Treasures from the Yale Film Archive announces a summer of 35mm film screenings, all free and open to the public. Treasures screenings take place in the recently-constructed cinema spaces in the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street, between Elm and Grove in New Haven. Join us!
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In Mexico City on April 20, 2023, the Yale Film Archive’s application for full Member status in the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) was approved by an overwhelming majority of archives voting in person and online during the General Assembly of the 2023 FIAF Congress.
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001, 146 mins)
Spanning 2,000 years, this sci-fi fairy tale follows a robot programmed to love (Haley Joel Osment) as he struggles to win his human mother’s acceptance, and seeks the Blue Fairy in hopes of becoming a real boy. Based on a long-...
Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985, 91 mins)
Set in Reno in the ‘50s, Deitch’s “astonishingly polished and nuanced first film” (Paul Attanasio) portrays the romance between a Columbia professor awaiting her divorce and a free-spirited younger woman. Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau star in this...
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001, 116 mins)
The romantic, melancholy quest for connection is explored through long takes, parallel narratives, and spectral swaths of color. "This wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie hops from Taiwan to France, from tragedy to deadpan comedy, and, in its...
The Catch (Shinji Somai, 1983, 140 mins)
The legendary Ken Ogata stars as a father and fisherman whose daughter's boyfriend wants to learn the perilous trade. Their brutal cross-generational struggle—leading to destruction on land and sea—shows how "for fishermen, there's only paradise or hell." In...
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, 110 mins)
New print! A hack screenwriter hides out at a fading film star's decaying compound in a black comedy that Andrew Sarris called "the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood." Stellar performances by Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Erich von...
