Godzilla (Double Feature)

Join us at Cornell Cinema on Saturday, November 2 for a special GODZILLA DOUBLE FEATURE! 

The original Godzilla (1953) will screen at 6pm and followed by Destroy All Monsters (1968) at 8pm. One ticket gets you access to both screenings.

Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning nearly thirty sequels — most recently Godzilla Minus One (2023) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024).

In this digital restoration of the original version of the film released in Japan in 1954 (not the U.S. version released two years later), Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined: The culprit is a 150-foot creature from the Jurassic Age who has been living on the bottom of the ocean millions of years but has been awakened by the underground nuclear testing, whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Godzilla screens with Destroy All Monsters (1969) in a special double feature as part of our "Restorations & Rediscoveries" series. Courtesy of Janus Films.