Friday, January 16
Pasolini Retrospective
La Dolce Vita (Italy, 1960), 174 min. 35mm.
Director Federico Fellini
Introduced by Millicent Marcus
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, January 17
Goodfellas (USA, 1990) 146 min. 35mm.
Director Martin Scorsese
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Monday, January 19
A City of Sadness (Hong Kong, 1989) 157 min. 35mm.
Director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
(Film Studies Program, East Asian Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, January 22
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
Stray Dog - Keisatsukan (1949) 122 min. 35mm.
Director Kurosawa Akira
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, January 23
Vida y Drama de México Film Series
Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950) 80 min. 35mm.
Director Luis Buñuel
Print courtesy of the Tim Hunter Collection at the Academy Film Archive
El gran calavera/The Great Madcap (Mexico, 1949) 92 min.
Director Luis Buñuel
(La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Fundación Televisa; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; Film Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Yale University Art Gallery; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, January 24
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
The Road to Hell - Jigoku no magarikado (1959) 93 min. 35mm.
Director Kurahara Koreyoshi
7 pm, Auditorium
A Certain Killer - Aru koroshiya (1967) 82 min. 35mm.
Director Mori Kazuo
8:45 pm, Auditorium
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
Saturday, January 24
Selma (USA, 2015) 127 min.
Director Ava DuVernay
Introduced by Professor Matthew Jacobson, Acting Chair, African American Studies and followed by a discussion with Professors David Blight, Crystal Feimster, Jonathan Holloway, and
Kobena Mercer
(Department of African American Studies; Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; Yale-MLK Day Planning Committee; and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, January 25
The Puppetmaster (Taiwan, 1993) 142 min. 35mm.
Director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
(Film Studies Program, East Asian Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium
Friday, January 30
Vida y Drama de México Film Series
La negra Angustias (Mexico, 1950) 82 min
Director Matilde Landeta
(La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Fundación Televisa; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; Film Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Yale University Art Gallery; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, January 31
A Separation (Iran, 2011) 123 min. 35mm.
Director Asghar Farhadi
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, February 1
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
Police Officer - Keisatsukan (1933) 121 min. 35mm.
Director Uchida Tomu
7 pm, Auditorium
The Red Peony - Hibotan bakuto: Hanafuda shōbu (1969) 98 min. 35mm.
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
9:15 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, February 3
Pasolini Retrospective
Mamma Roma (Italy, 1962) 102 min. 35mm.
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Introduced by Alison Hadley, Department of Italian
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 5
Pasolini Retrospective
Porcile (Italy, 1969), 98 min.
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 5
Cristo Rey (Dominican Republic, 2013) 96 min.
Director Leticia Tonos
(American Studies; Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies; Ethnicity, Race, & Migration; Film & Media Studies; La Casa Cultural; Public Humanities; and Films at the Whitney)
4:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, February 7
Bioethics Film Festival
The Sea Inside (Spain, 2004) 125 min. 35mm.
Director Alejandro Amenábar
Post-screening discussion with Lydia Dugdale, Associate Director Yale School of Medicine Program for Biomedical Ethics
(Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, February 7
Bioethics Film Festival
Gattaca (USA, 1997) 106 min. 35mm.
Director Andrew Niccol
Post-screening discussion with Stephen Latham, Director Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
(Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, February 8
Bioethics Film Festival
Sound and Fury (USA, 2000) 80 min.
Director Josh Aronson
Post-screening discussion with Laura Mauldin, Assistant Professor Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut
(Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney)
3 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 12
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday - Sakujitsu kieta otoko (1941) 89 min. 35mm. Director Makino Masahiro
7 pm, Auditorium
The Last Gunfight - Ankokugai no taiketsu (1960) 95 min. 35mm. Director Okamoto Kihachi
8:45 pm, Auditorium
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
Saturday, February 14
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
A Fugitive from the Past - Kiga kaikyo (1965) 183 min. 35mm
Director Uchida Tomu
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, February 13–Saturday, February 14
Eye Candy: Consuming Moving Images at the Cinema and Beyond Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Address: Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU
“The Cops and the Commons: Life, Love, and Value after Ferguson”
(Film and Media Studies Program, Public Humanities Fund, Dean’s Fund, Films at the Whitney, and Whitney Humanities Center)
5:30 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, February 15
Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film 1931-1969
Wolf, Pig and Man - Okami to buta to ningen (1964) 95 min. 35mm.
Director Fukasaku Kinji
World Premiere
Chutaro of Banba - Mabuta no Haha (1931) silent, 85 min. 35mm. Director Inagaki Hiroshi
Live musical accompaniment by Limbergino
6:45 pm, Auditorium
Symposium/Panel Discussion
Yomota Inuhiko (Film Critic), Osawa Jō (National Film Center)
Philip Kaffen (NYU), Moderator: Aaron Gerow
(Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney)
8:30 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 19
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Good Night, and Good Luck. (US, 2005) 93 min. 35mm.
Director George Clooney
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, February 20
Pasolini Retrospective
Arabian Nights (Italy, France 1974), 125 min. 35mm.
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Introduced by Robyn Creswell
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
8 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, February 21
Barry Lyndon (UK, 1975) 184 min. 35 mm.
Director Stanley Kubrick
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Tuesday, February 24
Particle Fever (USA, 2013) 99 min.
Director Mark Levinson
Post-screening panel moderated by NYTimes columnist Carl Zimmer with director Mark Levinson; producers David Kaplan, Carla Solomon, and Andrea Miller; and physicist Fabiloa Gianotti (Department of Physics and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 26
Yale Film Colloquium and Screening Series Screen to Screen: Director’s Double Bill
The Elgin Hour: Crime in the Streets (USA, 1955) 60 min. 16mm.
Director Sidney Lumet
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Network (USA, 1976) 121 min. 35mm.
Director Sidney Lumet
7:30 pm, Auditorium
(Film and Media Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; School of Art; 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)
Friday, February 27–Saturday, February 28
The Bazin Era
French Postwar Journals and the Politics of Popular
Culture Conference
(Department of French, Film and Media Studies Program, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, Laboratoire d’excellence Arts-H2H, Films at the Whitney, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium
Friday, March 6
Pasolini Retrospective
Passione (USA, 2014) 15 min.
Director Hisham Bizri
Pasolini’s Last Words (USA, 2012) 61 min.
Director Cathy Lee Crane
Followed by a Q&A with both directors
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, March 6–Saturday, March 7
The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini Conference
(Department of Italian; European Studies Council; Council on Middle East Studies; Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale; Institute for Sacred Music; Dean’s Fund for Symposia; Yale School of Art; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Departments of French, of History of Art, and of Religious Studies; Film and Media Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Whitney Humanities Center; and Films at the Whitney)
Sunday, March 22
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Much Ado about Nothing (UK/US, 1993) 111 min. 35mm.
Director Kenneth Branagh
Celebrate the start of Spring with the Yale Film Study Center’s special matinee screening of Kenneth Branagh’s delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsale, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard, and Michael Keaton.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
2 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, March 25
Ivory Tower (USA, 2014) 90 min.
Director Andrew Rossi
Followed by a discussion with the director and Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University
(Humanities Program, Directed Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
4 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 2
Yale Film Colloquium and Screening Series Screen to Screen: Actor’s Double Bill
Screen Directors Playhouse: Life of Vernon Hathaway (USA, 1955) 30 min. 16mm.
Director Norman Z. McLeod
6:30 pm, Auditorium
The Last Picture Show (USA, 1971) 118 min. 35mm.
Director Peter Bogdanovich
(Film Studies Program; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; School of Art; 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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 3–Saturday, April 11
2015 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
(Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Films at the Whitney)
Auditorium
Thursday, April 16
Sneak Preview
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (USA, 2015) 104 min.
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
This tragicomic coming-of-age story received rave reviews at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Quirky teenage filmmakers befriend a sick classmate in a film Variety described as “destined not only to connect with young audiences in a big way, but to endure as a touchstone for its generation.” Adapted from the novel by Jesse Andrews, it stars Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Jon Bernthal. Opens in theaters June 12.
(Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium Seating begins at 7 pm.
Admission is free; first come, first seated.
No laptops or other recording devices allowed into the auditorium. The screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording.
Saturday, April 18
Badlands (USA, 1973) 94 min. 35mm.
Director Terrence Malick
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 23–Sunday, April 26
The 10th Annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema
(Department of Italian, Italian Study Center, Office of New Haven and State Affairs, FAS Deans Office, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium
Saturday, April 25
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Films from the Herb Graff Collection
Rare treasures on 16mm from the collection of legendary film collector Herb Graff. Newsreels, educational shorts, interviews with public figures, industrial films, travelogues, and performances by well-known artists will provide a fascinating look at a broad range of American history and culture from the 1920s to the 1950s. Featuring a conversation with Film Study Center Archivist Brian Meacham and Bennett Lovett-Graff, Herb Graff’s son and the donor of the collection.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
2 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 30
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The Lady from Shanghai (USA, 1947) 87 min. 35mm.
Director and Writer Orson Welles Celebrate the 100th Birthday of Orson Welles (May 6, 1915-October 10, 1985) with our special 35mm screening of his classic film noir. Journey with Welles and co-star Rita Hayworth into the most dazzling mirror-maze crazy house of all time!
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, March 5
Pasolini Retrospective
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italy and France, 1975) 116 min. 35mm.
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Introduced and followed by a discussion with journalist and film curator Dennis Lim
(Department of Italian and Films at the Whitney)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, June 17 and June 18
Mr. Turner (UK, 2014) 150 min.
Director Mike Leigh
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Yale Center for British Art; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney)
7:30 pm, Auditorium