The 14th annual European Film Conference at Yale is sponsored by the European Studies Council at Yale, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale, the Departments of French, Slavic Languages and Literatures, German, History of Art, the Program in Film & Media Studies, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow.
All screenings are free and open to the public.
All foreign-language films will be screened with English subtitles.
Full Conference Schedule
Thursday, March 1
7:00pm
REFUGE ENGLAND
Robert Vas - United Kingdom - 27 min - 16mm
Print from the British Film Institute
Introduced by Professor Charles Musser
This screening is co-sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art
I’M ALL RIGHT JACK
John Boulting - United Kingdom - 105 min - 16mm
Print from the Yale Film Archive
Introduced by Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen
This screening is co-sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art
Friday, March 2
1:30pm
LE CHANT DU STYRENE [The Song of Styrene]
Alain Resnais - France - 14 min - DVD
Introduced by Barbora Bartunkova
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR [Hiroshima My Love]
Alain Resnais - France/Japan - 90 min - DCP
4K Restoration from Rialto
Introduced by Professor Rizvana Bradley
3:45pm
MOI, UN NOIR [I, Black Man]
Jean Rouch - France/Côte d’Ivoire - 73 min - DCP
4K Restoration from Icarus Films
Introduced by Professor Laure Astourian, Columbia University
5:15pm
Panel discussion: French New Wave Cinema
Participants: Professor Dudley Andrew, Professor Rizvana Bradley,
Professor Laure Astourian, Barbora Bartunkova
6:00pm
Opening Reception - Room 108 - Whitney Humanities Center
This reception is co-sponsored by Films at the Whitney
7:30pm
PICKPOCKET
Robert Bresson - France - 76 min - 35mm
Print from the Harvard Film Archive
Introduced by Professor John Mackay
9:00pm
L’AVVENTURA
Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy - 143 min - 35mm
Print from the Harvard Film Archive
Introduced by Luca Peretti
Saturday, March 3
9:00am
LOS GOLFOS [The Delinquents]
Carlos Saura - Spain - 80 min - 35mm
Print from the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales
Introduction by Professor Leslie Harkema
10:30am
SIE NANNTEN IHN AMIGO [They Called Him Amigo]
Heiner Carow - East Germany - 63 min - DVD
North American premiere, subtitled by Lorenz Hegel
Introduced by Professor Katie Trumpener
12:00pm
PETLA [The Noose]
Wojciech Jerzy Has - Poland - 96 min - DVD
Introduced by Professor Krystyna Illakowicz
1:30pm
Lunch - Room 108 - Whitney Humanities Center
2:30pm
NEOTPRAVLENNOYE PISMO [Letter Never Sent]
Mikhail Kalatozov - USSR - 96 min - 35mm
Print courtesy of Gosfilmofond of Russia
Introduced by Viktoria Paranyuk
4:15pm
Panel discussion: Eastern European Cinema
Participants: Professor Katerina Clark, Professor Katie Trumpener,
Professor John Mackay, Viktoria Paranyuk
5:00pm
LE SIGNE DU LION [The Sign of Leo]
Eric Rohmer - France - 105 min - DCP
4K Restoration from Les Films du Losange
Introduced by Professor Dudley Andrew
7:00pm
Dinner for conference participants - Room 108 - Whitney Humanities Center
8:00pm
ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI [Rocco and His Brothers]
Luchino Visconti - Italy - 177 min - 35mm
Print from Milestone Films
Introduced by Alexandra Catrickes