Tag: Film

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    Keeping up with the Joneses 2.0

    Author and Harvard alum W. David Marx digs into how social aspirations underlie all our choices.

    11 minutes
    W. David Marx and his book cover.
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    Hollywood’s messaging problem: Sometimes people feel insulted

    Experts took a virtual look at the role of satire in pushing climate change action, with reviews mixed on a recent film.

    4 minutes
    Steven Pinker.
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    Reframing American Studies

    Scholar Philip Deloria encourages his students to push boundaries of American Studies.

    4 minutes
    Charles Hua in class.
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    A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid

    Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.

    5 minutes
    Muhua Yang '21
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    ‘Garden’ party

    “The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.

    5 minutes
    Illustration.
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    Documentary photographer Chris Killip dies at 74

    Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.

    4 minutes
    Chris Killip.
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    His hobby? Making award-winning documentaries

    Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”

    10 minutes
    Jordan "Trey Deuce."
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    New faculty: David Joselit

    David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.

    9 minutes
    David Joselit.
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    Sundance in the spotlight

    When the Sundance Film Festival begins, Harvard’s artistic talent will be well represented by Shirley Chen ’22 and Lance Oppenheim ’19.

    5 minutes
    Group of cheerleaders from retirement community in scene from "Some Kind of Heaven."
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    Photography without a camera

    Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

    4 minutes
    Matt Saunders
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    Bringing ‘Coco’ to campus

    Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”

    5 minutes
    Pixar's "Coco"
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    Voicing their differences

    The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.

    2 minutes
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    Seeing things Wiseman’s way

    Harvard will welcome a trio of filmmaking greats for this year’s Norton Lectures, including legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman.

    6 minutes
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    Emily Dickinson, on the screen

    Terence Davies, director of the new Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” talks with The Gazette about his challenges in making movies, his artistic kinship with Dickinson, and what drew him to her deeply internal, isolated life.

    5 minutes
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    ‘Moonlight’ reflection

    Composer-pianist Nicholas Britell ’03 will celebrate with Harvard friends this weekend as his score for “Moonlight” competes for the Oscar for best original score.

    6 minutes
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    In 10,000 years, we’ll know how it ends

    Peter Galison and Robb Moss’ documentary “Containment” is an unflinching look at the challenges of nuclear waste disposal.

    6 minutes
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    ‘Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision’

    Gloria Hong ’15 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival for her short documentary, “Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision” The film was made while Hong was enrolled in “African and African American Studies 109,” taught by Joanna Lipper.

    5 minutes
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    Ukraine comes into focus on film

    Harvard Library is sponsoring a series of films by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa in conjunction with its exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War.” The film series continues Nov. 15 and 17. The exhibit is open through Nov. 26 at the Pusey Library.

    5 minutes
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    Tracking Fritz Lang

    The Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the work of Fritz Lang with a retrospective running through Sept. 1.

    5 minutes
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    Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88

    Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Peabody Museum’s Film Study Center, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

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    The leadership of Cesar

    Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.

    4 minutes
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    Calling the Oscars

    For the past three years, a Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict many winners at the Academy Awards.

    3 minutes
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    Oscar winner Matt Damon on his Harvard years

    Actor Matt Damon, former Harvard College student and winner of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, talks of his time on campus, his lifelong desire to be an actor, and how a College playwriting course assignment later turned into the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.”

    1 minute
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    Perfecting digital imaging

    Despite advances, the best software and video cameras cannot seem to get computer-generated images and digital film to look exactly the way our eyes expect them to. Harvard’s Hanspeter Pfister and Todd Zickler are working to narrow the gap between “virtual” and “real” by asking the question: How do we see what we see?

    2 minutes
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    Every stitch of Hitch

    In a summer retrospective, the Harvard Film Archive is presenting all of Alfred Hitchcock’s feature films and nine of his silent movies. Starting July 11, the series runs through Sept. 28.

    3 minutes
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    Birth of an actor

    Tommy Lee Jones discusses his first glimpse of the foreign turf of New England, and a hard choice he had to make on arriving: Should he focus on football or acting?

    1 minute
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    A break for exploration

    For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.

    5 minutes
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    ‘A Whisper to a Roar’ sparks discussion

    Panelists convened at the Harvard Kennedy School on Monday to discuss individuals’ motivations to risk their lives to fight for democracy.

    3 minutes
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    Film Study Center offers fellowships

    The Film Study Center (FSC) at Harvard University offers fellowships for the production of original film, video, photographic, and phonographic projects.

    1 minute
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    Girls who rock out

    A film and a discussion at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library highlight Girls Rock Camp, which teaches girls and young women during summer sessions to find their inner musicians, shed some inhibitions, and celebrate themselves.

    4 minutes