Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004, 106 mins)
A metafictional murder mystery starring an enigmatic Gael García Bernal, Bad Education “throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul” (Logan Hill). Lisa Kennedy called this dark drama "Almodóvar's most fiendishly crafted, emotionally complicated film." In Spanish with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 mins)
New print! A Rust Belt divorcée drifts into a road trip with a bank robber in a drama written by, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden. Shot in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, this landmark of American independent cinema won Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival and was apty described by Justin Chang as "a haunting portrait of social and psychological entrapment". 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The following is a review of YALE LAUNDRY (Biograph, 1907, 805 feet) published in The Moving Picture World on November 2, 1907. If you have additional information on this film, please contact the Yale Film Archive.
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937, 113 mins)
French officers attempt to free themselves from World War I prison camps in what Janet Maslin called "one of the most haunting of all war films" and Jonathan Rosenbaum cited as "one of the key humanist expressions to be found in movies: sad, funny, exalting, and glorious." Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Erich von Stroheim, and Dita Parlo star in this Renoir masterpiece. In French with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982, 86 mins)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951, 125 mins)
New print! This classic screens in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Tennessee Williams play's 1947 world premiere at New Haven's Shubert Theater. Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden reprise their stage roles, with Vivien Leigh joining them as an unforgettable Blanche DuBois. Say it with us: "Stella!" 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Pariah (Dee Rees, 2011, 86 mins)
A Brooklyn teenager comes out and comes of age in the debut feature film from writer/director Dee Rees. Lou Lumenick called the Sundance hit "a look at the joy, confusion, and heartbreak of adolescence that's both culture- and locale-specific and, at the same time, universal." Adepero Oduye gives what Stephen Holden called "an incandescent performance" in the lead role. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Filmmaker in person! Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale. This event will include two Yale Film Archive-preserved episodes of the local news program What's Happening, featuring footage from the legendary 1972 concert at Woolsey Hall with Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Jo Jones, Willie Ruff, and more. The night will also include the preservation premiere of Ruff’s 1973 film Tony Williams in Africa, a short that follows American jazz drummer Tony Williams to Senegal.
Vengeance Is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984, 118 mins)
The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1989, 81 mins)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, 104 mins)
Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, and Trevor Howard shine in what Robert Horton called “one of the glories of postwar cinema, and quite possibly one of the most sheerly enjoyable movies ever made.” Set in a swirling, seedy Vienna, this atmospheric noir thriller was declared by the BFI to be the best British film ever made. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
