Events Calendar
Tuesday, March 5 2013
Park Hall Auditorium
These Amazing Shadows: Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers
These Amazing Shadows is an 88-minute documentary that tells the history and importance of the Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and the American experience itself. After the screening the filmmakers, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton, will speak.
This is the second film Mariano and Norton have worked on together. The film features interviews with notable actors such as Christopher Nolan, Tim Roth and many more.
Category: Special Events
Sunday, March 24 2013
Park Hall Auditorium
Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! To Speak
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman is on a national speaking tour to mark the 17th anniversary of the daily, independent, global TV/Radio news hour and to discuss her latest book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. To be followed by a booksigning.
Contact: mgattine@ithaca.edu
Category: Lectures
Wednesday, March 27 2013
Cornell Cinema
Prof. Cathy Crane's Film Screening
Associate Professor Cathy Lee Crane will screen her latest film, “Pasolini’s Last Words,” at Cornell Cinema on March 27 at 7:15 p.m. A discussion will follow. Admission fee applies.
The film was shot on location in Rome and Bologna, Italy and in New York with actors Bochay Drum, Amanda Setton (IC Alum), and Lee DeLong. Beth Custer (My Grandmother) composed the film’s original score.
The film enjoyed its International Film Festival premiere in October at Le Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Quebec in the Panorama International section as one of thirty “gems of world cinema”. It then screened at MIX/NYC the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival and in London at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at the British Film Institute.
Category: Special Events
Friday, March 29 2013
Park Hall Auditorium
Screening and Discussion on Rise of Digital Cinema
What do James Cameron, George Lucas, Robert Rodriguez, Walter Murch, Martin Scorsese, Vilmos Zsigmond and Barry Levinson have to say about the digital future of cinema?
Side by Side, a documentary about the transition from celluloid filmmaking to digital filmmaking, will screen Friday, March 29 at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Auditorium. Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Professors Changhee Chun, Elisabeth Nonas, Brad Rappa, and Patrick Winters.
In the film, Keanu Reeves interviews dozens of filmmakers and artists about their opinions on the decline of celluloid and the rise of digital cinema.
Tommy Strauss ’09 is the Production Coordinator on the documentary.
Category: Special Events