Cornell Cinema is excited to announce that The 21st Animation Show of Shows will continue another week due to the program’s overwhelming popularity! If you haven’t yet checked out the film, you now have until Feb 25th. A reminder: RSVP with us for a coupon code that’ll knock the price of the program down to $10 and ensure that 50% of the proceeds come back to us to help offset the costs of our full semester of FREE programming!
Speaking of free programming, we’re opening four films today, two of which are already SOLD OUT: Acasa, My Home and The Freshmen are both sold out, but we still have plenty of tickets for Wong Kar Wai’s masterful film In the Mood for Love. And an unlimited number of people can watch the silent film The Scar of Shame! We’ll be hosting a discussion of this race film with Samantha Sheppard, assistant professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Cornell; Ken Fox, director of library and archives at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester; and Barbara Lupack, a film scholar who has written and lectured on race films. The conversation will take place on Thursday, Feb 25 at 7:15pm. Please register here for the zoom webinar.
We have a number of films opening for reservations today, including Wong Kar Wai’s debut feature, As Tears Go By! Also available is Strange Fish, part of our Migration Stories series. There will be a discussion with filmmaker Giulia Bertoluzzi on Tuesday, March 2 at noon, and you can register for that discussion here. She will be joined by Amade M’charek, Professor of Anthropology of Science in the Dept of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and Eleanor Paynter, a Postdoctoral Associate in Migrations with Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and organizer of the Migration series. The panel will be moderated by Natasha Raheja, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell.
Winner of the Found Footage Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, My Mexican Bretzel, by Spanish filmmaker Nuria Gimenez, is an intriguing travelogue comprised of gorgeous home movie footage shot by a wealthy couple touring the world from the 1940s into the 1960s, and it's a highlight of our Wish You Were Here travel series.
And finally, you can RSVP for the second film in our Francophone series, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (pictured), which we had to cancel last Spring due to the pandemic.
