alr

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Screening on Film
Directed by Woody Allen.
With Martin Landau, Angelica Huston, Jerry Orbach.
US, 1989, 35mm, color, 107 min.

This comic drama tackles modern questions of morality as a brilliant ensemble cast portrays the familiar world of Allen’s rich and troubled upper-class New York intelligentsia. A prominent ophthalmologist (Landau) resorts to underworld solutions to deal with a troublesome mistress, while a committed documentary filmmaker (Allen) wrestles with the moral dimensions of the medium in a satirical subplot. Allen restages an almost scene-by-scene sequence from Wild Strawberries here—oddly, one of the few Bergman masterpieces that Sven Nykvist did not photograph.

Part of film series

Read more

In the Company of Light:
Sven Nykvist

Other film series with this film

Read more

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Directors A–D

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

Read more

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

Read more

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

Read more
a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

Wings of a Serf

Read more
a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Read more
Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

Carol for Another Christmas

Read more

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy