Spring 2017

Friday, January 13
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Triplets of Belleville, Director Sylvain Chomet
(France, 2003) 78 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)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, January 21
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Margot Lee Shetterly, author
“Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race”
4 pm, Auditorium
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Hidden Figures, Director Theodore Melfi
(USA, 2016) 127 min. DCP
Followed by a discussion with Margo Lee Shetterly and Yale scholars
5:30 pm, Auditorium

(Principal Sponsors: Department of African American Studies, Yale Office of the Provost, Yale College Dean’s Office, FAS Dean’s Office, Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale MLK Week Planning Committee, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)

Thursday, January 26
Blackstar Rising &The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Director D. A. Pennebaker
(USA, 1973) 90 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director and Charles Musser
(African American Studies; American Studies; Department of English; Film and Media Studies Program; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Department of the History of Art; Institute of Sacred Music; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; Music Department; Public Humanities; Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Yale Center for British Art; Yale College Dean’s Office; Yale University Art Gallery; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)  
4:30 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, January 28
Jules and Jim, Director Francois Truffaut
(France, 1962) 105 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 3
Treasures of the Yale Film Archive: A 10th Anniversary Screening
The Lives of Others, Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
(Germany, 2006) 137 min. 35mm.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with Katie Trumpener
(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

Thursday, February 9
Spirituality and Science Fiction Film Series
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Director Nicolas Roeg
(USA, 1976) 139 min.
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 11
Sneak Preview Screening
Get Out, Director Jordan Peele
(USA, 2017) 103 min. DCP
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 17
Film Against Fascism: A Yale Film Colloquium Series
Pan’s Labyrinth, Director Guillermo del Toro
(Spain, 2006) 118 min. 35mm. Yale Film Archive Print
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 18
Media Intimacy: A Film and Media Studies Graduate Conference
Keynote: Ara Osterweil, McGill University
2:30 pm, WHC Auditorium
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Featured screening: Easy Rider, Director Dennis Hopper
(USA, 1969) 95 min. 16mm.
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney)
6:30 pm, 212 York

Thursday, February 23
Spirituality and Science Fiction Film Series
Jodorowsky’s Dune, Director Frank Pavich
(France, 2013) 90 min.
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 24
Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl, Director A.D. Calvo
(USA, 2016) 76 min. DCP
Introduced and followed by a discussion with the director and two lead actresses Erin Wilhelmi and Quinn Shephard, moderated by Sam Zimmerman, Curator at Shudder
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 25
Three Colors: Blue, Director Krzysztov Kieslowski
(France, 1993) 94 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, February 28
Metropolitan Indians: Irony and Creativity in the Movement of 1977
The US premiere of the Metropolitan Indians
a documentary by Antonella Sgambati and Claudia Salaris
(Beinecke Library and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4:30 pm, Room 208

Tuesday, February 28
Film Against Fascism: A Yale Film Colloquium Series
The Bling Ring, Director Sofia Coppola
(USA, 2013) 90 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 2
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: a 50th Anniversary Screening
Battle of Algiers, Director Gillo Pontecorvo
(Italy, 1966) 121 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)
8 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, March 7
Film Against Fascism: A Yale Film Colloquium Series
A Taxing Woman, Director Juzo Itami
(Japan, 1987) 127 min. 35mm. Yale Film Archive Print
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, March 8
Japanese Silent Film with live Benshi and piano accompaniment
Jirōkichi the Rat - Oatsurae Jirōkichi kōshi, Director Itō Daisuke
(Japan, 1931) 80 min.
Benshi Kataoka Ichiro
Pianist Makia Matsumura
(Center for East Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, March 28
Film Against Fascism: A Yale Film Colloquium Series
Malcolm X, Director Spike Lee
(USA, 1992) 202 min. 35mm. Yale Film Archive Print
(Yale Film Colloquium sponsored by Yale Film Study Center, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Film and Media Studies, History of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, April 1
The Life of Oharu, Director Kenji Mizoguchi
(Japan, 1952) 148 min. 35mm.
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, April 2–Monday, April 3
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale
“Film Criticism Today”
(Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Film and Media Studies, Film Study Center, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Thursday, April 6–Sunday, April 9
The 12th Annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema
(European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center; Department of Italian Language and Literature; Italian Study Center; Office of New Haven and State Affairs; FAS Deans Office; Saybrook College; School of Drama; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Gellar Fund; and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Friday, April 14
Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture
Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania
“Thinking Vertically across Cinema and Media Studies”
(Reni Celeste Memorial Fund, Film and Media Studies, Department of the History of Art,
Whitney Humanities Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Friday, April 14
Don’t Blink - Robert Frank, Director Laura Israel
(USA, 2015) 82 min.
Followed by a discussion of Robert Frank’s films with the director Laura Israel and  journalist Nicholas Dawidoff
(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, April 15
Treasures of the Yale Film Archive
Candy Mountain, Directors Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer
(Switzerland, 1987) 91 min. 35mm.
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

Tuesday, April 25
Yale Film Colloquium’s Silent Gala
With live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
Steamboat Bill Jr., Directors Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner
(USA, 1928) 70 min. 16mm.
(School of Art; Film and Media Studies Program; History of Art Department; Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia; Yale School 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

Wednesday, April 26
Memories of the Eichmann Trial, Director David Perlov
(Israel, 1979) 65 min.
Introduced by Noa Steimatsky (independent scholar at University of California Berkeley) and followed by a round-table discussion with Seyla Benhabib, Hannan Hever, Margaret Olin, and Noa Steimatsky
Moderator: Dudley Andrew
(Film and Media Studies, Judaic Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Monday, May 1
Frailty, Director Bill Paxton
(USA, 2001) 100 min. 35 mm.
Introduced by Tony Sudol
(Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, May 3
Despicable Me, Directors Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
(USA, 2010) 95 min.
Followed by Q&A with writer Cinco Paul
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
9:30 pm Auditorium

Thursday, May 4
Spirituality and Science Fiction Film Series
2001: A Space Odyssey, Director Stanley Kubrick
(USA, 1968) 149 min.
(Religion and Film Series, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Religious Studies, American Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, May 11
CAVE GIRLS + TRASHY FASHIONS: Unseen Post-Punk Videos by Women
Short films, performance footage and experiments by women artists, filmmakers and bands made in the context of late 1970s + 1980s post-punk, no wave and related music scenes in the United States.
Curated by Herb Shellenberger. Followed by a discussion between Lex Brown, Elizabeth Wiet and Charlie Jeffries.
(Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
5 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, May 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archives
House of Games, Writer and Director David Mamet
(USA, 1987) 102 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)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, June 1–Sunday, June 11
NHdocs
The Fourth Annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival
(Program in Public Humanities at Yale; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Yale Summer Session; Yale Summer Film Institute; International Festival of Arts and Ideas; Film and Media Studies Program; Institute of Sacred Music; LGBT Studies; Willoughby’s Coffee; What We Were Thinking Films; New Haven Free Public Library; Office of New Haven and State Affairs; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale; Quinnipiac University; Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; African American Studies; Digital Media Center for the Arts; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Classroom Technology & Event Services; The Study Hotel at Yale; Odd Bins Bottle Shop; Big Nanny’s Biscotti; Choupette Crêperie & Cafè; Olea; L’Orcio; Bread & Chocolate Bakery; New England Cider Company; Taste of New Haven; Elm City Party Bike; 116 Crown; Elm City Social; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Auditorium