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This is not a coincidence. Harvard Film Archive’s (HFA) series, running Dec. 9 through 17, celebrates Wilder??s oeuvre by showing his lesser-known films, many of which are unavailable on video...
Twelve of Wilder??s feature films and one of his short pieces will be shown at the HFA in the evenings of the upcoming weeks. Ted Barron, senior programmer at the HFA, said “Wilder is one of the great writers of cinema of all time. We wanted to do something for the works that might have been considered minor but that we think are hidden jewels...
...Major and Minor Notes” will celebrate Wilder??s accomplishments as a screenwriter. Throughout his career Wilder wrote screenplays for over 70 films and directed close to 30. While most of the films in this series were also directed by Wilder, some, such as “Hold Back the Dawn,” were directed by outside directors working from his screenplays...
...Much of Wilder??s family was killed in the Holocaust—this had a profound influence upon his work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World War II within the verbal skirmishes between two military officers. “Here Wilder addresses the issue of the German camps of genocide, but it is done in a very comic way,” says Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures...
Pieces like this are the jewels of the HFA’s collection. Barron pointed out that Wilder??s better-known films such as “The Apartment” or “Sunset Boulevard” are frequently shown in art theatres around the country, but most audiences have no opportunity to see his more obscure films. The Wilder Centennial seeks to expose viewers to Wilder films that they’ve never seen before...