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April 13, 2023
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001, 146 mins) Spanning 2,000 years, this sci-fi fairy tale follows a robot programmed to love (Haley Joel Osment) as he struggles to win his human mother’s acceptance, and seeks the Blue Fairy in hopes of becoming a real boy. Based on a long-...
April 11, 2023
Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985, 91 mins) Set in Reno in the ‘50s, Deitch’s “astonishingly polished and nuanced first film” (Paul Attanasio) portrays the romance between a Columbia professor awaiting her divorce and a free-spirited younger woman. Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau star in this...
April 5, 2023
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001, 116 mins) The romantic, melancholy quest for connection is explored through long takes, parallel narratives, and spectral swaths of color. "This wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie hops from Taiwan to France, from tragedy to deadpan comedy, and, in its...
March 21, 2023
The Catch (Shinji Somai, 1983, 140 mins) The legendary Ken Ogata stars as a father and fisherman whose daughter's boyfriend wants to learn the perilous trade. Their brutal cross-generational struggle—leading to destruction on land and sea—shows how "for fishermen, there's only paradise or hell." In...
March 20, 2023
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, 110 mins) New print! A hack screenwriter hides out at a fading film star's decaying compound in a black comedy that Andrew Sarris called "the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood." Stellar performances by Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Erich von...
March 7, 2023
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994, 115 mins) Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo lead the cast in a semi-autobiographical family tale written by siblings Spike, Joie, and Cinqué Lee. Set 50 years ago in Bed-Stuy, this "warmly nostalgic coming-of-age drama" is "at once street smart and sweetly sentimental" (Joe...
February 27, 2023
(Yale-preserved shorts on 16mm and 35mm) Josh Morton and Kathy Pakay in person! Three Yale-preserved films by Yale filmmakers have their campus preservation premieres: Mayday (May First Media, 1970, 22 mins) and Puppet Show (Josh Morton, 1970, 9 mins) examine events surrounding New Haven's Black...

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