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From contemporary to classic films‚ the Yale Center for British Art showcases the best in cinema in our theater-style Lecture Hall. Film series are designed to highlight the permanent collection and special exhibitions.
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DECEMBER
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2 pm
A Christmas Carol
In this 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickenss classic, Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance for redemption when ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst (not rated 86 minutes).
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FEBRUARY
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2 pm
Wuthering Heights
Directed by William Wyler (rated TV-PG, 104 minutes, 1939). Sir Laurence Olivier stars in this beautifully filmed yet tragic love story based on Emily Bronts haunting novel.
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2 pm
Gertrud
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (not rated,119 minutes, 1964). In the elegant world of artists and musicians, an idealistic woman ends her marriage to have an affair with a composer. Through flashbacks we learn of her adolescence and her isolating ideal of absolute love.
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MARCH
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2 pm
Waterloo
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (rated G, 123 minutes, 1970). Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer star as Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington in this lavish historical epic of the Battle of Waterloo, where the fate of Europe will be decided.
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2 pm
Marquise of O
Directed by Eric Rohmer (rated PG, 102 minutes, 1976). This costume drama tells the story of a widowed marquise who was sexually assaulted by Russian soldiers during the Franco-Prussian war. A Russian rescues her and they fall in love. While he is away she discovers she is pregnant, and her father demands that she leave the and find the father of her child. Based on the story by Heinrich von Kleist.
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2 pm
Gothic
Directed by Ken Russell (rated R, 87 minutes, 1986). This surreal examination of events that allegedly took place at Lord Byrons ry estate in 1816 may have shaped Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. The group of friends spends a dark stormy night playing strange games and telling ghost stories, while personal horrors are revealed.
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6 pm
The Draughtsmans Contract
Directed by Peter Greenaway (rated R, 103 minutes, 1982). In the late seventeenth century, a woman hires a young draughtsman to sketches of her English ry estate as a gift to her husband, in return for money and sexual favors. The situation soon turns into a bizarre murder mystery. Introduction by Katie Trumpener, Professor, Comparative Literature, English, and Film Studies an informal discussion will follow the screening. Co-sponsored by the Yale Film Study Center.
Screening in 35mm at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven.
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APRIL
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6 pm
Love and Death
A comedy directed by Woody Allen (rated PG, 85 minutes, 1975). A Russian soldier and his distant cousin plot to kill Napoleon in czarist Russia. Introduction by Michael Kerbel, Director, Yale Film Study Center an informal discussion will follow the screening. Co-sponsored by the Yale Film Study Center.
Screening in 35mm at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven.
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