Saturday, September 7
La Dolce Vita, Director Federico Fellini
(Italy, 1960) 174 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced and followed by a discussion with members of the Yale Film Society
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, September 8
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Orlando, Director Sally Potter (UK, 1992) 94 min. 35mm.
Introduction by Archer Neilson
(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
Thursday, September 12
Archival Interventions: Screening and Panel Discussion
With artists Onyeka Igwe, belit sağ, and Africanus Okokon (Yale School of Art) and scholars Marius Kothor (Yale University, Department of History), Brian Meacham (Yale Film Study Center), Sherena Razek (Brown University, Modern Culture and Media), and Pooja Sen (Yale University, History of Art and Film and Media Studies) (Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center Council on African Studies, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 19
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive and Democracy in America Film Series
Do the Right Thing, Director Spike Lee, 30th Anniversary Screening (USA, 1989) 120 min. 35mm
Introduction by Matthew Jacobson
Talk back with Daphne Brooks (African American Studies and American Studies), Aimee Cox (Anthropology and African Studies), and Daniel HoSang (Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies)
(320 York Humanities; Yale 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 20
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Directed by Yale Women: A Celebration of Women Filmmakers at Yale
A selection of short films by Yale alumnae followed by a discussion with Sandra Luckow, Alexis Krasilovsky, Phyllis Chillingworth, and Kit Basquin, introduced by Brian Meacham
(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
Wednesday, September 25
Hail Satan?, Director Penny Lane
(USA, 2019) 95 min.
Followed by a Q and A with filmmaker
(Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, Public Humanities 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
Thursday, September 26
Lady Macbeth, Director William Oldroyd
(UK, 2016) 89 min. DCP.
Introduced by Ana Berdinskikh
(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
Friday, September 27
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive and Democracy in America Film Series
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Director George Roy Hill, 50th Anniversary Screening
(USA, 1969) 110 min. 35mm.
Followed by a discussion with Matthew Jacobson (African American Studies) and Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University)
(320 York Humanities; Yale 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
Wednesday, October 2
Russian Film Series: Literary Adaptations on Screen
Crime and Punishment, Director Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, 1983) 93 min.
Introduced by Chloe Papadopoulos
(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, October 3
Democracy in America Film Series
U.S. Premiere
Sonora: The Devil’s Highway, Director Alexander Springall (Mexico, 2018) 95 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director and the screenwriter John Sayles
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 10
Living with Voices
Daniel, Debra, Leslie (and You?), Director Ben Wolf (USA, 2019) 80 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director and co-creators Dr. Lois Oppenheim, Dr. Alice Maher, and Prof. Larry Davidson (Psychiatry)
(Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health, Yale School of Medicine, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
1:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 10
Three by Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange, Director Stanley Kubrick
(UK/USA, 1971) 136 min. 35mm. print from the Yale Film Archive Introduced by Jeremi Szaniawski, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(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, October 11
Destruction Babies, Director Tetsuya Mariko (Japan, 2016) 108 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 12
Goodfellas, Director Martin Scorsese
(US, 1990) 145 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
Introduced and followed by a discussion with members of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, October 13
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Daughters of the Dust, Director Julie Dash (UK, 1991) 112 min. 35mm.
Introduction by Archer Neilson
(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
Wednesday, October 23
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
(USA, 2019) 120 min.
Post-screening discussion with Hilton Als (The New Yorker), Jacqueline Goldsby (English, American Studies, African American Studies), Chad Thompson (Producer), Tommy Walker (Producer)
Moderated by Daphne A. Brooks (African American Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies)
(African American Studies and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 24
CEAS Shitamachi Films
Street Without Sun, Director Satsuo Yamamoto (Japan, 1954) 140 min.
Introduced by Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, October 27
CEAS Shitamachi Films
Kigeki: Nippon no Obaachan, Director Tadashi Imai (Japan, 1962) 95 min.
Introduced by Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, October 29
Yahlin Chang ‘94, Emmy-nominated screenwriter and executive producer
“Personal Reflections on Making The Handmaid’s Tale (during the era of Trump and #Metoo)” in conversation with Virginia Jewiss
(English; Humanities, Film and Media Studies; Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, October 30
Russian Film Series
Uncle Vanya, Director Andrei Konchalovsky
(USSR, 1970) 104 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced by Valeriia Mutc
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program, European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, Film and Media Studies Program, Slavic Film Colloquium, Yale Film Archive, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 31
Three by Kubrick
The Shining, Director Stanley Kubrick
(UK/USA, 1980) 146 min. 35mm. print from the Yale Film Archive Introduced by Craig Buckley, History of 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, November 2
Yale Africa Film Festival
The Council on African Studies is hosting its second film festival highlighting forward- thinking films from the African continent and its diaspora.
(Council on African Studies, Africa Salon, and Whitney Humanities Center)
1 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, November 3
40 Years of Video Testimony from the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Our Children, (Unzere Kinder), Directors Natan Gross, Shimon Dzigan, and Saul Goskind
Sharon Pucker Rivo (Brandeis University) will introduce the film and moderate a talkback session following the film with a panel of scholars including
Samuel Kassow (Trinity College), David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), and Karolina Szymaniak (Wroclaw University)
(Fortunoff Video Archive, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Judaic Studies Sobotka Yom HaShoah Endowment Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 7
Barry Lyndon, Director Stanley Kubrick
(UK, 1975) 185 min. 35mm. print from the Yale Film Archive
Introduced by Bilge Ebiri ‘95, editor and film critic for New York Magazine and Vulture (Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, November 9
Daisies, Director Věra Chytilová
(Czechoslovakia, 1966) 76 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced and followed by a discussion with members of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, November 10
Sunday Double Feature: Filmmaking on the Edges of China
4 pm, Fukuoka, Director Zhang Lu
(Germany, 2019) 88 min.
Followed by a Q & A with the director
7 pm, Jinpa, Director Pema Tseden (Hong Kong, 2018) 86 min.
Followed by a Q & A with the director
(Council for East Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies Program, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Auditorium
Tuesday, November 12
For Sama, Directors Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts (USA, 2019) 100 min.
Followed by a Q&A with Waad Al-Khateab
(Film and Media Studies Program; African American Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm Auditorium
Wednesday, November 13
Russian Film Series: Literary Adaptations on Screen
Vanya on 42nd Street, Director Louis Malle
(USA, 1994) 119 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced by Matthew McWilliams
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund; European Studies Council, MacMillan Center; Film and Media Studies; Slavic Film Colloquium; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program; Yale Film Archive; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 13–Sunday, November 17
Latino & Iberian Film Festival
Opening Night Film:
Peret: King of Gypsy Rumba, Director Paloma Zapata (Spain, 2019) 90 min.
(MacMillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Yale Program on Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Public Humanities at Yale, Yale Latino Networking Group (YLNG), Yale Media Technology Services, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 14
Fortunoff Video Archive Forty Years of Video Testimony
Dr. Alan Rosen, International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem “The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy”
(Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, Room 208
Sunday, November 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Home for the Holidays, Director Jodie Foster (USA, 1995) 103 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)
2 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 20
CEAS Shitamachi Films
Yama: Attack to Attack, Directors Mitsuo Sato and Kyoichi Yamaoka (Japan, 1985) 110 min.
Introduced by Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 21
The Game Changers, Director Louie Psihoyos (USA, 2018) 108 min.
Followed by a Q&A with a panel of plant-powered Yale athletes
(Yale Animal Welfare Alliance and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8:45 pm Auditorium
Sunday, December 1
CEAS Shitamachi Films
Where Chimneys Are Seen, Director Heinosuke Gosho (Japan, 1953) 108 min.
Introduced by Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, December 4
Russian Film Series: Literary Adaptations on Screen
Stalker, Director Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR, 1979) 162 min.
Introduced by Spencer Small
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund; European Studies Council, MacMillan Center; Film and Media Studies; Slavic Film Colloquium; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program; Yale Film Archive; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, December 5
Democracy in America Film Series
Good Night and Good Luck, Director George Clooney (USA, 2005) 93 min.
Followed by a talk back with Professor Seth Fein, Brooklyn College
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, December 7
Yale Film Society Screening
Orpheus, Director Jean Cocteau
(France, 1950) 95 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced and followed by a discussion with members of the Yale Film Society
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, December 8
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Chocolat, Director Claire Denis (France, 1988) 105 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)
2 pm, Auditorium