In light of the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘54, we are offering RBG, the recent documentary about the Supreme Court Justice with a special conversation with the film’s co-directors. It’s a $6.99 purchase (so you’d own a digital copy of the film!), and all proceeds will be donated to the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which Ginsburg founded in 1972. We highly recommend revisiting this documentary—it’s an inspiring portrait of a Cornell alumna and a reminder of all she accomplished.
The Cine con Cultura festival continues this week with Song Without a Name, based on harrowing true events. Set in 1988 Peru, an indigenous Andean woman has her newborn baby stolen from her at a downtown Lima clinic. In the process of searching for her child, a journalist uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions. We’re also opening reservations for next week’s Cine con Cultura film, the animated Chilean film The Wolf House. “A dystopian tale with haunting echoes of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and ‘Red Riding Hood,’ this shape-shifting, trippy nightmare from filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña startles and terrifies in equal measure, while putting forth an uncompromising examination of fascism in a way that only animation can do.... It’s an endless metamorphosis that unfolds like some kind of real-time art installation.” (Variety)
We begin our Pioneers of Queer Cinema series tonight with the 1931 film Mädchen in Uniform, a landmark of lesbian cinema, set in a German boarding school, but we're close to sold-out, so don't delay! And we are sold-out of views for New French Shorts 2020.
All the more reason to make a reservation now for next week’s films: in addition to The Wolf House, we'll be offering a great documentary about rediscovered Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and the excellent Guggenheim exhibit of her work, Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, and a restoration of Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha's second feature, Change of Life. Set in a coastal fishing village, the film recalls Visconti’s epic La Terra Trema (1948), about Sicilian tuna fishers.
