Canadian Film Festival: Nanook of the North
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Directed by Robert Flaherty (1922; 79 minutes). One of the earliest attempts to use cinema to take audiences into the life of a culture unfamiliar to many, Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of an Inuit hunter’s struggle to survive in Canada’s Hudson Bay region. It was, upon its release, a tremendous critical and commercial success.