The Nixon Years
The Nixon Years: American Politics in the Early 1970s focuses on that tumultuous time through films made during or about the era. The series marks the 50th anniversary of Nixon's resignation, and it is presented in conjuntion with Constitution Day activities on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Nixon Years screenings are free and open to the public.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
HQ L02 (320 York Street)
7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
(Alan J. Pakula, 1976, 35mm, 138 mins)
New print! Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Woodward and Bernstein, Washington Post reporters with a scoop that will take down a president. Pakula’s political thriller won four Academy Awards, including nods for Jason Robards and writer William Goldman. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive, co-presented with the Beinecke.
OUR NIXON
HQ L02 (320 York Street)
4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024
(Penny Lane, 2013, DCP, 84 mins)
Largely created from Super 8 home movies shot by Nixon White House insiders H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin, Lane’s documentary is “a uniquely dynamic time capsule” (David Hiltbrand) presented with “spirit, humor, and a bountiful sense of irony” (Dorothy Rabinowitz). DCP from the filmmaker. Presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Beinecke.
HEARTS AND MINDS, 50th Anniversary Screening
53 Wall Street Auditorium
7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 22
(Peter Davis, 1974, 35mm, 112 mins)
Filmmakers in person! "One of the best documentaries ever made” (Desson Thomson), Hearts and Minds is an unflinching, Academy Award-winning examination of the Vietnam War and its vast human toll. “A cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war” (Scott Tobias). This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Peter Davis, producer/cinematographer Richard Pearce, and editor Lynzee Klingman, moderated by Yale professor and Hearts and Minds assistant editor, Charles Musser. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive, co-presented with the Beinecke, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Public Humanities at Yale, the Whitney Humanities Center, and the Yale Film and Media Studies Program.
BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS
HQ L01 (320 York Street)
7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024
(Peter Rosen, 1970, 16mm, 52 mins)
Peter Rosen in person! Preservation premiere! Revisit New Haven’s tumultuous 1970 May Day weekend,—and the campus's reaction—as seen by a School of Drama student filmmaker. This documentary captures Yale in a moment of transition, when still-significant questions swirled about the role of the university in local and national affairs. Winner of the Best First Film prize at Cannes, Bright College Years was preserved in collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive, co-presented with the Beinecke.
See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.