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Sorry for the delay folks, but the full and complete interview with Todd Haynes [pictured here with the lovely Charlotte Gainsbourg] is now up in our interviews section. We were fortunate enough to spend some time with Todd upon his visit to Cornell Cinema last weekend for a special screening of “I’m Not There” [and […]

Note: You can read the transcript of my conversation with Jane Hammond in our interviews section. The following is the article that appeared in the Ithaca Times.
[From the Ithaca Times, March 12]
Systems. Recurrence. Repetition. On first glance, these words may be the last thing you think of when observing Jane Hammond’s wildly alive and seemingly […]

It’s easy to let Valentine’s Day go by with a few wilted carnations and a couple of chocolates, but this year get out of that usual routine with your honey (or your friends) and check out what’s going on this Feb. 14.

MUSIC

Instrumental guitarist Lynn Wiles will be playing at the Watercress Restaurant on 2 Hickory […]

Did you miss Control when it was playing at Cinemapolis? Well, for this weekend only, Cornell Cinema is screening the Ian Curtis biopic at Willard Straight Hall tonight [10pm], Friday [9:15pm], and Saturday [9:30pm]. See the Cornell Cinema schedule for more details. We’ve heard great things about this mostly well-received film [visit Metacritic for more […]

Friday night, Mary Lorson and Billy Cote performed a selection of their score to Steven Cantor’s documentary “What Remains.” I found their sparse, melancholic incidental music to be a remarkably effective accompaniment to such a somber, strange film. Sally Mann — you probably know her best from this controversial series of photographs — has quite […]

From this week’s Encore:
The Abattoir is a brand new venue located over on the South Hill, and they have their debut show this Friday. Their mission statement is as follows: “The Abattoir is an old slaughter house situated behind our house up on the South Hill of Ithaca, NY. Retrofitted into a small show space, […]

This week’s arts cover is a lengthy interview with local singer songwriter Mary Lorson, who is most well known for her work in Madder Rose and Saint Low, but has been making a move into the film soundtracking world as of late. Read the cover story here and look for a more detailed post later […]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. This is their mission statement on their website:
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is a one-week multimedia inter-arts extravaganza that reboots the environment and sustainability into a larger global conversation, embracing issues ranging from labor, war, health, disease, music, intellectual […]

This week, our cover story was on the folk trio The Roches, a group of three close-knit sisters, Terre, Suzzy, and Maggie. They’ll be playing the State Theatre this Saturday at 8pm, and stay tuned for a longer post about my lovely conversation with the youngest sister, Suzzy. Read the article that appeared in the […]

Chinese cinema has played a crucial role in the ongoing development of Chinese cultural identity in the last twenty years. More recently, China has experienced a rapid expansion of independent artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers. Documentary film, in particular, is one of the best, and most explicit, venues to illustrate contemporary Chinese life. In part, […]

Snow or no snow, there’s a lot going on around town this weekend. Unfortunately, Popcorn Youth is going to be missing all of it — we’re taking a little roadtrip into NYC for a whirlwind weekend of music. Tomorrow night at Webster Hall, for the very first time, I’m finally going to see Sonic Youth […]

“Old Joy” will have a final screening at Cornell Cinema’s Willard Straight Theatre tonight at 7:15pm. The film stars Daniel London and Will Oldham — yes, that Will Oldham — as two old friends reunited for a weekend camping in the Cascade mountain range in eastern Oregon. I saw it on Friday, and it is […]

This week in the Ithaca Times, I spoke with Dana Janssen, of the Brooklyn-based quartet Akron/Family. Janssen and other Akron/Family members lived in Ithaca a few years ago, and they’re playing here tonight — the first tour date of their major spring tour for their 2006 release “Meek Warrior” — at the Appel Commons […]

The huge event of the weekend is Ithaca’s Light in Winter Festival, which aims to bring together artists, musicians and scientists to experiment, think and innovate. If you look closely at the program of events, you’ll see that nearly everything looks interesting — I doubt you’ll regret attending any number of these events. But here […]

Tonight Cornell Cinema screened “Last Dance,” a documentary following the collaborative process between author Maurice Sendak and the experimental dance company Pilobolus. Pilobolus will be performing at Ithaca’s State Theatre this Friday at 8pm. Unfortunately, Cornell Cinema did not receive the second reel of the film, and everyone had to leave halfway through! The free […]