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September 26, 2022
Vengeance Is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984, 118 mins) The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1989, 81 mins) Filmmakers in person! New prints! Screen star Brooke Adams and Yale filmmaking legend Michael Roemer join us to screen and discuss Vengeance Is Mine, their story of a woman facing intersecting...
September 19, 2022
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, 104 mins) Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, and Trevor Howard shine in what Robert Horton called “one of the glories of postwar cinema, and quite possibly one of the most sheerly enjoyable movies ever made.” Set in a swirling, seedy Vienna, this atmospheric...
September 8, 2022
Yi Yi: A One and a Two… (Edward Yang, 2000, 173 mins) Edward Yang’s final film—and his masterpiece—deftly details the heartbreak and humor faced by three generations of a middle-class family in Taipei. The exquisitely orchestrated ensemble drama won Yang the Best Director prize at Cannes, and led...
August 30, 2022
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, 111 mins) New print! James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo give career-defining performances, roaming the teenage wasteland of Eisenhower-era Southern California. Angst is high, cars are fast, and parents—as always—just don’t understand, even in...
August 29, 2022
And...action! Treasures from the Yale Film Archive is back all fall with 35mm films on the big screen in front of live audiences as they were meant to be seen. This season, Treasures brings you a mix of classic and contemporary films from around the world, including the preservation premiere of...
August 29, 2022
Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair, 1991, 118 mins) Romance blooms for Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in this culture-clash tale set around a delta motel, home to a family of Indian-Ugandan émigrés. Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, and Charles S. Dutton give impeccable supporting performances in...
John Turturro sits in a theater watching a film in Barton Fink
March 25, 2022
Introducing Treasures Screentests, a limited series aimed at bringing films from the Yale Film Archive back to the big screen, but in a brand-new location: the newly-renovated Yale Humanities Quadrangle's Alice Cinema (Room L01, 320 York Street). In keeping with Yale's COVID-19 prevention policies...

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