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