A new campus film society -- The Cinema at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St. -- kicks off its first season on Friday, Sept. 2.
A student organization made up of undergraduates and graduate students from various schools and departments, The Cinema at Whitney will work with WHC to create a university-wide forum for the appreciation and discussion of film, both as art and as entertainment. In the tradition of repertory theater, The Cinema will offer 35mm films on the big screen, ranging from the experimental to the classic to the popular.
To inaugurate The Cinema, an opening gala will be held on Sept. 2 featuring a screening of Federico Fellini's classic film, "8-1/2." The screening at 8:30 p.m. will be preceded, at 8 p.m., by opening remarks from María Rosa Menocal, director of the WHC.
The following week, The Cinema will begin its regular schedule for the academic year, showing two feature-length films each Friday, at 7:30 and 10 p.m. These weekly screenings, which are free and open to the public, will be selected as "double features" on a specific theme or themes that speak broadly to the human condition. For example, on Oct. 14, The Cinema will present "Water Music(als): The Hole" (directed by Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998) and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (directed by Jacques Demy, 1964), a pair of musicals connected visually by the motif of torrential rain -- and, by implication, the forces of nature and fate that drive humanity. On Halloween weekend, The Cinema will show "Don't Look Now" (directed by Nicolas Roeg, 1973) and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (directed by Philip Kaufman, 1978), a duo linked not only by their time period and exploitation of the macabre, but also by the screen presence of Donald Sutherland.
In addition to weekly screenings, The Cinema will take part in other events sponsored by WHC. On Sept. 23, The Cinema will show "Don Quixote" (directed by Grigori Kozintsev, 1953) and "Lost in La Mancha" (directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, 2002) as part of the "Don Quixote at 400" conference. And on October 2223, The Cinema will present "Food! A Film Festival," a series of food-related films designed to complement Ruth Reichl's 2005 Tanner Lectures, "Why Food Matters."
For more information about The Cinema at the Whitney, contact miye.bromberg@yale.edu.
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