You Are What You Eat: King Corn Screening with the Big Ideas Stream

As part of this month's topic for Big Ideas, "You Are What You Eat," we'll be heading to a screening of the film, King Corn, at Cinema Village this Sunday.

Here's a review of the film from the Boston Globe:

Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney , two recent college grads from Boston, decide to plant and farm an acre of corn in Iowa. For a year they watch their crop grow, only to discover at the end that it's unfit for human consumption. What ensues is an enormously entertaining moral, socio-economic odyssey (and statistical bonanza) through the American food industry. Ellis, Cheney, and Aaron Woolf's documentary is clear-minded and fair, but just damningly descriptive enough to leave you distrustful of everything on your plate.

You can also check out this article about the film from the New York Times

Please RSVP with me at Eric.Ozawa at NYU and Tell Your Friends.
Time: Sunday, October 14th
Meet in the Broome lobby at 2:30.