Fall 2015

Tuesday, September 1
Yale Film Colloquium
“Bad Girls” series opening night gala
Suspiria (Italy/USA, 1977) 92 min. 35mm.
Director Dario Angento
Introduced by Anthony Sudol
(Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, European Studies Council,  Film and Media Studies Program, History of Art, Graduate and Professional School Senate, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, September 3
Special New Release screening
The End of the Tour (USA, 2015) 106 min. DCP
Director James Ponsoldt
Post screening Q&A with screenwriter Donald Margulies (English and Theater Studies)
(Departments of English and Theater Studies, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA, 2004) 108 min. 35mm.
Director Michel Gondry
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, September 7
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Grand Illusion (France, 1937) 114 min. 35mm.
Director Jean Renoir.
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, September 10
Man with a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929) 68 min. DCP
Director Dziga Vertov
with live music by the Alloy Orchestra
Introduced by John MacKay
(European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, Renova, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, September 11
Lesbian Filmmakers and Queer Representations
Desert Hearts (USA, 1985) 96 min. 35mm.
Director Donna Deitch
Introduced and followed by a discussion with the director
(LGBT Studies, Mandelbaum Fund for LGBT Studies, Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 12
What a Lovely Day: A One-Day Conference on Mad Max: Fury Road and Interstellar
(Film and Media Studies; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; History of Art; Public Humanities at Yale; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
9 am, Auditorium

Monday, September 14
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Rules of the Game (France, 1939) 110 min. 35mm.
Director Jean Renoir.
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 16
Best of Enemies (USA, 2015) 87 min.
Directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
(William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, September 18
Treasures from the Yale Film Archives
Being John Malkovich (USA, 1999) 112 min. 35mm.
Director Spike Jonze
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 19
Yale Film Society and Religion and Social Change Film Series present:
Malcolm X (USA, 1992) 202 min. 35mm.
Director Spike Lee
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, September 21
Letter from Italy, 1944: A New American Oratorio (USA, 2014) 60 min.
Director Karyl Evans
Narrated by Meryl Streep
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director and the following panelists: Captain Adrian Bonenberger (10th Mountain Division - Afghanistan), Alice Forrester (Director, Clifford Beers Clinic, New Haven), Laurie Harkness (Director, Errera Community Care Center, West Haven VA Hospital), Evie Lindemann (Art Therapist, Associate Professor/Clinical Coordinator, Masters of Art Therapy Program, Albertus Magnus College), Hadar Lubin (Co-director, Post Traumatic Stress Center, New Haven), Nan Meneely (Poet and Lyricist), Sarah Meneely-Kyder (Composer), Sergeant Amy Otzel (Behavioral Health Specialist - Iraq)
(Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, Yale Veterans Association, Yale Student Veterans Council, Jonathan Edwards College, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Monday, September 21
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
His Girl Friday (USA, 1940) 92 min. 35mm.
Director Howard Hawks
Introduced by Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 23
Stalker (USSR, 1979) 163 min. 35mm.
Director Andrei Tarkovsky
Introduced by John MacKay
(Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

This screening is presented in conjunction with a discussion between Marijeta Bozovic and Geoff Dyer
4pm, September 29, WHC Auditorium

Thursday, September 24
Alternative Histories of WWII Film Series
If War Should Come (UK, 1939) 10 min.
The Man Who Never Was (UK, 1956) 103 min.
Director Ronald Neame
(Yale Center for British Art; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, September 25
Preview Screening
He Named Me Malala (USA, 2015) 87 min. DCP
Director Davis Guggenheim
(Office of International Affairs and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 26
Samurai Film Series
Hidden Fortress (Japan, 1958) 126 min. 35mm.
Director Akira Kurosawa
Introduced by Aaron Gerow (East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies)
(East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Film and Media Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale; with special thanks for generous support from Connecticut Humanities)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, September 27
Yale Film Colloquium Bad Girl Series
What Is a Group? (USA, 2013) 30 min.
Director Ian Svenonius
Introduced by the director with a Q&A following the screening
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, History of Art, Film and Media Studies, Public Humanities at Yale, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium

Monday, September 28
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
The Big Sleep (USA, 1946) 114 min. DVD
Director Howard Hawks
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Monday, September 28
Lesbian Filmmakers and Queer Representations
Boys Don’t Cry (USA, 1999) 118 min.
Director Kimberly Peirce
Introduced and followed by a discussion with the director
(LGBT Studies, Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, Mandelbaum Fund for LGBT Studies, Wallace-Sexton Fund for LBGT Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Loria 250

Wednesday, September 30
Windham Campbell Prize Festival
Random (UK, 2011) 60 min.
Director Debbie Tucker Green
Followed by a Q&A with the director
The lives and routines of four family members are abruptly and devastatingly altered by a single random act of violence. Drama winner Debbie Tucker Green answers audience questions about directing her own work, adapting plays to the screen, working with Nadine Marshall, and more.
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, October 3
Samurai Film Series
Harakiri (Japan, 1962) 133 min. 35mm.
Director Masaki Kobayashi
Introduced by Aaron Gerow  (East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies)
(East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Films at the Whitney,  supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 4
Yale Film Colloquium Bad Girls Series
Jackie Brown (USA, 1997) 154 min. 35mm.
Director Quentin Tarantino
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, Film Study Center, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney Supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium

Monday, October 5
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Citizen Kane (USA, 1941) 119 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 7
Sneak Preview
Suffragette (USA, 2015) 106 min.
Director Sarah Gavron
(Film and Media Studies, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 08
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (USA, 2015) 82 min.
Director Jean Carlomusto
Followed by a discussion with Director Jean Carlomusto, Editor Geof Bartz, and George Chauncey
(Film and Media Studies, LGBT Studies, Yale Digital Media Center for the Arts, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30pm, Auditorium

Saturday, October 10
Samurai Film Series
Kill (Japan, 1968) 115 min. 35mm.
Director Kihachi Okamoto
Introduced by Stephen Poland (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
(Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 11
Treasures from the Yale Film Archives
Princess Mononoke (Japan, 1997) 134 min. 35mm.
Director Hayao Miyazaki
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium

Monday, October 12
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Magnificent Ambersons (USA, 1942) 88 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 14
Preview Screening
Steve Jobs (USA, 2015) 122 min. DCP
Director Danny Boyle
(Film and Media Studies, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 15
Alternative Histories of WWII Film Series
The Silent Village (UK, 1943) 36 min.
Director Humphrey Jennings
It Happened Here (UK, 1965) 93 min.
Director Kevin Brownlow
(Yale Center for British Art; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, October 17–Sunday, October 18
Yiddish Film Festival
The Cantor’s Son (USA, 1937) 90 min.
Directors Ilya Motyleff and Sidney M. Goldin
(Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies Program, Judaic Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8:00 pm, Auditorium

Keynote address on Sunday
J. Hoberman, film critic
5:45 pm, Room 208

Monday, October 19
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Notorious (USA, 1946) 101 min. 35mm.
Director Alfred Hitchcock
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 25
Limitless (USA, 2011) 105 min.
Director Neil Burger
Introduced and followed by a post-screening discussion with the director
(Film and Media Studies, Calhoun College, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, October 26
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Double Feature: Two Masterpieces of the 1950s
Johnny Guitar (USA, 1954) 110 min. Blu-Ray
Director Nicholas Ray
The Wrong Man (USA, 1956) 105 min. 35mm.
Director Alfred Hitchcock
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 28
Lesbian Filmmakers and Queer Representations
Barbara Hammer’s Experimental Film from the 1970s
Introduced and followed by a discussion with the director
(LGBT Studies, Mandelbaum-Byrnes Fund for LGBT Studies, Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, November 1
Yale Film Colloquim Bad Girls Series
Office Killer (USA, 1997) 82 min. 35mm. Yale Film Archive Print
Director Cindy Sherman
Followed by a panel discussion with John Edmonds and Sarah Cwynar
(Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, Film Study Center, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney Supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium

Monday, November 2
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
A Man Escaped (France, 1956) 99 min. 35mm.
Director Robert Bresson
Introduced by Michael Roemer
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 4
Preview Screening
Brooklyn (USA, 2015) 111 min.
Director John Crowley
(Yale Film Society, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, November 7
Dog Day Afternoon (USA, 1975) 125 min. 35mm.
Director Sidney Lumet
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, November 8
Treasures from the Yale Film Archives
The Train (USA, 1964) 133 min. 35mm.
Directors John Frankenheimer and Arthur Penn
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium

Monday, November 9
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Pickpocket (France, 1959) 75 min. 35mm.
Director Robert Bresson
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, November 12
Alternative Histories of WWII Film Series
Went the Day Well? (UK, 1942) 92 min.
Director Alberto Cavalcanti
(Yale Center for British Art; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, November 13
I Are You, You Am Me – Tenkôsei (Japan, 1982) 112 min. 35mm.
Complexe (Japan, 1964) 14 min. 16mm.
Director Ôbayashi Nobuhiko
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council for East Asian Studies  and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, November 14
The Rocking Horsemen – Seishun dendekedekedeke (Japan, 1992) 135 min. 35mm.
Director Ôbayashi Nobuhiko
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council for East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, November 16
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Los Olvidados (France/Mexico, 1950) 80 min. 35mm.
Director Luis Buñuel
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Monday, November 30
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, 1972) 102 min. 35mm.
Director Luis Buñuel
Introduced by Linda Williams, UC Berkeley
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, December 1
60th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott (USA, 2001) 118 min.
Director Clark Johnson
Followed by a panel discussion with Clark Johnson (director and actor), Valerie A. Smith (President of Swarthmore), and Jonathan Holloway (Dean of Yale College)
Moderator: Matt Jacobson
(Public Humanities, African American Studies, Religion and Film Series, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, December 3
Through Indian Eyes Film Series
Naturally Native (USA, 1998) 107 min.
Directors Valerie Red Horse and Jennifer Wynne Farmer
Introduced by Valerie Red Horse
(Blue Feather Drum Group; Beinecke Library; Center for Language Study; Classroom Technology and Event Services; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Film Studies Center; Native American Cultural Center; Native American Law Students Association; Yale Global and Mental Health Program; Yale Group for the Study of Native America; Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program; Yale Sisters of All Nations; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, December 4
Through Indian Eyes Film Series
Smoke Signals (USA, 1998) 89 min.
Director Chris Eyre
Introduced by students from the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
(Blue Feather Drum Group; Beinecke Library; Center for Language Study; Classroom Technology and Event Services; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Film Studies Center; Native American Cultural Center; Native American Law Students Association; Yale Global and Mental Health Program; Yale Group for the Study of Native America; Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program; Yale Sisters of All Nations; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, December 4–Saturday, December 5
A Relentless Eye: Polish Documentary Film 1956-2015
(The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Yale European Studies Council, Russian Studies Program, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund of the MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:30 pm, Room 208

Saturday, December 5
The Royal Tenenbaums (USA, 2001) 109 min. 35 mm.
Director Wes Anderson
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, December 7
Interpreting Film Masterpieces
Franke Seminar Film Series: Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden, 1955) 108 min. 35mm.
Director Ingmar Bergman
Persona (Sweden, 1966) 83 min. 35mm.
Director Ingmar Bergman
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, Franke Lectures in the Humanities, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, December 10
Alternative Histories of WWII Film Series
My Childhood (UK, 1972) 46 min.
Director Bill Douglas
My Ain Folk (UK, 1973) 55 min.
Director Bill Douglas
(Yale Center for British Art; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, December 11
Treasures from the Yale Film Archives
Within Our Gates (USA, 1920) 82 min. 35mm.
Director Oscar Micheaux
with live musical accompaniment
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium