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The Harvard Film Archive offers a public cinematheque program, presenting films Friday through Monday nights year round. All screenings are held in the Archive's 200-seat theater located in the historic Carpenter Center for the Arts.

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    Harvard Film Archive

    Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
    24 Quincy Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138

    Phone: 617-495-4700   |   Fax: (617) 496-6750   |  

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      02/11/12

      Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts Harvard Film Archive Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling...

      02/11/12

      Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line... Harvard Film Archive Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line... Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 2012 David Gatten’s Secret Histories February 10 – February 12 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the...

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      02/12/12	A Man Escaped Harvard Film Archive A Man Escaped Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
      02/12/12	Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Harvard Film Archive Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography and poetry...
      02/12/12	A Man Escaped Harvard Film Archive A Man Escaped Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
      02/12/12	Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Harvard Film Archive Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling...
      02/13/12	Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Paradise has been compared to a notebook, a diary and a sketchbook. It is a collection of discrete moments, unscripted and unstaged, shot digitally over several years, none lasting longer than four minutes. There is no voiceover or onscreen text to link or explain the fragments. These moments have little in common other than that they are all instants of beauty or happiness. While there is footage from nine different countries, the final section is centered on the US. There is little direct...
      02/13/12	An Evening with Michael Almereyda Harvard Film Archive An Evening with Michael Almereyda Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Michael Almereyda first emerged as a prominent name with his very contemporary vampire film Nadja (1994), which found a counterpart with his updating of Hamlet (2000). After that, Almereyda spent several years making non-fiction films – though his most recent work marks a return to fictional narrative – on a fascinating array of topics: Sam Shepherd, New Orleans, William Eggleston. The culmination of this spate of documentaries is the celebrated Paradise (2009), his most recent...
      02/17/12	A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 17, 2012 A Single Spark tells the story behind a crucial event in modern South Korean history: the self-immolation of factory worker Jeon Tae-il in 1971 to draw attention to the appalling workplace conditions faced by many Koreans. Jeon’s suicide is widely credited as key to the unionization of South Korean workers. Rather than a straightforward biopic, the film elaborates on Jeon’s life by supplying a parallel story: a young activist five years later is researching a biography of Jeon...
      02/18/12	Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 18, 2012 Park’s debut film offered a startling realist intervention by focusing its story on the difficult lives of two struggling artists – billboard sign painters whose dangerous occupation clearly emblematizes the struggles of the working class in post-boom Korea. Made during a time of still heavily imposed censorship and adapted (uncredited) from a story by Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming, whose work was banned at the time in Korea, Chilsu and Mansu is an underappreciated example of...
      02/19/12	The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 After two acclaimed films exploring the relationship between the recent past and the present, Park goes back to 1901 to tell the true story of a revolt against local Catholics, French missionaries and a corrupt government. When peasants balk at increased taxation by a local government that includes a number of Christian converts, the insurrection quickly becomes a religious war. Yi Chae-su is an uneducated young man who finds himself at the head of the insurrection. The film presents an...
      02/19/12	The Devil Probably Harvard Film Archive The Devil Probably Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 Once banned in France as an incitement to teenage suicide, Le diable probablement offers a haunting portrait of a truly lost generation. Within a group of young environmentalists looking to address the crisis of world hunger, one strangely charismatic member leaves, rejecting political activism as insufficient to cope with the sickness of contemporary society and resolving to kill himself as the ultimate gesture of refusal. Describing the film as “voluptuous,” Truffaut explains:...
      02/20/12	Black Republic Harvard Film Archive Black Republic Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 20, 2012 Park followed up Chilsu and Mansu with a sweeping drama about a student protester whose life takes a dramatic turn when he hides out in a remote mining town in order to hide from the police. An intensification of Chilsu and Mansu‘s working-class theme, Black Republic boldly pushed the censorship limits with its depiction of exploited labor, mine strikes and police brutality. Co-written by Park, the film subtly uses melodrama to give human dimensions to its vision of a South Korea torn...
      02/24/12	Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 24, 2012 In a time “not so long ago,” the discreet charms of the self-described “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” imbue the debutante after-party scene of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Beguiled by the clique of collegiate preppies known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, Socialist-turned-socialite Tom Townsend finds their unpredictable banter and adherence to an old-fashioned sense of civility curiously admirable. With adult role models ineffectual or absent, this “doomed”...
      02/25/12	Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 25, 2012 A sneak preview pre-theatrical release screening of Whit Stillman's long-awaited new feature! An off-beat, giddy and Laura Ashley colored send-up of smug liberal college Americana, Stillman’s latest filmworks within a bolder mode of satiric caricature than his earlier trilogy. Starring mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig as the overzealous leader of an all-girl suicide prevention club, Damsels in Distress gleefully skewers dominant college stereotypes, from jock machismo and...
      02/26/12	The Last Days of Disco Harvard Film Archive The Last Days of Disco Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Directed by Whit Stillman, Appearing in Person. With Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman US 1997, 35mm, color, 114 min With his characteristically wry dispassion and clever attention to detail, Stillman introduces characters and actors from his established clique into the ultra-exclusive Manhattan disco club scene. As they struggle to maintain their inherited social status, the recent Ivy League grads pursue careers and relationships amid the remains...
      02/26/12	Barcelona Harvard Film Archive Barcelona Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Two actors from Metropolitan reprise similar roles as Americans abroad fumbling through the languages of love and politics during the “last decade of the Cold War.” Running his company’s foreign sales office, Ted agrees to host his cousin Fred, a young officer in the Navy who quickly confronts Leftist Spain with an ardent, ostentatious patriotism. Between Ted’s pragmatic intellectualism and Fred’s lies and obfuscation, they both appear anxious and insecure...
      02/27/12	To the Starry Island Harvard Film Archive To the Starry Island Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 27, 2012 Directed by Park Kwang-su. With Ahn Soo-young, Ahn Sung-kee, Choi Hyung-in South Korea 1993, 35mm, color, 102 min. Korean with English subtitles Many of the most celebrated films from the beginnings of the Korean New Wave explore the toll the war of the 1950s continued to take upon the psyches of contemporary South Koreans. A prominent example, To the Starry Island opens in the present with the efforts of Moon Jae-go to carry out his father’s dying wish to be...
      03/02/12	Smugglers' Songs - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Smugglers' Songs - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 2, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Jacques Nolot, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Christian Milia-Darmezin France 2011, digital video, color, 97 min. French with English subtitles Ameur-Zaïmeche takes an unexpected turn into period-film territory in his latest work, a film in praise of banditry. Louis Mandrin was a notorious mid-18th century France smuggler who became a folk hero for setting up thieves’ markets where stolen goods...
      03/03/12	Adhen - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Adhen - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 3, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Abel Jafri, Christian Milia-Darmezin France 2008, 35mm, color, 93 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles A portrait of contemporary French Arab masculinity, especially in relation to class and religion, Adhen takes place at a warehouse and truck yard in a desolate industrial zone. When the workers there begin to chafe at their low wages, their boss, known as Mao,...
      03/04/12	Back Home - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Back Home - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 4, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Meryem Serba, Abel Jafri France/Algeria 2006, 35mm, color, 100 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles The international success of Back Home confirmed the promise announced by Wesh Wesh. In that film, Ameur-Zaïmeche played an ex-con named Kamel, just back from two years of court-ordered exile in his native Algeria. In this quasi-prequel, the filmmaker also plays...
      03/04/12	Wesh Wesh Harvard Film Archive Wesh Wesh Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 4, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Ahmed Hammoudi, Brahim Ameur-Zaïmeche France 2001, 35mm, color, 83 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles Ameur-Zaïmeche’s debut is a sterling example of the banlieue film that first emerged as an important genre in French cinema in the 1990s. (French for “suburb,” “banlieue” in this context refers to the Parisian working-class suburbs with largely...
      03/05/12	An Evening of Early Cinema Harvard Film Archive An Evening of Early Cinema Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 5, 2012 This program will include 16mm film prints I acquired from various sources since the early 1970’s. Most often my purchasing guide was early release dates – the earlier the better I kept telling myself – closer to the Big Bang! And then also films by Méliès as well as titles or descriptions that attracted my curiosity. Why early cinema? Early cinema was sometimes silly, crude, primitive, occasionally even wild, like the actions of an energetic impulsive child...
      03/09/12	The Turin Horse Harvard Film Archive The Turin Horse Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 9, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2011, 35mm, b/w, 146 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, The Turin Horse is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an...
      03/10/12	The Outsider Harvard Film Archive The Outsider Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With András Szabó, Jolan Fodor, Imre Donko Hungary 1979, 35mm, color, 122 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Assuming the freeform structure of naturalistic, independent American cinema of the same period, The Outsider imparts a mutual theme: the hard barter of individual – usually male – freedom for a “normal” life of work and family. Played by a musician of the same name, easy-going András...
      03/10/12	Damnation Harvard Film Archive Damnation Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Gábor Balogh, János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Hungary 1988, 35mm, b/w, 116 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Tarr made a dramatic stylistic and critical breakthrough with this brooding and visually striking study of desolation and betrayal set in small town Hungary and tracing the cruel love triangle that emerges between a taciturn loner, a nightclub singer and her smuggler husband. The first of five films to date...
      03/11/12	The Turin Horse Harvard Film Archive The Turin Horse Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 11, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2011, 35mm, b/w, 146 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, The Turin Horse is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an...
      03/11/12	The Prefab People Harvard Film Archive The Prefab People Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 11, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Róbert Koltai, Judit Pógany, Gábor Koltai Hungary 1982, 35mm, b/w, 82 min. Hungarian with English subtitles In his first film using professional actors, Tarr perfects his documentary-style social dramas in this study of a marriage in permanent decomposition. A middle-class couple’s daily clashes range from the uncomfortable comedy of their ninth anniversary celebration – with his gifts of hairspray, a mug and a...
      03/12/12	Family Nest Harvard Film Archive Family Nest Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 12, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With László Horvath, Lászlóné Horvath, Gábor Kun Hungary 1977, 35mm, b/w, 100 min. Hungarian with English subtitles “We can understand; we can’t help,” the social services employee intones to a desperate mother in an unnervingly realistic episode that encapsulates the cycle of grief and torment experienced by those trapped in Hungary’s housing shortage of the 1970s. Made when he...

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    Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts Harvard Film Archive Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling...

    02/11/12

    Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line... Harvard Film Archive Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line... Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 11, 2012 David Gatten’s Secret Histories February 10 – February 12 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/12/12	A Man Escaped Harvard Film Archive A Man Escaped Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
    02/12/12	Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Harvard Film Archive Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. The films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography and poetry...
    02/12/12	A Man Escaped Harvard Film Archive A Man Escaped Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 A Man Escaped tells the true story of a Frenchman’s escape from a German prison camp during World War II. Although the title reveals the film’s denouement, the taut filmmaking keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout, suspense deriving from process and ritual rather than narrative surprise. Bresson restricts himself to the point of view of the imprisoned Fontaine whose limited visual environment and precise focus on minute details introduces the subtractive practice...
    02/12/12	Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Harvard Film Archive Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 12, 2012 Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b.1971) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling...
    02/13/12	Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Paradise - DIRECTOR IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Paradise has been compared to a notebook, a diary and a sketchbook. It is a collection of discrete moments, unscripted and unstaged, shot digitally over several years, none lasting longer than four minutes. There is no voiceover or onscreen text to link or explain the fragments. These moments have little in common other than that they are all instants of beauty or happiness. While there is footage from nine different countries, the final section is centered on the US. There is little direct...
    02/13/12	An Evening with Michael Almereyda Harvard Film Archive An Evening with Michael Almereyda Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 13, 2012 Michael Almereyda first emerged as a prominent name with his very contemporary vampire film Nadja (1994), which found a counterpart with his updating of Hamlet (2000). After that, Almereyda spent several years making non-fiction films – though his most recent work marks a return to fictional narrative – on a fascinating array of topics: Sam Shepherd, New Orleans, William Eggleston. The culmination of this spate of documentaries is the celebrated Paradise (2009), his most recent...
    02/17/12	A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive A Single Spark - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 17, 2012 A Single Spark tells the story behind a crucial event in modern South Korean history: the self-immolation of factory worker Jeon Tae-il in 1971 to draw attention to the appalling workplace conditions faced by many Koreans. Jeon’s suicide is widely credited as key to the unionization of South Korean workers. Rather than a straightforward biopic, the film elaborates on Jeon’s life by supplying a parallel story: a young activist five years later is researching a biography of Jeon...
    02/18/12	Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Chilsu and Mansu - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 18, 2012 Park’s debut film offered a startling realist intervention by focusing its story on the difficult lives of two struggling artists – billboard sign painters whose dangerous occupation clearly emblematizes the struggles of the working class in post-boom Korea. Made during a time of still heavily imposed censorship and adapted (uncredited) from a story by Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming, whose work was banned at the time in Korea, Chilsu and Mansu is an underappreciated example of...
    02/19/12	The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive The Uprising - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 After two acclaimed films exploring the relationship between the recent past and the present, Park goes back to 1901 to tell the true story of a revolt against local Catholics, French missionaries and a corrupt government. When peasants balk at increased taxation by a local government that includes a number of Christian converts, the insurrection quickly becomes a religious war. Yi Chae-su is an uneducated young man who finds himself at the head of the insurrection. The film presents an...
    02/19/12	The Devil Probably Harvard Film Archive The Devil Probably Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 19, 2012 Once banned in France as an incitement to teenage suicide, Le diable probablement offers a haunting portrait of a truly lost generation. Within a group of young environmentalists looking to address the crisis of world hunger, one strangely charismatic member leaves, rejecting political activism as insufficient to cope with the sickness of contemporary society and resolving to kill himself as the ultimate gesture of refusal. Describing the film as “voluptuous,” Truffaut explains:...
    02/20/12	Black Republic Harvard Film Archive Black Republic Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 20, 2012 Park followed up Chilsu and Mansu with a sweeping drama about a student protester whose life takes a dramatic turn when he hides out in a remote mining town in order to hide from the police. An intensification of Chilsu and Mansu‘s working-class theme, Black Republic boldly pushed the censorship limits with its depiction of exploited labor, mine strikes and police brutality. Co-written by Park, the film subtly uses melodrama to give human dimensions to its vision of a South Korea torn...
    02/24/12	Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Metropolitan - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 24, 2012 In a time “not so long ago,” the discreet charms of the self-described “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” imbue the debutante after-party scene of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Beguiled by the clique of collegiate preppies known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, Socialist-turned-socialite Tom Townsend finds their unpredictable banter and adherence to an old-fashioned sense of civility curiously admirable. With adult role models ineffectual or absent, this “doomed”...
    02/25/12	Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Damsels in Distress - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 25, 2012 A sneak preview pre-theatrical release screening of Whit Stillman's long-awaited new feature! An off-beat, giddy and Laura Ashley colored send-up of smug liberal college Americana, Stillman’s latest filmworks within a bolder mode of satiric caricature than his earlier trilogy. Starring mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig as the overzealous leader of an all-girl suicide prevention club, Damsels in Distress gleefully skewers dominant college stereotypes, from jock machismo and...
    02/26/12	The Last Days of Disco Harvard Film Archive The Last Days of Disco Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Directed by Whit Stillman, Appearing in Person. With Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman US 1997, 35mm, color, 114 min With his characteristically wry dispassion and clever attention to detail, Stillman introduces characters and actors from his established clique into the ultra-exclusive Manhattan disco club scene. As they struggle to maintain their inherited social status, the recent Ivy League grads pursue careers and relationships amid the remains...
    02/26/12	Barcelona Harvard Film Archive Barcelona Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 26, 2012 Two actors from Metropolitan reprise similar roles as Americans abroad fumbling through the languages of love and politics during the “last decade of the Cold War.” Running his company’s foreign sales office, Ted agrees to host his cousin Fred, a young officer in the Navy who quickly confronts Leftist Spain with an ardent, ostentatious patriotism. Between Ted’s pragmatic intellectualism and Fred’s lies and obfuscation, they both appear anxious and insecure...
    02/27/12	To the Starry Island Harvard Film Archive To the Starry Island Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive February 27, 2012 Directed by Park Kwang-su. With Ahn Soo-young, Ahn Sung-kee, Choi Hyung-in South Korea 1993, 35mm, color, 102 min. Korean with English subtitles Many of the most celebrated films from the beginnings of the Korean New Wave explore the toll the war of the 1950s continued to take upon the psyches of contemporary South Koreans. A prominent example, To the Starry Island opens in the present with the efforts of Moon Jae-go to carry out his father’s dying wish to be...
    03/02/12	Smugglers' Songs - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Smugglers' Songs - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 2, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Jacques Nolot, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Christian Milia-Darmezin France 2011, digital video, color, 97 min. French with English subtitles Ameur-Zaïmeche takes an unexpected turn into period-film territory in his latest work, a film in praise of banditry. Louis Mandrin was a notorious mid-18th century France smuggler who became a folk hero for setting up thieves’ markets where stolen goods...
    03/03/12	Adhen - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Adhen - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 3, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Abel Jafri, Christian Milia-Darmezin France 2008, 35mm, color, 93 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles A portrait of contemporary French Arab masculinity, especially in relation to class and religion, Adhen takes place at a warehouse and truck yard in a desolate industrial zone. When the workers there begin to chafe at their low wages, their boss, known as Mao,...
    03/04/12	Back Home - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Harvard Film Archive Back Home - FILMMAKER IN PERSON Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 4, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Appearing in Person. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Meryem Serba, Abel Jafri France/Algeria 2006, 35mm, color, 100 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles The international success of Back Home confirmed the promise announced by Wesh Wesh. In that film, Ameur-Zaïmeche played an ex-con named Kamel, just back from two years of court-ordered exile in his native Algeria. In this quasi-prequel, the filmmaker also plays...
    03/04/12	Wesh Wesh Harvard Film Archive Wesh Wesh Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 4, 2012 Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Ahmed Hammoudi, Brahim Ameur-Zaïmeche France 2001, 35mm, color, 83 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles Ameur-Zaïmeche’s debut is a sterling example of the banlieue film that first emerged as an important genre in French cinema in the 1990s. (French for “suburb,” “banlieue” in this context refers to the Parisian working-class suburbs with largely...
    03/05/12	An Evening of Early Cinema Harvard Film Archive An Evening of Early Cinema Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 5, 2012 This program will include 16mm film prints I acquired from various sources since the early 1970’s. Most often my purchasing guide was early release dates – the earlier the better I kept telling myself – closer to the Big Bang! And then also films by Méliès as well as titles or descriptions that attracted my curiosity. Why early cinema? Early cinema was sometimes silly, crude, primitive, occasionally even wild, like the actions of an energetic impulsive child...
    03/09/12	The Turin Horse Harvard Film Archive The Turin Horse Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 9, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2011, 35mm, b/w, 146 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, The Turin Horse is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an...
    03/10/12	The Outsider Harvard Film Archive The Outsider Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With András Szabó, Jolan Fodor, Imre Donko Hungary 1979, 35mm, color, 122 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Assuming the freeform structure of naturalistic, independent American cinema of the same period, The Outsider imparts a mutual theme: the hard barter of individual – usually male – freedom for a “normal” life of work and family. Played by a musician of the same name, easy-going András...
    03/10/12	Damnation Harvard Film Archive Damnation Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 10, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Gábor Balogh, János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Hungary 1988, 35mm, b/w, 116 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Tarr made a dramatic stylistic and critical breakthrough with this brooding and visually striking study of desolation and betrayal set in small town Hungary and tracing the cruel love triangle that emerges between a taciturn loner, a nightclub singer and her smuggler husband. The first of five films to date...
    03/11/12	The Turin Horse Harvard Film Archive The Turin Horse Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 11, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2011, 35mm, b/w, 146 min. Hungarian with English subtitles Boldly proclaimed by Tarr to be his last film, The Turin Horse offers a masterful and melancholy summary of his unique visionary cinema. Embracing an extraordinary minimalism of story, setting and cast, The Turin Horse is structured around one week in the back-breaking lives of an...
    03/11/12	The Prefab People Harvard Film Archive The Prefab People Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 11, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With Róbert Koltai, Judit Pógany, Gábor Koltai Hungary 1982, 35mm, b/w, 82 min. Hungarian with English subtitles In his first film using professional actors, Tarr perfects his documentary-style social dramas in this study of a marriage in permanent decomposition. A middle-class couple’s daily clashes range from the uncomfortable comedy of their ninth anniversary celebration – with his gifts of hairspray, a mug and a...
    03/12/12	Family Nest Harvard Film Archive Family Nest Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive March 12, 2012 Directed by Béla Tarr. With László Horvath, Lászlóné Horvath, Gábor Kun Hungary 1977, 35mm, b/w, 100 min. Hungarian with English subtitles “We can understand; we can’t help,” the social services employee intones to a desperate mother in an unnervingly realistic episode that encapsulates the cycle of grief and torment experienced by those trapped in Hungary’s housing shortage of the 1970s. Made when he...

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    11/28/11	The Wages of Fear Harvard Film Archive
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