The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung, 1993, 104 mins)
Set in midcentury Saigon, the first film in Tran's Vietnam Trilogy offers a lushly-photographed look at the lives and interactions of a servant girl, a concert pianist, and a family in genteel decline. Raghu Pratap called ths César winner...
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive announces a new season of 35mm film screenings, all free and open to the public. Highlights include Yale-preserved films from the 1970s made by Yale alumni Nick Doob, Josh Morton, and Sedat Pakay, as well as brand-new prints of Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., Max...
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987, 119 mins)
Prohibition agent Eliot Ness goes after Al Capone in this “unqualified triumph” (James Berardinelli) starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Andy García, and an Oscar-winning Sean Connery. “Superb performances, exquisite direction, and that Ennio...
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004, 106 mins)
A metafictional murder mystery starring an enigmatic Gael García Bernal, Bad Education “throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul” (Logan Hill). Lisa Kennedy called this dark drama "Almodóvar's most fiendishly...
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 mins)
New print! A Rust Belt divorcée drifts into a road trip with a bank robber in a drama written by, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden. Shot in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, this landmark of American independent cinema won Best Foreign Film at the Venice...
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937, 113 mins)
French officers attempt to free themselves from World War I prison camps in what Janet Maslin called "one of the most haunting of all war films" and Jonathan Rosenbaum cited as "one of the key humanist expressions to be found in movies: sad, funny,...
Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982, 86 mins)
35mm preservation premiere with star Seret Scott and film scholar Nzingha Kendall in person! An academic and an artist leave New York for a summer in the country, where their relationship is tested by professional rivalry and romantic jealousy. "...
