Last call for Oscar Shorts! The Academy Awards are this Sunday, so you still have time to catch the Live Action, Animated, and Documentary shorts before the ceremony! We’ll be running the programs through Thursday, April 29, so even if you don’t see the shorts in time to predict the winners and impress your friends, you can still Monday morning quarterback the programs.
There are still a few more days left to view Fandango at the Wall, leading up to a panel discussion featuring filmmaker Varda Bar-Kar on Tuesday, April 27 at 1pm. You can reserve a ticket to watch the film and register for the panel discussion here.
Opening today is Our Time Machine, a great documentary about a Chinese conceptual artist whose latest project is a monumental theatre piece performed by life-sized automatons, as a way of connecting with his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father, the former artistic director of the Shanghai Chinese Opera Theater. The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary about Moe Berg, a Jewish baseball catcher who joined the OSS in WWII to spy on Nazis. It's available for a shorter viewing window (Tue, 4/27 @ 7pm through Thur, 4/29 @ 7pm), but we have an unlimited number of tickets available for this one! Plus, we’ll be co-hosting a Q&A w/filmmaker Aviva Kempner, moderated by Elliot Shapiro (Jewish Studies) on Thurs, April 29 at 7:30pm (register for the discussion here).
Also opening this week is Smooth Talk (pictured) Joyce Chopra’s Sundance-winning debut, featuring Laura Dern’s breakout performance and a menacing Treat Williams. Though it was based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, prior to this re-release, Smooth Talk was quite difficult to see for a number of years. We’re thrilled to present it in a new restoration!
Also open for reservations is Antigone, a new interpretation of the classic Greek tragedy, set in contemporary Montreal among the Algerian immigrant community. This adaptation asks urgent questions about immigration, identity, and the power of idealism, and we’re thrilled the Department of Classics is hosting a panel discussion for the film on May 5 at 4:30pm, featuring panelists: Ella Haselswerdt (UCLA), Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago), and Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross)! Register for the panel discussion here.
Not surprisingly, we've already given away all 315 views for our two screenings of Minari! Please note: if you signed up for a view, but now don't think you'll be able to watch, PLEASE LET US KNOW BY END OF DAY APRIL 27 by emailing cinema@cornell.edu, so we can issue your view to someone on the waiting list!
