Film


Pasolini Screens at HFA

Throughout September, the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) will screen “The Complete Pier Paolo Pasolini,” a series comprised of the thirteen features and five short films directed by one of the most controversial and important intellectuals of the twentieth century.


In Pasolini’s 1974 film, “Arabian Nights,” the Italian director highlights human sexuality with an explicit level of frankness and sincerity.


Making a Movie? The Final Clubs Welcome You.

As we understand it, you can't exactly stroll into any final club without being a member or guest. But Aaron Sorkin, the mastermind behind "The West Wing," "A Few Good Men," and now "The Social Network," got a lucky break.


Eduardo L. Saverin '05, Facebook co-founder who later sued Mark E. Zuckerberg '07.


The explorations of Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, pictured here in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in January, will be the subject of a biopic to be released in 2011.


Will Smith To Produce Biopic on Harvard Prof

The scholarly expeditions undertaken by modern-day explorer and Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter will be featured in a biopic produced by actor Will Smith.


Harvard, As 'The Social Network' Sees It

For those of you who couldn't get close enough to the film crews shooting on Holyoke St. last year, the new full-length trailer for The Social Network that was released today should provide the most thorough look yet into the highly anticipated film about the founding of Facebook and its Harvard roots.


Novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi speaks about his writing and filmmaking, in both French and Persian, in Fong auditorium yesterday. Rahimi is creative adviser to Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media group.


Cracks

In “Cracks,” a dark little tale directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful.


Funerals are no longer sacred affairs in “Death at a Funeral,” a new comedy directed by Neil LaBute. The film is a remake of a 2007 independent British film of the same name, and stars Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, and Luke Wilson as the attendees of a funeral which unravels before it even begins.


Leave the Resurrections to Christ: Kubrick’s Potential Disaster

“My husband,” Christiane Kubrick told The New York Times in 2006, “always had a drawerful of ideas. There were always a lot of stories on the go, things he left started, things he left lying around. It was like being in a waterfall.”


The Joneses

The film, graced with an original premise, a talented and well-cast group of actors, and a clever, well-paced script manages to be ironically funny, genuinely touching, and disturbing all at once.


Exit Through The Gift Shop

The documentary is a high-speed chase through the moon-lit streets of Los Angeles, guided by the amateur camerawork of the eccentric frenchman, Thierry Guetta.


The Secret in Their Eyes

The real mystery is how this movie ended up snatching any accolades at all, let alone the Oscar for Best Foreign Film earlier this year, and the Goya Prize last year—some of the highest in the industry.


Death at a Funeral

The movie lacks creativity at almost every turn. Many of the movie’s scenes are very close in content and construction to the British version, and the score is unoriginal and bland.


Brand and Hill Hit Boston Before 'Greek'

“‘Arthur’’s going to be out next year and it’s going to be a fantastic film,” Brand said. “I’m going to be nude a lot.”


Jet Li, Wu Yang, and Er Hu headline “The Warlords,” a Chinese film depicting the fraternal relationship between three unrelated generals. The film won Best Film and Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008.


‘The Losers’ Win Hearts and World War III

“I just tend to play smart-asses.”


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