Peter Davis, Richard Pearce, and Lynzee Klingman

50th Anniversary Screening & Discussion of HEARTS AND MINDS

Location

53 Wall Street Auditorium

About the Event

Filmmakers in person! "One of the best documentaries ever made” (Desson Thomson), Hearts and Minds is an unflinching, Academy Award-winning examination of the Vietnam War and its vast human toll. “A cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war” (Scott Tobias). This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Peter Davis, producer/cinematographer Richard Pearce, and editor Lynzee Klingman. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive, co-presented with the Beinecke, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Digital Humanities Lab, the Whitney Humanities Center, and the Yale Film and Media Studies Program.

About the Speakers 

Filmmaker and journalist Peter Davis began his career at The New York Times shortly after graduating from Harvard. He then served in the U.S. Army before joining CBS News, where his 1971 investigative documentary The Selling of the Pentagon won the Peabody Award. He is best known as the director of Hearts and Minds, which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. He has written for The Nation, Esquire, The Boston Globe, and The Los Angeles Times. He is also the author of three nonfiction books and one novel.

Richard Pearce is a 1965 graduate of Yale, where he met his future filmmaking colleague, documentarian D.A. Pennebaker. Pearce received acclaim as a cinematographer for documentaries including Woodstock, Hearts and Minds, and Food, Inc. He directed the 1979 feature film Heartland, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as films including Country, No Mercy, and Leap of Faith. He has also directed extensively for television.

Lynzee Klingman began her career as a film editor with documentaries, including Hearts and Minds. She has since edited more than two dozen feature films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (for which she received an Academy Award nomination), Baby Boom, The War of the Roses, A River Runs Through It, and Matilda. She also edited three films by director Jodie Foster. Klingman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Columbia University.

Co-sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Public Humanities at Yale, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale Film Archive and the Film and Media Studies Program.