Bright College Years with guest Peter Rosen—The Nixon Years Film Series
Schedule
Thu Nov 07 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT
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BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS (Peter Rosen, 1970, 16mm, 52 mins)Peter Rosen in person! Preservation premiere! Revisit New Haven’s tumultuous 1970 May Day weekend, as seen by a School of Drama student filmmaker. This documentary captures Yale in a moment of transition, when still-significant questions swirled about the role of the university in local and national affairs. Winner of the Best First Film prize at Cannes, BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS was preserved in collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
“The Nixon Years: American Politics in the Early 1970s” is a series of documentary and fiction films focusing on that tumultuous time. This screening is presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Yale Film Archive.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Where is it happening?
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: