Do you have an idea for a public film screening or series? Are you interested in presenting films from the Yale Film Archive's collection? Visit our Public Screening Partnership page for more information on our co-presentation opportunities.
We're bringing you a cross-country crime caper, a swoon-worthy retelling of a classic romance, a sci-fi thriller that predicted our future a little too well, and a game-changing indie hit.
The Yale Film Archive presents a summer full of films, all free and open to the public. Tell your friends and help us spread the word!
Screenings take place on the lower level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street, between Elm and Grove in New Haven.
Summer Series
Don't miss any of the action with the Yale Film Archive's new slate of films, all free and open to the public. This spring will feature brand-new 35mm prints of the #1 and #2 greatest films of all time (according to the latest Sight and Sound critics' poll), along with many other pristine prints, three filmmaker visits, a talk on film preservation, and a few more surprises we'll announce soon.
Presented in the spring of 2025, French 75 featured a trio of Francophone films from 1975, marking their 50th anniversaries.
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
Presented in the spring of 2025, VertiGoals was devoted to Hitchcock's classic and a selection of films in its orbit.
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
In 1969, Frank Zappa judged the third annual Yale Film Festival, along with fellow judges Will Hindle and Paul Sharits. The festival was organized by Standish Lawder, with prize money donated by Hans Richter. Read about this moment in Yale film history in the Yale Daily News.
Zappa To Judge At Film Festival
By John Coots
Yale Daily News
Thursday, October 9, 1969
The Yale Film Archive has received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to support preservation of two films by Sheldon Renan '63, Basic Film Terms: A Visual Dictionary (1970) and Basic Television Terms: A Video Dictionary (1977).
Good news, film fans! The Yale Film Archive has announced a new slate of films for the fall, all free and open to the public.
Unless noted, screenings take place on the lower level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street, between Elm and Grove in New Haven. Doors to the building open half an hour before each screening.
Learn more about our long-running public screening program.
Fall Series
Page 100 celebrated the centenary of actress Geraldine Page, who was born on November 22, 1924, and who went on to become one of the most revered performers of American stage and screen. This short series was presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, home to the Geraldine Page papers.
