Alumni filmmakers share stories from the Big Red to the red carpet
Producers of "Succession" and "American Masters" on PBS will screen films and talk about their careers.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Nanny, NOMON, and Man with a Movie Camera with live music by Montopolis!
It's an exciting week at Cornell Cinema with three, unique special events…
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Colorful Titles and Leonard Cohen this Week
This week at Cornell Cinema, we are thrilled to revisit last year’s hit, The Green Knight…
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Halloween Fun, Indigenous Shorts, French Films, Patricia Highsmith This Week
Come out in costume Monday night for a special Halloween screening of Ringu…
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Celluloid experiments, an electronic musical tribute, RRR, and Halloween weekend
This is one of those weeks where All-Access Passholders really get their money’s worth…
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Nosferatu with Live Music Highlight in Diverse Week of Films
This Wednesday is our marquee event for the Fall semester—a special centenary screening of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu…
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Filmmaker Tia Lessin ’89 Presents 'The Janes', 35mm Prints This Week
We are thrilled to host co-director, and Cornell alumna, Tia Lessin ’89 on Thursday for our screening of the timely documentary The Janes…
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International Films, Cat Videos and a Classic Silent Highlight Week
Cornell Cinema welcomes its new director, Molly Ryan…
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2 Filmmaker Visits Highlight Week
A regular feature of Cornell Cinema screenings is the opportunity to engage directly with filmmakers and film professionals…
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'Diva,' 'Blue Velvet,' and Hollywood vs the real Hawaii This Week
Cornell Cinema starts the week off with a Situationist bang this Wednesday…
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October & November Films Announced
October & November Films Announced
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Sundance Shorts, Ithaca Premieres Highlight Week
Films playing at Cornell Cinema week of August 29–Sept 4, 2022.
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New Students Get in Free Through Friday
Classes are in session, and so is Cornell Cinema!
New students at Cornell can enjoy free movies from now until Friday…
Celluloid recollections: Cornell Cinema names new director
A new director, Molly Ryan, will take the helm of Cornell Cinema this fall, succeeding Mary Fessenden, who has led the organization for 35 years, eight years as 8 manager and 27 as director.
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Cinema Director Mary Fessenden Says Farewell
Cornell Cinema wrapped its Spring ’22 season on May 5 with a screening of a beautiful 35mm print of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944), introduced by author David Lehman, who signed copies of his new book, The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir, published by Cornell University Press, after the show. An...
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Drive My Car, Experimental Landscape Films & Double Indemnity Wrap Cornell Cinema's Season!
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. As of April 11, masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required, but are strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance is available here.This is it, folks! Our final week of the Spring semester.We’re leaving you with three excellent...
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Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, and Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life & Jane Campion's The Piano on 35mm!
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. As of April 11, masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required, but are strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance is available here.Monday night Cornell Cinema hosts a FREE screening of A Shape of Things to Come, with...
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Oscar-nominated films & 'South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition' in new restoration!
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. As of April 11, masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required, but are strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance is available here.It's the home stretch of the semester with only three more weeks of screenings left!We start...
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Multi-Projector Performance Headlines a Varied Week
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. As of April 11, masks and proof of vaccination are no longer required, but are strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance is available here.___________________________________________________Announcing Temple of Zeus at the Concession Stand!!We are thrilled...
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Looking Ahead from Spring Break
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. If a patron does not have a current Cornell ID, they must provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test. As of March 14, masks are no longer required, but are strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance, including acceptable proof of...
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Live Projection Performance, Ukrainian Films Highlight Week
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. If a patron does not have a current Cornell ID, they must provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test. As of March 14, masks are no longer required, but strongly encouraged. Up-to-date guidance, including acceptable proof of...
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More than $12M donated to support students in 24 hours
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Silent Film with Live Music, World Cinema and More This Week
AnnouncementsAll patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events. If a patron does not have a current Cornell ID, they must provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test. As of March 14, masks are no longer required, but encouraged nonetheless. Up-to-date guidance, including acceptable proof of vaccination...
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Anvil Orchestra with von Sternberg Silent Highlights a Full Week
Giving Day is Wednesday, March 16th!Cornell’s one-day fundraising marathon, Giving Day, is this Wednesday, and we’d greatly appreciate any donation you can afford to give. Your support helps ensure we can continue providing high-quality film presentations worthy of any city thirty times our size! Though it won’t be active until Wednesday, the...
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Filmmaker Visits, Psychedelic Japanese Cinema and Docs
All patrons must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events which include wearing high-quality (N95 or equivalent) masks while indoors, and, if a patron does not have a current Cornell ID, provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test. Up-to-date guidance, including acceptable proof of vaccination or test, is...
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Oscar Shorts, Fellini, International Films Kick Off March
AnnouncementsThe artists involved with the upcoming show, (X)-trACTION (Mon, March 7), a meta mash-up of short films concerned for the climate, workers, history and the future—the beauty and the failures—seek your 20-60 second one-take submissions to include in the program. No previous film experience required. Submissions due by Tues March 1...
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Call for Video Submissions for (X)-trACTION
CALL TO THE ITHACA COMMUNITYWE WANT YOUR ONE-TAKE VIDEO to be included in (X)-trACTION a March 7, 2022 Cornell Cinema Visiting Artist Program EventLETTERS FROM ITHACA: UNDER THE SURFACEWHAT:We want your 20-60 second one-take videos, captured on any device at hand. Consider showing us that which might not be seen by or sold to...
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Guest Filmmaker, Great Docs & Intntl Features, Encanto, Shang-Chi & more!
AnnouncementsThe artists involved with the upcoming show, (X)-trACTION (Mon, March 7), a meta mash-up of short films concerned for the climate, workers, history and the future—the beauty and the failures—seek your 20-60 second one-take submissions to include in the program. No previous film experience required. Submissions due by Tues March 1...
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Cornell Cinema receives grant, announces spring lineup
"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.
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'The Power of the Dog' and 'Dune' Headline a Stellar Line-Up
AnnouncementsWe're hiring!! Come join our amazing student staff! We have both paid & volunteer positions. Work-study students can apply for our box office positions, and anyone can join as a volunteer usher to watch FREE MOVIES! Fill out an application and drop it off at our office or email cinema@cornell.edu. All patrons must adhere...
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In-Person Screenings Start This Week
This is the week! We’re opening for in-person screenings in the historic Willard Straight Theatre starting Monday, with an astounding eleven films this week! We’ll try to highlight why you should see each one (a prospect made quite economical with an All-Access Pass!).But first, an announcement of our COVID policy:All patrons must...
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Spring 2022 Schedule Announced!
Starting this Wednesday, Cornell Cinema launches its Spring ’22 schedule with four exquisite foreign language films offered on demand via our virtual cinema platform from January 26–February 6 to coincide with Cornell’s remote teaching schedule for the first two weeks of the semester.Then, a thrilling schedule of in-person screenings &...
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It's a Wrap for Fall 2021!
We’re done for the semester! We’re closing up shop a little early this month to make some needed repairs in the theatre, but we’ll be back in late January with another semester full of excellent cinema. Thank you so much for coming out. It was a thrill to witness so many people re-discover the power of a theatrical presentation after a year and a...
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David Byrne, Hitchcock’s Rear Window & CODA Wrap Semester
Welcome back from Thanksgiving! We’re in the final stretch of the semester, with just a few more films before we close up shop for 2021. Although we'll be dark from Dec 4–Jan 24, we’ll be hard at work preparing a great line-up for the Spring semester.But we’re getting ahead of ourselves—we still have movies this week, starting Tuesday night! We’...
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Enjoy Thanksgiving Break
We’re off this week in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, but we’ll be back next week for a few final shows before wrapping up for the semester! Hope you watch some great films with your family after the Thanksgiving meal. And speaking of Thanksgiving, we’re tremendously thankful to all of you who came to our screenings this semester,...
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Classic Thrillers by Hitchcock & Wenders, 2 Great Docs & Miyazaki's Ponyo
Have you filled out our Spring 2022 Programming Survey yet? Your input on these questions will help us guide not only our film selection for next semester, but also what we do with our All-Access Pass in coming years. Hurry, responses are due Tues Nov 16 by midnight!It’s the penultimate week of screenings for the Fall semester! We kick...
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Silent Film/Live Music featuring Theda Bara and a Live Chamber Ensemble
A Fool There Was (1915)Directed by Frank Powellwith Theda Bara, Edward JoséSaturday, November 13 at 7:15pmSpecial pricing: $12 general/$10 students ($2 off for All-Access Pass holders)Buy your tickets here! Theda Bara is probably the most famous American silent film star whose reputation is based on films that are irretrievably lost....
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Silent Film/Live Music, 2 French Knock-outs, Psycho & Daughters of the Dust
Cornell Cinema’s final silent film/live music event of the semester is this Saturday night: the 1915 drama A Fool There Was! The film stars Theda Bara (pictured), one of the most prolific silent film actresses of the 1910s, whose work has been almost entirely lost to the sands of time, save for three extant films. This is one of...
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New Fall Titles Announced
We’re thrilled to announce some extra films this November & December!! If you haven’t yet purchased an All-Access Pass, you now have 6 more reasons to pick one up! Also, a reminder: we’re still hiring for student projectionists for next semester! We’re interviewing and training staff this month, so get your application in now.One of our...
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2 Filmmaker Visits & 3 Classic Films on the Big Screen!
Welcome to November! We begin the month tonight with a FREE screening of The State of Texas vs. Melissa, sponsored by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. This documentary is about the first Hispanic woman to be sentenced to death in the state of Texas, documenting her last appeal. Following the screening, there will be a...
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‘Shaun of the Dead’ & Treats, 2 Film Restorations & Dash Shaw’s ‘Cryptozoo’
Cornell Cinema is hiring! Ever come see a movie and wonder how it is we get such a nice, beautiful image on the screen every night? Well it’s thanks to our head projectionist and his student projectionists, who are trained in the fine art of projection! We’re hiring projectionists for next semester—so consider joining our amazing team!! Fill...
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Work by 7 Acclaimed Filmmakers This Week!
Haven't purchased your All-Access Pass yet? Do so today and you'll gain FREE access to ALL the films listed below plus about 15 more this semester. Wow!You have two more chances to catch Todd Haynes’ elusive, impressionistic documentary, The Velvet Underground this week, starting Monday! Tuesday evening, Judith Peraino (Music) will introduce The...
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‘The Velvet Underground’ with Guests, 3-D Hitchcock, Kiarostami Films
Did you know that the largest archive of Velvet Underground material owned by an institution is housed right here at Cornell? Cornell Cinema is thrilled to have an excuse to talk about it with the Ithaca Premiere of Todd Haynes’ new documentary The Velvet Underground, opening this Friday!As an extra-special treat, we’ve lined up an opening-...
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French Rural Classics, Sundance Winner ‘Son of Monarchs’, Two Great Women-Directed Films
It’s Farrebique/Biquefarre week! (Say that three times fast).As part of Cornell Cinema’s 50th anniversary celebrations, we’re screening two films that have some deep, historical significance for Cornell Cinema. First up is Farrebique (Mon & Wed) (pictured), the first film to win the FIPRESCI Prize at the very first Cannes Film...
/news/french-rural-classics-sundance-winner-son-monarchs-two-great-women-directed-filmsOpen to General Public; Current COVID-19 Safety Guidelines
We've got GOOD NEWS for the general public! We now can welcome the general public to ALL of our screenings by adhering to Cornell University's recently announced and updated event protocols! As of Sept 30, 2021, ALL PATRONS, including members of the Cornell community, will need to provide one of the following to gain admittance:Cornell ID;or...
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Open to general public starting Thursday, visiting filmmaker on Friday!
We've got GOOD NEWS for the general public! Starting this Thursday, September 30, Cornell Cinema can welcome the general public to ALL of our screenings by adhering to Cornell University's recently announced and updated event protocols!As of Thursday, ALL PATRONS, including members of the Cornell community, will need to provide one...
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The Goddess Open to General Public; Other Week Highlights
We are thrilled to invite members of both the CU & greater Ithaca communities to our very special event this Thursday, a screening of the Chinese silent classic The Goddess, featuring live musical accompaniment by virtuosos Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi. All attendees must be masked throughout the performance and...
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