Cinema
- In the film The Money Pit, the character Walter played by Tom Hanks is a Yale graduate.
- In the film Mystic Pizza, the character Kat is a Yale astronomy major.
- The 2000 film The Skulls concerns a secret society with resemblances to Skull and Bones. That society, as well as the a cappella group the Whiffenpoofs, are elements of the 2006 film The Good Shepherd.
- Yale is prominently featured in the The Good Shepherd as the alma mater of the political figures instrumental in the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 2006,in the movie "It is a boy girl thing",one of the main characters Nell wants to go Yale literature major.
- A chase scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was filmed at Yale in 2007 and prominently features a number of campus locations. The scene ends with Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf crashing a motorcycle into what is portrayed as a study room of Sterling Memorial Library, actually filmed in Commons dining hall. Yale alumnus and professor Hiram Bingham III, discoverer of Machu Picchu, has been cited as a potential inspiration for the Indiana Jones character.
- Mary Mazzio's 1999 documentary film, A Hero for Daisy, chronicles the 1976 demonstration at Yale in which the women's rowing team demanded equal athletic facilities.
- In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Carmen goes to Yale.
- In the movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Taylor McKessie was accepted to Yale.
- In 2012, the son of the white jazz musician playing on board the cruise ship is seen wearing a YALE t-shirt when his father calls him moments before his demise.
- In the film The Namesake, the protagonist Gogol attends Yale College.
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Famous quotes containing the word cinema:
“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)