Tag: Film

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Chorus auditions this weekend ‘No End in Sight’ to screen at Kennedy School tonight ‘Stuff Sale’ for good cause to take over Science Center lawn ‘Stuff Sale’ for good cause to take over Science Center lawn Day of Service on Sept. 29 to celebrate civic engagement Visit Ancient Egypt on lunch break Reading and Study…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Light Prop shines again

    This Saturday (July 21), one of the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s most unusual artworks will get a new lease on life.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Film Archive screening to fete works of Land

    The Harvard Film Archive will host “Reverence: The Films of Owen Land” (formerly known as George Landow) — a touring exhibition celebrating the work of one of the most original and celebrated American filmmakers of the ’60s and ’70s — on April 16. The program, which includes 15 shorts ranging from between 3 and 22…

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  • Campus & Community

    HSPH releases recommendations on smoking in films

    The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently released materials presented to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a scientific briefing on the impact of youth smoking and the behavioral influence of films that depict tobacco use. The presentations (requested by the MPAA) were held in February in Los Angeles.

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  • Arts & Culture

    BMF to honor actress Allen as Woman of the Year

    The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) will present the 2007 Woman of the Year award to acclaimed actress, producer, director, and choreographer Debbie Allen. The presentation of the 2007 award — scheduled for March 10 at the Boston Fairmount Copley Hotel — will be the highlight of the 13th annual “Celebration of Black Women: Honoring…

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  • Campus & Community

    Center for Health spoof takes on serious subject

    The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School recently launched “The (Bio)DaVersity Code” — a short, Flash-animated spoof of “The Da Vinci Code” that illustrates the importance of biodiversity to the planet’s health. Free Range Graphics, creators of the award-winning “The Meatrix,” produced the short.

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  • Campus & Community

    Seeing Scarlett

    In Harvard Yard just before noon today (Feb. 15), there was ice, slush, wind, a 2-degree wind chill – and there was Scarlett Johansson.

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  • Arts & Culture

    The joys and perils of building a superb film archive

    When Bette Davis called in sick during her time as a contract player with Warner Bros., the studio was known to send their own physician to her house to make sure she wasn’t malingering. Haden Guest mentions this intriguing fact as one of the many insights into the Hollywood studio system he gained while working…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Powerful documentary on genocide screened at Kennedy School

    Those who loudly refused to let the world turn a blind eye or feign helplessness as genocides ravaged millions of lives this century and last are sometimes dubbed “screamers.” The Harvard community got an earful Monday evening (Feb. 5) from an unlikely quartet of modern screamers – the chart-topping, earsplitting heavy metal band System of…

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  • Campus & Community

    Sons of American Revolution welcome Gates

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the society’s 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas.

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