An Evening with Editor Tim Squyres '81, playing at Cornell Cinema

Cornell alum and Oscar nominee Tim Squyres’s filmography on the Internet Movie Database is remarkable in the number, quality and breadth of films he’s edited. The list includes all of director Ang Lee’s films, with the exception of Brokeback Mountain, since Pushing Hands (1992), as well as Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001) and Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana (2005). He’s also worked extensively in television, editing pilots for major network programs, and editing documentaries for PBS and ESPN. His latest work, Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married (2008), starring Anne Hathaway, is slated to be released on October 3. This evening Mr. Squyres will discuss his work and life, and we’ll show Gosford Park.

The great American director Robert Altman took on the British murder mystery in Gosford Park, gathering an ensemble dream cast from both sides of the Atlantic in an English country house for a weekend of hunting, dining and murder. An intricate upstairs/downstairs dance of manners and astute social observation, the film offers all the satisfactions of a classic genre piece with the performances and astute social observation of Altman’s best films. “Gosford Park is the kind of generous, sardonic, deeply layered movie that Altman has made his own... serenely the master of his art.” (Roger Ebert) This program is part of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts 20th Anniversary Celebration.