Alien

What happens when human life is weighed against profit? Can the conflict between human and corporate incentives be resolved?

Join Nozomi Nishimura, McClintock faculty-in-residence, and Stephanie Thomas, Low Rises 6&7 faculty-in-residence, for a special screening of Alien and post-film discussion on how incentives shape our lives.

Directed by Ridley Scott, Alien (1979) follows the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo, who are interrupted on their voyage home to Earth when their ship’s computer detects what is believed to be an alien distress signal coming from a nearby planet. While investigating the desolate landscape, one of the crew is attacked by an alien creature that latches to his face and is rushed back to the Nostromo to receive medical treatment. Ripley, the ship’s warrant officer, advises that her injured colleague can’t be brought aboard due to quarantine regulations — but her orders are ignored, inadvertently bringing the Nostromo under threat from a mysterious extraterrestrial life form with violent and lethal survival instincts.

Free admission and free popcorn! This event is sponsored by Faculty Living-Learning Programs as part of the “North Campus Goes to the Movies” film series.

Courtesy of 20th Century Studios and Criterion Pictures.

 

About "North Campus Goes to the Movies"

This spring, Cornell Cinema is pleased to partner with the Faculty-in-Residence Program on a series of film screenings that highlight a variety of themes. All events are free and open to the public and will feature commentary by faculty from the North Campus FIR program.

The Faculty-in-Residence (FIR) program was established in 1980 to enhance the personal growth and development of students and to nurture their intellectual interest through informal interactions with members of the faculty.