Anne Bancroft

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Darkness visible

The HFA’s ‘Unseen Noir’ unveils America’s post-war gloom
Welcome to the dark territories again, the republic of bitterness and bile known as noir.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | May 19, 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

Alan Alda talks to us about his new memoir and what it means to live a successful life
There’s a scene in Alan Alda’s new memoir that’s hard to forget: Hawkeye, age eleven, shooting terminally ill rabbits to a bloody, dusty death.
By JENNY HALPER | September 07, 2007

Glee and venom

Lacerating Harold Pinter at the Harvard Film Archive
Of the great modernist playwrights, Harold Pinter has had the most intimate relationship with film.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | May 08, 2007

Witness to moviemaking

Rare film noir at the Brattle
The Brattle’s “Rare Film Noir” festival spotlights what makes the experience of going to movie revivals irreplaceable.
By STEVE VINEBERG | July 14, 2006

The Simpsons 20 best guest voices of all time

Will Gervais join them?
The TV gods are smiling upon us.
By RYAN STEWART | March 29, 2006

The ultimate TEACHER movie

Movies . . . one profession at a time
Here’s the thing about teacher movies: they’re all the same.
By RYAN STEWART | March 28, 2006

Gimme shelter

Ann Randolph’s Squeeze Box
A rambling, sentimental memoir in which Ann, a young woman who works with alcoholics and schizophrenics at a shelter and feels her life is at a standstill, comes to accept that the work she’s doing is worthwhile and defines her.
By STEVE VINEBERG | January 17, 2006

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