Spring 2018

Saturday, January 20
Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Rape of Recy Taylor, Director Nancy Buirski
(USA, 2017) 91 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director and Crystal Feimster
African American Studies; African American Cultural Center; American Studies; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Migration; Film and Media Studies; History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, January 21
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Lone Star, Director John Sayles
(USA, 1996) 135 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, January 24
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
Commisar, Director Aleksandr Askoldov
(USSR, 1967) 110 min.
Introduced by Choe Papadopoulos, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, January 26
Yale at the Movies!
Fight Club, Director David Fincher, and starring Ed Norton, Yale College ‘1991
(USA, 1999) 139 min.
(Bass Library, 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 27
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Director Peter Weir
(Australia, 1975) 115 min. 35mm.
Introduced by a member of the 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, January 28
That Way Madness Lies, Director Sandra Luckow
(USA, 2017) 101 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Film and Media Studies, School of Art, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium

Monday, January 29
Homer’s ILIAD, director Stathis Livathinos
(Greece, 2013) 3 hours
Post-screening discussion with the director & Yolanda Markopoulou, producer
(Classics, Helenic Studies, Humanities Program, Theater Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2:30 pm start time with a break 4:30-5 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, January 30
The Cooler Bandits, Director John Lucas
(USA, 2014) 100 min.
Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker and subjects of the film Preceded by a short film poem by the director and Claudia Rankine
(Film and Media Studies Program, Urban Ethnography Project, African American Studies, Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, January 31
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
M, Director Fritz Lang
(Germany, 1931) 110 min, 35mm. (FSC print)
(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, February 7
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
Seventh Satellite, Directors Aleksei German & Grigori Arnov
(USSR, 1967)
Introduced by Valeriia Mute, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 10
Being John Malkovich, Director Spike Jonze
(USA, 1999) 112 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced by a member 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, February 11
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive The Wedding Banquet, Director Ang Lee
(Taiwan, 1993) 106 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, February 14
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The Emperor Jones, Director Dudley Murphy
(USA, 1933), 80 min. 35mm. (FSC print)
(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, February 21
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
Tale of the Don, Director Vladimir Fetin
(USSR, 1964)
Introduced by Ana Berdinskikh, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 22
Native Son, Director Pierre Chenal
(USA, 1951) 107 min. 35mm, preserved by Library of Congress
Introduced by Melissa Barton, Curator of American Prose and Drama, Beinecke Library, with discussion to follow
In conjunction with “Native Son on Stage and Screen” in “+ : The Art of Collaboration” on view at Beinecke Library January 19–April 15
(Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 24
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(Germany, 1972) 124 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
Introduced by a member 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, February 25
Monsters in Motion: Spring Film Series on Animated Monsters and/in East Asia
Approved for Adoption, Directors Laurent Boileau and Jung Henin
(French-Belgian, 2012) 70 min. DCP with English subtitles
Introduced by Xavi Sawada, Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures
(Council on East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, February 27
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Shadow of a Doubt, Director Alfred Hitchcock
(USA, 1943) 108 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

Wednesday, February 28
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
“An Evening with Norman Weissman”
Featuring various 35mm. and 16mm. FSC prints
(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, March 1–Saturday, March 3
The 14th Annual European Film Conference: Borderline - European Cinema 1959
(European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Department of French, Program in Film & Media Studies, Yale Center for British Art, 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)
Auditorium

Sunday, March 4
Monsters in Motion: Spring Film Series on Animated Monsters and/in East Asia
Paprika, Director Kon Satoshi
(Japan, 2006) 90 min. Subtitled 35mm. print from the Yale Film Archive Introduced by Sarah Frederick, Boston University
(Council on East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
1:30 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, March 4
First Reformed, Director Paul Schrader
(USA, 2017) 108 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director, Dudley Andrew (Film and Media Studies), and Mary Evelyn Tucker (Religious Studies, Divinity, Forestry and Environmental Studies)
(Divinity School, Law School, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, March 7
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film No Path Through Fire, Director Gleb Panfilov
(USSR, 1968) 95 min.
Introduced by Spencer Small, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 8
Patrick J. Deneen, University of Notre Dame “Has Liberalism Failed?”
Respondents: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig (Washington Post), Bryan Garsten (Yale University), Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
Moderated by: Ross Douthat, New York Times, Elm Institute
(Elm Institute, Humanities Program, Yale University Press, and Whitney Humanities Center)
3:30 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, March 25
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Antonia’s Line, Director Marleen Gorris
(Netherlands, 1995) 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)
2 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 29
Special Screening
Isle of Dogs, Director Wes Anderson
(USA, 2018) 101 min.
Introduced by a member of the Yale Film Society
(Yale Film Society; 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, March 30–Saturday, March 31
Theory/Practice: Expanding Scholarship in the Age of Digital Media
A Film and Media Studies Symposium
Opening Screening: Secrecy (Directors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. 2008. 85 min.)
3:30 pm, Auditorium
Keynote Address: Peter Galison, Harvard University
“Filming and Writing Science: Concrete Abstractions”
5 pm, Auditorium
(Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Film & Media Studies Program, American Studies Program, Public Humanities Program, CCAM, Harvard Lectureship Fund, Office of the Secretary and Vice-President for Student Life, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)

Monday, April 2
68@50 Series Screening
L’Enfance Nue, Director Maurice Pialat
(France, 1968) 83 min. 35mm.
Followed by discussion led by Dudley Andrew (Film & Media Studies Program and Comparative Literature)
(Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Film & Media Studies Program, Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 4
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film Angels of Revolution, Director Alexei Fedorchenko
(Russia, 2014) 113 min.
Introduced by Dasha Ezerova, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 5–Saturday, April 7
2018 Environmental Film Festival at Yale
(Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, The Study at Yale, Institute for Biospheric Studies, Environmental Health and Safety, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Auditorium

Sunday, April 8
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The Aviator, Director Martin Scorsese
(USA, 2004) 170 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

Tuesday, April 10
Cinema Futures, Director Michael Palm
(Austria, 2016) 126 min. DCP.
Introduced by Brian Meacham, Yale Film Study Center
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 11
To Keep the Light, Director Erica Fae
(USA, 2016) 88 min.
Followed by a discussion with the writer, actor, producer, director Erica Fae (Yale School of Drama) and Rebecca Tannenbaum (History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
(Film & Media Studies Program; Yale School of Drama; Department of History; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, April 12 – Saturday, April 14
Yale Student Film Festival
Featuring short films selected from over 1,000 submissions, including
Experimental Shorts, Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Yale Senior Thesis Films
Also featuring a screening of Broadcast News with NY Times critic Wesley Morris ‘97, a screening and panel discussion of the documentary RIKERS: An American Jail, and a workshop on postwar Japanese cinema with director Linda Hoaglund ‘79
(Yale Film Alliance, Yale College Dean’s Office, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, April 15
Monsters in Motion: Spring Film Series on Animated Monsters and/in East Asia
EXCLUSIVE SCREENING: Big Fish & Begonia, Directors Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun
(China, 2016) 100 mins, DCP
Introduced by Dihao Zhou, Ph.D. Student in East Asian Languages and Literatures Followed by Q&A recorded by directors Liang and Zhang for the Yale community (Council on East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, April 17–Cancelled
Zama, Director Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina, 2017) 115 min.
Followed by a discussion with Dudley Andrew and John MacKay
(Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, April 18
Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film
For Marx, Director Svetlana Baskova (Russia, 2012) 100 min. DCP.
Introduction by Marijeta Bozovic, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
(Carnegie Corporation, European Studies Council, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium For full series see:

Thursday, April 19–Sunday, April 22
The 13th Annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema
(Italian Language and Literature, FAS Deans Office, Office of New Haven and State Affairs, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Auditorium

Friday, April 27
Yeelen (Brightness), Director Souleymane Cissé
(Mali, Burkina Faso, France; 1985) 106 min. 35mm. print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with Dudley Andrew
(Yale Film Society; 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 28
Monsters in Motion: Spring Film Series on Animated Monsters and/in East Asia
Monster Hunt, Director Raman Hui
(China, 2015) 118 min, DCP
Introduced by Jinying Li, University of Pittsburgh
(Council on East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, April 29
Retrospective of the Works of Cuban Filmmaker Ernesto Daranas
Sergio y Serguei Director Ernesto Daranas
(Cuba, 2017) 93 min. DCP.
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Cuba Initiative, MacMillan Center, and Whitney Humanities Center)
7 pm, Auditorium

Tuesday, May 1
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Class Pictures: Student Archivist Screening Night (Various 16mm. prints introduced by students)
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale) 7 pm, Auditorium

Friday, May 4
Ashes of Time Redux, Director Kar-Wai Wong
(Hong Kong, 2008) 94 min. 35mm, print from Yale Film Archive
Introduction by Pierre Folliet, Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies (Council on East Asian Studies; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Yale Graduate Film Colloquium; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)\
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, May 16
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
School of Rock, Director Richard Linklater
(USA, 2003) 108 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

Tuesday May 29
Scholars as Leaders Initiative presents a double bill:
Portrait of Jason, Director Shirley Clarke (USA, 1967) 105 min.
Jason and Shirley, Director Stephen Winter (USA, 2015) 79 min.
Both screenings will be introduced by Tavia Nyong’o (American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater Studies)
(Office of the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday May 30
Scholars as Leaders Initiative presents:
Born in Flames, Director Lizzie Borden, (USA, 1983) 80 min.
Introduced by Tavia Nyong’o (American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater Studies)
(Office of the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, May 31–Sunday, June 10
NHDocs
The Fifth Annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival
Auditorium