We are very excited to announce that we are having our first Arts4Grads Film Night this Tuesday at 9pm at the wonderful Roone Arledge Cinema in Lerner Hall!! We are showing the exquisite film The Red Violin (see more info bellow). This event is FREE to you and one guest if you like (who does not need to be a Columbia student) and it is brought to you by the GSAC Arts & Entertainment Committee in collaboration with the Golden Key Society.

Hope to see you there!

The Red Violin

Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar,
Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli
Lion’s Gate Films; Directed by Francois Girard
Rated R; 131 minutes; 1999

THE RED VIOLIN traces the history of a legendary instrument across five countries and 300 years, from a workshop in the Italian city of Cremona to an auction of rare violins in modern-day Montreal. Along the way, the violin affects the lives of a variety of people as it passes from hand to hand and generation to generation, nearly possessing those who play it. From the workshop in Cremona in the late 17th century, where the violin maker loses his wife during childbirth, the violin next turns up 100 years later in Vienna, in the hands of a child prodigy. From there it passes to gypsies, and then, another century later, to master violinist Frederick Pope in Oxford, inspiring jealousy in his poet lover. We next see the violin in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution in 1968, where its very existence is threatened, along with those who would protect it. Finally, the violin arrives at an auction house in Montreal, where American violin expert Charles Morritz races against time to discover the true nature of the seemingly haunted instrument.

“Samuel L. Jackson is remarkable.”
–Howard Feinstein, DETOUR

“Intelligent, entertaining and moving! Come Academy Awards time next year, this is the kind of art-house costume drama that truly does deserve recognition.”
–Lisa Henricksson, GQ

“THE RED VIOLIN is an exquisitely crafted, on-of-a-kind movie that revives the wonderment we felt as children listening to our very first story. Girard has created a new kind of movie epic.”
–Stephen Farber, MOVIELINE