Upcoming Events: 2009-2010
(Whitney Humanities Center address is 53 Wall Street, New Haven)
Fall 2009: Council on East Asian Studies Japan Film Series
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13
Freshman Orientation Screenings featuring the films of Producer Bruce Cohen
Saturday, Sept. 12, 8pm
American Beauty (1999, USA), 122 mins. 35mm.
Sunday, Sept. 13, 2pm
Milk (2008, USA), 128 mins., 35mm.
Screening of Milk followed by Q&A with Bruce Cohen
Post-screening reception, WHC, Room 108
Sponsors: Peer Liaisons to the Office of LGBTQ Resources, Films at the Whitney, Film Study Center
Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 17-19
Festival of Food and Film
Sept. 17, 7pm
Julie and Julia (2009, USA)
Screening followed by Q&A with Jacques Pepin
Criterion Cinema
Sept. 18, 7pm
Babette’s Feast, 35mm
Sept. 30
4pm: Film Studies “Coffee,” Rm 208, WHC, 53 Wall Street with Leslie
Cockburn, Poynter Fellow in Journalism
6:30 & 9pm: Screening: American Casino (2009)
8:10pm: Q & A after the first screening
Directed by Leslie Cockburn (MC ’74)
Produced by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn
Thursday, Oct. 1
Special Screening with Producer Abby Disney and Director Gini Reticker
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008, USA), 72 mins., 35mm
Screening followed by Q&A with Abby Disney and Gini Reticker, moderated by Chris Blattman (Political Science, Yale)
Sponsors: Silliman College, Film Studies Program, and Films at the Whitney with generous support from the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs
Monday, Oct. 5
Crossroads of Youth
Korean silent film with live performance
Tuesday, Oct. 6
Experimental Filmmaker Lewis Klahr
Thursday, Oct. 15
Special Pre-release Screening for Precious (2009, Lee Daniels); Sundance Film Festival Award Winner
40 th Anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center
Limited seating available
Wednesday, Oct. 21
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner: screening and Q&A. More information soon.
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 and 24
Celebrating Director George Roy Hill
Friday, Oct. 23, 7pm
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Screening followed by Q&A with Screenwriter William Goldman and Producer Robert Crawford; moderated by Michael Kerbel (FSC, Yale)
Pre-screening GALA reception, 6pm, Room 108
Saturday, Oct. 24
Slaughterhouse-Five
Screening followed by Q&A with Producer Robert Crawford
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Rm. 101
Screening of Women Behind the Camera followed by Q&A with filmmaker Alexis Krasilovsky
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7-10pm, 212 York Street
Záviš: The Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday, or the Rise and Fall of of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992) (Czech Republic, 2006, 147 min.) followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Karel Vachek.
Also screenings of Karel Vachek's documentaries from 1968 on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7pm in LC101. Moravian Hellas (Czechoslovakia, 1963, 33 min.); Elective Affinities (Czechoslovakia, 1968, 85 min.
Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14
"Futurismo/Futurizm: The Futurists Avant-garde in Italy and Russia" Conference
Sponsors: Department of Italian, Department of Slavic Studies, Film Studies Program,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Whitney Humanities Center
For more information email Ann.Delauro@yale.edu
Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 3-5
After the Great War: European film in 1919
European Studies Faculty Group
Thursday and Friday, Jan. 28-29
FSP Graduate Student Conference
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 30-31
South Asian Film Festival
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 5-7
South Asian Art Cinema Conference
Friday, March 26
Dante Grad Student Symposium
April 6-11
Environmental Film Festival
Thursday-Sunday, April 15-18
Italian Film Festival
Saturday, April 24
Fiction Film Workshop Screening
In the works:
Slavic Film Colloquium screening this semester. Use of prints from the
Film Studies Center collection. Also hoping to screen Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964, Soviet Union) and the second one is Aleksei German's Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998, Russia/France)
Stan Lai's Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (Taiwan, 1992)
