Treat yourself to a mini film class by attending Cornell Cinema's Monday Night Classic Cinema series, "Vive la France: A Survey of Classic French Cinema," in September and October. The series is being shown in conjunction with the class French Film, taught by Professor Timothy Murray, and is co-sponsored with the French Studies Program and the Goldsen Fund.
Screenings will be Mondays at 7 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, with repeat screenings typically held Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m.
Murray will introduce the first film in the series, Jean Vigo's masterpiece "L'Atalante," known as one of the most romantic and inventive of all French films, Monday, Sept. 6. The film also will be shown Sept. 7.
Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion," which studies the subtle barriers of class among a group of prisoners and their captors during World War I, will be shown Sept. 13 and 14. "Pépé le Moko," directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin as an underworld leader hiding out in the Casbah, will screen Sept. 20 and 21, and the stylish "Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler)," directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, will be shown Sept. 27 and 28.
The series will continue in October with Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless," François Truffaut's "The 49 Blows" and Robert Bresson's "Au Hasard Balthazar."
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