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Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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.

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: DESERT HEARTS

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.

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