The Emory Cinematheque: Dog Day Afternoon
Film Screening - Dog Day Afternoon
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
To raise money for his partner’s gender reassignment surgery, Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) plans to rob a bank—and that’s about the extent of the plan. On one sweltering August day, John and his friend Sal (John Cazale) barge into the First Brooklyn Savings Bank with guns blazing only to find out that the daily cash pickup truck has left for the day, so there is only $1,100 on site. And this is where the trouble begins. The wannabe robbers take the bank employ…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Deep Red
Film Screening - Deep Red
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
In Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 thriller, Blow Up, David Hemmings played an effete fashion photographer who accidentally captures a murder on film. Nearly a decade later, Hemmings plays another unwitting witness for another Italian director-- but in an altogether different kind of film. Dario Argento’s absurdist giallo horror film, Deep Red dispenses with psychological realism, indulging in extravagant style. Hemmings stars as Marcus Daly, an English pianist in Rom…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Photography Speaks: Stephanie Dowda DeMer
Photography Speaks: Stephanie Dowda DeMer
Monday November 3 at 7pm
Free event, open to public
Organized by Emory University photography professor Jason Francisco, the ongoing Photography Speaks series presents discussions with contemporary photographers. On Monday November 3, Photography Speaks invites Stephanie Dowda DeMer to discuss her work. DeMer is an Atlanta-based photographer and the current Emory Arts Fellow in Visual Arts.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Visual Arts Program. Event Open To: All (Public).
Monday, November 3, 2025, 7:00 PM.
Emory Visual Arts Gallery | 700 Peavine Creek Dr. Atlanta, GA 30322.
The Emory Cinematheque: Night Moves
Film Screening - Night Moves
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
Arthur Penn’s offbeat neo-noir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Moseby, once an NFL player and now a Los Angeles private investigator, wrestling with his personal failures and disappointments. When he discovers his wife cheating on him, Harry throws himself into his work: A faded Hollywood star has hired him to find her runaway teenage daughter (Melanie Griffith), and the search leads him to the murky waters of the Florida Keys. There he finds the girl staying with he…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Xala
Film Screening - Xala
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
In Ousmane Sembène’s vision of recently independent Senegal, corrupt Black businessmen have taken the economic reins from corrupt white businessmen to perpetuate the same oppressive system. Among them is El Hadj Beye, an ambitious merchant who demonstrates his success by taking on a third wife much to the chagrin of his other two. However, on the wedding night, El Hadj discovers that he has been struck with “xala”—the curse of impotence. While El Hadj frantically search…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Film Screening - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
To escape prison labor, charismatic drifter Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) successfully fakes insanity in court, landing him a spot at Oregon State Hospital in a ward ruled by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). McMurphy has no intention of submitting to her authority: He sneaks women and booze into the hospital and even organizes a fishing trip with the other patients, including meek Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif), childlike Martini…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Film Screening - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Free event and open to public
For Fall of 2025, The Emory Cinematheque presents 1975: A Year in Cinema, a portrait of a remarkable year in film history. Programmed collaboratively by Emory’s Department of Film and Media, 1975: A Year in Cinema reflects the variety, the complexity, and the contradictions of its transitional moment. Each week’s film will be introduced by the member of the faculty or staff who selected it.
Please join us for a very special series in which every film is a 50th anniversary screening!
Medieval myth and history provide comic fodder for Britain’s favorite surrealist comedy troupe in their rendition of the Grail Quest. In search of the divine chalice, King Arthur (Graham Chapman) assembles a team of knights, Lancelot (John Cleese), Galahad (Michael Palin), Bedivere (Terry Jones), and cowardly Sir Robin (Eric Idle). Together, they embark on a rambling adventure guided by the light of effervescent silliness. As the questers trav…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.