Event time:
Saturday, February 28, 2026 - 7:00pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, 2006, 35mm, 114 mins)
20th anniversary screening! Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li star in this lavish wuxia tragedy set in a Tang Dynasty palace, where emperor plots against empress and sons navigate loyalties and desires. Through opulent costumes, heartstopping choreography, and Zhang’s signature use of color, the film “achieves a kind of operatic delirium, opening the floodgates of image and melodrama” (Jeannette Catsoulis). In Mandarin with English subtitles. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ‘70 M.Phil., ‘72 Ph.D.