Featured series 
Tag: Film
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Arts & Culture
‘The Odyssey’ is having a moment. Again.
Classicist Greg Nagy on story’s epic appeal, his favorite translation, and ‘journey of the soul’ that awaits new readers
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Campus & Community
5 things we learned this week
How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.
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Arts & Culture
Decoding David Lynch’s ‘familiar yet strange’ cinematic language
Film Archive pays tribute with 3 films that ‘need to be seen on the big screen’
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Campus & Community
A ‘Wicked’ good time
Actor, singer Cynthia Erivo celebrated as Hasty’s 2025 Woman of the Year
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Campus & Community
Jodie Foster to receive Radcliffe Medal
Will be recognized for her barrier-breaking career
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Campus & Community
Jon Hamm named Man of the Year
Hasty Pudding to honor award-winning actor on Jan. 31
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Arts & Culture
Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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Arts & Culture
‘Art and Identity’ in a changing Germany
Filmmaker’s documentaries bring complex history to Busch-Reisinger
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Arts & Culture
‘Dark things can be quite illuminating’
Horror writing instructor defends prestige of ‘genre that bites back’
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Arts & Culture
In Harry Smith exhibit, Carpenter Center captures a life that defies categorization
Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence
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Arts & Culture
Keeping up with the Joneses 2.0
Author and Harvard alum W. David Marx digs into how social aspirations underlie all our choices.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Campus & Community
Reframing American Studies
Scholar Philip Deloria encourages his students to push boundaries of American Studies.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Arts & Culture
‘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.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
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.”
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Campus & Community
New faculty: David Joselit
David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
Photography without a camera
Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
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Arts & Culture
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.”
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Campus & Community
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.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing things Wiseman’s way
Harvard will welcome a trio of filmmaking greats for this year’s Norton Lectures, including legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
‘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.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
‘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.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
Tracking Fritz Lang
The Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the work of Fritz Lang with a retrospective running through Sept. 1.
