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, unless noted.

Summer Series

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, an ongoing series of classic and contemporary films from our collection.

Cinemix, stand-alone screenings of standout films, presented with our colleagues from across campus and beyond.

Summer Films

Midnight Run
7 p.m. Thursday, May 15
(Martin Brest, 1988, 35mm, 126 mins)

Pride & Prejudice
7 p.m. Thursday, June 12
(Joe Wright, 2005, 35mm, 129 mins)
20th anniversary screening!

Minority Report
7 p.m. Thursday, July 10
(Steven Spielberg, 2002, 35mm, 145 mins)

Tangerine
7 p.m. Thursday, July 24
(Sean Baker, 2015, DCP, 88 mins)
Art House Theater Day! 10th anniversary screening!

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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, programs, and organizations.
  • Co-presented screenings with over 30 local and national community groups.
  • Included more than 60 Yale faculty members in film introductions and panel discussions.
  • Included more than 40 Yale students in film introductions and panel discussions.
  • Included more than 20 representatives of local community groups in panel discussions.
  • Had nearly 30 students write Film Notes for Treasures screenings.
  • Included graduate students as co-programmers for our biennial “Class Pictures” screenings.
  • Collaborated with faculty to turn numerous 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, Threads, and Instagram accounts.
  • 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, Charlie Kaufman, Caroline Mouris, Robert Mulligan, Bob Rafelson, Martín Rejtman, Michael Roemer, John Sayles, Stephen Scher, Charlie Shackleton, and Norman Weissman
  • Yale alumni filmmakers Max Barbakow, Phyllis Chillingworth, Lee Isaac Chung, Nick Doob, Warrington Hudlin, Alexis Krasilovsky, Sandra Luckow, Lynn Novick, Josh Morton, Frank Mouris, Willie Ruff, Ira Sachs, and Oliver Stone

PAST SERIES

The Yale Film Archive has presented several stand-alone series in the past, including the following:

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.

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