For Immediate Release For more information, Please contact Mary Fessenden At 607.255.3883 Fall 2019 Special Events & Series All films open to the public Ticket Prices: $9.50 general admission/$7.50 seniors/ $7 students/$5.50 CU graduate students and kids 12 & under $7 general/$5.50 students for matinees (before 6:00pm) Special event prices may apply Advance tickets available at CornellCinemaTickets.com Announcing the new All-Access Pass! This Fall Cornell Cinema introduces a new All-Access Pass that will give patrons access to all regularly priced screenings for the entire academic year (over 150 titles!) for one low price. Pricing is almost too good to be true: CU graduate & professional students - $10 All other students - $20 Community members (including faculty & staff) - $30 There will be certain special events for which the pass cannot be used, although having the pass will likely provide the holder with a discount on the special ticket price. Read the fine print! All-Access Passes can be purchased online at cinema.cornell.edu as of August 15, at Cornell Cinema’s Open Houses (in Willard Straight Theatre) on August 23 & 24, or at the box office before shows. Purchasing in advance online is highly recommended. All screenings in Willard Straight Theatre unless otherwise noted For more information visit http://cinema.cornell.edu Orientation Week Films are FREE Monday, August 26 through Friday, August 30 for new students with ID! FREE to all Cornell students on Friday, August 30 Cornell Cinema launches its fall season on Monday, August 26 and NEW STUDENTS (undergrads, grads & transfers) are invited to attend for FREE through Friday, August 30! Cornell Cinema offers a classic movie going experience in the vintage Willard Straight Theatre and is considered one of the best campus film exhibition programs in the country, showing a wide variety of films every month, including recent hits, classics, world cinema, documentaries, cult favorites and more. Everyone (including Ithaca community members) get in for free to An Orientation to Cornell Cinema, featuring lots of coming attractions trailers, free popcorn, information on how to become involved with the organization and chances to win door prizes. Films screening August 26 – 29 are cosponsored with the Orientation Steering Committee. All Cornell students get in FREE to the Friday, August 30 shows of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 3D & Captain Marvel courtesy of the Welcome Weekend Committee. An Orientation to Cornell Cinema - FREE Aug 26 Citizen Kane (1941) Aug 26, 28 Directed by Orson Welles Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Aug 27, 28 Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Booksmart (2019) Aug 27, 31, Sept 1 Directed by Olivia Wilde The River and the Wall (2018) Aug 29 Directed by Ben Masters Us (2019) Aug 29, 31 Directed by Jordan Peele Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) in 3D! Aug 30 Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Captain Marvel (2019) Aug 30 Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Live Music & Silent Films featuring Q & As with the musicians Cornell Cinema teams up again with the Dept. of Music to present a free pre-Halloween screening of a classic horror film in Sage Chapel with live organ accompaniment by Dennis James. This year’s selection is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on the Victor Hugo novel and starring Lon Chaney. The screening will close- out Silent Movie Month in Ithaca. Then in November, Cornell Cinema welcomes back the Cambridge-based Alloy Orchestra for a two-day engagement. Founded in 1991, the group has been composing and performing their original scores for an array of silent films ever since, and Cornell Cinema has had the pleasure of hosting them, on a near-annual basis, ever since the late ‘90s. The three-man ensemble, known to sound like a twelve-piece orchestra, is made-up of Roger C. Miller on synthesizer; Terry Donahue on junk percussion, accordion, saw and banjo; and Ken Winokur on junk percussion and clarinet. The group has played a major role in the resurgence of interest in silent films shown with live musical accompaniment over their near 30-year history, introducing new audiences to the wonders of silent film year after year, and inspiring other musicians to apply their talents to the unique task of composing for silent films. They’ll perform with the definitive restoration of Fritz Lang’s dystopian epic, Metropolis, on November 8, and with a brand-new restoration of French actor/director Jaque Catelain’s Gallery of Monsters, a tale of love, danger & the circus, on Saturday, November 9, followed by a Q & A with the musicians. The Alloy Orchestra’s score for the film was commissioned by Indiana University Cinema and the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial. The Alloy’s visit is cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Departments of Romance Studies & Music, and the Wharton Studio Museum. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - FREE Oct 29 Directed by Wallace Worsley w/live accompaniment by Dennis James Metropolis (1927) Nov 8 Directed by Fritz Lang w/live accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra Gallery of Monsters (1924) Nov 9 Directed by Jaque Catelain w/live accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra Human Flow: Stories of Global Migration In conjunction with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum’s exhibition “how the light gets in,” contemporary artworks in many mediums that look at the movement of people across the globe and the welcome cracks that develop in our notions of borders and nation states, Cornell Cinema presents this semester-long film series, comprised of recent documentary and feature films from around the world, all Ithaca premieres with the exception of Transit. Providing a special opportunity to learn about the people, personalities and circumstances behind the faces we see and headlines we read every day in the news, the series offers a wide-ranging glimpse of migrants from Africa, Asia, Central America and the Middle East. According to the United Nations’ 2017 International Migration 2 Report, the number of international migrants worldwide has grown significantly over the past two decades, reaching 258 million in 2017, up from 173 million in 2000, so that we are now witnessing the highest levels of movement on record. That figure is expected to grow to 405 million by 2050. The series explores the many reasons individuals decide to migrate, including wars and gang violence, political and religious persecution, climate change resulting in droughts, floods and other natural disasters, and economic hardship. Some of the films draw comparisons with historical moments lest we forget what can happen when we turn our backs on global injustices, others draw inspiration from the migrants themselves, who display extraordinary resilience, even humor, in the face of extreme hardship, and others cast a light on individuals who are trying to help or those erecting barriers in the face of the crisis. Andrea Inselmann, the curator of the Museum’s exhibition, will be on hand at the first screening, The River and the Wall, to talk about the work in the show and how it offers additional viewpoints with which to consider this massive human flow. Cosponsored with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Latin American Studies Program and Cornell Welcomes Refugees. The River and the Wall (2018) Aug 29 Directed by Ben Masters The Citizen (2017) Sept 4 Directed by Roland Vranik Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) Sept 11 Directed by Gabrielle Brady Toward North: Central American Shorts (2017/18) - FREE Sept 17 Directed by Joshua Bennett & others Eldorado (2018) Sept 17 Directed by Markus Imhoof Styx (2018) Sept 20 Directed by Wolfgang Fischer Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film (2017) Sept 26 Directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas Soufra (2017) Oct 2 Directed by Thomas Morgan Transit (2018) Oct 6 Directed by Christian Petzold Chez Jolie Coiffure (2019) Oct 16 Directed by Rosine Mbakam Mariannes noires (2016) - FREE Oct 17 Directed by Mame-Fatou Niang & Kaytie Nielsen w/filmmaker Mame-Fatou Niang in person The Farewell (2019) Oct 17, 18, 19 Directed by Lulu Wang Midnight Traveler (2018) Oct 23 Directed by Hassan Fazili Tazzeka (2018) Oct 30, 31 Directed by Jean-Philippe Gaud Manta Ray (2018) Nov 6 Directed by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng Taste of Cement (2017) Nov 13 Directed by Ziad Kalthoum Djibril Diop Mambéty x 2 Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese director, actor, composer, and poet. With a small body of work made in a short amount of time (2 feature films and 5 shorts before his death at age 53), Mambéty, along with fellow West African filmmakers Ousmane Sembène and Souleyman Cissé, explored the repercussions of colonialism in allegorical tales of rebellion and greed. Hyenas, shown in a new digital restoration, is a tale about a rich woman who returns to the hometown that cast her out, offering the villagers untold wealth in exchange for a sacrifice. Made twenty years earlier, Touki Bouki is “a formally adventurous take-down of the futile dreams of wealth and 3 refinement that French colonialism never tired of imposing” (Screen Slate) on West Africa. The 2008 restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project highlight the film’s sumptuous colors and inventive soundtrack, making it a must-see on the big screen! Both films are screening in conjunction with the Fall courses New Visions in African Cinema, taught by Naminata Diabate (Comparative Literature), and Africa: The Continent and its People, taught by N’Dri Assie-Lumumba (ASRC). It’s worth noting that Mambéty’s niece, filmmaker Mati Diop, became the first black woman to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature directorial debut Atlantics, a magical-realist take on the migrant crisis.