Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Die Hard
Friday, 7 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Event Info
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Die Hard
December 12, 2025
Humanities Quadrangle, L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Free
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988, 35mm, 132 mins)
Yippee-ki-yay! NYPD’s John McClane (Bruce Willis) battles Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his terrorist gang when they take the staff of the Nakatomi Corporation hostage in an LA skyscraper at an office party gone bad. It’s a Christmas movie. This explosion-happy blockbuster is “the very pinnacle of the ‘80s action movie, and if it’s not the greatest action movie ever made, then it’s damn close” (Andrew Collins). Introduction by former Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The “Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ‘70 M.Phil., ‘72 Ph.D.
For further information:
filmarchive@yale.edu
Open To:
undergraduate, faculty, alumni, Cultivating Conversations, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, All Ages, General Public, Graduate and Professional, Spouses and Partners, Staff