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. "...
The upcoming YDS conference Generous Orthodoxy: Hans Frei and the Future of Theology and the centenary of Frei's birth put focus on the Hans Frei Papers held at the Divinity Library. Twelve linear feet of papers document the last two decades of Frei's professional career in a thorough way....
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...
