Cornell Cinema's week of free movies comes to a close this Tuesday, when we’ll show Chloe Zhao’s debut feature Songs My Brothers Taught Me. (We'll show her Best Picture winner Nomadland & sophomore film, The Rider, in the coming weeks.) It will be free and open to all members of the Cornell community*, all of whom will be welcome going forward on Wednesday, when we'll resume paid admission screenings.
It’s a great time to purchase our All-Access Pass (offered online only), as we're running a special promotion for early purchases. In conjunction with last week's screening of The Big Lebowski, we're offering a chance to win a fabulous blow-up bowling set to all those who purchase one of our Passes by midnight Wednesday, September 8 (9/8, as in '98, the year film was released!) We'll announce the winner by September 10.
We continue our semester-long series Celebrating 50+ Years of Cornell Cinema this Wednesday with a recent restoration of 1979’s No Maps on My Taps, a great documentary that captures the tap performances of three legendary hoofers Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, and Harold "Sandman” Sims. It’s an electric documentary and it features some damn fine footwork! "Sandman” Sims performed at Cornell when the film was first shown here in 1980!
We’re thrilled to finally bring Swedish director Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness to our screen! Andersson describes the film as “a collection of short, short poems about existence,” and you can learn more about the filmmaker and the making of the film by watching the documentary Being a Human Person, a portrait of Andersson and his process, premiering September 7.
We continue our well-received Wong Kar Wai series from Spring '21 (then offered virtually) with some BIG screen shows of his stunning work. 2046, WKW’s spiritual sequel to his acclaimed In the Mood for Love, will show on Thursday and Sunday. And our Migrations Stories series starts this Friday with Limbo, the surreal tale of a young Syrian musician awaiting a decision on his asylum claim from a remote Scottish island, featuring an introduction by Associate Professor Sabine Haenni (Chair, PMA).
We’re also screening Cruella (pictured) on Friday and Saturday! Come because you love it or come because you hate it, but either way, come and see that infamous scene where a bunch of dalmations kill Cruella’s mom.
* Per University guidance, our screenings are only open to members of the Cornell Community (students, faculty, staff & retirees) at this time. We are optimistic that conditions will allow us to open to the entire community by late September. To learn more about all our COVID-related policies, please visit here.
