Cornell Cinema is thrilled to be participating in the sixth annual Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival, a campus and city-wide celebration of work by Latin American filmmakers and/or about Latinx culture in Central and South America, and in the U.S. The Festival has too many collaborators and sponsors to list here, but you can read about them at the website, where all the films are listed, including those showing at Cornell Cinema.
Our first Festival film begins tonight, Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán’s powerful The Cordillera of Dreams, winner of the Best Documentary award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and for good reason. Head on over to our film page for a wonderful video introduction to the film by Dr. Cecelia Lawless (Romance Studies)! Please note: we encourage those with a CU NetID to view this film via the CU Library. Those without a CU NetID should RSVP with us, as we still have a number of free views available. While you’re there, you can make a reservation for our second Festival film, Song Without a Name, a beautifully lensed feature from Peru that will be available Sept 25–Oct 1.
Meanwhile, there’s still time to catch John Lewis: Good Trouble, which will be available through Tuesday, Sept 22. If you haven’t seen this excellent documentary about the Civil Rights activist and Congressman, we highly recommend checking it out. As we noted in last week’s newsletter, there is a rental charge for this film ($6.99), but a portion of the rental cost does come back to Cornell Cinema, which will help cover the costs of the many free screenings we are offering.
Once you’re fired up and inspired by John Lewis, we recommend watching Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon, available to watch for free at www.arrestingpower.com. The film documents the past 50 years of conflict between Portland residents and the police, putting the current unrest in an historical context. We will host filmmakers Julie Perini ’00 and Jodi Darby for a virtual conversation with Sabrina Karim (Government) and Mary Fessenden (Director, Cornell Cinema) on Sept 23 at 7:30pm. RSVP for that conversation and we’ll send you the Zoom webinar info!
Also opening tonight is a new restoration of Zhang Yimou’s Shanghai Triad (pictured). The luminous Gong Li stars in this 1930s-set gangster film about Shanghai’s crime syndicates, which features award-winning, fabulous cinematography. We still have views available for this, but likely not for long!
In addition to Song Without a Name, don't delay in sending your RSVP for the two other films we’re opening next week: a restoration of the groundbreaking German lesbian drama Mädchen in Uniform from 1931, and New French Shorts 2020, both of which we expect to be popular!
