Ithaca Premiere

2020 > South Korea/USA > Directed by Sang-soo Hong

With Kim Min-hee, Song Seon-mi

The Woman Who Ran features three lowkey and lo-fi vignettes of Gamhee (Kim Min-hee) as she visits friends while her husband is on a business trip. The conversations are naturalistic and friendly and often arrive at the annoying men in their lives, but "range organically from profound to personal to completely inane." (Variety) In Korean. Subtitled. More at cinemaguild.com/theatrical/womanwhoran.html

1 hr 17 min

1979 > Japan > Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

With voices of Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama

Beloved Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki's feature debut has been gloriously restored so audiences old and new can experience the classic globetrotting adventures of the "gentleman thief" that are often cited as an influence to the Indiana Jones series. In Japanese. Subtitled. More at https://gkids.com

1 hr 39 min

1966 > Czechoslovakia > Directed by Vera Chytilova

With Ivana Karbanova, Jitka Cerhova and Marie Ceskova

"This radically mischievous work was the second feature of the Czech New Wave's sole female director, Vera Chytilova. In her visually arresting, capricious film - full of colorful experiments, dazzling collage effects and surrealist antics - two dangerously bored young women have anarchic fun in a series of loosely connected episodes." (NY Times) A rare treat! Visit the film's website (janusfilms.com/daisies/) for your very own set of Daisies paper dolls! Ranked #5 on indiewire's recent list of the all-time greatest films directed by women. In Czech. Subtitled. More at janusfilms.com/daisies/

1 hr 14 min

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Mexico/USA > Directed by Alexis Gambis

With Tenoch Huerta, Paulina Gaitan

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacan. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his new hybrid identity, launching him on a personal and spiritual metamorphosis. The main character was inspired by Cornell professor Robert Reed (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), a butterfly biologist. The Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Winner at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Post-screening panel will feature filmmaker Alexis Gambis (founder of the Imagine Science Film Festival), Robert Reed (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Natasha Raheja (Anthropology) and Ithaca College professor Camilo Malagon (Latin American Cinema). The panel will be moderated by Cornell professor Shannon Gleeson (ILR Labor History). In English & Spanish. Subtitled. More at sonofmonarchs.com/

1 hr 37 min

1946 > France > Directed by Georges Rouquier

A portrait of the Rouquier family, cousins of the director, who lived in the farming community of Aveyron in South-central France. Like legendary documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, Rouquier worked with non-professional performers--in this case, farmers--who acted out staged sequences that corresponded to events in their own lives. “Rouquier’s film is only superficially a documentary. He punctuates the film with time-lapse sequences that show crops growing and flowers blooming, macrophotographic sequences that show blood pumping in arteries and cellular reproduction. He blends the drama of social life in and around the farm—and the cycle of seasons that governs it—with biological analysis. The movie’s central sequence—a visual reconstruction of a century of Farrebique’s history from the family’s perspective, as narrated by the grandfather to his grandson Raymondou—is a virtual evolutionary account of the growth of a farm.” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker) Shown in a recent digital restoration. In French. Subtitled.

1 hr 40 min

2013 > Hong Kong/China > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

Based on the life of martial arts wunderkind, Ip Man (Bruce Lee's teacher), the film is part biography, part historical drama, tracing the legendary kungfu master's rise to power. Set against the politically turbulent background of 1930s and 1950s China, the film depicts the challenges of power and pride amongst the ruling kungfu dynasties. Mandarin, Cantonese & Japanese. Subtitled.

2 hrs 10 min

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Argentina/France > Directed by Matias Pineiro

With María Villar, Agustina Munoz, Pablo Sigal

The Argentinian filmmaker's latest film inspired by the female characters in Shakespeare follows Mariel and Luciana "imperfect reflections of each other as they audition for the part of Isabella in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure." (Slashfilm.com) This beautifully shot jigsaw of a film skips around in time to tell its elusive story. "Isabella is a subjective story of love and loss, a tale of women who desperately want the role of Isabella knowing one of them cannot have it." (Film Daze) In Spanish. Subtitled. More at cinemaguild.com/theatrical/isabella

1 hr 20 min

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Germany/France > Directed by Christian Petzold

With Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski

Dive into the eerie and fantastical romance from Germany's preeminent filmmaker, Christian Petzold. A water nymph of European mythology, Undine is cursed with having to kill her lover for wanting to leave her. Further complicating the matter, she quickly falls in love with a charismatic (and poetically fitting) diving mechanic (Franz Rogowski). In German, English & Spanish. Subtitled. More at ifcfilms.com/films/undine

1 hr 31 min

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Finland/Sweden > Directed by Zaida Bergroth

With Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Jakob Öhrman

"A formative decade in the life of bisexual, Swedish-speaking, Finnish visual artist and author Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins." (Variety) In Swedish, Finnish, English & French. Subtitled. More at junofilms.com

1 hr 43 min

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > UK/Sweden > Directed by Fred Scott

With Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner

A moving portrait of the artist at work (and at drink), this doc captures the 76 year-old Swedish auteur Roy Andersson creating his recent film, About Endlessness (screening on Sept 2 & 4). "Renowned for his brilliant tragicomic visual gags and dreamlike visions, with hints of Beckett, Fellini and Monty Python" (The Guardian), Andersson works with hand-made miniatures and trompe l'oeil to create his absurdist masterpieces. Subtitled. More at fred-scott.com/royandersson

1 hr 30 min