Cinemix
Cinemix: stand-alone screenings of standout films, presented by the Yale Film Archive and our colleagues from across campus and beyond, using media from our collection and from around the world. All Cinemix screenings are free and open to the public.
Screening Location, unless noted:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
UPCOMING CINEMIX SCREENINGS
AMATEUR MOVIE DAY
HQ L01 (320 York Street)
7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2025
(various shorts, DCP, 90 mins)
Dan Streible in person! Join the international celebration of non-professional movie-makers with the world's first Amateur Movie Day, featuring award-winning gems from the Yale Film Archive as well as works from archives around the world. Hear about the history and importance of amateur films from the director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU, and see some treats you'll likely never find anywhere else!
SANSHO THE BAILIFF
53 Wall Street Auditorium
6:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2025
Kenji Mizoguchi (1954, 35mm, 124 mins)
New print! One of Mizoguchi’s finest films, Sansho won the Silver Lion for best direction in Venice. In the 11th century, two aristocratic children sold into slavery struggle to uphold their father’s lessons in mercy in a world that rewards brutality. “A perfect and profound masterpiece” (Robin Baker) and “one of the greatest emotional and philosophical journeys ever made in film” (Richard Peña). In Japanese with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Yale Fim & Media Studies Program.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
HQ L01 (320 York Street)
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Charles Laughton (1955, 35mm, 92 mins)
New print! A serial killer and self-styled preacher pursues a gullible widow he hopes to swindle, while her two young children try to keep his tattooed fingers off their father’s stolen loot. Set in West Virginia during the Great Depression, this nightmarish noir thriller stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. “One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains” (Michael Wilmington). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Yale Fim & Media Studies Program.
MOI-MÊME
HQ L01 (320 York Street)
7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 2025
Mojo Lorwin & Lee Breuer (1968/2024, DCP, 65 mins)
Mojo Lorwin in person! Paris, May, 1968: Breuer and future members of the Mabou Mines theater company start work on a satirical short about Kevin, a 13-year-old trying to start a film collective against a backdrop of strikes and demonstrations. Half a century later, the abandoned project is expanded and completed by Lorwin, Breuer’s son, creating a unique look at the political and artistic heritage of the ‘60s. Watch for a cameo by Jean-Luc Godard! DCP from the filmmaker. Co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
See our full screening schedule here.
PAST CINEMIX SCREENINGS
PILGRIM, FAREWELL
4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025
Michael Roemer (1982, 35mm, 102 mins)
Michael Roemer in person!
DYING
1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025
Michael Roemer (1976, DCP, 83 mins)
Michael Roemer in person!
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, 2010, 35mm, 120 mins)
BASIC COMPUTER TERMS (Sheldon Renan, 1976, DCP, 15 mins)
7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025
Co-presented with the Yale Library Software Preservation and Emulation unit with support from the Alfred P. Sloan and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
GO FISH, 30th Anniversary Screening
7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024
Rose Troche (1994, DCP, 83 mins)
Guinevere Turner and Justin LaLiberty in person! Presented in celebration of LGBT History Month.
MONEYBALL
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024
Bennett Miller (2011, 35mm, 133 mins)
Noah Gittell and Bilge Ebiri in person! 35mm print from the Chicago Film Society.
LA PRÁCTICA
7 p.m. Monday, April 8, 2024
Martín Rejtman (2023, DCP, 89 mins)
Martín Rejtman in person. Co-presented with the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY).
WITHIN OUR GATES (Oscar Micheaux, 1920, 35mm, 83 mins)
SOLOMON SIR JONES FILMS (Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928, DCP, 16 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 2024
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin. Co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in honor of the centenary of Solomon Sir Jones’s filmmaking career.
FILM: THE LIVING RECORD OF OUR MEMORY
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Inés Toharia (2021, DCP, 120 mins)
Presented in conjunction with the course FILM 604: The Film Archive.
PAST LIVES
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
Celine Song (2023, DCP, 105 mins)
Co-presented with the Asian American Cultural Center to kick of AACC's Pan Asian American Heritage Month events.
NEW YORK NINJA
7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024
John Liu/Kurtis Spieler (1984/2021, 35mm, 93 mins)
Vineger Syndrome's Kurtis Spieler in person! Presented in conjunction with the course FILM 604: The Film Archive.
PERFECT DAYS
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
Wim Wenders (2023, DCP, 123 mins)
Co-presented with NEON.
JACKALS & FIREFLIES
7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024
Charlie Kaufman (2023, DCP, 20 mins)
Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D. in person. Presented in conjunction with the course FILM 736: Documentary Film Workshop.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, 2024
Jonathan Glazer (2023, DCP, 105 mins)
Co-presented with A24.
A TIME FOR BURNING
7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, 2024
Barbara Connell & Bill Jersey (1967, 35mm, 58 mins)
Co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library as part of Yale’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A CENTURY OF 16MM
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023
(various shorts, 16mm, 120 minutes)
Benoît Carpentier of Cinémathèque16 in person.
THE EXORCIST, 50th Anniversary Screening
7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023
William Friedkin (1973/2000, 35mm, 132 mins)
Halloween screening co-presented with the Yale Film Society through the Yale Public Screening Partnership program.
THE WAY IT WAS: PARIS RESTAURANTS IN THE 1970s (Stephen Scher, 1973/2023, DCP, 44 mins)
A COOLER CLIMATE (James Ivory, 1960/2022, DCP, 72 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023
Stephen Scher in person.
ANATOMY OF A FALL
7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023
Justien Triet (2023, DCP, 150 mins)
Advance screening co-presented with NEON.
THE CATCH
7 p.m. Saturday, April 15, 2023
Shinji Somai (1983, 35mm, 140 mins)
Co-presented with the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies with a 35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).
DECISION TO LEAVE
7 p.m. Saturday, Feb., 2023
Park Chan-wook (2022, 35mm, 139 mins)
Co-presented with the Yale Film Society. 35mm print from MUBI, Inc.
BARRY LYNDON
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023
Stanely Kubrick (1975, 35mm, 185 mins)
Co-presented with Films at the Whitney through the Yale Public Screening Partnership program.
THE AFTERLIGHT
7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, 2022
Charlie Shackleton (2021, 35mm, 82 mins)
Charlie Shackleton in person, 35mm print courtesy of the filmmaker.
See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.
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