Spring 2012

Thursday, January 12
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Richard III with John Barrymore (UK, 1929) short, 16mm.
Henry V (UK, 1989) 137 min. 35mm.
Director Kenneth Branagh
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, January 14
Enter the Dragon (Hong Kong, 1973) 98 min.
Director Robert Clouse
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, January 19
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Othello (USA, 1952) 90 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
Murray Biggs will introduce the film and lead a short post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, January 21
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960
Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo Program One
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, January 26
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Tree of Life (USA, 2011) 139 min. 35mm.
Director Terrence Malick
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Sally Promey
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures and Religion, Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, January 27
Taiwan Film Festival
Touch of Zen (Taiwan, 1971) 185 min.
Director King Hu
7 pm
The Fourth Portrait (Taiwan, 2010) 104 min. 35mm.
Director Chung Mong-hong
10:30 pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Saturday, January 28
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960
Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo Program Two
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, January 29
Taiwan Film Festival
Beauty of Beauties (Taiwan, 1965) 154 min.
Director Li Hanziang
1 pm
Autumn Execution (Taiwan, 1971) 99 min.
Director Li Zing
4 pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Thursday, February 2
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Hamlet at Elsinore with Christopher Plummer (UK, 1964) 170 min. 16mm.
Director Philip Saville
Deborah Margoline will introduce the film and lead a short post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 3
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960
Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo Program Three
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 5
Taiwan Film Festival
Cape No. 7 (Taiwan, 2008) 129 min.
Director Wei Te-sheng
1 pm
Cannot Live WIthout You (Taiwan, 2009) 85 min.
Director Leon Dai
3:30pm
(Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Council on East Asian Studies, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Wednesday, February 8
Doing Virtuous Business (USA, 2011) 60 min.
Based upon the best-selling book Spiritual Enterprise by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Professor Malloch will lead a conversation after the screening
(Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
5 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 10
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960
Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo Program Four
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 10
Special Preview Screening
Hysteria (USA, 2011) 100 min.
Romantic comedy based on the discovery of the vibrator
Director Tanya Wexler, Yale Class of 1992
Introduced by Professor Naomi Rogers and followed by a DRAMATalk with the director
(Yale Dramatic Association and Films at the Whitney)

Saturday, February 11
The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915–1960
Rare samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo Program Five
(Council of East Asian Studies; National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Film Studies Program; Films at the Whitney; and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Film screenings, Auditorium
8 pm, Symposium, Auditorium

Tuesday, February 14
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Shakespeare in Love (USA, 1988) 123 min. 35mm.
Director John Madden
In conjunction with a 5:15 pm tour of Remembering Shakespeare, an exhibition at the Beinecke Library
led by Kathryn James, curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 16
Blue Valentine (USA, 2010) 112 min. 35mm.
Director Derek Cianfrance
Followed by a discussion with Producer Jack Lechner
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 18
South Asian Film Festival
Delhi Belly (India, 2011) 103 min. 35mm.
Director Abhinay Deo
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 18
Natural Born Killers (USA, 1994) 118 min.
Director Oliver Stone
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
10 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 19
South Asian Film Festival
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (India, 2011) 155 min. 35mm.
Director Zoya Akhtar
(South Asian Film Society, South Asian Studies Council, Yale College Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, and Films at the Whitney)
2pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 24–Saturday, February 25
Film Studies Program Annual Conference
The Dialects and Dialectics of Subtitling: Graphing Language Matters in Film
(Film Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Friday, 5 pm, Auditorium Saturday, 9 am, Auditorium

Thursday, March 1
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Romeo and Juliet with Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn (UK, 1966) 124 min. 16mm.
Director Paul Czinner
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 22
Great Expectations (UK, 1946) 118 min.
Director David Lean
(Yale Center for British Art, Film Study Center, and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, March 24
Ran (Japan, 1985) 162 min. 35mm.
Director Akira Kurosawa’s classic retelling of King Lear
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
In conjunction with Shakespeare at Yale
A semester of special events celebrating the Bard
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 3
The Films of Charles Burnett
Killer of Sheep (1979, 35mm.)
Introduced by Elizabeth Alexander
(Department of African American Studies, The DeVane Lectures - Office of the President, Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
6:45 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 3
The Films of Charles Burnett
When It Rains (1995, 16mm.)
Introduced by Elizabeth Alexander
(Department of African American Studies, The DeVane Lectures - Office of the President, Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
8:15 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 3
The Films of Charles Burnett
To Sleep with Anger (1990, 35mm.)
Introduced by Elizabeth Alexander
(Department of African American Studies, The DeVane Lectures - Office of the President, Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
8:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 4
Musical Chairs (USA, 2011)
Director Susan Seidelman Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Film Study Center, Film Studies Program, NEFIAC, and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 5
Shakespeare at the Whitney Film Series
Chimes at Midnight (France, 1965) 113 min. 35mm.
Director Orson Welles
Dudley Andrew will introduce the film and lead a short post-screening discussion
(Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 5
Age of Delirium (USA, 2011) 108 min.
Director David Satter (based on his book of the same title) Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and Films at the Whitney)
3:30 pm, Auditorium

Friday, April 6Saturday, April 7
Auteurs in the 21st Century - A Yale Film Studies Graduate Conference
The Circle (Iran, 2000) 90 min. 35mm.
Director Jafar Panahi
Notre Musique (France, 2004) 80 min. 35mm.
Director Jean-Luc Godard
(Film Studies Program, Dean’s Fund, Media and Theory Colloquium, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, Films at the Whitney, and Jeremi Snaziawski)
7 pm, Auditorium Conference continues Saturday, April 7, Room 208

Monday, April 9–Sunday, April 15
2012 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
(Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Wednesday, April 11
Sing Your Song (USA, 2011) 103 min.
Director Susanne Rostock
Introduced by Maxim Thorne and followed by a discussion with Hollywood and music legend Harry Belafonte and guests
(Philanthropy in Action, David and Goldie Blanksteen Lectures in Jewish Ethics, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 17
Blue (USA, 1993) 79 min. 35mm.
Director Derek Jarman
In conjunction with the 2012 Reni Celeste Lecture given by Professor Akira Lippit, University of South Carolina
(Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 18
“Cubist/Dada/Surrealist, Film as Art, 1921–1928”
Lecture by scholar and experimental filmmaker Standish Lawder
(Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Room 208

Wednesday, April 18
Film Studies Annual Award: Experimental Filmmaker
Standish Lawder
Color Film (USA, 1972) 16mm.
Corridor (USA, 1970) 16mm.
Catfilm for Ursula (USA, 1969) 16mm.
Dangling Participle (USA, 1970) 16mm.
Necrology (USA, 1970) 16mm.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
(Film Studies Program, Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming, and Films at the Whitney)
6 pm, Auditorium

Monday, April 23
Another Earth (USA, 2011) 92 min.
Director Mike Cahill
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(New Haven Economic Development Corporation and Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, April 28
Goodfellas (USA, 1990) 146 min.
Director Martin Scorsese
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium