Fall 2016

Thursday, September 1
Start Your Engines!  Transportation on Film
Speed (USA, 1994) 116 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Film Study Center Archive
Director Jan de Bont
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 3
Taxi Driver (USA, 1976) 113 min. 35mm.
Director Martin Scorsese
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, September 8
Start Your Engines!  Transportation on Film
Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia, 1966) 93 min.
Director Jirí Menzel
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, September 10
Yale Peabody Museum at 150 Film Series
Bringing Up Baby (USA, 1938) 102 min.
Director Howard Hawks
(Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Film Study Center, Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, September 15
Women in Bollywood
Trikal (India, 1985) 137 min.
Director Shyam Benegal
Introduced by Lawrence Liang, visiting fellow
(Windham-Campbell Prizes, South Asian Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, September 16
Happy Hour (Japan, 2015) 317 min.
Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Post-screening discussion with director and Professor Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
5:30 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, September 18
Treasures of the Yale Film Archive
Vertigo (USA, 1958) 128 min. 35mm.
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Introduced by David Quint
(Literature 120, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, September 18
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
The Great Flood (USA, 2012) 80 min.
Director Bill Morrison
Introduced and followed by a conversation with the director and Thomas Allen Harris
(Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, September 20
Women in Bollywood a conversation with Jerry Pinto
Film clips and conversation about the Bollywood actress Helen with Windham-Campbell prize winner Jerry Pinto, Inderpal Grewal, and Tejaswini Ganti
(Windham-Campbell Prizes, South Asian Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 21
Weiner (USA, 2016) 96 min.
Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Introduced by Charles Musser and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Josh Kriegman (CC, ‘03)
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, September 25
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
When We Were Kings (USA, 1996) 88 min. 35mm
Director Leon Gast
(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

Sunday, September 25
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
Memories of a Penitent Heart (USA, 2016) 77 min.
Director Cecilia Aldarondo
Introduced and followed by a conversation with the director and Laura Wexler
Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, September 28
Russian Film Series
Moloch (Russia, 1999) 108 min.
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
(Russian Studies Program of the European Studies Council, with a Carnegie Foundation grant; Film and Media Studies; Film Study Center; Slavic Film Colloquium; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, September 30
Spirituality and Science Fiction Film Series
Solaris (Soviet Union, 1972) 167 min.
Director Andrei Tarkovsky
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, October 1
Red Desert (Italy, 1964) 117 min. 35mm.
Director Michelangelo Antonioni
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 6
Your Day is My Night (USA, 2013) 64 min.
Director Lynne Sachs
Introduction and post-screening discussion with the director
(Digital Media Center for the Arts, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:30 pm, Loria 250

Thursday, October 6
The Birth of a Nation (USA, 2016) 110 min.
Director Nate Parker
Introduced by Jacqueline Goldsby and Ron Gregg and followed by a panel discussion with Daphne Brooks, Crystal Feimster, and Edward Rugemer
(African American Studies, American Studies, History, Film and Media Studies, Gilder-Lehrman Center, Public Humanities, Religious Studies, Film Study Center, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, October 7
Welcome to Yale in 1966
50th Anniversary Screening
To Be a Man (USA, 1966) 60 min. 16mm, newly restored Yale Film Archive print
Director Murray Lerner
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, October 8
Yale Peabody Museum at 150 Film Series
Inherit the Wind (USA, 1960) 128 min.
Director Stanley Kramer
(Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Film Study Center, Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 9
The Migrant Crisis in Europe: a two-part film series
School of Babel (La cour de Babel) [France, 2013] 94 min.
Director Julie Bertuccelli
Introduced by Alice Kaplan and followed with remarks by Morgane Cadieu
(Department of French; Film and Media Studies; European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center with special thanks to curator Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer, director of the Columbia University Maison Française; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 9
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
Re:Orientations (Canada, 2016) 68 min.
Director Richard Fung
Introduced and followed by a conversation with the director and Thomas Allen Harris
(Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, 250 Loria

Monday, October 10
The Migrant Crisis in Europe: a two-part film series
Le Havre  (France, 2011) 93 min.
Director Aki Kaurismäki
Introduced by Morgane Cadieu and  followed with remarks by Seyla Benhabib and Dudley Andrew
(Department of French; Film and Media Studies; European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center with special thanks to curator Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer, director of the Columbia University Maison Française; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, October 12
Russian Film Series
Taurus (Russia, 2001) 94 min.
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
(Russian Studies Program of the European Studies Council, with a Carnegie Foundation grant; Film and Media Studies; Film Study Center; Slavic Film Colloquium; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 13
Thank You for Your Service (USA, 2015) 101 min.
Director Tom Donahue
Followed by a conversation with the director; Thomas Burke ‘17M.Div; John H. Krystal, MD; Robert H. Pietrzak, PhD, MPH; William Rodriguez, US Army, MSW; and Michael Wishnie, JD
Moderated by Linda Vester, former NBC News/FOX News anchor
(School of Law, School of Medicine, CreativeChaos vmg, Sprayregen Family Foundation, Regina K. Scully, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 16
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
Little White Lie (USA, 2014) 65 min.
Directors Lacey Schwartz and James Adolphus
Introduced and followed by a conversation with Lacey Schwartz and Thomas Allen Harris
(Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, October 18
Tyrus (US, 2015) 77 min.
Director Pamela Tom
Screening followed by a conversation between the director and Professor Aaron Gerow
(Center for East Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 20
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK, 1943) 163 min. 35mm.
Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Introduced by David Bromwich
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, October 23
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Film from UCLA (USA, 2016) 100 min.
Director Zeinabu irene Davis
Introduced and followed by a conversation with the director and Thomas Allen Harris
(Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, October 27
Russian Film Series
Francofonia (Russia, 2015) 90 min.
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
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Cinemuse: Selfie with Sokurov (Russia, 2016)
Director Dragan Kujundžić
Introduced by Dragan Kujundžić, University of Florida
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Film and Media Studies, Slavic Film Colloquium, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
5 pm, Room 208

Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28
Films with Nakadai Tatsuya
(Council for East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 2
The Third Man (USA, 1949) 93 min. 35mm print courtesy of Yale Film Study Center
Director Carol Reed
Introduced by David Bromwich
(Department of English, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 2
Moonlight, Director Barry Jenkins
(USA, 2016) 110 min. DCP
Director Barry Jenkins
Introduced by Tavia Nyong’o, American Studies
(Yale Film Society, Yale Film Study Center, African American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
9 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, November 3
Spirituality and Science Fiction Film Series
Advantageous, Director Jennifer Phang
(USA, 2015) 90 min.
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, November 4
An Evening with Frank and Caroline Mouris
Featuring newly preserved animated shorts, including the Academy Award-winning Frank Film (1973)
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Frank and Caroline Mouris
(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, November 5
Seven, Director David Fincher
(USA, 1995) 127 min.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, November 6
Identity & Representation in the Obama Era Film Series
Our Nixon, Director Penny Lane
(USA, 2013) 84 min.
Introduced and followed by a conversation with the director and Thomas Allen Harris
(Wallace-Sexton Fund for LGBT Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; School of Art; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program; Public Humanities Program; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 9
Russian Film Series
Faust, Director Aleksandr Sokurov
(Russia, 2011) 134 min.
Introduced by Kirk Wetters
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She Is Waiting, Director Maryana Kalmykova
(Russia, 2014) 7 min.
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Film and Media Studies, Slavic Film Colloquium, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, November 10
Start Your Engines!  Transportation on Film
Christopher Strong, Director Dorothy Arzner
(USA, 1933) 78 min. 16mm, print from UCLA Film Archive
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; Film and Media Studies; History of Art; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, November 11
Britain in Color Film Series
Blue, Director Derek Jarman
(UK, 1993) 79 min.
(Yale Center for British Art and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, November 12
Yale Peabody Museum at 150 Film Series
Gojira - Godzilla, the original, Director Ishiro Honda
(Japan, 1954) 96 min.
(Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Film Study Center, Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 16
Start Your Engines!  Transportation on Film
Thelma & Louise, Director Ridley Scott
(USA, 1991) 130 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Film Study Center Archive
Introduced by Ronald Gregg
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; Film and Media Studies; History of Art; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, November 17
Franke Lectures in the Humanities
James Baldwin’s American Scene
Prerelease Special Screening
I Am Not Your Negro, Director Raoul Peck
(USA, 2016) 95 min.
(American Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Departments of English; Department of History; LGBT Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Franke Seminar in the Humanities; African American Studies; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, November 30
Russian Film Series
Stone, Director Aleksandr Sokurov
(Russia, 1992) 83 min.
Introduced by Toni Dorfman
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My Brother Is a Superhero, Director Tatiana Rakhmanova
(Russia, 2015) 23 min.
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Film and Media Studies, Slavic Film Colloquium, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, December 3
The Spirit of the Beehive, Director Victor Erice
(Spain, 1973) 97 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, December 4
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Black Swan, Director Darren Aronofsky
(USA, 2010) 108 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, December 7
Russian Film Series
Days of Eclipse, Director Aleksandr Sokurov
(Russia, 1988) 133 min.
Introduced by Dudley Andrew
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, European Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Film and Media Studies, Slavic Film Colloquium, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, December 8
Safe Neighborhood, Director Chris Peckover
(USA, 2016) 85 min.
Followed by a Q&A with director
(Film and Media Studies Program and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, December 10
Yale Peabody Museum at 150 Film Series
Jurassic Park, Director Steven Spielberg
(USA, 1993) 127 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Film Study Center Archive
(Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Film Study Center, Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium