Emory Cinematheque: The Third Man
Emory Cinematheque: The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed , 1949 | 104 min.
Arguably no film better captured the sense of post-World War II disillusionment than Carol Reed’s realization of an original Graham Greene script about despicable crime and corruption in Vienna. Declared by at least one critic as “probably the greatest British thriller of the postwar era,” the film, featuring exteriors shot on location in Vienna, is largely a detective noir featuring an out of his depth American pulp fiction writer Holly Martens (Joseph Cotton), his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) and the woman they both love (Alida Valli). Reed elicited memorable performances from his cast (also including Trevor Howard). Cinematographer Robert Krasker furthered the film's unsettling atmosphere with his extensive use of canted angles. And Anton Karas’s zither “Third Man Theme” achieved top-charting status for nearly three months. You will have a hard time forgetting it or more to the point, the film.
Free event and open to…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Ethics at the Movies: SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT
FREE Screening at Emory University — SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT, Thursday, March 19, 2026 7:00 PM EDT
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102
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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of SISTER SALAD DAYS and Q&A with writer/director Adesola Thomas. Plus THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT.
SISTER SALAD DAYS Short Synopsis:
Sister Salad Days is a magical realist narrative short that explores Black sisterhood, gendered and religious ideas of marital obligation, and the interpersonal harm that is caused in the pursuit of piety. This is a film about promise-keeping among Black women, living vestiges of the past, and one woman’s desire to build a self-determined life in the Atlanta ethnoburbs.
THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT Short Synopsis:
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://atlfsyr.eventive.org/schedule/696540f6b01ac22e0c52553c.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: High and Low
Emory Cinematheque: High and Low
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1963 | 143 min.
Akira Kurosawa is best known for his innovative samurai films, but he took special pride in his contemporary dramas like Ikiru / Living (1952) and this masterful kidnapping detective thriller, recently reconfigured by Spike Lee as Higher 2 Lowest (2025). Immediately after shoe company executive Kingo Gondo (frequent collaborator Toshiro Mifune) mortgages everything to buy a controlling interest in his company, he faces a moral dilemma as to whether to pay an outrageous ransom for the kidnapping of his chauffeur’s son. Kurosawa, at this point fearless in his storytelling prowess, uses every cinematic technique at his disposal to produce a gripping, unpredictable, exhilarating film that is both intimate and epic in its scope.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Photography Speaks: Nicolai Howalt
Photography Speaks: Nicolai Howalt
Monday, March 30 at 7pm via zoom
On Monday March 30 at 7pm, join us for a discussion with Danish artist, Nicolai Howalt via zoom:
https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670
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Organized by Associate Professor Jason Francisco, PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS is an ongoing series of artist’s talks in and around contemporary photography. Approaching the medium in a decidedly anti-essentialist way—as a crossroads where diverse inquires meet in visual form, from art and literature to history and politics, science and spirituality—the series gathers artists from a wide range of positions, modes, and practices.
If you have questions, please ask Professor Francisco: jfranc9@emory.edu.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Visual Arts Program. Series: Photography Speaks. Event Open To: All (Public).
Monday, March 30, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Online (Zoom) - https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670.
Emory Cinematheque: The Gold Rush
Emory Cinematheque: The Gold Rush
Directed by Charles Chaplin, 1925 | 96 min.
1920s silent comedy was America’s gift to the world, and Charlie Chaplin’s film about the Tramp’s adventures in the frozen north remains the peak of his considerable 1920s achievements. He had solved the challenge of combining stand-alone comic episodes into a fully realized narrative and created a fully realized fictional world. Chaplin remains the greatest screen performer in cinema history, and this film—for which he wrote the script, the music and which he directed--showcases his trademark inventiveness via the imaginative transformation of objects, hilarious slapstick, as well as The Tramp’s enduring, endearing yearning for love and acceptance. We are screening the brand new restoration print celebrating the film’s 100th anniversary.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Emory Cinematheque: Sense and Sensibility
Emory Cinematheque: Sense and Sensibility
Directed by Ang Lee, 1995 | 136 min.
Emma Thompson’s perceptive and witty Oscar-winning screenplay provided the foundation for this outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel. We remain always at the side of the dispossessed Dashwood sisters, especially the practical Elinor (Thompson) and the passionate Marianne (Kate Winslet), as they debate how best to approach matters of the heart, over which they, like all of Austen’s heroines, have so little control. Boasting a fine cast of British actors--including the three romcom heartthrobs Hugh Grant, Greg Wise and Alan Rickman--the film perfectly marries Ang Lee’s penchant for long takes and stories of repressed emotion to late 18th century British society.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Ethics at the Movies: NATCHEZ
FREE Screening at Emory University — NATCHEZ
Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:00 PM EDT
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102
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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of NATCHEZ and a Q&A with Suzannah Herbert, Producer / Director.
NATCHEZ Short Synopsis:
After generations of showcasing its pre-Civil War mansions and hoop-skirted guides, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future, and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists, and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.
Ethics at the Movies is a documentary screening series presented by the Center for Ethics at Emory University, featuring in-person post-film conversations with members of creative teams. Ethics at the Movies has screened over 40 films…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://atlfsyr.eventive.org/schedule/696545abbbbf5671f58d5cb7.
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: The Lady Eve
Emory Cinematheque: The Lady Eve
Directed by Preston Sturges, 1941 | 94 min.
With The Lady Eve, the brilliant writer-director Preston Sturges created the Hollywood screwball comedy to top them all. It’s full of impossible situations, clever, double-entendre dialogue (necessary in the era of the Production Code) and plentiful pratfalls. When con artist Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces and then falls for an out-of-his-depth snake-studying heir Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) on an ocean liner, she gets more than she bargained for and resolves to set things right. Boasting a cast of Sturges comic regulars, as well as the always delightful Charles Coburn as Jean’s deceitful father “Colonel” Harrington, The Lady Eve was written expressly for Stanwyck and she goes to town in this “woman on top” romp. Meanwhile Fonda demonstrates his comic chops to the fullest. Who knew?
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Emory Cinematheque: The Rules of the Game
Emory Cinematheque: The Rules of the Game
Directed by Jean Renoir, 1939 | 110 min.
Jean Renoir’s satire of the French bourgeoisie “dancing on the edge of a volcano” (e.g. the Fascist threats at its borders) is the crowning achievement of his golden decade of filmmaking in France (though a case can be made for his magnificent anti-war Grand Illusion). Classically structured, Rules transforms from an urbane comedy of manners among an amoral, adulterous group of mostly wealthy Parisians into a fast-paced, upstairs/downstairs slapstick farce when all hell breaks loose at a costume ball at a Loire chateau. Renoir here achieves the height of naturalism through his signature style--complex staging captured by his frequent use of a mobile camera and long takes. The film is imbued with Renoir’s generous affection for all his characters, no matter how badly they behave.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.