Public Screenings
WHAT'S ON SCREEN?
Yale Screenings
For a full list of public screenings on campus, select "Film & Media Screenings" on the Yale Calendar of Events.
Yale Film Archive Screenings
These screenings are always free and open to the public, and take place on the Lower Level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street in New Haven, CT.
Fall Series
- Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, an ongoing series of classic and contemporary films from our collection.
- Early Ousmane Sembène: The First Films from the Father of African Cinema, co-presented with the Whitney Humanities Center in celebration of the centenary of Sembène's birth.
- Art & Protest, co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in conjunction with their exhibition Art, Protest, & the Archives, on view through January 7.
- Boleyn & Beyond, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Anne Boleyn: Life and Legend, on view in Sterling Memorial Library from October 16 through April 21.
Fall Films
MY BRILLIANT CAREER
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7
(Gillian Armstrong, 1979, 35mm, 100 mins)
New print!
BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, 1966, DCP, 65 mins)
BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, 1963, 16mm, 20 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15
(Joel Coen, 1998, 35mm, 117 mins)
25th anniversary screening!
MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, 1968, DCP, 92 mins)
TAUW (Ousmane Sembène, 1970, 16mm, 24 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5
(Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 35mm, 121 mins)
EMITAÏ
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8
(Ousmane Sembène, 1971, DCP, 103 mins)
ANATOMY OF A FALL
Special Location: 53 Wall Street Auditorium
7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11
(Justine Triet, 2023, DCP, 150 mins)
Advance screening!
MILDRED PIERCE
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13
(Michael Curtiz, 1945, 35mm, 111 mins)
New print!
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
Stephen Scher in person!
ELIZABETH
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27
(Shekhar Kapur, 1998, 35mm, 124 mins)
25th anniversary screening!
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29
(Alexander Korda, 1933, 16mm, 97 mins)
90th anniversary screening!
THE EXORCIST
Special Location: 53 Wall Street Auditorium
7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31
(William Friedkin, 1973/2000, 35mm, 132 mins)
50th anniversary screening!
MEDIUM COOL
7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2
(Haskell Wexler, 1969, 35mm, 111 mins)
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8
(James Cameron, 1991, 35mm, 137 mins)
Theodore Kim in person!
MINARI
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10
(Lee Isaac Chung, 2020, 35mm, 115 mins)
Lee Isaac Chung in person!
XALA
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12
(Ousmane Sembène, 1975, DCP, 123 mins)
SMOKE SIGNALS
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17
(Chris Eyre, 1998, 35mm, 89 mins)
25th anniversary screening!
DO THE RIGHT THING
7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30
(Spike Lee, 1989, 35mm, 120 mins)
A CENTURY OF 16MM
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6
(various shorts, 16mm, 120 mins)
Benoît Carpentier in person!
CEDDO
7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7
(Ousmane Sembène, 1977, DCP, 120 mins)
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GET INVOLVED
Do you have an idea for a public film screening or series? Are you interested in presenting films from the Yale Film Archive's collection? The Yale Public Screening Partnership program welcomes proposals for public screenings from academic units, student groups, museums, and other Yale organizations.
Students interested in film programming should consider joining some of the many great film groups on campus:
COLLABORATIONS
The Yale Film Archive is always looking for opportunities to collaborate. Over the last decade, we have:
- Co-presented screenings with over 30 Yale departments and organizations.
- Co-presented screenings with over 30 local and national community groups.
- Included more than 50 Yale faculty members in film introductions and panel discussions.
- Included 30 Yale students in film introductions and panel discussions.
- Included more than 20 representatives of local community groups in panel discussions.
- Had numerous students write Film Notes for Treasures screenings.
- Included graduate students as co-programmers for our biennial “Class Pictures” screenings.
- Collaborated with faculty to turn several course screenings into public events.
- Mentored graduate and undergraduate students on their series and conferences.
- Created the Public Screening Partnership program to encourage the use of Yale Film Archive prints in campus screenings.
- Worked with fellow FIAF archives to bring prints from their collections to Yale for screenings.
- Promoted Yale screenings on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
- Included Yale faculty, alumni, and local experts in the Treasure Talks video discussion series.
If you would like to collaborate on an upcoming screening or series, please get in touch! We welcome your ideas.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Guest artists at Yale Film Archive screenings have included:
- Actors Brooke Adams, Abigail Breslin, Keir Dullea, Julian Sands, and Seret Scott
- Film critics Bilge Ebiri and Wesley Morris
- Musical accompanists Makia Matsumura and Donald Sosin
- Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman
- Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen
- Documentarians Lauren Belfer, Sarah Botstein, Peter Davis, Suzannah Herbert, Laura Israel, and Leopold Pospisil
- Filmmakers Ashish Avikunthak, Curtis Hanson, James Ivory, Caroline Mouris, Robert Mulligan, Bob Rafelson, Michael Roemer, John Sayles, Charlie Shackleton, and Norman Weissman
- Yale alumni filmmakers Max Barbakow, Phyllis Chillingworth, Nick Doob, Warrington Hudlin, Alexis Krasilovsky, Sandra Luckow, Lynn Novick, Frank Mouris, Willie Ruff, and Oliver Stone
PAST SERIES
The Yale Film Archive has presented several stand-alone series in the past, including the following:
- Indie Lens Pop-Up (Spring 2016-Fall 2021)
- Three by Kubrick: Recent Stanley Kubrick Print Acquisitions (Fall 2019)
- Through Bergman's Lens: Ingmar Bergman Centenary Film Series (Fall 2018)
- Film50: Fifty Years of Collecting Film at Yale (Spring 2018)
CONTENT ADVISORIES
The Yale Film Archive does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. Information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found at Common Sense Media, DoesTheDogDie.com, and IMDb.