Friday, November 14 – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 15 – 3:00 p.m.

Free admission for UNL Students with valid student ID!
General admission tickets at regular Ross prices.
Free UNL student tickets must be picked up at the Ross Box Office (not available online).

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the landmark films of the New Hollywood Cinema of the 1970s, Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) starring Jack Nicholson, The Ross and UNL’s Film Studies program will host Professor Jaimey Fisher (University of California, Davis), author of a forthcoming book on the film (to be published by Bloomsbury’s BFI Classics series in 2026).

Professor Fisher will introduce the film and host a conversation about the film and New Hollywood cinema after both screenings.

DR. JAIMEY FISHER is professor of German and professor and chair of Cinema & Digital Media at the University of California, Davis, as well as director of the University of California-wide humanities research institute, located at UC Irvine. He has published four books spanning German cultural history as well as German and US film and television history, including Treme (Wayne State University Press, 2019) and German Ways of War: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films (Rutgers UP, 2022). He has a new book on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest forthcoming with Bloomsbury’s BFl Film Classics series. Dr. Fisher has also edited or co-edited numerous books, including (with Marco Abel) The Berlin School and its Global Contexts (Wayne State UP, 2018) and New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema (Wayne State UP, 2025). Of particular interest may be his recently published essay on the career of Jack Nicholson, “The Affective Structure of Furious Feeling: Masculinist Anger in the American New Wave and Its Wake,” published in Senses of Cinema (August 2024).

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST tells the story of a free-spirited rogue (Jack Nicholson) who takes over the ward of a mental hospital by a combination of chutzpah and ingenuity. The film is based on Ken Kesey’s best-selling novel published in 1962. Using the madhouse to symbolize the individual against the system, the story gets its power from its unforgettable ensemble of characters and accretion of details that reveal what life is about inside a mental institution. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest swept the top five Oscars in 1976, the first film to do so since It Happened One Night in 1934.

These screenings will feature a new 4K restoration of the 1975 film, in celebration of its 50th anniversary.