Thursday, August 2
48 Hour Film Project Screenings
Given only a character, a prop, a line of dialogue, and 48 hours, what’s possible? Come see!
(48 Hour Film Project and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm and 9:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, September 5
Pariah (USA, 2011) 86 min. 35mm.
Director Dee Rees
Post-screening conversation with Terri Francis, Lisa Cortes, and Tambay Obenson
(African American Studies, Association of Yale Alumni, Film Studies Program, LGBT Studies, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programming at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 6
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Being There (USA, 1979) 104 min. 35mm.
Director Hal Ashby Post-screening discussion led by Sally Promey and Ron Gregg
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion supported by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 8
Back to the Future (USA, 1985) 116 min.
Director Robert Zemeckis
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 8
Best 48 Hour Film Project Screenings and Awards
Given only a character, a prop, a line of dialogue, and 48 hours, what’s possible?
Come see!
(48 Hour Film Project and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 13
Robert Adams Film Series
Meek’s Cutoff (USA, 2010) 104 min. 35mm.
Director Kelly Reichardt Followed by a post-screening discussion with the director and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, September 14–Saturday, September 15
European Film in 1930
(European Studies Council and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium
Tuesday, September 18
Robert Adams Film Series
Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953) 136 min. 35mm.
Director Yasujirô Ozu
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 20
Robert Adams Film Series
A New Leaf (USA, 1971) 102 min. 35mm.
Director Elaine May
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 22
Film Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
The Magician (Sweden, 1958) 100 min. 35mm.
Director Ingmar Bergman
Claire’s Knee (France, 1970) 105 min. 35mm.
Director Eric Rohmer
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, September 25
A Room with a View (UK, 1985) 117 min. 35mm.
Director James Ivory
Post-screening conversation with director James Ivory and actor Julian Sands
(Yale Center for British Art, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney)
Special thanks to the Academy Film Archive, BBC America, and Merchant Ivory Productions.
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 27
Robert Adams Film Series
Five Easy Pieces (USA, 1970) 98 min. 35mm.
Director Bob Rafelson Followed by a post-screening discussion with the director
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, September 28–Sunday, September 30
New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema 2012
(Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 4
Robert Adams Film Series
Le rayon vert (Summer) (France, 1986) 98 min. 35mm.
Director Eric Rohmer
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 5
Manhattan Short Film Festival
World’s First Global Film Festival
(Yale College Dean’s Office and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, October 9
Law and Religion Film Series
A Separation (Iran, 2011) 123 min. 35 mm.
Director Asghar Farhadi
(Yale Law School, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 11
Robert Adams Film Series
Winter Light (Sweden, 1963) 81 min. 35mm.
Director Ingmar Bergman
(American Studies Program, Davenport College, Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow, Film Studies Program, Nate Gibbons, ITS Classroom Technology & Event Services, Morse College, Photographic Memory Workshop, Yale University Art Gallery, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 12
OKA! (USA, 2011) 106 min. 35mm.
Writer and Director Lavinia Currier Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Films at the Whitney)
7 pm. Auditorium
Saturday, October 13
The Searchers (USA, 1956) 119 min.
Director John Ford
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 18
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Sabbath (Israel, 2008) 7 min.
Director Nira Pereg
This Is Not a Film (Iran, 2011) 75 min. 35mm.
Directors Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi
Post-screening discussion led by Margaret Olin, Dudley Andrew, and Sally Promey
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion supported by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, October 21
Special Pre-release Screening
The Sessions (USA, 2012) 95 mins. 35mm.
Director Ben Lewin, with John Hawkes,
Helen Hunt and William H. Macy
Followed by a Q&A with Cheryl Cohen Greene, the licensed sex surrogate on whom Helen Hunt’s character is based.
(Yale Film Society, Sexual Literacy Coalition, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 1
Oxhide II (China, 2009) 132 min.
Director Liu Jiayin
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, November 3
Amelie (France, 2001) 122 min. 35mm.
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 8
Stony Island (USA, 1978) 95 min. 35mm.
Director Andrew Davis
Followed by a Q&A with the director and producer
Tamar Simon Hoffs
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, November 13
Sneak Preview
Silver Linings Playbook (USA, 2012)
People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival Director David O. Russell With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, and Chris Tucker
Followed by a Q&A with producer Bruce Cohen
(Films at the Whitney and Film Studies Program)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 15
Barry Lyndon (USA, 1975) 184 min. 35mm.
Director Stanley Kubrick
(Yale Center for British Art and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 29
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan and USA, 1993) 106 min. 35mm.
Director Ang Lee
Post-screening discussion led by Sally Promey and Ron Gregg
(American Studies, Film Studies Program, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion supported by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Religious Studies, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
December 6–December 7
Impossible Memory: The Complete Films of Aleksei German
All films shown in 35mm with English subtitles
Introductions by John MacKay
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
Thursday, 5 pm, Auditorium
Friday, 5 pm, Auditorium