Tuesday | November 8, 2005 9:00 pm

Sergeant York

Screening on Film

Directed by Howard Hawks.
With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie.
US, 1941, 35mm, black & white, 134 min.

Based on the true story of Alvin York, a Tennessee hellraiser turned bible-thumper (by a lightning strike, no less) who, after being drafted in 1917, applied for conscientious objector status on religious grounds and was refused. He went on to become the most decorated soldier of the first World War, single-handedly killing twenty-five German soldiers and taking over one hundred prisoners. York refused to let his story be turned into a movie unless he would be portrayed by Gary Cooper, who won his first Academy Award for his role in the film.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

June 14–August 30, 2019

The Complete Howard Hawks

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy