Curse of the Golden Flower, 20th Anniversary Screening—Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Schedule
Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT
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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.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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