The Arch

Sep 11, 2016 — On his seventy-sixth birthday, we’re celebrating the work of Hollywood enfant terrible Brian De Palma, whose iconoclastic five-decade career has encompassed an astonishing array of genres, including erotic thriller, war drama, and science fiction.

Jan 14, 2025 — There’s a Delphine Seyrig retrospective on in New York and another will open at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday.

Jun 22, 2020 — Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell are the directors of MS Slavic 7, which premiered at the Berlinale and was featured at the Harvard Film Archive. Bohdanowicz is a filmmaker based in Toronto, and her work has been exhibited at several...

Sep 7, 2017 — As part of a six-week retrospective of the work of Chantal Akerman, the Harvard Film Archive screens her most famous film in 35 mm.

Jan 11, 2017 — When the Academy Film Archive embarked on a new restoration of The Front Page, preservationists stumbled onto a mystery regarding the existing prints of the film.

Sep 22, 2016 — As part of a two-month series highlighting Yasujiro Ozu’s late-career work, the Pacific Film Archive is showing Equinox Flower, a family drama about a conservative father and his rebellious daughter, who refuses to accept his plans for her arranged marriage.

Mar 5, 2009 — Starting this Sunday, March 8, the Harvard Film Archive will devote a week of programming to the groundbreaking work of Agnès Varda with the series Ciné-Varda. The “grandmother of the New Wave” will appear in person at a handful of...

Dec 7, 2008 — Fitting as a monument to such a long, influential, multimedia career, the publisher Taschen has released the mammoth The Ingmar Bergman Archives, a 592-page, fifteen-pound chronicle of the Swedish filmmaker’s career in film, theater, and television (“Just don’t pick up...

The actor praises the Dardenne brothers compassionate approach to filmmaking, talks about Michael Haneke’s use of long takes in Code Unknown, and gets excited to explore The Wes Anderson Archive.

Maggie Lee is a curator of Asian cinema and chief Asia film critic for Variety. She has contributed as English editor and translator to the Hong Kong Film Archive’s publications, including The Swordsman and His Jiang Hu: Tsui Hark and...