carli
- provides live piano accompaniment to Fritz Lang’s early silent masterpiece, Destiny
- Thur Oct 27 @ 7:00
- $10/$8 students & seniors—advance tickets at CornellCinemaTickets.com
special guests fall 2016
films screen in the Willard Straight Theatre, unless otherwise noted