ORIENTATION WEEK

2046 Aug 23•27•29

directed by Wong Kar Waiwith Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Gong LiTONY LEUNG RE-PRISES his role as the frustrated ro-mantic of In the Mood for Lovein this nominal sequel, “a complex, visually rich, pull-out-all-stops rumination on memory, regret, relationships and the creative process.” (SF Chronicle) In Cantonese, Japanese and Mandarin. SUBTITLED more at sonyclassics.com/2046 35MM ‘SCOPE2005>COLOR>2 HRS 9 MINS>CHINA/FRANCE/GERMANY/HONG KONG

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•ITHACA PREMIERE

Agrarian Utopia Sept 8•10

directed by Uruphong Raksasadwith Prayad Jumma, Sai Jumma, Nikorn Mungmeung, Somnuek MungmeungTH E C H A N G I N G NATURE of work and a vanishing way of life are the themes of this beautiful fi lm, which looks like a documentary but is in fact scripted, shot on a rented rice paddy in northern Thailand and worked by a cast of nonprofessionals farming in a traditional way. “Lovely, with its golden fi elds and time-lapse skies, but also more tough-minded in its assessment of the economic and political realities that make its title deeply ironic.” (Dennis Lim, Artforum) COSPONSORED WITH THE SE ASIA PROGRAM. SUBTITLED more at extravirginco.com/agrarian-utopia DIGITAL PROJECTION2009>COLOR>2 HRS 2 MINS>THAILAND

ORIENTATION WEEKUTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

Brazil—Director’s Cut Aug 25•27•29

directed by Terry Gilliamwith Jonathan Pryce, Michael PalinIN THIS DARK cult comedy classic Python alumnus Terry Gilliam looks at middle-class life in the near future, where a near-totalitarian government is breaking down. 35MM1985>COLOR>2 HRS 22 MINS>BRITAIN

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•IN THE BOOTH

Cinema Paradiso Sept 10•11

directed by Giuseppe Tornatorewith Salvatore Cascio, Phillippe NoiretWINNER OF THE Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Cinema Paradiso recounts a young boy’s introduction to the world of fi lm by the village projectionist in 1940s Italy. SUBTITLED 35MM1989>COLOR>2 HRS 3 MINS>ITALY

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Drunken Angel Aug 30•31

directed by Akira Kurosawawith Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune“WHEN A YOUNG gangster (Mi-fune) comes to a doctor’s sur-gery one night to have a bullet removed, the alcoholic doctor (Shimura) discovers his patient has tuberculosis, and fi nds him-self involved in the man’s world and destiny. The fi lm marked the fi rst of Mifune’s invaluable performances in all but one of

Kurosawa’s fi lms until the mid-1960s.” (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films) SUBTITLED more at janusfi lms.com/kurosawa 35MM1948>B&W>1 HR 38 MINS>JAPAN

Exit Through the Gift Shop Sept 9•11•13•14directed by Banksywith Thierry Guetta, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, InvaderEXIT THROUGH THE Gift Shop has been called a documentary, even a “prankumentary.” It follows Thierry Guetta (a Frenchman, madman) as he documents the work of street artists like Invader, Shepard Fairey, and the infamous Banksy, the latter of whom takes over as documentarian. The fi lm might be “an elaborate hoax engineered by Banksy to satirize the com-modifi cation of art. If so, it’s a brilliant one.” (Chicago Reader) more at banksyfi lm.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 27 MINS>USA/UK

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

Fahrenheit 451 Aug 28•30directed by Francois Truffautwith Julie Christie, Oskar WernerONE OF SCIENCE fiction’s great-est hits, François Truffaut’s 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s clas-sic novel, in which a totalitarian society set in an apocalyptic future maintains control by exterminating all books and the “intellectual objectives” they stand for, is a must see. 35MM1966>COLOR>1 HR 52 MINS>USA

WELCOME WEEKEND

Get Him to the Greek Aug 26*•27•28 Sept 3•4

*FREE ADMISSION AUG 26directed by Nicholas Stollerwith Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Sean CombsENTERTAINMENT BIZ NEWBIE Aaron Green (Hill) has one task: to get rock god Aldous Snow (Brand, reprising his role from Forgetting Sarah Marshall) from London to LA’s Greek Theatre for the fi rst stop of his $100 million tour. He has no idea what is in store for him. “What transpires gives fresh meaning to ‘sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.’” (Boxoffi ce Magazine) more at gethimtothegreek.net 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>USA

WELCOME WEEKEND

Iron Man 2 Aug 26*•27•28 Sept 3•4*FREE ADMISSION AUG 26directed by Jon Favreauwith Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett JohanssonIN IRON MAN 2, supercapi-talist superhero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) once again dons his impenetrable Iron Man nuclear suit of armor. “Like the original, Iron Man 2 is a good time from start to fi nish.” (Premiere) more at ironmanmovie.marvel.com 35MM ‘SCOPE2010>COLOR>2 HRS 4 MINS>USA

ITHACA PREMIERE

Mademoiselle Chambon

Sept 2•4•5directed by Stéphane Brizéwith Vincent Lindon, Sandrine KiberlainA MARRIED MAN, Jean, falls for his son’s gr ammar schoo l teacher, the titular Chambon (Kiberlain), once a professional violinist. The affair that develops between them proceeds slowly, half-musically, in “a questioning look exchanged and held for a half-second… a conversation that breaks into an uncomfortable silence: these are the signs of potentially life-altering choices and incipient chaos seething under the placid surfaces of bourgeois lives.…This small, nearly perfect fi lm is a reminder that personal upheavals are as consequential in people’s lives as shattering world events.” (NY Times) SUBTITLED more at rezofi lms.com/world-sales/mademoiselle-chambon 35MM ‘SCOPE2010>COLOR>1 HR 41 MINS>FRANCE

ITHACA PREMIERE

Mighty Uke Sept 3•7

directed by Tony Coleman and Margaret MeagherTHE UKULELE, THAT small, four-string, oft-maligned relative of the guitar, is seeing a resurgence of popularity due to its ease of

play, low cost, and wildly high enjoyment factor. The Mighty Uke celebrates this comeback in a fi lm that “is the way a documentary should be put together. It’s perfectly structured, with plenty of historical perspective, and great interviews. It wholly embraces the corny and heartwarming nature of the very instrument it celebrates.” (Westender) more at mightyukemovie.com DIGITAL PROJECTION2010>COLOR>1 HR 16 MINS>CANADA/FRANCE/ISRAEL/JAPAN/NEW ZEALAND/USA/UK

ORIENTATION WEEK

No Impact Man Aug 24

directed by Laura Gabbert, Justin Scheinwith Colin Beavan, Michelle ConlinIN 2006 , WRITER Colin Beavan pulled his not-always en-thusiastic wife and two-year-old daughter into a year-long experiment to discover how far they could go to reduce their carbon footprint while still living in the middle of New York City. “Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren’t mutually exclusive, No Impact Man may be a socially progressive, environmentally conscious fi lm, but it goes down far easier than, say, an all-natural, fi ber-enriched peanut butter sandwich without a glass of soy milk.” (Variety) more at noimpactproject.org DIGITAL PROJECTION2009>COLOR>1 HR 33 MINS>USA

ORIENTATION WEEK

Orientation to Cornell Cinema Aug 23with director Mary Fessenden & manager Chris Riley

CORNELL CINEMA IS considered one of the best campus fi lm exhibition programs in the country

and you can fi nd out why tonight. Join us for FREE popcorn while you watch a slew

of coming attractions trailers, student fi lms & other cool shorts; fi nd out how you can become involved with the organization; and win door prizes (including movie posters, movie passes and t-shirts)!2010>COLOR>1 HR 30 MINS>USA

Please Give Sept 2•4•5•6

directed by Nicole Holofcenerwith Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Rebecca HallKEENER PLAYS KATE, a wom-an who buys the apart-ment next door with her husband, only to wait for the elderly woman living in it to die so that they can knock down the dividing wall. Please Give is a “low-key and sharply observed portrait of New York Right Now, complete with concerns over money, housing, marital fi delity, romance, adolescent trauma and the quirks and ravages of old age.” (Portland Oregonian) more at sonyclassics.com/pleasegive 35MM ‘SCOPE2010>COLOR>1 HR 30 MINS>USA

KUROSAWA CENTENNIALRESTORED PRINT!

Rashomon Sept 6•7

directed by Akira Kurosawawith Toshiro Mifune, Machiko KyoTHIS IS THE film which, more than any other, opened up the West to Japanese cinema after it deservedly won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The story of a rape/murder in ninth-century Kyoto is told from four points of view: the rapist, the woman, her murdered husband speaking from beyond the grave, and a woodcutter who witnessed the crime. The fi lm is based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa but achieves a perfection on fi lm that is entirely its own. SUBTITLED more at janusfi lms.com/kurosawa 35MM1950>B&W>1 HR 23 MINS>JAPAN

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•ITHACA PREMIERE

Reidy, Building Utopia Sept 1

introduced by Visiting Professor Jim Williamson (Architecture)directed by Ana Maria MagalhãesM A G A L H Ã E S ’ S D O C U M E N T A R Y FOLLOWS the tra-jectory of archi-tect and urbanist Affonso Eduardo Reidy, who turned Rio de Janeiro into a modern city with such projects as the Museum of Modern Art and the Flamengo Embankment. COSPONSORED WITH LUBRASA. SUBTITLEDDIGITAL PROJECTION2009>COLOR>1 HR 17 MINS>BRAZIL

PHILIP K. DICK’S DYSTOPIAS

Screamers Sept 1•3

directed by Christian Duguaywith Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer RubinVIOLENT, FAST-PACED, AND sus-penseful, this adaptation of a 1953 sci-fi short story by Philip K. Dick is a Cold War allegory in which a handful of surviving Americans have developed whirl-ing razorblade-like creatures that tunnel through the earth, slicing and dicing everything they come in contact with. 35MM1996>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>USA

ORIENTATION WEEK

Some Like It Hot Aug 22•24

directed by Billy Wilderwith Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony CurtisTWO JAZZ PLAYERS on the run from the mob hide out in an all-girl cabaret that happens to be led by a vo-luptuous blonde (Marilyn Monroe) who just can’t resist sax players. Ranked the funniest American movie of all time by the American Film Institute and it’s true! 35MM1959>B&W>2 HRS>USA

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL•NEW PRINT!

Stray Dog Aug 25•28•31

introduced by Prof. Brett de Bary (Asian Studies) Aug 25directed by Akira Kurosawawith Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Kieko AwajiTHIS BREAD AND butter Kurosawa is rich in mastery of fi lm noir as well as the detective mystery as only a true genius of the genres could create. Psycho-logically thrilling and dense with detail, Stray Dog (Nora inu) tracks the similar paths taken by criminal and detective as the latter hunts the former. “One of the greatest detective fi lms ever made.” (NY Times) SUBTITLEDmore at janusfi lms.com/kurosawa 35MM1949>B&W>2 HRS 2 MINS>JAPAN

PHILIP K. DICK’S DYSTOPIAS

Total Recall Sept 8•10directed by Paul Verhoevenwith Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon StoneWHEN DOUG QUAID ( Schwarzenegger) starts remembering a life as a secret agent on Mars that he doesn’t think he led, he goes to Mars to fi nd out the truth. Inspired by the Philip K. Dick short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. 35MM1990>COLOR>1 HR 49 MINS>USA

Toy Story 3 Sept 10•11•12•17•18

directed by Lee Unkrichwith Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don RicklesPIXAR’S ORIGINAL STARS are back with a new adventure that lands the gang in a room of untamed tots who can’t wait to get their sticky hands on some cool new toys.

“This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.” (USA Today) more at disney.go.com/toystory 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 43 MINS>USA

TWO IN TEHRAN•ITHACA PREMIERE

Women Without Men Sept 9•11•12

directed by Shirin Neshatwith Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Orsolya TothBASED ON THE magical realist novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, the film follows the stories of four women, each of vastly different socio-economic backgrounds, in 1953 Iran, in the unrest following the CIA-backed overthrow of the prime minister, all of whom seek refuge in an orchard outside of Tehran. Installation artist/photog-rapher/director Neshat’s “crystalline shot compositions… seem to rise out of an alternately troubled and serene dreamscape.” (Boston Globe) COSPONSORED WITH THE DEPT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. In Farsi. SUBTITLED more at womenwithoutmenfi lm.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 35 MINS>GERMANY/AUSTRIA/FRANCE

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Some Like It HotWSH 7:00

An Orientationto Cornell Cinema

W/GUESTS[FREE] WSH 7:00

2046WSH 9:15

No Impact Man WSH 7:00

Some Like It HotWSH 9:30

Stray DogW/GUEST

WSH 7:00

Brazil - Director’s CutWSH 9:45

Get Him to the Greek [FREE] WSH 8:00

Iron Man 2 [FREE] WSH 10:30

2046WSH 7:00

Brazil - Director’s CutWSH 9:45

Get Him to the Greek URIS 7:15

Iron Man 2 URIS 9:45

Fahrenheit 451WSH 7:15

Stray DogWSH 9:45

Iron Man 2 URIS 7:15

Get Him to the Greek URIS 9:45

Brazil - Director’s CutWSH 7:00

2046WSH 9:45

Drunken AngelWSH 7:00

Fahrenhheit 451WSH 9:15

Stray DogWSH 7:00

Drunken AngelWSH 9:30

Reidy, Building UtopiaW/GUEST

WSH 7:00Screamers

WSH 9:15

Mademoiselle ChambonWSH 7:15

Please GiveWSH 9:30

The Mighty UkeWSH 7:30

ScreamersWSH 9:15

Iron Man 2 URIS 7:15

Get Him to the Greek URIS 9:45

Please GiveWSH 7:15

Mademoiselle ChambonWSH 9:15

Get Him to the Greek URIS 7:15

Iron Man 2 URIS 9:45

Mademoiselle ChambonWSH 7:15

Please GiveWSH 9:30

RashomonWSH 7:00

Please GiveWSH 9:00

The Mighty UkeWSH 7:30

RashomonWSH 9:15

Agrarian UtopiaWSH 7:00

Total RecallWSH 9:30

Women Without MenWSH 7:30

Exit Through the Gift ShopWSH 9:30

Agrarian UtopiaWSH 7:15

Total RecallWSH 9:45

Cinema ParadisoURIS 7:00

Toy Story 3URIS 9:30

Women Without MenWSH 7:30

Exit Through the Gift ShopWSH 9:30

Toy Story 3URIS 7:00

Cinema ParadisoURIS 9:15

WSH=WILL ARD STR AIGHT THE ATRE • URIS= URIS HALL AUDIT ORIUM • SCPA=SCHWARTZ CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS FILM FORUM • ADMISSION: (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED): $7 GENERAL / $5.50 SENIORS / $4 STUDENTS & KIDS

aug 29 sept 2 sept 3aug 31 sept 1 sept 4aug 30

sept 8 sept 9sept 6 sept 7 sept 10sept 5

Films Aug 22–Sept 11 (see reverse for Sept 12—Oct 8)

aug 22 aug 26 aug 27aug 24 aug 25 aug 28aug 23SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT

sept 11

Akira Kurosawa, born March 23, 1910, was nicknamed “The Emperor” by his collaborators, a somewhat

tongue-in-cheek reference to the dictatorial manner in which he ran his fi lm sets—but it may have also been because of the enormous shadow he

cast on Japanese, and international, fi lm. The director whose fi lm Rashomon (1950) took the West by storm and opened the fl oodgates of Asian cinema made 40 fi lms in his lifetime, an astounding number of them masterpieces. Best known

for his Samurai fi lms, he also made striking fi lm noirs and some of the fi nest literary adaptations ever put on fi lm.Cornell Cinema is celebrating the centennial of Kurosawa’s birth with a semester-long series featuring

eighteen of his greatest fi lms, many as new and restored 35mm fi lm prints. In this calendar, the series begins with a new 35mm print of his underappreciated detective noir Stray Dog (1949), and recently restored prints of Rashomon and Seven Samurai (1954). In the Late Fall calendar, look for new prints of Dodes’ka-den (1970), Kurosawa’s fi rst color fi lm; Dersu Uzala (1975) and Kagemusha (1980), and a restored print of Ran (1985).

To many, Kurosawa is synonymous with the Samurai fi lm (although

more accurately, they can be considered ronin fi lms, as they follow masterless samu-rai, typically in civil-war-torn Japan—a departure from the genre pictures of his day). The best known, of course, is Seven Samurai, in which seven ronin are hired by a town under siege by 40 bandits. Eas-ily one of the best action fi lms ever made, this restored print will be a knockout on the big screen. The great actor Toshiro Mifune played one of those seven, and starred in a total of sixteen of Kurosawa’s fi lms, including all in this calendar except Ikiru (1952). In The Hidden Fortress(1958), not technically a samurai fi lm but of similar fl avor, he played a general tasked with bringing a princess home across a

dangerous landscape. It is the direct inspiration for George Lucas’s Star Wars (1971).His fi lm noirs may not be as well known as his period pictures, but it was not unusual to fi nd a gun instead of a sword in the hands of his protagonists. One of his fi nest, and earliest, noirs is Stray Dog (1949), where Mifune plays a young detective who discovers his gun was stolen and is being used to kill people. As he searches for the killer in a sweltering Tokyo heat wave—an amazing sequence fi lmed secretly in the toughest black market section of the city—he discovers the perp is a man very similar to himself. The New York Times called Stray Dog “one of the greatest detective fi lms ever made;” don’t miss the opportunity to see this new 35mm print, which will be introduced by Prof. Brett de Bary (Asian Studies) on Aug. 25. Also of note in this calendar is Drunken Angel (1949), the fi rst collaboration between Kurosawa and Mifune, and Kurosawa’s fi rst Jumpo (Japanese Oscar) winner. See more of Kurosawa’s noirs in the late fall.Then there are The Emperor’s literary adaptations. Kurosawa adapted Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short stories into Rashomon, and after fi nding himself on the world stage he had no hesitation adapting other literature to the screen. He transported Shakespeare’s Macbeth to feudal Japan and created what many critics believe to be the play’s best fi lm adaptation in Throne of Blood (1957). He performed similar magic with King Lear, turning it into the glorious epic Ran. He adapted his favorite author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, with The Idiot (1951), and he transformed Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich into Ikiru, what many consider his fi nest fi lm. And The Lower Depths (1957) is his adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s classic play of sub-proletariat life.Critics in Japan and abroad have long charged that Kurosawa’s fi lms were shrewdly aimed at Western audi-ences, a charge Kurosawa himself vehemently denied. But it is clear now that his body of work is in fact an international treasury that transcends boundaries, incorporating myriad infl uences. Kurosawa at 100 is

for the ages.Cosponsored with the East Asia Program.

To step into a world created by Philip K. Dick

is to be disoriented. Disturbed. Unsettled. There is a persistent nagging feeling that reality may not be quite so…real as you are used to. That even your very identity, the core of your being, is up for grabs by some cosmic, or not-so-cosmic force. These dystopic fictions—let’s call them Dick ’s-topias, 44 published novels and more than 120 short stories—were never adequately appreciated in his time, relegated to the specialty (and low-paying) science fi ction publishers and magazines. And while more traditional science fi ction authors like Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke received acco-lades, at least in the realm of sci-fi , his dark, philosophical sensibility was far ahead of his time. It may be that only now are we fully able to understand him.His infl uence today is widespread, both in the literary fi eld and, clearly, in fi lm. The themes and aesthetics he developed about technology and its role in our lives, about the fragility of identity, and the danger of alternate realities, have been wonderfully advanced by the Wachowski brothers in their Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003), by David Cronenberg in eX-istenZ (1999) and Videodrome (1983), by Richard Kelly in Donnie Darko (2001) and Christopher Nolan in Inception(2010). Charlie Kaufman’s scripts all show a strong infl uence, from Being John Malkovich (1999) to Synecdoche, New York (2008).

There have also been a number of very success-ful adaptations of Dick’s nov-els and short

stories, and in September we present a series of four of the best, in conjunction with Cornell’s New Student Reading Project, which selected Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? as this year’s book. (One fi lm that will not be part of this series is Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s 1982 fi lm adapted from Electric Sleep. This is because of thorny copyright issues that make it impossible to publicly present the fi lm; there is some hope that these issues will be resolved in the near future, and Blade Runner can once again grace the silver screen.)Many of the themes from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? were initially developed in the 1953 short story “Second Variety,” turned into a 1995 fi lm titled Screamers.

In it, mankind is t h re a t e ne d by a race of robots w h i c h t h e y had c reated as protec tors , but who have evolved into deadly killing machines, some

of whom look exactly like us. Who are the humans, the story asks, and who are the imposters among us? The 1966 short story “We Can Remember it for You Whole-sale” played with the idea of implanting memories and takes the concept down the rabbit hole, as a seemingly ordinary man looking for some excitement in the form of false memories discovers layer upon layer of suppressed memories that indicate he is not who he thought he was. The Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, starred in its 1990 adaptation Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven.Dick’s 1977 semi-autobiographical novel A Scanner Darklyplays with issues of identity as a deeply undercover police agent living in a drug den becomes addicted to a new psychotropic drug that makes him lose sight of his own reality, to the point where he starts informing and spying on himself. The brilliant 2006 adaptation by Richard Linklater layers rotoscope anima-tion over live action for a great synthesis of plot and visuals. The last fi lm in the series is based on the 1954 short story “The Minority Report,” about a policeman in the Pre-crime division who uses the talents of psychics to stop crimes before they occur. When the offi cer himself is implicated in a future murder of a man he doesn’t know, he attempts to discover the boundaries of determinism and free will, and in the process puts into doubt the very system he implicitly trusts. Steven Spielberg’s 2002 Minority Report updates the story with a wary eye toward government power in a post-9/11 world.Since his untimely death in 1983 at the age of 53 (shortly be-fore Blade Runner was released), Philip K. Dick’s work has remained popular both in print—he is the fi rst science fi ction writer to be included in the Library of America series—and on screen. The next year will see the release of The Adjustment Bureau, based on the 1954 short story “Adjustment Team”; an adaptation of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is in the works as well. We shouldn’t be surprised, as Dick’s astounding imagination resonates so clearly in our modern world. Philip K. Dick’s future is now.Cornell Cinema will host one of the New Student Reading Project “Android Talks:” A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away…When Words Fail Us, by Professor Shakat Toorawa (Near Easters Studies), in the Willard Straight Theatre on Sunday, August 22 at 3:30pm. Cosponsored with the New Student Reading Project.

DYSTOPIAN REALITIES

OF PHILIP K. DICK

SCREAMERSSept 1 & 3

TOTAL RECALL Sept 8 & 10

A SCANNER DARKLYSept 15, 17 & 19

MINORITY REPORTSept 22 & 24

Dickstopia: The Dystopian Realities of Philip K. Dick

Kurosawa at 100: A Centennial Celebration

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL STRAY DOG

Aug 25, 28 & 31DRUNKEN ANGEL

Aug 30 & 31RASHOMON

Sept 6 & 7THE IDIOT

Sept 13 & 14IKIRU

Sept 20 & 21SEVEN SAMURAI

Sept 23 & 25I LIVE IN FEAR

Sept 27 & 28THE HIDDEN FORTRESS

Sept 30 & Oct 2THRONE OF BLOOD

Oct 4 & 5

LATE FALL CALENDAR[ subject to change]

YOJIMBOOct 14 & 16

THE LOWER DEPTHSOct 18 & 19

THE BAD SLEEP WELLOct 25 & 26

SANJURONov 1 & 2

HIGH AND LOWNov 8 & 9

DERSU UZALANov 11 & 13

DODES’KA-DENNov 15 & 16

RANNov 18 – 20

KAGEMUSHANov 29 & 30

This fall the Community Center Programs at Cornell will be hosting the Smithsonian Institution’s travel-ing exhibition, Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon (Sept 18–Dec 5), an extension of the fi rst Vietnamese American historical exhibition at the Smithsonian to tell the story of the Vietnamese American experi-ence in America, from the signifi cant infl ux in 1975 to the present.

Cornell Cinema’s related fi lm series will include four documentaries: Opera-tion Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam (2009), about President Gerald Ford’s $2 million initiative to airlift Vietnamese orphans out of their war-torn country in 1975; Bolinao 52 (2007), about a survivor among a group of Vietnamese boat people who fl ed the country in 1988 and found themselves stranded in the South China Sea; Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem (2007), about the ongoing impact of Agent Orange on Vietnamese

families as well as American veterans; and Lucky (2010), Jeffrey Blitz’s (Spellbound) look at the lottery system and its winners and losers, including a Vietnamese immigrant who used his winnings to build a mansion back in Vietnam for his 50 remaining relatives.

Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon

EXIT SAIGON, ENTER LITTLE SAIGON

OPERATION BABYLIFT Sept 21

BOLINAO 52Sept 28

NEXT CALENDAR:AGENT ORANGE

Oct 19LUCKY

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F.W. MURNAU’S ‘SUNRISE’ FEATURING A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY THE MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA; A FREE EVENT ON SEPT 18, CO-PRESENTED BY THE ATKINSON FORUM IN AMERICAN STUDIES

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SPECIAL GUESTS EARLY FALL 2010

early fall 2010august 22–october 8

for aug 22–sept 11

more series…

(see reverse for sept 12–oct 8)

CORNELL CINEMA’SPASSPORT TO THE WORLDPick up a Cornell Cinema passport; make 4 trips to foreign language fi lms, getting your passport stamped each time; then cross the border into a 5th fi lm for free! Each passport good for a total of 10 trips. Visit the world at Cornell Cinema!!

Aug 23 Cornell Cinema director Mary Fessenden & manager Chris Riley host an Orientation to Cornell Cinema

Aug 25 Professor Brett de Bary (Asian Studies) introduces Stray Dog

Sept 1 Visiting Professor Jim Williamson (Architecture) introduces Reidy, Building Utopia

Sept 18 The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra performs their original scores to The Cameraman, starring Buster Keaton, and F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise

Sept 24 Animator/musician Brent Green performs with Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, along with indie musicians Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Drew Henkels (Drew & the Medicinal Pen) & others

Oct 5 Writers/Directors Ben & Joshua Safdie present Daddy Longlegs

ORIENTATION WEEK

SOME LIKE IT HOTAug 22 & 24

AN ORIENTATION TO CORNELL CINEMAAug 23

2046Aug 23, 27 & 29

NO IMPACT MANAug 24

STRAY DOGAug 25, 28 & 31

BRAZILAug 25, 27 & 29

GET HIM TO THE GREEKAug 26–28, Sept 3, 4

IRON MAN 2Aug 26–28, Sept 3, 4

MORE FOREIGN FILM PREMIERES

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (FRANCE)Sept 2, 4 & 5

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD (KOREA)

Sept 16 - 19

TWO IN TEHRAN

WOMEN WITHOUT MENSept 9, 11 & 12

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATSSept 29, Oct 1 & 2

MORE DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

THE MIGHTY UKESept 3 & 7

THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS: TIBET’S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Sept 28, Oct 2 & 3

F R E E MOVIES!

NEW STUDENTS WITH ID (grads & undergrads) get in for FREE Sunday, August 22 through Thursday, August 26. EVERYBODY gets in for FREE to screenings of Get Him to the Greek and Iron Man 2 on Thursday, August 26 (with free popcorn and candy!) courtesy of Welcome Weekend’s “Flicks Across CU” event!

FILMS SHOWING SUN AUG 22 THROUGH WED AUG 25 ARE FREE TO NEW STUDENTS WITH ID

3 EARLY ALMODÓVARS

MATADORSept 16 & 20

LAW OF DESIRESept 23 & 27

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Sept 30 & Oct 4

IN THE BOOTH

CINEMA PARADISOSept 10 & 11

DADDY LONGLEGSOct 5–7

Cornell Cinema Poster Sale!One day only! Thursday September 210am – 3pm in the Willard Straight Art Gallery Cash or Check Only! Decorate your Dorm Room with posters from your favorite fi lms! New – Old – Recent – Classic – Cult

Introducing the new Cornell Cinema Discount Card:

The Cinema Six-Pack! 6 Admissions valid for 1 full yearMax. 2 tickets per screening per card

$21 Students $28 Seniors $35 General

CORNELL CINEMA ON NORTH!! North Campus, that is, where we’ll be

teaming up with Community Center Programs to present a video-projected version of our Dickstopia: The Dys-topian Realities of Philip K. Dick series on Saturday nights at 7pm in the auditorium in Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC). Admission just $2 with free popcorn!

SCREAMERSSept 4

TOTAL RECALL Sept 11

A SCANNER DARKLYSept 18

MINORITY REPORTSept 25

STRAY DOG

THRONE OF BLOOD

A SCANNER DARKLY

MINORITY REPORT

TOTAL RECALL

OPERATION BABYLIFT

Philip K. DickLive Film & MusicKurosawa at 100Utopia/DystopiaExit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon… and more !

Philip K. DickLive Film & MusicKurosawa at 100Utopia/DystopiaExit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon… and more !

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•ITHACA PREMIERE

At Home in Utopia Sept 22•25

directed by Michael Goldmannarrated by Linda LavinAT HOME IN Utopia focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a cooperative house in the Bronx built by Jewish immigrants (many of whom were communists) in the ‘20s, and based on the dream the Coop members had of “utopia” (now called equality and worker’s rights). “Despite the plight of many American workers today, the film recalls a moment in time when an empowered and exalted American worker stood on the brink of being master of his fate.” (Independent Lens) more at athomeinutopia.com DIGITAL PROJECTION2008>COLOR>1 HR >USA

EXIT SAIGON•ITHACA PREMIERE

Bolinao 52 Sept 28

directed by Duc NguyenTHIS DOCUMENTARY SHEDS light on one of the unspoken legacies of the Vietnam War—the story of the Vietnamese Boat People. Focusing on one survivor’s story, a women who endured the tragedy of a boat that fled Vietnam in 1988, was stranded at sea, and whose passengers had to resort to cannibalism to survive. SUBTITLED more at bolinao52.com DIGITAL PROJECTION2007>COLOR> 57 MINS>USA

LIVE MUSIC & FILM!•ARCHIVAL PRINT

Cameraman Sept 18

( $7 adults/$5 kids 12 & under)with live music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture OrchestraNO COMPS, PASSES OR DISCOUNT CARDSdirected by Edward Sedgwickwith Buster Keaton, Marceline DayTHE CAMERAMAN WAS the first of Buster Keaton’s silents for MGM at the end of the silent era, where for the first time in a decade he was not in full directorial control, but a contract star player. Still at his masterful comic best, Keaton, as in Sherlock Jr., plays with the medium of film: he’s trying to teach himself to be a news pho-tographer in order to impress a girl. Of course, along the way he suffers multiple mishaps. 35MM Tickets on sale now at CornellCinemaTickets.com, and available starting Sat. Sept. 11 from Ithaca Guitar Works in the DeWitt Mall downtown and Mon. Sept. 13 from the Cornell Cinema Office, 104 Willard Straight, 9am-5pm. For more information, call 607-255-3522.1928>B&W>1 HR 10 MINS>USA

Cyrus Oct 1•2•3•7•8

directed by Jay and Mark Duplasswith John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine KeenerTHE TITULAR CYRUS (Hill) is a twenty-year old man still liv-ing with his mother (Tomei). When she begins dating John (Reilly), what follows is “a comedy of discomfort that walks a wonderful line between reality-based emotional honesty and engaging humor… demonstrat[ing] the good things that happen when quirky independent style combines with top-of-the-line acting skill.” (LA Times) more at foxsearchlight.com/cyrus 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 32 MINS>USA

ITHACA PREMIERE

Daddy Longlegs Oct 5*•7•8

*with writer/directors Ben and Joshua Safdie on Oct 5directed by Ben and Joshua Safdiewith Ronald Bronstein, Sage and Frey Ranaldo“LOOSE-LIMBED AND AFFECTIONATE, Daddy Longlegs paints a clear-eyed portrait of a man torn between excuses and re-sponsibilities and of the children who idolize him. A loving but hopelessly immature father, Lenny (filmmaker Ronald Bronstein of Frownland) gets custody of his sons for two weeks a year. Juggling work as a projectionist and the demands of girlfriends with taking care of two young children, Lenny turns a life of improvised meals and unpredictable days into an adventure for his kids, where lawlessness rules and anything can happen.” (IFC Film Center) more at ifcfilms.com/films/daddy-longlegs 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 40 MINS>USA

Despicable Me Sept 24•25•26 Oct 1

directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaudwith Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will ArnettWANNABE SUPERVILLAIN GRU adopts three orphaned girls to aid him in stealing the moon. But instead, the little girls steal his heart. “A rousingly funny, heartfelt and imaginative ‘toon blessed with the vocal talents of Steve Carell and loaded with whimsy and smarts.” (Boxoffice Magazine) more at despicable.me 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 35 MINS>USA

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Sept 9•11•13•14directed by Banksywith Thierry Guetta, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, InvaderEXIT THROUGH THE Gift Shop has been called a documentary, even a “prankumentary.” It follows Thierry Guetta (a Frenchman, madman) as he documents the work of street artists like Invader, Shepard Fairey, and the infamous Banksy, the latter of whom takes over as documentarian. The film might be “an elaborate hoax engineered by Banksy to satirize the commodification of art. If so, it’s a brilliant one.” (Chicago Reader) more at banksyfilm.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 27 MINS>USA/UK

ITHACA PREMIERE

Good, the Bad, the Weird

Sept 16•17•18•19directed by Ji-woon Kimwith Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sungTHIS EASTERN WESTERN follows three Korean gunmen, in 1930s Manchuria as they fight the Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese Army, and each other for control of a treasure map and the riches to which it leads. “A funny, fast-moving pastiche of Spielberg, Woo, Leone and George Miller.” (Portland Oregonian) SUBTITLED more at ifcfilms.com/films/the-good-the-bad-the-weird 35MM ‘SCOPE2010>COLOR>2 HRS>SOUTH KOREA

LIVE MUSIC & FILM!•ITHACA PREMIERE

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Sept 24 ( $12/$10 Students & Seniors)

NO COMPS, DISCOUNT CARDS OR PASSESwith live music by Brent Green and Friendsdirected by Brent Greenwith Donna Kozloskie, Michael McGinleyINSPIRED BY THE true story of Leonard Wood, a hardware store clerk in Kentucky, who built a fairytale-like house for his dying wife, in hopes that his labor of love would save her. Gravity marks the feature film debut of idiosyncratic animator Brent Green who here combines “the urgent gothic aesthetic of hand-drawn animation with stop-motion animation of actors” (UC Berkeley Art Museum) to moving affect. In order to make the film, Green, also a sculptor, rebuilt the house and crafted kinetic contraptions that move to produce sound and image. The result is magic, “a tinkerer’s ode to a tinkerer, and a romantic’s tribute to a romantic…Gravity…radiates an oddball homemade charm.” (NY Times) The film will be accompanied by live music and narration by Green, joined by indie musicians Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Drew Henkels (Drew & the Medicinal Pen) and Donna K. COSPONSORED WITH THE CCA, THE ATKINSON FORUM AND THE COLLEGE OF AAP. more at nervousfilms.com DIGITAL PROJECTION Tickets on sale now at CornellCinemaTickets.com, and available starting Sat. Sept. 18 from Ithaca Guitar Works in the DeWitt Mall downtown and Mon. Sept 20 from the Cornell Cinema Office, 104 Willard Straight, 9am-5pm. For more information, call 607-255-3522.2010>COLOR>1 HR 15 MINS>USA

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Hidden Fortress Sept 30 Oct 2

directed by Akira Kurosawawith Toshiro Mifune, Misa UeharaKUROSAWA’S FIRST TOHOSCOPE film provided the inspiration for George Lucas when he set out to make Star Wars some twenty years later. In it, Toshiro Mifune, accompanied by two peasants perpetually at each other’s throats, sets out to rescue a princess in feudal Japan. “Kurosawa set a new standard for visualized excitement that filmmakers have been imitating ever since.” (Armond White) SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM ‘SCOPE1958>B&W>2 HRS 19 MINS>JAPAN

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

I Live in Fear Sept 27•28directed by Akira Kurosawawith Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minsoru ChiakiMIFUNE PLAYS AN elderly patriarch and owner of a foundry who becomes con-vinced that Japan is on the verge of nuclear annihilation. His fear and a plan to move his loved ones to Brazil lead his family to have him declared incompetent. “Kurosawa lets both sides exhaust themselves without drawing a premature judgment… [I Live in Fear] offers a hugely compelling glimpse at the post-war Japanese mindset.” SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM1955>B&W>1 HR 43 MINS>JAPAN

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Idiot Sept 13•14

directed by Akira Kurosawawith Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô MifuneKUROSAWA’S ADAPTATION OF Dos-toevsky’s The Idiot uproots the novel’s setting, St. Petersburg, and moves it to Hokkaido; at the same time, Prince Myshkin becomes Kameda (Mori), a

war criminal just released from an asylum, whose grip on sanity proves too fragile to negotiate his relationships with two women, one of them a rich man’s mistress who has also caught the eye of Kameda’s new friend, Akama (Mifune). SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM1951>B&W>2 HRS 46 MINS>

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Ikiru Sept 20•21directed by Akira Kurosawawith Takashi Shimura, Miki OdagiriTHIS UNSENTIMENTAL FILM regards the last months of a bureaucrat’s life as he seeks to give it meaning. “Emotional revelations and…a superb sequence—almost an epiphany—when the dying man, who has accomplished what he hoped to, sits in a swing in the snow and hums a little song.” (Pauline Kael) SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM1952>B&W>2 HRS 20 MINS>JAPAN

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

J our de fête Oct 6•8

directed by Jacques Tatiwith Jacques Tati, Guy DeCombleTATI PLAYS A bicycle-riding postman who tries to speed up his mail deliveries with American know-how after seeing a newsreel detailing the mechanized swiftness of the US Postal Service. “A hilarious farce.” (New Yorker) “The film has always been a populist favorite, but its restored color version is doubly precious: this is color that truly looks like 1947—not films of that period so much as 1947 itself—and its bucolic postwar euphoria, not to mention its affection of interactive village life, has all the fragrant perfume of a time capsule.” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)1947>COLOR>1 HR 25 MINS>FRANCE

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•ITHACA PREMIERE

Juche Idea Sept 29 Oct 1

directed by Jim Finnwith Lee Jung Yoon, Daniela Kostova, Kim Sung“THE JUCHE IDEA, by American experimental filmmaker Jim Finn, uses the theories of Kim Jong-il to satirize the process of art making under both socialist and capitalist systems… Steeped in the obsolete language of revolutionary art, Mr. Finn’s meticulous, deadpan mockumentaries often play like unearthed artifacts from an alternate universe.” (NY Times) SUBTITLED more at jimfinn.org/features.html DIGITAL PROJECTION2008>COLOR>1 HR 2 MINS>USA

3 EARLY ALMODÓVARS

Law of Desire Sept 23•27directed by Pedro Almodóvarwith Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio BanderasALMODÓVAR DIRECTS FILMS the way Flannery O’Conner wrote fiction: with a fine eye focused on life’s great absurdities. This bawdy black comedy follows the out-of-control life of writer-director Pablo, hot for one man, pursued by another, while filming Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine, starring his sister, who was once his brother… A film where anything can, and will, happen. SUBTITLED 35MM1987>COLOR>1 HR 40 MINS>SPAIN

3 EARLY ALMODÓVARS

Matador Sept 16•20

directed by Pedro Almodóvarwith Assumpta Serna, Antonio BanderasA PERVERSE COMEDY about the romantic escapades of two sexually aberrant , murderous bullfighters, this flamboyant taboo-buster “situates us in the symbolic landscape where Almodóvar’s films take place—in the terrain where camp and pornography and poetry converge.” (Washington Post) No one under 18 admitted. SUBTITLED 35MM

1986>COLOR>1 HR 50 MINS>SPAIN

PHILIP K. DICK’S DYSTOPIAS

Minority Report Sept 22•24

directed by Steven Spielbergwith Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Neal McDonoughIN THE FUTURE, premeditated crime has become obsolete under the ‘pre-crime’ division of the DC Police Dept. The system is infallible—until Chief John Anderton (Cruise) is predicted to murder a man he does not even know. Under hot pursuit, Anderton must unravel the mystery to a future he cannot imagine. Based on the Philip K. Dick story. 35MM ‘SCOPE2002>COLOR>2 HRS 25 MINS>USA

TWO IN TEHRAN•ITHACA PREMIERE

No One Knows About Persian Cats Sept 29 Oct 1•2

directed by Bahman Ghobadiwith Hamed Behdad, Ashkan Koshanedjad, Negar ShaghaghiTHIS MUSIC-FUELED FILM about the underground music scene in Tehran tells the story of Negar and Ashkan, two young alt-rock musicians who plan to stage a forbidden farewell concert before they flee the country. The film “has a remarkably exuberant spirit that is impossible to resist.” (LA Times) SUBTITLED more at ifcfilms.com/films/no-one-knows-about-persian-cats 35MM ‘SCOPE2009>COLOR>1 HR 46 MINS>IRAN

EXIT SAIGON•ITHACA PREMIERE

Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam

Sept 21directed by Tammy Nguyen LeeOPERATION BABYLIFT TAKES its name from a $2 million initiative to airlift Vietnamese orphans out of their war-torn country. The documentary features testimonials by many of the over 3,000 orphans that were saved by Babylift, and in so doing makes a case for the importance of the endeavor in the history of international adoption. more at thebabylift.com DIGITAL PROJECTION2009>COLOR>1 HR 12 MINS>USA

PHILIP K. DICK’S DYSTOPIAS

Scanner Darkly Sept 15•17•19

directed by Richard Linklaterwith Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody HarrelsonLINKLATER EMPLOYS THE amazing rotoscope technology he in-troduced in the now-classic Waking Life in this adaptation of Dick’s novel about a narc so deeply under cover—and addicted to the new drug Substance D—that he quickly loses sight of his own reality and identity. 35MM2006>COLOR>1 HR 40 MINS>USA

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Seven Samurai Sept 23•25

directed by Akira Kurosawawith Toshiro Mifune, Takashi ShimuraSEVEN HIRED KNIGHTS defend a 16th-century Japanese village

against 40 bandits in Kurosawa’s raging, sensuous work. SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM1954>B&W>3 HRS 30 MINS>JAPAN

Splice Sept 24•25•26

directed by Vincenzo Nataliwith Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac“DARK, SLEEK, FUNNY and creepily infectious, the genetic-engi-neering horror-comedy Splice is a dynamic comeback vehicle for Canadian genre director Vincenzo Natali, who made a splash a few years ago with Cube.” (Salon.com) more at splicethefilm.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 44 MINS>CANADA/FRANCE/USA

ITHACA PREMIERE

Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom Sept 28 Oct 2•3

directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzig Sonamwith The Dalai Lama, Woeser, Lhadon TethongTHIS F ILM I S a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the events of the tumultuous year of 2008, which included protests in Tibet, the in-ternational response, the march to Tibet by Buddhist exiles in India, the Beijing Olympics, and the breakdown of talks between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government. In English, Mandarin and Tibetan. SUBTITLED more at thesunbehindtheclouds.com DIGITAL PROJECTION2010>COLOR>1 HR 19 MINS>AUSTRIA/FRANCE/INDIA/NETHERLANDS/CHINA/USA/UK/GERMANY

THE ATKINSON FORUM PRESENTS•LIVE MUSIC & FILM•UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•NEW PRINT!

Sunrise Sept 18 ( free)

with live music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestradirected by F.W. Murnauwith Janet Gaynor, George O’BrienONE OF THE last and per-haps the greatest of all silent films, Murnau’s Sunrise is a visually stunning and dramatic picture about an idyllic country marriage shattered by a big city tramp. One of the most significant and influential films of all time, the film will be accompanied by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra performing one of their most gorgeous scores. more at mont-alto.com 35MM FREE PASSES AVAILABLE FROM THE WSH 4TH FLOOR TICKET DESK STARTING MONDAY, SEPT. 13.

1927>B&W>1 HR 50 MINS>USA

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA•ITHACA PREMIERE

Sweetgrass Sept 15•17•21

directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash AN UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGY to the Ameri-can West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their f locks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absa-roka-Beartooth mountains for summer

pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulner-ability and violence are all intimately meshed. “A graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent.” (NY Times) more at sweetgrassthemovie.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 41 MINS>FRANCE/UK/USA

KUROSAWA CENTENNIAL

Throne of Blood Oct 4•5directed by Akira Kurosawawith Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu YamadaKUROSAWA’S HAUNTING ADAPTATION of Macbeth is a “demonstration of the uses of violence, decor, pageantry, and costuming…almost a textbook in the techniques for making a movie move. Besides that, it has the great Isuzu Yamada washing her bloody hands, and West or East, there may never be a more chilling Lady Macbeth.” (Pauline Kael) SUBTITLED more at janusfilms.com/kurosawa 35MM1957>B&W>1 HR 50 MINS>JAPAN

Toy Story 3 Sept 10•11•12•17•18directed by Lee Unkrichwith Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don RicklesPIXAR’S ORIGINAL STARS are back with a new adventure that lands the gang in a room of untamed tots who can’t wait to get their sticky hands on some cool new toys. “This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.” (USA Today) more at disney.go.com/toystory 35MM

2010>COLOR>1 HR 43 MINS>USA

TWO IN TEHRAN•ITHACA PREMIERE

Women Without Men Sept 9•11•12

directed by Shirin Neshatwith Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Orsolya TothBASED ON THE magical realist novel by

Shahrnush Parsipur, the film follows the stories of four women, each of vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds, in 1953 Iran, in the unrest following the CIA-backed overthrow of the prime minister, all of whom seek refuge in an orchard outside of Tehran. Installation artist/photographer/director Neshat’s “crystalline shot compositions… seem to rise out of an alternately troubled and serene dreamscape.” (Boston Globe) COSPONSORED WITH THE DEPT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. SUBTITLED more at womenwithoutmenfilm.com 35MM2010>COLOR>1 HR 35 MINS>GERMANY/AUSTRIA/FRANCE

3 EARLY ALMODÓVARS

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Sept 30 Oct 4directed by Pedro Almodóvarwith Carmen Maura, Antonio BanderasSET AGAINST WHAT may be the most luscious palette of colors ever seen on screen, this delirious farce follows several women, including the divine Carmen Maura, as they fly at breakneck speed (in inappropriate shoes) through the utter, debilitating, fantastic chaos of post-modern love. SUBTITLED 35MM1988>COLOR>1 HR 28 MINS>SPAIN

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Women Without MenWSH 7:30

Toy Story 3WSH 9:30

The IdiotWSH 6:30

Exit Through the Gift ShopWSH 9:45

Exit Through the Gift ShopWSH 7:00

The IdiotWSH 9:00

SweetgrassWSH 7:00

A Scanner DarklyWSH 9:15

MatadorWSH 7:00

The Good, the Bad,the Weird

WSH 9:25

SweetgrassWSH 7:15

A Scanner DarklyWSH 9:30

Toy Story 3URIS 7:15

The Good, the Bad,the Weird

URIS 9:30

The CameramanW/LIVE MUSIC

[$7 ADULTS/$5 KIDS 12 & UNDER]WSH 4:00

SunriseW/LIVE MUSIC

[FREE] WSH 7:30

Toy Story 3URIS 7:15

The Good, theBad, the Weird

URIS 9:30

The Good, the Bad,the Weird

WSH 7:00A Scanner Darkly

WSH 9:30

SweetgrassWSH 7:00

Operation Babylift :The Lost Children of Vietnam

[$4] SCPA 7:15Ikiru

WSH 9:15

At Home in UtopiaWSH 7:00

Minority ReportWSH 8:30

Law of DesireWSH 7:00

Seven SamuraiWSH 9:15

IkiruWSH 7:00

MatadorWSH 9:45

Gravity Was Everywhere Back ThenW/LIVE MUSIC

[$12/$10 STUDENTS & SENIORS] WSH 7:30

SpliceWSH 10:45

Despicable MeURIS 7:15

Minority ReportURIS 9:25

At Home in UtopiaWSH 7:00

Seven SamuraiWSH 8:30

Despicable MeURIS 7:15

SpliceURIS 9:25

Despicable MeWSH 7:15

SpliceWSH 9:25

I Live in FearWSH 7:00

Law of DesireWSH 9:20

Bolinao 52[$4] SCPA 7:15

The Sun Behind the CloudsWSH 7:30

I Live in FearWSH 9:30

The Juche IdeaWSH 7:00

No One Knows About Persian Cats

WSH 8:30

Women on the Vergeof a Nervous Breakdown

WSH 7:00

The Hidden FortressWSH 9:00

No One Knows About Persian Cats

WSH 7:15

The Juche IdeaWSH 9:30

CyrusURIS 7:15

Despicable MeURIS 9:20

The Sun Behind the CloudsWSH 7:15

No One Knows About Persian Cats

WSH 9:15

The Hidden FortressURIS 7:00

CyrusURIS 9:45

The Sun Behind the CloudsWSH 7:15

CyrusWSH 9:15

Throne of BloodWSH 7:00

Women on the Vergeof a Nervous Breakdown

WSH 9:15

Daddy LonglegsW/FILMMAKERS

WSH 7:00

Throne of BloodWSH 9:45

Jour de fê éeteWSH 7:00

Daddy LonglegsWSH 9:00

CyrusWSH 7:15

Daddy LonglegsWSH 9:20

Jour de feteWSH 7:00

CyrusWSH 9:00

Films Sept 12–Oct 8 (see reverse for Aug 22—Sept 11)

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WSH=WILL ARD STR AIGHT THE ATRE • URIS= URIS HALL AUDIT ORIUM • SCPA=SCHWARTZ CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS FILM FORUM • ADMISSION: (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED): $7 GENERAL / $5.50 SENIORS / $4 STUDENTS & KIDS

oct 8

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The Atkinson Forum in American Studies and Cornell Cinema present

LiveMusic& Film:

It used to be when you heard the

phrase “live music and film” it meant the screening of a silent film, in the traditional sense of early silent film, and musical accompaniment by a pianist or small orchestra, performing a particular kind of improvised or established score.

an ever evolving art form!

Pioneers like The Club Foot and Alloy Orchestras started to shake things up with their non-traditional scores for classic silent films in the late ‘80s and ‘90s, but in recent years there’s been a huge expansion in the number of ways live music—everything from ragtime to rock, jazz to gypsy, latin to lounge, alt. folk to avant-garde—has been paired with films, not just classic silent work, but all kinds of film: experimental, animated,

documentary.

This year, with the generous support of the Atkinson Forum in American Studies, we acknowledge the tremendous range and creativity of these interdisciplinary projects by presenting an eclectic mix of live music and film events,

beginning with one of the more traditional, albeit exquisitely executed, arrangements: the Colorado-based Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (mont-alto.com), a five-piece ensemble headed by Rodney Sauer, will perform their original scores to Edward Sedgwick’s Buster Keaton-starrer The Cameraman (1928) and F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), the latter widely regarded as one of the most important silent films of all time.

A week later we welcome back animator/musician Brent Green, who in 2008 presented one of the most unique couplings of live music and film we’d ever seen when he performed and narrated a program of his wholly original

hand-made animations, along with a band of indie musicians, including Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Brent and Brendan will be back on September 24th with Green’s feature film debut, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (2010), stop motion animated film with live actors, inspired by the true story of a Kentucky man who built a wildly imaginative house for his dying wife, in hopes it would save her. Brent and Brendan will be joined by musicians Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Drew Hankels (Drew and the Medicinal Plan) and actress/musician Donna K, for an evening that promises to be memorable beyond your wildest imagination.In our next calendar look for four more extraordinary live music & film events:

Oct 23: Utopia in Four Movements, a one-of-a-kind documentary experience with filmmaker Sam Green & sound artist Dave Cerf, and live soundtrack performed by indie/folk group The Quavers, Utopia investigates the meaning and status of idealism in contemporary culture. Oct 28: Treasures from a Chest, with French film preservationist & entertainer Serge Bromberg, is a program of short, rare films with live music that is reminiscent of vaudeville, but entirely modern.Nov 4: Sza/Za & Polanski is a program of seven early short films by Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski that will be accompanied by the electroacoustic duo from Warsaw, Sza/Za, a project made possible by the Polish Cultural Institute. Listen to Sza/Za on youtube and you won’t want to miss this rare event. Nov 6: Finally, we’ll welcome back Cornell Cinema regulars the Alloy Orchestra who will perform their revised score to the latest, and definitive, restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (as well as accompany a matinee pro-gram still to be determined). This show is receiving standing ovations wherever it plays (including in Ithaca this summer!), so buy your ticket now before the show sells out again.

If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to add a cherry on top of this semester-long celebration of live music and film with a visit by silent film pianist, and Cornell Cinema regular, Philip Carli, who brings the form back to its roots, improvising scores to classic silent films that in some cases he’s never seen before, wowing audiences every single time he performs.Look for more live music & film events in the spring semester!Tickets for these events are available now at CornellCinemaTickets.com, and will be available the Saturday before each show downtown from Ithaca Guitar Works in the DeWitt Mall and the Monday before each show from the Cornell Cinema Office, 104 Willard Straight Hall, from 9am–5pm. For more information, call 255-3522.

★ All screenings open to the public★ Theatre locations: WSH - Willard Straight Theatre; URIS - URIS Hall Auditorium; SCPA - Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Film Forum★ Box office opens 20 mins. before and closes 30 mins. after showtimes★ Ticket Prices: $7 general / $5.50 senior citizens / $4 students & kids 12 and under★ Special ticket prices may apply to some shows★ Group rates available: call 255-3522 at least 1 day in advance★ Advance ticket sales available at the WSH Ticket Desk (open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri ); Cornell Card & credit cards accepted★ Cornell Card can also be used to purchase tickets and discount cards at the WSH & URIS box offices during evening hours★ Discount Cards (6 admissions, valid for 1 year)—$21 for students / $28 for senior citizens (62+over)/ $35 general—can be purchased at

the WSH box office & URIS box offices during evening hours, from the WSH Ticket Desk & SCPA box office (where Cornell Card and credit cards can be used) during their regular business hours and online by credit card at CornellCinemaTickets.com

★ Rent the Willard Straight Balcony (seats 40) for just $150—call for details★ Both URIS Auditorium & Willard Straight Theatre equipped with Dolby Surround Sound★ Recorded info on screenings: call 255-3522 after 5pm weekdays; all day weekends★ To be added to our weekly email reminder list, send request to cjr20@cornell.edu or visit our website (http://cinema.cornell.edu)★ Foreign language films subtitled in English unless otherwise noted

closed for fall break re- opening oct 13

From the utopian online reference source, Wikipedia:“UTOPIA is a name for an ideal community or society, which is taken from Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, pos-sessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently DYSTOPIA.”

As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close and more and more of the dystopian futures depicted in novels and films seem to be mirroring our present reality, leaving little room to even conceive of the notion of utopia, it seemed a fitting time to reflect on ideas of Utopia/Dystopia with a film series. Inspiration also came from the selection of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?, made famous by Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi film Blade Runner (1982), as this year’s New Student Reading Project, and the upcoming special event Utopia in Four Movements (see Live Music & Film article for more info). So we have assembled an eclectic mix of utopian and dystopian themed films, including several classic films and a number of new documentaries that explore utopian/dystopian projects and their consequences.In addition to the related series, Dickstopia: The Dystopian Realities of Philip K. Dick (see article on front), which includes the best films based on Dick’s writings (except Blade Runner, as rights issues prevent this film from being screened publicly), we’ll be screening the director’s cut of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985), a film that is popping up in a number of reviews of Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception, as both films explore dystopian dreamscapes. Francois Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966) looks at another government controlled dystopia where all books are burned lest the masses be inspired by the information in them to rise up in revolt.In Fritz Lang’s early dystopian epic, Metropolis (1927), the definitive restoration of which will screen in November with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra, those in power use the evil robot Maria to incite a revolt among the masses so it can be used against them. The director’s visionary view of unchecked capitalism is elaborated upon in the new restoration, making the film seem that much more timely. Of course, socialist and communist systems can run amok as well, and experimental documentarians Jim Finn and Amie Siegel explore such breakdowns in very different ways in their films, The Juche Idea (2008) and DDR/DDR (2008), respectively.In The Juche Idea, Finn uses the theories of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il to satirize the process of art making under both socialist and capitalist systems. Kim Jong-il adapted his father’s Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy—a hybrid of Confucianism and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism—to propaganda, film, and art, so Finn has crafted a fake documentary about a South Korean video artist who does a North Korean artist residency to help bring Juche cinema into the 21st century. The result is “a completely legitimate-looking North Korean propaganda film that’s heady, deliciously funny and one of the most effective and, oddly enough, informative films ever made about the Hermit Kingdom.” (Box Office Magazine)Striking a much more serious note, Siegel’s DDR/DDR is a multi-layered film essay on the German Democratic Republic and its dis-solution. Incorporating Stasi surveillance footage to recreate a sense of the dystopian atmosphere in which East Germans lived and where everyone spied on everyone, Siegel’s film also reveals the traumas associated with reunification. Siegel will be here to present the film on October 13.Perhaps the closest we come to seeing the socialist/utopian impulse succeed is in At Home in Utopia (2008), Michal Goldman’s documentary about Jewish immigrant garment workers who pooled their resources and built four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx in the 1920s as a way of escaping the urban slums. Goldman’s film focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony—aka the Coops—the most grassroots and member-driven of the Jewish labor housing cooperatives, where many of the residents were Communists or sympathetic to the communist movement. “Since the earliest utopias, the link between town planning—the arrangement of dwellings and work-places, malls and public spaces—and its impact on the inhabitants of utopia has been crucial; indeed the organization of space is understood not just as a reflection or symbol of the new ideals, but as a decisive component in the production of the new man or woman, to the extent that some planners thought that planning itself could bring about larger social transformation.” (Peter Fitting)

The idea that modern architecture and city planning could be used to achieve an urban utopia was a major focus of early 20th century architects, among them Affonso Eduardo Reidy, a pio-neer of the modern architectural movement in Brazil. The trajectory of his work as an architect and urbanist in Rio de Janeiro, where he proposed projects that would enable workers to live comfortably in the city, is explored in Ana Maria Magalhães’s documentary Reidy, Building Utopia (2009).But plans for urban utopias have always been thwarted by economic and bureaucratic realities, leaving small villages and rural settings as the last best hopes for a stable utopia. The contrast between the safety of the village and the corruption of the city is explored in F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), one of the greatest silent films ever made, which will be shown in a new print with live musical accom-paniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra on September 18th. And village life couldn’t look more appealing than in Jacques Tati’s delightful Jour de fête (1947), shot in a rare color process that captures the bucolic euphoria of postwar France.But even rural utopias are now threatened by globalization, as de-picted in two stunning films: Thai filmmaker Uruphong Raksasad’s

A g r a r i a n Utopia (2009) and visual an-th ropologist s Lucien Casta-ing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash’s Sweetgrass (2010).“A scr ipted w o r k t h a t plays closer to documen-

tary, Agrarian Utopia describes the conditions befalling traditional agricultural lifestyle in a time of mass farming, government instability and global price setting. The film fol-lows two farmers and their families through the cycle of a rice crop season.… The film’s astonishing cinematography and time-lapse images capture the sublimity of electrical storms, morning mist and gathering winds, and present a glimpse of what a utopian agrarian world could truly look like.” (Chi-Hui Yang, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival)“Celebrated since its Berlin and New York film festival premieres, Sweet-grass offers both a sweeping panorama and intimate portrait of the vanishing way of life of Montana’s possibly last generation of sheep herders. Sensitively documenting the efforts of a small group of herders to drive their sheep into Montana’s Beartooth Mountains for summer pasture, Sweetgrass reveals a breathtakingly epic study of man in nature that is shaded by a mournful eulogy for the vanishing frontier….” (Harvard Film Archive)

Perhaps the only remaining places where a utopia can be found are in the innocence of childhood or the darkness of a movie theatre, both of which are portrayed in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1989), in which “a young Sicilian finds heaven in his local movie-house.” (Sight and Sound)Cornell Cinema is happy to continue to offer its utopia on the hill, where you can see all of these amazing films this fall.

Utopia/Dystopia

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

BRAZILAug 25, 27 & 29

FAHRENHEIT 451Aug 28 & 30

REIDY, BUILDING UTOPIASept 1

AGRARIAN UTOPIA Sept 8 & 10

CINEMA PARADISOSept 10 & 11

SWEETGRASSSept 15, 17 & 21

SUNRISESept 18

AT HOME IN UTOPIASept 22 & 25

THE JUCHE IDEASept 29 & Oct 1

JOUR DE FÊTEOct 6 & 8

NEXT CALENDAR:DDR/DDR

Oct 13UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS W/LIVE MUSIC & NARRATION

Oct 23METROPOLIS – NEW RESTORATION W/ALLOY ORCHESTRA

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