Spring 2013

Saturday, January 19
Annie Hall (USA, 1997) 93 min.
Director Woody Allen
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, January 24
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Melancholia (Denmark, 2011)130 min. 35mm
Director Lars von Trier Post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Lofton 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

Saturday, January 26
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
The Manchurian Candidate (USA, 1962) 126 min. 35mm
Director John Frankenheimer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (USA, 1969) 110 min. 35mm
Director George Roy Hill
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

January 31–February 2
South Asian Film Festival
(South Asian Studies Council, Asian American Cultural Center, Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee, ITS Academic Technologies, Yale Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney) Auditorium

Thursday, February 7
Keep the Lights On (USA, 2012) 101 min
Director Ira Sachs
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director
(Yale GALA, LGBT Alumni Reunion, and Films at the Whitney)
9:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 9
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Les Mistons (France, 1957) 26 min. 16mm
Director François Truffaut
Yi Yi (Taiwan, 2000) 173 min. 35mm
Director Edward Yang
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 14
Dirty Girl (USA, 2010) 90 min. 35mm
Director Abe Sylvia
Followed by a conversation with set designer Alan Muraoka and costume designer Mary Claire Hannan
(Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 15
Fourth Annual Film Studies Graduate Student Conference
Nervous Magic Lantern
An Evening with Ken and Flo Jacobs
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
Friday, 8:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 16
Casablanca (USA, 1942) 102 min.
Director Michael Curtiz
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 17
Hellenic Studies Program
“Du Sang, de la volupté et de la mort” (USA, 1947-48) 70 min. 16mm.
Swain (USA, 1950) 24 min. 16mm.
Director Gregory Markopoulos
(Hellenic Studies Program, Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, Films at the Whitney, and Film Studies Program)
5 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 21
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Les Amants du Pont Neuf (France, 1991) 125 min. 35mm.
Director Leos Carax
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 22
Birders: The Central Park Effect (USA, 2012) 61 min.
Director Jeffrey Kimball followed by a discussion with the director and Richard Prum
(Environmental Film Festival at Yale and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 23
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Boy Meets Girl (France, 1984) 100 min. 35mm.
Director Leos Carax
Pola X (France, 1999) 134 min. 35mm.
Director Leos Carax (Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 28
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Holy Motors (France, 2012) 115 min. 35mm.
Director Leos Carax Followed by a discussion with the director (Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, March 1
Investigating Impegno: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Commitment in Italian Literature and Film
Diaz: Non pulire questo sangue (Italy, 2013) 127 min.
Director Daniele Vicari
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, March 27
Special Sneak Preview
Evil Dead (USA, 2013) 101 min. (R)
Director Fede Alvarez
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, March 31
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Night and Fog (France, 1955) 32 min. 16mm.
Director Alain Resnais
The Damned (Italy, 1969) 165 min. 16mm.
Director Luchino Visconti
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
5:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 3
How to Survive a Plague (USA, 2012) 120 min.
Director David France
Post-screening discussion with Director David France, Professor Paul Cleary (CIRA Director and Dean, Yale School of Public Health), and Gregg Gonsalves (Co-director, Global Health Justice Partnership)
(Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, LGBT Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 4
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
Agnes of God (USA, 1985) 98 min. 35mm.
Director Norman Jewison Post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Lofton 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 Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, April 5–Saturday, April 6
Objectif 49 Conference
Return to Biarritz: Hot Films in a Cold War
(Film Studies Program and Whitney Humanities Center)

Saturday, April 6
There Will be Blood (USA,2007) 158 min. 35mm.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 11
Little Children (USA, 2006) 137 min.
Director Todd Field
Introduced and followed by a discussion with novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Perrotta
(Films at the Whitney)
Special support provided by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs; and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
4 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 11
God Loves Uganda (USA, 2013) 83 min.
Director Roger Ross Williams
(Yale European Undergraduates, LGBT Coalition of Yale Divinity School, LGBT Co-op, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Room 208

Monday, April 8–Sunday, April 14
2013 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
(Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Thursday, April 18–Sunday, April 21
8th Annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema
(Italian Language and Literature Department, Italian Study Center, Film Study Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Office of New Haven and State Affairs, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Friday, April 26
Special Sneak Preview
The Spectacular Now (USA, 2013) 95 min.
Director James Ponsoldt (Yale ‘01)
Special Jury Prize, 2013 Sundance Film Festival
(OUT OF ORDER Magazine and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, April 27
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Les Mistons (France, 1957) 26 min. 16mm.
Director François Truffaut
Yi Yi (Taiwan, 2000) 173 min. 35mm.
Director Edward Yang
(Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, and Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Friday, June 14–Sunday, June 16
Historical Verité
The Documentaries of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard
(Yale Summer Film Institute, Films at the Whitney, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas)
Auditorium

Wednesday, July 31–Thursday, August 1
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, Film Study Program, and Films at the Whitney)
6 pm each evening, Auditorium