Harvard Film Archive
A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.
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Though the images are half a century old, the chaos, treachery, and courage recorded bear a chilling relevance to circumstances today in our country and in democracies around the world as right-wing efforts to overturn democratically elected governments proliferate.
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Whereas Hong Sangsoo’s filmography abounds with coming-of-age stories featuring young characters embarking on their romantic/sexual and professional lives, two of these three films spotlight middle-aged characters, with one specifically dealing with disease and mortality.
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.
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Director Howard Hawks’ signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.
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Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.
Read MoreDorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
Read MoreThe HFA marathon is a wonderful blend of arty and popular films that span the decades and feature bloodsuckers.
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Film Retrospective: “Floating Clouds … The Cinema of Naruse Mikio” — Dedicated to Women’s Passions
Film scholars, programmers, and the many filmmakers influenced by Naruse Miko value him as having crafted well-rounded portraits of women and their lives across decades of Japanese cultural changes.
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