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Alexander Mackendrick's sweet smell of skill

Alexander Mackendrick at the HFA
Alexander Mackendrick, who's the subject of a tribute at the Harvard Film Archive this weekend, is a somewhat mysterious figure in movie history.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 06, 2009

Review: John Boorman: Primeval Screen

The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman
The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman

By: STEVE VINEBERG | November 18, 2008

Carole Lombard: No Dumb Blonde

Carole Lombard’s nine years of stardom
Carole Lombard rose to stardom in 1934 and was dead by 1942, killed in a plane crash on her way back from selling war bonds; her last picture, Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not To Be , was released posthumously.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | October 08, 2008

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor
Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | October 01, 2008

Buffalo’d Bard

This West doesn’t win the East
It’s nifty that Boston has snagged the world premiere of Richard Nelson’s new play, How Shakespeare Won the West , which opens the season at the Huntington.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | September 17, 2008

When men were men

Sam Peckinpah at the Harvard Film Archive
Since Sam Peckinpah’s untimely death at the age of 59, he has acquired such legendary status that it’s startling to remember that he made only 14 films over a period of 22 years.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | September 03, 2008

The awful truth

Leo McCarey was better in the ’30s
Among the signal directors of 1930s comedies — one thinks of Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and George Cukor — Leo McCarey’s name has been largely forgotten.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 02, 2008

American original

Arthur Penn at the Harvard Film Archive
During the great American renaissance period in movies, Hollywood was in the hands of the counterculture.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 29, 2008

The Summer with Monika

Sensual rebellion
Harriet Andersson is the title character in this 1953 film, a teenager who combines a scruffy working-class sensuality with a slightly preposterous romanticism derived from Hollywood movies.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 16, 2008

Wild boys and girls

‘Vice vs. Virtue’ at Harvard
The series includes some of the liveliest and most adult entertainment in the history of the movie industry.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 15, 2008

Wild things

Lamorisse’s White Mane and Red Balloon
There is no more-enchanting Thanksgiving outing than the double bill of reissued Albert Lamorisse short films.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | November 19, 2007

Teen spirit

The Corn Is Green at Williamstown; Romeo and Juliet at the Publick
The Williamstown Theatre Festival revival of Emlyn Williams’s The Corn Is Green marks the first time this play has been trotted out in years.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | August 07, 2007

An Italian feast

‘Signore + Signore’ isn’t just about the ladies
A group of performers — especially one unified by gender and culture — is an unconventional focus for a film series.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | August 07, 2007

Ingmar Bergman

1918–2007
Ingmar Bergman, who died Sunday, was one of the last of the great world filmmakers who came to fame around the mid century and changed the face of movies.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | July 31, 2007

Counting Sheep

Charles Burnett at the MFA
Lyrical, contemplative, with a clear disdain for mainstream Hollywood, the African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett has cobbled out an unorthodox career.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 05, 2007

Québec libre

Michel Brault and Claude Jutra at the HFA
The rise of the Quebec movie industry coincided with the awakening of French-Canadian cultural and political consciousness in the late ’60s.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | March 20, 2007

Cross-purposes

ART’s Oliver Twist , the New Rep’s Orson’s Shadow
Oliver Twist gets the Brecht treatment in Neil Bartlett’s new adaptation at American Repertory Theatre.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | March 01, 2007

The Russians are coming

Cold War cinema at the HFA
With one exception, the eight movies in the nifty “Cold War Cinema” series at the Harvard Film Archive are popular entertainments that treat the politics and sociology of the era in a variety of ways.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 30, 2007

Major and minor Billy

The HFA celebrates Wilder’s centennial
Billy Wilder’s expansive career began in Germany at the end of the ’20s, continued briefly in Paris when he fled Hitler in 1933, and picked up in Hollywood the following year.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | December 07, 2006

Robert Altman

1925 – 2006
There’s a scene in Robert Altman’s Vincent & Theo where Sien (Jip Wijngaarden), the prostitute who lives with Van Gogh (Tim Roth) and poses for him, takes a break from an arduous modeling session.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | November 27, 2006

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