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.