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October 31, 2022
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,...
October 24, 2022
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. "...
October 17, 2022
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951, 125 mins) New print! This classic screens in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Tennessee Williams play's 1947 world premiere at New Haven's Shubert Theater. Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden reprise their stage roles, with Vivien Leigh joining...
Willie Ruff (photo by Michael Marsland)
October 14, 2022
Jazz musician Willie Ruff, founding director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale, returns to campus on Oct. 14 to celebrate the program’s 50th anniversary. Through the Ellington program, dubbed The Conservatory without Walls, renowned musicians mentored and performed with young people...
October 10, 2022
Pariah (Dee Rees, 2011, 86 mins) A Brooklyn teenager comes out and comes of age in the debut feature film from writer/director Dee Rees. Lou Lumenick called the Sundance hit "a look at the joy, confusion, and heartbreak of adolescence that's both culture- and locale-specific and, at the same time,...
October 6, 2022
British director Charlie Shackleton visits Yale for a screening and discussion of his experimental feature film The Afterlight. This film exists as just a single 35mm print, hand-delivered by Shackleton to every screening around the world. "Every time it screens," Shackleton notes, "that lone print...
October 5, 2022
Filmmaker in person! Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale. This event will include two Yale Film Archive-preserved episodes of the local news program What's Happening, featuring footage from the legendary 1972 concert at Woolsey Hall with Duke...

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