Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans—Treasures from the Yale Film Archive

Name: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans—Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Start: 2024-09-26T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT

Schedule

Thu Sep 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau, 1927, 35mm, 94 mins)
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton! New print! Murnau brought German Expressionism to Hollywood with his first American film, a story of a farmer tempted away from his loving wife by a big city vamp. SUNRISE won Best Unique and Artistic Picture at the very first Academy Awards. “To see it today is to be astonished by the boldness of its visual experimentation” (Roger Ebert). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
The “Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.