Yale Film Archive

10/18/2026

TODAY AT YALE: Spend your Sunday at the church of Frederick Wiseman with his 1999 documentary BELFAST, MAINE. Our congregation is free and open to all.
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2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18
HQ L01 (320 York in New Haven)

10/17/2026

Read about Yale professor Ted Kim's contribution to the realistic hair in TOY STORY 5. Nice work, Ted!
engineering.yale.edu/news-and-events/news/academia-hollywood-blazing-trail-computer-animated-hair

10/16/2026

In BELFAST, MAINE, Frederick Wiseman turns his camera on a coastal town caught between its industrial past and an uncertain future, showing us what economic change looks, sounds, and feels like as it transforms the texture of daily life. “An immensely rich and immeasurably valuable microcosm of American life at the end of the twentieth century” (Stuart Klawans).
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2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18
HQ L01 (320 York in New Haven)

10/15/2026

Beleaguered workers and blue-collar blues: Barbara Kopple’s HARLAN COUNTY, USA and Michael Schultz’s CAR WASH both premiered 50 years ago today, showing us there’s room for picket lines AND punchlines in labor-focused films.

10/15/2026

TONIGHT AT YALE: Don't let anything hold you back from seeing Rudolph Valentino in THE SON OF THE SHEIK, presented with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton!
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7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15
HQ L02 (320 York in New Haven)

10/14/2026

“Wisemania” is back with BELFAST, MAINE, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary about a changing New England coastal town. Free screening, open to all.
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2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18
HQ L01 (320 York in New Haven)

10/13/2026

A very happy 65th birthday to the Mauritanian-born Malian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, known for LA VIE SUR TERRE, WAITING FOR HAPPINESS, BAMAKO, TIMBUKTU, and more.

10/13/2026

Be swept away by the live musical accompaniment to THE SON OF THE SHEIK, shown in celebration of the silent classic's 100th anniversary! Free and open to everyone.
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7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15
HQ L02 (320 York in New Haven)

10/12/2026

We're pleased to announce a National Film Preservation Foundation grant to preserve SET-UP, a 1971 film by Nick Doob, a Yale graduate who sadly died in June. This will be the sixth of Doob’s films preserved by the Yale Film Archive. Image: a still of Donald Horner from SET-UP.

This most recent national award—the Film Archive’s 16th—will support the preservation of Nick Doob’s 1971 film, “Set-Up.”

10/11/2026

MOTHER—adapted from the Maxim Gorky novel—premiered 100 years ago today. The first film in Vsevolod Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy," it was followed by THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG in 1927 and STORM OVER ASIA in 1928.