Harvard Film Archive
In Trouble in Paradise, Lubitsch makes us feel complicit in the best of ways; he makes us feel clever.
Read MoreThe Complete Jean Renoir — a definitive retrospective of films by the greatest of all directors.
Read MoreMamoulian’s Applause is an opportunity to experience the first leg of the director’s ascent on his Hollywood roller coaster.
Read MoreJean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.
Read MoreOh, 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.
Read MoreAn exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.
Read MoreFuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.
Read MoreThis entertaining and provocative work, made in 1981 by the now 85-year-old director, fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans, 1974’s Céline and Julie Go Boating.
Read MoreWouldn’t you know it, just when you thought July would be all Red Sox games, bike rides, hikes, and weekend get-a-ways, there’s a whole lot of great films to keep you occupied. This month includes classics, new documentaries, a giant screen, and two festivals –- the Maine Film Festival and Boston’s venerable French Film Festival.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard