summer 2007 series

Cornell Cinema's outdoor screenings on the Willard Straight terrace have become a highlight of summer in Ithaca. If you've attended in previous years, we know you'll come back, and if you've never been, then you're in for a real treat. With images flickering on the screen hung alongside the fabulous Memorial Room windows, stars twinkling above, and a warm summer breeze wafting through the air, life doesn't get much better!

Once again, we offer two films that are ideally suited to the summer and to the Willard Straight Terrace. Both events will begin at 8:30pm, when you're welcome to join us on the terrace to listen to music and watch the sunset over Cayuga Lake from one of Cornell's loveliest locations. This year we offer a full cash bar and snacks to enjoy both before and during the screenings, which will begin at 9:30pm, after sunset.

We're excited to present our first animated feature ever on the terrace, the incomparable The Triplets of Belleville. Frog-leg popsicles. Bicycle-powered movie projectors. A cabaret trio who rustle newspapers and pluck refrigerator wire for backup. It sounds like Björk having a daydream, but it's actually French director Sylvain Chomet's acclaimed animated masterpiece, a funky tale about an abducted Tour de France contestant and how his plucky grandmother and indomitable dog track him down and set him free. Belleville itself, a dizzying hybrid of Paris and New York that is full of graphic one-liners and hidden, hilarious details, is the fabulous setting for this “animated rapture from sweet start to enthralling finish line.Ó (Film Comment)

And after having so much fun with Bogie last summer in The Maltese Falcon, we're bringing him back in To Have and Have Not on July 12. The film that united him with Lauren Bacall in her spectacular debut is filled with suspense, humor, elegance, and some of the best one liners in film history, so just put your lips together and come out for what's sure to be a sultry, scintillating evening!

In the unlikely event of a summer rain, the shows will take place in Willard Straight Theatre. We expect this summer's events to be as popular as ever, so buy your tickets early! Prices: $9/$7 students & seniors. No comps, discount cards or guest passes accepted. Advance tickets will go on sale starting the Monday before each screening (June 25 and July 9 respectively) at the Cinema office, 104 Willard Straight Hall, from 9am - 5pm. For more info call 255-3522.

Images from (top to bottom): The Triplets of Belleville, To Have and Have Not