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Harvard Film Archive

Film Review: “The Complete Howard Hawks” — Making American Mythology

Director Howard Hawks’ signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Howard Hawks, The Complete Howard Hawks

Film Review: At Harvard Film Archive –“The Complete Luchino Visconti”

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.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Harvard Film Archive, Italian Neorealism, Luchino Visconti

Film Review: “Safe in Hell” — A Fallen Woman Picture and a Sleazy Buddy Movie

Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Pendleton, Harvard Film Archive, Safe in Hell, William Wellman

Film Review: “Night of the Vampire” Marathon — A Bloody Good Time

The HFA marathon is a wonderful blend of arty and popular films that span the decades and feature bloodsuckers.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Night of the Vampire, Peg Aloi

Film Review: The Complete Jean Renoir — Time for a Fascinating Experiment

The Testament of Dr. Cordelier is not a horror movie –it is more of a dark comedy.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Jean Renoir, Jean-Louis Barrault, The Complete Jean Renoir, The Picnic in the Grass, The Rules of the Game, The Testament of Dr. Cordelier/Le Testament du docteur Cordelier

Film Review: The Sublimely Refined Touch of Ernst Lubitsch

In Trouble in Paradise, Lubitsch makes us feel complicit in the best of ways; he makes us feel clever.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Ernst Lubitsch, Harvard Film Archive, Trouble in Paradise

Film Review: Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game” — Top o’ the canon, Ma!

The Complete Jean Renoir — a definitive retrospective of films by the greatest of all directors.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Harvard Film Archive, Jean Renoir, The Complete Jean Renoir, The Picnic in the Grass, The Rules of the Game

Film Review: Director Rouben Mamoulian, Reconsidered. Starting with “Applause”

Mamoulian’s Applause is an opportunity to experience the first leg of the director’s ascent on his Hollywood roller coaster.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Applause, Betsy Sherman, Harvard Film Archive, Rouben Mamoulian, Rouben Mamoulian Reconsidered

Film Review: Acknowledging Jean Epstein — Brilliant Maverick Filmmaker and Critic

Jean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Jean Epstein, silent film, Young Oceans of Cinema – The Films of Jean Epstein

Film Homage: 1932’s “A Farewell to Arms” — A Perfect Movie for Valentine’s Day

Oh, to be a lead character in a Borzage movie. You might expire during the final dissolve into “The End,” but man oh man, you will have loved. And you will have been loved.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Farewell to Arts, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Borzage, Gary Cooper, Harvard Film Archive, Helen Hayes

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