Page 100

Page 100 celebrates the centenary of actress Geraldine Page, who was born on November 22, 1924, and who went on to become one of the most revered performers of American stage and screen. This short series is presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, home to the Geraldine Page papers. The Page 100 screenings are free and open to the public.

Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024
(Richard Brooks, 1962, DCP, 120 mins)
A gigolo drifter (Paul Newman) and a fading film star (Geraldine Page) arrive at his southern hometown after misadventures in Hollywood, only to run afoul of the local kingpin (Ed Begley in an Oscar-winning performance). Page “portrays fallen grandeur with superb dash” (Janet Graves) and Newman’s in peak cad-era form.

THE BEGUILED
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024
(Don Siegel, 1971, 35mm, 105 mins)
Geraldine Page is headmistress at a Mississippi girls’ school during the Civil War, and Clint Eastwood is a wounded Union soldier whose arrival throws the place into a tizzy. With black humor and suspense, this southern gothic melodrama is "a triumph of style, totally engrossing and utterly convincing” (Kevin Thomas). 35mm print from the Harvard Film Archive.

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
(Peter Masterson, 1985, DCP, 108 mins)
A superbly crafted drama featuring the performance of a lifetime by Geraldine Page" (Variety). Page won an Academy Award in the role of a 1940s widow who sets off from Houston for one last visit to her beloved childhood home. Adapted with heart from the Horton Foote play. DCP from AGFA.

See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.