The Emory Cinematheque: Shampoo
Film Screening - Shampoo
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!
Sporting a froofed-up mop for the ages, Warren Betty plays George Roundy, a Beverly hills hairdresser whose career ambition competes with his sex drive. George grooms his millionaire clients in the salon and musses them in the bedroom, but he wants more out of life. George longs to open his own salon, and he asks his current mistress Felicia Karpf (Lee Grant) for a loan. However, Felicia’s husband (Jack Warden) is having an affair with George’s best friend, Jackie (Julie Ch…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Barry Lyndon
Film Screening - Barry Lyndon
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!
Based on William Thackaray’s 1844 picaresque novel, Barry Lyndon charts the change in fortune of Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), a penniless Irish soldier in the British army who deserts his regiment during the Seven Years War. Barry roams across Europe, lying and cheating. Eventually he seduces a wealthy English widow (Marisa Berenson) and marries her, thereby installing himself as a member of the British nobility. However, Barry cannot shed his base nature and fa…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Jaws
Film Screening - Jaws
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!
An evil from the deep encroaches on the peaceful seaside town of Amity, Massachusetts when literally out of the blue, a great white shark begins preying on beachgoers. Finding their community assailed by a wave of terror, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and hardened shark-hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) set off in a leaky boat to send this agent of elemental evil to the abyss from whence it came. Steven Spielberg’s t…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Universe in a Grain of Sand: Documentary Screening & Director Discussion
The Universe in a Grain of Sand: Documentary Screening & Director Discussion
Free event and open to public
On Friday, September 19, Levinson will take part in a roundtable at Emory in conjunction with a screening of his new documentary, The Universe in a Grain of Sand, about how both scientists and artists use their understanding of nature to create tools and representations to probe the deepest mysteries of the universe. Levinson will be joined by Atlanta filmmaker Kate Balsley, whose work is featured in the film, as well as Dr. Leo Goldsmith (the New School) and Dr. Gregory Zinman (Emory University), who served as archival producers for the film.
Mark Levinson is the award-winning director of the documentary feature Particle Fever. The film won the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication and the National Academies of Science Communication Award. Before embarking on his film career, Mark earned a PhD in theoretical physics. In the film world, he first became a specialist in sound editing…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Friday, September 19, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
White Hall 205 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Grey Gardens
Film Screening - Grey Gardens
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!
Relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, mother and daughter “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier-Beale were once glamorous socialites, but now they live in gothic seclusion on a dilapidated East Hampton estate with no running water. Surrounded by raccoons, cats, fleas, and distant memories, the mother-daughter pair bicker, reminisce, and dream of returning to their lives of luxury and privilege. Both grotesque and poignant, Grey Gardens presents an intimate por…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Let’s Do It Again
Film Screening - Let's Do It Again
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 this sequel to Uptown Saturday Night, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby reprise their respective roles as milkman, Clyde Williams and factory worker, Billy Foster. Financial trouble threatens strikes their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka, and the two friends hatch a scheme to save their organization’s headquarters. Using a wedding anniversary trip as a ploy, Clyde and Billy travel to New Orleans with their wives, planning to rig a middlewe…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: The Battle of Chile Part I
Film Screening - The Battle of Chile Part I
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!
Patricio Guzmán’s The Battle of Chile documents the period of sociopolitical tumult leading up to the military coup that overthrew the Salvador Allende’s socialist government. Part 1 focuses on widespread discontent surrounding Allende’s 1973 reelection. Through street interviews, factory protests, and union hall meetings, Guzman assembles a panorama of unrest, culminating in a scene of violence not only witnessed but experienced first-hand when ph…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
The Emory Cinematheque: Death Race 2000
Film Screening - Death Race 2000
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 a dystopian future, America has succumbed to a totalitarian military regime that pacifies the population by sponsoring a deadly transcontinental car race. Racers compete in ridiculously tricked-out buggies and score points by killing pedestrians. In the 20th anniversary race, five racers hit the road, including leather bondage suit-clad, Frankenstein (David Carradine) and tommygun-toting Chicago gangster, Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). While engines rev…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
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.
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.