Tag: Harvard Film Archive

  • Nation & World

    Nothing but a breakthrough

    The Harvard Film Archive leads off its 2013 screenings with “Nothing But a Man,” a landmark 1964 film by two Harvard graduates.

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    The art of saving art

    Works by Le Corbusier and Joan Miró are back at the Carpenter Center after painstaking repair work by conservators at the Weissman Preservation Center.

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    Visions of doom

    A pair of Harvard events looked at the artistic legacy of Pompeii — a kind of “Apocalypse Then.”

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    Filmmaker who bore witness to Holocaust

    A cinema legend’s advice on making films about unspeakable war crimes: “Go to see the killers.”

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    Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

    The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.

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    Cold War fever

    A tactile exhibit called “Cold War in the Classroom” views recent history through the artifacts of a dangerous era, the tensions from which penetrated American schools.

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    Looking back at Anger

    Film icon Kenneth Anger, Hollywood master of the edgy and the lurid, arrives at Harvard for a three-day festival of his work.

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    Cowboy’s tale

    Husband-and-wife filmmakers chronicle a dying way of life and humanity with their new film “Sweetgrass.”

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    Harvard Film Archive acquires Just Film Stills

    Lothar and Eva Just have recently made their collection of film stills and other publicity materials available to the Harvard Film Archive (HFA).

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    Pauletta Washington honored

    There was no debating the glamour of the Harvard Foundation’s black-tie, red-carpet premiere of “The Great Debaters,” starring and directed by Denzel Washington, at the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center. Close to 200 students, faculty, and staff attended the Dec. 18 premiere, which was followed by a lively question-and-answer session with Washington and…

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    Redford and company visit HFA

    Legendary film star and patron of the arts Robert Redford came to the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last week (Oct. 11) for a sneak preview of “Lions for Lambs,” which Redford directed and which stars Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. Redford was joined at the HFA by fellow cast members Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield,…

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    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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    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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