Film Archive

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 Japanese with English subtitles. Presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies. 35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).

Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994, 115 mins)
Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo lead the cast in a semi-autobiographical family tale written by siblings Spike, Joie, and Cinqué Lee. Set 50 years ago in Bed-Stuy, this "warmly nostalgic coming-of-age drama" is "at once street smart and sweetly sentimental" (Joe Leydon). The Staple Singers, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder grace the soundtrack. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

(Yale-preserved shorts on 16mm and 35mm)
Josh Morton and Kathy Pakay in person! Three Yale-preserved films by Yale filmmakers have their campus preservation premieres: Mayday (May First Media, 1970, 22 mins) and Puppet Show (Josh Morton, 1970, 9 mins) examine events surrounding New Haven's Black Panther trials, while James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973, 12 mins) lets us hear from Baldwin during his self-imposed exile in Istanbul. Post-screening discussion moderated by Kazembe Balagun. Prints from the Yale Film Archive.