This week, Cornell Cinema presents two documentary premieres. "Cinemania," directed by Angela Christleib and Stephen Kijak, is an outlandish tribute to love of cinema at its strangest and most obsessive, following five individuals who live for film. Among them are Jack, who attends up to five films a day and favors a low-fiber diet in order to minimize bathroom interruptions, and Roberta, also known as the "Queen of the Cinemaniacs," who once throttled an usher at MoMA when he unwittingly tore her ticket in half -- she saves them all in mint condition. "Cinemania" will screen tonight, Nov. 6, at 7:15 in Willard Straight Theatre and Saturday, Nov. 8, at 7:15 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m., Cornell Cinema welcomes filmmaker Sam Green with the Ithaca premiere of "The Weather Underground." In 1969, following years of war in Vietnam and civil unrest, the radical Weather Underground splintered from the reform-minded Students for a Democratic Society. The group's explicit aim: dismantle the U.S. government, a state apparatus it saw as criminal and oppressive. Archival footage successfully depicts the heady, raging days when the Weathermen carried out bombings in retaliation for the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, and contemporary interviews reveal them to be people aware of their wrongs yet committed to community activism. This program is co-sponsored with Presentation Funds from the Experimental Television Center, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Tickets are $6 general; $5 students and seniors; and $4 for Cornell graduate students and children 12 and under, unless otherwise noted. For more information call 255-3522 or visit http://cinema.cornell.edu.
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