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...
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...
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...
(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...
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022, 139 mins)
See one of 2022’s best films in glorious 35mm. Park Chan-wook won Best Director at Cannes for this romantic thriller described by the New York Times as “an exuberant, destabilizing take on a classic film noir setup.” This audaciously-structured...
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, 185 mins)
In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously...
Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998, 105 mins)
Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave star in “an engrossing, unusual, imaginatively executed bit of psychological gamesmanship” (Dennis Harvey) that muses on the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale and his burgeoning bond with...
