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DESCRIPTION:What happens when human life is weighed against profit? Can the
  conflict between human and corporate incentives be resolved?\n\nJoin Nozo
 mi Nishimura\, McClintock faculty-in-residence\, and Stephanie Thomas\, Lo
 w Rises 6&7 faculty-in-residence\, for a special screening of Alien and po
 st-film discussion on how incentives shape our lives.\n\nDirected by Ridle
 y Scott\, Alien (1979) follows the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo\, w
 ho are interrupted on their voyage home to Earth when their ship’s compu
 ter detects what is believed to be an alien distress signal coming from a 
 nearby planet. While investigating the desolate landscape\, one of the cre
 w is attacked by an alien creature that latches to his face and is rushed 
 back to the Nostromo to receive medical treatment. Ripley\, the ship’s w
 arrant officer\, advises that her injured colleague can’t be brought abo
 ard due to quarantine regulations — but her orders are ignored\, inadver
 tently bringing the Nostromo under threat from a mysterious extraterrestri
 al life form with violent and lethal survival instincts.\n\nFree admission
  and free popcorn! This event is sponsored by Faculty Living-Learning Prog
 rams as part of the “North Campus Goes to the Movies” film series.\n\n
 Courtesy of 20th Century Studios and Criterion Pictures.\n\nAbout "North C
 ampus Goes to the Movies"\n\nThis spring\, Cornell Cinema is pleased to pa
 rtner with the Faculty-in-Residence Program on a series of film screenings
  that highlight a variety of themes. All events are free and open to the p
 ublic and will feature commentary by faculty from the North Campus FIR pro
 gram.\n\nThe Faculty-in-Residence (FIR) program was established in 1980 to
  enhance the personal growth and development of students and to nurture th
 eir intellectual interest through informal interactions with members of th
 e faculty.
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LOCATION:Willard Straight Theatre
SUMMARY:Alien (1979)
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CATEGORIES:Film
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