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!
DESERT HEARTS
7 p.m. Thursday, May 4, 2023
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01 (320 York)
Introduction and Film Notes by Archer Neilson
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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.
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?
7 p.m. Thursday, April 20, 2023
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01 (320 York)
Introduction by Archer Neilson
Film Notes by Brian Meacham
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SUNSET BLVD.
7 p.m. Friday, April 14, 2023
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02 (320 York)
Introduction by Archer Neilson
Film Notes by Michael Kerbel
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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-simmering project by Stanley Kubrick, A.I. was hailed by Mark Kermode as Spielberg’s “enduring masterpiece”. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co–presented with Films at the Whitney.
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 “bold, beautifully rendered story about the search for authenticity and love” (C.J. Prince). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The Yale Film Archive presented several stand-alone series in recent years, including:
CROOKLYN
7 p.m. Thursday, April 6, 2023
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01 (320 York)
Introduction by Archer Neilson
Film Notes by Michael Kerbel
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