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Harvard made two joint hires of junior faculty in film studies this fall, appointing Assistant Professor J.D. Connor ’92, also a Crimson editor, to VES and the English and American language and literature department, and Assistant Professor Despina Kakoudaki, who is on leave until the coming fall, to VES and the literature department...
...It’s a great hire because Rodowick both has a specialty but also has the ability to teach a wide array of courses from that,” Connor said...
...could grow the faculty by leaps and bounds around Rodowick” without making him obsolete or marginalizing him, Connor added...
...Ozu’s decision to stay silent after many of his colleagues had transferred over to sound technology, Connor explains that there are two kinds of directors: “One, those who say, ‘Here comes this technology, I’ve got to use it and master it immediately,’ and two, those who say, ‘I want to wait for it to be right...
...Ozu’s films, his most famous is Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari), a film about the ungrateful and indifferent children of an elderly couple who, close to death, go to visit their children in the city. Connor asked his students to watch the film and says that the beauty of the retrospective was that he could direct them to dozens more to watch on their own time...