Film: Brick

Yale FIlm Archive: Sundance Revisited Film Series Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005, 35mm, 110 mins) The dazzling debut feature from director Rian Johnson stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a high school student delving into the dark side of his California suburb on a search for his missing ex-girlfriend. With stylized dialogue, intricate plotting, deadpan humor, double-crosses, lunch-money shakedowns, femmes fatales, and an unforgettable teenage kingpin in the form of Lukas Haas (complete with cape and cane), this neo-noir thriller won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. “A triumph of attitude” (Troy Patterson) that’s “quotable, clever, and cryptic” (Victoria Segal). 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.