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...early April, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) screened the first film in a lengthy retrospective of Ozu’s work, which continues through to the beginning of next month, concluding on May 11 with Ozu’s final work, An Autumn Afternoon. The comprehensive retrospective, dubbed “Yasujiro Ozu: A Centennial Celebration,” includes nearly all of Ozu’s work produced in a roughly 30-year period, including 11 of his early silent films...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival finishes up at the HFA, take a chance on this classic 1932 silent, a favorite of knowing Ozuphiles like director Wim Wenders, writer Phillip Lopate and movie critic Donald Richie. Like much Ozu, this film deals with the interplay within a family: raised in the suburbs, kids are bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival at the HFA continues with this 1941 classic look at a once-powerful families’ decline, in the mold of The Magnificent Ambersons. After the Toda’s father suddenly dies, the children are left with no option but to sell their once opulent villa in order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying...
...standing before an audience at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on Sunday, Green seems much less interested in these measures of institutional favor than he is with the reactions he’s getting from the students who have just seen his first feature film. On Monday, he stopped by Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 51a, “Fundamentals of Video,” to show his film and speak with a handful of film students about the Sundance-premiered film on militant radicals in the 1960s and 1970s...
...wounds explored by The Weather Underground are still far from healing—a fact made clear by the scattered hisses that greeted figures from Richard Nixon to Todd Gitlin, a more moderate figure from the anti-war movement of the 1960s, as they appeared on screen at the HFA...