Yale Film Archive News

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,...

Post by Archer Neilson on October 10, 2022 - 10:00am

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...

Post by Archer Neilson on October 5, 2022 - 9:56am

Vengeance Is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984, 118 mins) The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1989, 81 mins) Filmmakers in person! New prints! Screen star Brooke Adams and Yale filmmaking legend Michael...

Post by Archer Neilson on September 26, 2022 - 11:06am

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...

Post by Archer Neilson on September 19, 2022 - 9:28am

Yi Yi: A One and a Two… (Edward Yang, 2000, 173 mins) Edward Yang’s final film—and his masterpiece—deftly details the heartbreak and humor faced by three generations of a middle-class family in...

Post by Archer Neilson on September 8, 2022 - 9:32am

Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair, 1991, 118 mins) Romance blooms for Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in this culture-clash tale set around a delta motel, home to a family of Indian-Ugandan...

Post by Archer Neilson on August 29, 2022 - 11:05am

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, 111 mins) New print! James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo give career-defining performances, roaming the teenage wasteland of Eisenhower-era Southern...

Post by Archer Neilson on August 29, 2022 - 10:56am

And...action! Treasures from the Yale Film Archive is back all fall with 35mm films on the big screen in front of live audiences as they were meant to be seen. This season, Treasures brings you a mix...

Post by Archer Neilson on August 26, 2022 - 12:43pm

British director Charlie Shackleton visits Yale for a screening and discussion of his experimental feature film The Afterlight. This film exists as just a single 35mm print, hand-delivered by...

Post by Archer Neilson on April 21, 2022 - 12:19pm

John Turturro sits in a theater watching a film in Barton Fink
Introducing Treasures Screentests, a limited series aimed at bringing films from the Yale Film Archive back to the big screen, but in a brand-new location: the newly-renovated Yale Humanities...

Post by Archer Neilson on March 25, 2022 - 10:49am

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