Double Feature: The Usual Suspects + Brick —Sundance Revisited Film Series
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7 p.m.: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (Bryan Singer, 1995, 35mm, 106 mins)
What a lineup: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palmintieri, Benicio del Toro, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Baldwin…but who’s Keyser Söze? When a dockside explosion leaves San Pedro Bay strewn with bodies—and the police with a boatload of questions—the sole survivor recounts the tangled chain of events that brought five career criminals together in a two-time Oscar-winning film that’s equal parts noir, caper, and cinematic shell game. “This elegant puzzle not only enjoys showing off, it also has something to show” (Kenneth Turan). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
9:05 p.m.: BRICK (Rian Johnson, 2005, 35mm, 110 mins)
The dazzling debut feature from director Rian Johnson stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student delving into the dark side of his California suburb on a search for his missing ex-girlfriend. With stylized dialogue, intricate plotting, deadpan humor, double-crosses, lunch-money shakedowns, femmes fatales, and an unforgettable teenage kingpin in the form of Lukas Haas (complete with cape and cane), this neo-noir thriller won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. “A triumph of attitude” (Troy Patterson) that’s “quotable, clever, and cryptic” (Victoria Segal). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Sundance Revisited" features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
What a lineup: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palmintieri, Benicio del Toro, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Baldwin…but who’s Keyser Söze? When a dockside explosion leaves San Pedro Bay strewn with bodies—and the police with a boatload of questions—the sole survivor recounts the tangled chain of events that brought five career criminals together in a two-time Oscar-winning film that’s equal parts noir, caper, and cinematic shell game. “This elegant puzzle not only enjoys showing off, it also has something to show” (Kenneth Turan). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
9:05 p.m.: BRICK (Rian Johnson, 2005, 35mm, 110 mins)
The dazzling debut feature from director Rian Johnson stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student delving into the dark side of his California suburb on a search for his missing ex-girlfriend. With stylized dialogue, intricate plotting, deadpan humor, double-crosses, lunch-money shakedowns, femmes fatales, and an unforgettable teenage kingpin in the form of Lukas Haas (complete with cape and cane), this neo-noir thriller won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. “A triumph of attitude” (Troy Patterson) that’s “quotable, clever, and cryptic” (Victoria Segal). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Sundance Revisited" features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Where is it happening?
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United States
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Host or PublisherYale Film Archive
