Spring 2014

Saturday, January 18
Days of Heaven (USA, 1978) 94 min 35mm.
Director Terrence Malick
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, Jan. 23–Saturday, Jan. 25
European Studies Film Conference
“New Wave Europe: Cinema circa 1962”
(European Studies Council with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Saturday, February 1
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Double Indemnity (USA, 1944) 107 min. 16mm.
Director Billy Wilder
7 pm, Auditorium
Illusions (USA, 1983) 34 min. 16mm.
Director Julie Dash
8:45 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 6–Saturday, February 8
Film Studies Program Annual Conference
“Tracking Specificity: The Fluctuations of Cinema”
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)

Wednesday, February 12
Sneak Preview
Winter’s Tale (USA, 2014) 129 min. 35mm.
Director Akiva Goldsman
(Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 13 (POSTPONED to Friday, February 14 @ 6:15)
Yale African-American Affinity Group’s 2014 Film Festival
Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA, 2012) 93 min. 35mm.
Director Benh Zeitlin
(Yale African-American Cultural Center; Yale African-American Affinity Group; Classroom and Event Services; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Film Studies Program; Film Study Center; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Affinity Group; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 14
Yale African-American Affinity Group’s 2014 Film Festival
Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA, 2012) 93 min. 35mm
Director Benh Zeitlin
6:15 pm, Auditorium
Bamboozled (USA, 2000) 135 min. 35mm
Director Spike Lee
9:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 15
Yale African-American Affinity Group’s 2014 Film Festival
Dream Chasers (USA, 2013) 63 min.
Director Alonzo Beckett
Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower (USA, 2013) 75 min.
Director Roxana Walker-Canton
Followed by a Q&A with the directors Beckett and Walker-Canton 12 pm, Auditorium
Pariah (USA, 2011) 86 min. 35mm.
Director Dee Rees
Followed by a Q&A with Producer Lisa Cortes and
Actress Adepero Oduye
6:30 pm, Auditorium
(Yale African-American Cultural Center; Yale African-American Affinity Group; Classroom and Event Services; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Film Studies Program; Film Study Center; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Affinity Group; and Films at the Whitney)

Sunday, February 16
Yale African-American Affinity Group’s 2014 Film Festival
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (USA, 2012) 102 min.
Director Shola Lynch
Followed by a Q&A with the director
11:30 am, Auditorium
American Promise (USA, 2013) 135 min.
Directors Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson
3 pm, Auditorium
(Yale African-American Cultural Center; Yale African-American Affinity Group; Classroom and Event Services; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Film Studies Program; Film Study Center; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Affinity Group; and Films at the Whitney)

Thursday, February 20
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
The Devils (UK, 1971) 111 min.
Director Ken Russell
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Lofton (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)
8 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 21
Minority Report (USA, 2002) 145 min. 35mm
Director Steven Spielberg
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
8 pm, Auditorium
In conjunction with the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference “Fields of Vision: Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism,” Friday and Saturday

Saturday, February 22
50th Anniversary Celebration
Dr. Strangelove (USA, 1964) 95 min. 35mm.
Director Stanley Kubrick Introduction by David Bromwich
(Sterling Professor of English)
(Department of English, Film Studies Program, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney)
8:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 27
Out of the Clear Blue Sky (USA, 2012) 107 min.
Director Danielle Gardner
Followed by a panel discussion featuring the director, Rodrigo Canales, Ronald Gregg, and Jan Holton,
moderated by Christine Muller
(American Studies, Chaplain’s Office, Film Studies Program, Saybrook College, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 28
The Singularity: Will We Survive Our Technology? (USA, 2012) 75 min.
Director/Producer Doug Wolens
Followed by a discussion with the director
(Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, March 1
Clueless (USA, 1995) 97 min. 35mm.
Director Amy Heckerling
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 6
Shadows of Liberty (UK, 2013) 93 min.
Director Jean-Philippe Tremblay
Followed by a discussion with the director, Scott Harris, host of Counterpoint on WPKN, and Mark Oppenheimer, coordinator of the Yale Journalism Initiative
(Yale Journalism Initiative and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, March 25
The Haircut (USA, 1982) 22 min. 35mm.
Director Tamar Hoffs
Little Miss Sunshine (USA, 2006) 101 min. 35mm.
Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Post-screening discussion about independent film with director Tamar Hoffs and Little Miss Sunshine art director Alan Muraoka (Films Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 27
YCBA Spring Film 2014 Series
Submarine (UK, 2010) 95 min. 35mm.
Director Richard Ayoade
(Yale Center for British Art, Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney)
8 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, March 29
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
Stagecoach (USA, 1939) 96 min. 16mm.
Director John Ford
7 pm, Auditorium
The Rock (USA, 1996) 136 min. 35mm.
Director Michael Bay
8:45 pm, Auditorium
(Film Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia; Public Humanities at Yale; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)

Thursday, April 3
Religion & Film Series @ Yale
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (USA, 2009) 113 min. 35mm.
Director Tyler Perry
Introduced and post-screening discussion led by Kathryn Lofton and Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant (Williams College)
(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)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 1–Sunday, April 6
2014 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
(Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium

Wednesday, April 9
The Annual Film Studies Alumni/us Award
American Beauty (USA, 1999) 122 min. 35mm.
Director Sam Mendes
Screening followed by Q&A with Producer Bruce Cohen
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 10–Sunday, April 13
The 9th Annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema
(Department of Italian; Italian Study Center; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Office of New Haven and State Affairs; Office of the Provost; and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 15
Teenage (USA, 2013) 78 min.
Director Matt Wolf
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Modern European History Colloquium, Departments of Sociology and History, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Room 208

Thursday, April 17
John Hubley Centennial
A traveling program of films by animators John and Faith Hubley, all in new 35mm prints, celebrating John Hubley’s 100th birthday.

ADVENTURES OF AN * (1956) 10:44 min
TENDER GAME (1958) 5:48 min
MOONBIRD (1959) 10:00 min
THE HAT (1964) 18:75 min
URBANISSIMO (1967) 5:38 min
WINDY DAY (1968) 9:21 min
OF MEN AND DEMONS (1968) 9:00 min
EGGS (1970) 10:00 min
(Film Study Center, Cinema Conservancy and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, April 19
Wild Strawberries (USA, 1957) 91 min. 35mm.
Director Ingmar Bergman
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 22
A Touch of Sin (China, 2013) 125 min.
Director Jia Zhangke
Followed by a roundtable discussion with Professor Dudley Andrew (Film Studies), Professor Deborah Davis (Sociology), Dr. Mia Liu (East Asian Studies), and Professor Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University)
(Council on East Asian Studies, YIRA’s Global Perspectives Society, and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 24
Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture
Jean-Pierre Gorin, University of California San Diego
“The Film Essay: Some Fault Lines to Consider”
(Reni Celeste Memorial Fund, Film Studies Program, Yale School of Art, Department of History of Art, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of French, Molière and Co. Fund in memory of June Beckelman Guicharnaud, and Films at the Whitney)
5 pm, Room 208

Thursday, April 24
Acceptance (USA, 2013) 50 min.
Director Ryan Chan
Followed by Q & A with the director and writers
(International Students Organization and Whiney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, April 25
Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series
The Cheat (USA, 1915) 60 min. 16mm.
Director Cecil B. DeMille
7 pm, Auditorium
The Blot (USA, 1921) 90 min. 16mm.
**WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT**
Director Lois Weber
8 pm, Auditorium
(Film Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia; Public Humanities at Yale; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)

Saturday, April 26
Chinatown (USA, 1974) 130 min. 35mm.
Director Roman Polanski
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, April 27
Advanced Fiction Film Workshop
A Senior Project in the Films Studies Program with Michael Lomax, Molly Houlahan, and Benjamin Boult
(Film Studies Program and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 30
Things Left Behind (USA, 2012) 80 min.
Director Linda Hoaglund
Screening followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, May 1
YCBA Spring Film 2014 Series
On the Black Hill (UK, 1988) 117 min. 35mm.
Director Andrew Grieve
Introduction by Michael Kerbel, Film Study Center
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Yale Center for British Art; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, June 12
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Three Kings (USA, 1999) 114 min. 35mm.
Director David O. Russell
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, July 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
All About My Mother (Spain, 1999) 101 min. 35mm.
Director Pedro Almodóvar
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium