Cornell Cinema welcomes new students to Ithaca with a week of free and discounted screenings and special events. From Sunday, Aug. 26, through Thursday, Aug. 30, all new students from any institution, both undergraduates and graduate students, get in free with ID to all Cornell Cinema screenings. Tickets for new students are just half price ($2) Friday, Aug. 31, and Saturday, Sept. 1. Admission for returning students, senior citizens and kids 12 and under is $4; general admission is $4.50.
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| The Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup" kicks off Cornell Cinema's Faculty & Film Series and is free for all new students on Wednesday, Aug. 29. |
The week offers a sampling of Cornell Cinema's menu of classic, foreign, independent and Hollywood cinema. Screenings include such classics as Akira Kurosawa's "Ran," Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" and Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane," as well as the recent hits "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Bridget Jones's Diary." Cornell Professor Roger Gilbert will kick off the series "Faculty & Film: How Movies Can Change Your Life and Other Tales of Cinematic Transcendence" by introducing the Marx Brothers classic "Duck Soup" on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre.
More information about the orientation week schedule is available at http://cinema.cornell.edu.
The highlight of the week will be a visit by Bill Gilman '93, a Cornell alum and former Cornell Cinema employee who now works as a special effects compositor at Industrial Light and Magic. Gilman will reveal how the special effects were done for "The Perfect Storm," "Pearl Harbor" and Steven Spielberg's "A.I." He'll also screen some of his own short films. Cornell Cinema hosts Gilman on Friday, Aug. 31, at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre.
In addition to the Aug. 29 screening of "Duck Soup," introduced by Gilbert, a former Harpo Marx impersonator, the film will be shown Friday, Aug. 31, at 8 p.m. in Uris Hall Auditorium.
Frank Robinson, director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and a former professor of film history and art criticism at Wellesley and Dartmouth, will introduce Federico Fellini's "8 1/2," one of the most influential films of the last 40 years, Sept. 3. "8 1/2" also will be shown Thursday, Aug. 30, at 7:15 p.m.
On Sept. 10, Professor David Bathrick (Theatre, Film and Dance/German studies) will introduce a recently restored print of "M," Fritz Lang's masterpiece about a sexual psychopath whose murder of several children stuns and outrages the citizens in a small German town.
Senior lecturer Lynda Bogel (English) will introduce "Breathless," Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, Sept. 17. Forty years after its original release, "Breathless" remains relevant and irreverent, and it is a movie for people who love the movies. The film also will be shown Tuesday, Sept.18, at 9:30 p.m.
Senior lecturer Marilyn Rivchin (Theatre, Film and Dance) will introduce a new print of one of Godard's later films, "Weekend," Sept. 24. This mind-expanding anti-bourgeois spectacle about one woman's road to guerrillahood is among Godard's more fully realized works. "Weekend" also will be shown Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 9:20 p.m.
The series continues Oct. 2 with Ingmar Bergman's "Persona," introduced by Professor Don Fredericksen (Theatre, Film and Dance). The film is a psychological masterpiece about an actress who suffers a collapse and the nurse in charge of her recovery.
Look for more Faculty & Film screenings throughout the year at Cornell Cinema.
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