https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/say-it-loud-the-black-cinema-revolution
At the beginning of the book based on his incendiary film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles quotes a traditional medieval prologue: “Sire,...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/coconut-head-generation-2026-02
As modestly radical as the people it follows, Kassanda’s feature begins at the “Thursday Film Series,” a cinema club held by students at the University of...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-yugoslav-junction-continues
After nine screenings last fall, The Yugoslav Junction returns to the HFA this spring with a double bill. Resuming our exploration of Yugoslav film in its...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/blow-up-2026-01
The first European art film to enjoy mass popularity, Antonioni’s mod London romp/metaphysical conundrum exploded commercially and...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-lady-and-the-typewriter
As women came into the workforce in the early twentieth century, the image of the working woman entered the cultural imagination. In Hollywood, she was often...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/lavventura-2026-02
The first in Antonioni’s breakthrough film trilogy, L’avventura proved an “adventure” from its rough, perilous...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/from-the-collection-bob-hoskins
This Good Friday, English “tough guy” extraordinaire Bob Hoskins stars and startles in a double bill highlighting two of the actor’s many sides. As choleric...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/life-line-aka-placenta-2026-03
Celebrated for his richly diverse body of work as an actor, Hah Myung Joong also stands out as a visionary Korean filmmaker whose projects are marked by an...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/columbia-101-the-rarities
To celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures, the 2024 Locarno Film Festival organized a revelatory retrospective curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht titled The...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/the-hudsucker-proxy-2026-03
With a typewriter clacking at her fingertips, a phone cradled against her shoulder, a cigarette dangling from her lips and a Transatlantic accent as sharp as...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/wang-bings-youth-trilogy
More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/partner-2026-02
Bertolucci relied more on improvisation and real-life inspiration from the ongoing student protests than his screenplay—on paper, an adaptation of The Double...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/planet-at-50
Only superstars are recognizable by a single name, and “Planet” is one of them. This special series celebrates the monumental contributions...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/every-night-dreams-2025-10
The subject of parents struggling to make ends meet while raising a child was returned to often by Naruse in his silent period, but rarely did he cover the...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/womens-prison-2025-12
Half of film noir’s iconic femme fatales—Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter—are packed into the cells of this...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/tarr-krasznahorkai
In celebration of László Krasznahorkai, awardee of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Harvard Film Archive offers four of the writer’s undertakings with...
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https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/myra-breckinridge-2025-12
“I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.” Thus opens Gore Vidal’s provocative, irreverent, satirical novel about...
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