The latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, presents spring offerings from the Yale Film Archive, a new novel resulting from an experiment in collaborative translation, and an anniversary celebration at the Whitney Humanities Center. Also in this edition: documentarian Ken Burns presents the keynote at the upcoming "First America" conference, and a new publication from the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media.
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In two film series, America in song and a Kubrick retrospective
In an era of ever-shrinking personal screens, the Yale Film Archive regularly invites the public to watch classic movies as they were meant to be seen: on a big screen, with a full audience. In addition to "Treasures from The Yale Film Archive," an ongoing, year-round series of classic and contemporary films screened in their original 35mm format, the archive regularly curates shorter series focused on specific themes.
This spring, two series offer, respectively, a deep dive into the work of a perfectionist auteur and a toe-tapping tribute to America's semiquincentennial.
"Kubrick's Maze," which began earlier this year, is a full retrospective of the work of the late American director Stanley Kubrick, including the satirical period piece "Barry Lyndon" (1975); horror classic "The Shining" (1980); Kubrick's posthumously released collaboration with Steven Spielberg, "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" (2001); and others. The series culminates with his 1968 sci-fi epic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," on Friday, April 17.
