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:
“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)
“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)