Film: The Usual Suspects

Yale FIlm Archive: Sundance Revisited Film Series The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995, 35mm, 106 mins) What a lineup: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palmintieri, Benicio del Toro, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Baldwin…but who’s Keyser Söze? When a dockside explosion leaves San Pedro Bay strewn with bodies—and the police with a boatload of questions—the sole survivor recounts the tangled chain of events that brought five career criminals together in a two-time Oscar-winning film that’s equal parts noir, caper, and cinematic shell game. “This elegant puzzle not only enjoys showing off, it also has something to show” (Kenneth Turan). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Sundance Revisited features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival. Yale Film Archive screenings are always free and open to the public. See the full film schedule here.