YCBA Has Scheduled A Romantic Spring Film Series

NEW HAVEN — The Yale Center for British Arts is pleased to announce the spring film series, “Isn’t it Romantic.” The films will be screened on select Saturdays in February and March. Admission to the series and to the museum is free. For more information call 203-432-2800 or visit the center’s website at www.yale.edu/ycba.

In conjunction with the exhibitions “The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions” and “Romantics & Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London,” the center is offering cinematic biographies of some of the most famous (and infamous) personalities, artists and historical figures of the Romantic era.

The series opens with Danton, the story of the French statesman, played by Gerard Depardieu, and his role in the French Revolution. Lisztomania focuses on life of the great composer Frank Liszt, while Haunted Summer describes the complex friendship between Percy Bysshe Shelley, his lover Mary Goodwin, her half-sister Claire Clairemont, and Lord Byron.

Pandaemonium examines the friendship between the great poets Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and Beau Brummel stars Stewart Granger as the fashionable dandy who becomes an advisor to the prince regent.

The series concludes with Vivien Leigh in the title role of The Hamilton Woman, the story of the scandalous romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson.

Shown on six Saturdays at 2 pm, the films have been selected with the assistance of Fred Guida, an independent film consultant.

The schedule is as follows: February 8, Danton (1982), directed by Andrzej Wajda (103 minutes); February 15, Lisztomania (1975), directed by Ken Russell (103 minutes); and February 22, Haunted Summer (1988), directed by Ivan Passer (106 minutes).

March 1 will continue the series with Pandaemonium (2000) directed by Julien Temple (124 minutes); followed on March 8 with Beau Brummel (1954), directed by Curtis Bernhardt (113 minutes); and March 15, That Hamilton Woman (1941), directed by Alexander Korda (128 minutes).

The Yale Center for British Art is at 1080 Chapel Street, on the corner of High Street.