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Bring your no-good boyfriend to see MIDSOMMAR this weekend. We guarantee he'll shape up once he learns what the alternative is...
Tuesday, we present Djibril Diop Mambéty's feature debut TOUKI BOUKI, a thrilling French New Wave-inspired film that reaffirmed Senegal as fertile filmmaking ground.
On Wednesday, in conjunction with the U.N. Climate Summit, we're joining cinemas around the country to screen the new documentary comprising climate photographer Edward Burtynsky's work, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH. It's a stunning sensory experience and a cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet. Cornell professors Jenny Goldstein (Development Sociology) and Andrew Moisey (Visual Studies) will facilitate an informal post-screening discussion following the film.
This Thursday, we screen THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE, a new documentary about the Native American art collective Postcommodity's 2015 project, Repellent Fence: a two-mile long, floating art installation that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2015 the artists worked with communities on both sides to install a series of 28 huge inflatable spheres emblazoned with an insignia known as the "open eye" that has existed in Indigenous cultures from South America to Canada for thousands of years. Later that night, we'll screen FOR ALL MANKIND, the gold-standard of space documentaries, made up of footage from NASA's Apollo missions, featuring music by Brian Eno, and produced by Cornell alumni David Leitner '76 and Jonathan Turell '81. Fifty years after the first moon landing, FOR ALL MANKIND remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earthshaking event.
Also screening this weekend is THE THIRD WIFE, (pictured) a gorgeous period piece about a Vietnamese teenager married off as the third bride to a wealthy landowner, vying for a status upgrade by attempting to conceive a male heir. But don't take our word for it—Variety found it to be excellent as well: "Winner of prizes at both the San Sebastian and Toronto festivals, this is the rare debut that derives its freshness not from inexperience but from a balance between compassion and restraint that most filmmakers take decades to achieve."
