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film still showing a close-up of Tilda Swinton in a grocery store
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller star in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, a harrowing story of a mother reeling from a son's unthinkable violence. "Ramsay, filming in lurid...

Post by Archer Neilson on January 17, 2020 - 9:36am

Still from the film showing an audience sitting in a movie theater.
Told entirely with found footage, Have You Seen My Movie? is a love letter to the magic and power of cinematic experiences as shared by strangers in the dark. From the audience members' rush to get...

Post by Archer Neilson on January 13, 2020 - 12:18pm

Join us for a free 35mm screening of In the Realms of the Unreal, accompanied by the classic Maya Deren experimental short Meshes of the Afternoon in 16mm. Directed by Oscar-winning Yale alumna...

Post by Archer Neilson on January 10, 2020 - 12:14pm

Join us for the 1941 Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane, considered by many to be the greatest film ever made. Welles stars as Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate whose secrets elude...

Post by Archer Neilson on January 8, 2020 - 10:59am

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive invites you to join us for the Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane, as well as several films by women directors presented in conjunction with 50WomenAtYale150 ...

Post by Archer Neilson on December 9, 2019 - 10:19am

The Yale Film Study Center has completed preservation of Screentest, a short film made by Frank and Caroline Mouris in 1975. This live-action 16mm film from the Mourises, made with a grant from the...

Post by Archer Neilson on November 20, 2019 - 9:50am

Join us for a free 35mm screening of Chocolat, directed and co-written by Claire Denis. In this 1988 drama, a young French woman revisits the landscapes and relationships of her childhood home in...

Post by Archer Neilson on November 15, 2019 - 12:04pm

Join us for a free screening and discussion of The First Rainbow Coalition, a new documentary by Ray Santisteban, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Klein and Ferentz Lafargue. The First Rainbow...

Post by Archer Neilson on November 5, 2019 - 2:55pm

Yale alumna Jodie Foster '85 directs Home for the Holidays, screening in 35mm as part of the Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series. The all-star ensemble for this tale of a Thanksgiving family...

Post by Archer Neilson on October 31, 2019 - 11:38am

Three by Kubrick concludes with a portrait of an 18th-century Irish rogue—played by Ryan O'Neal—in Barry Lyndon. "Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation," wrote critic John Ridley, "now...

Post by Archer Neilson on October 24, 2019 - 11:20am

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