Friday | October 15, 1999 8:30 pm

Sunday | October 17, 1999 8:30 pm

Early Summer
(Bakushu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
With Chikage Auajima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu.
Japan, 1951, 35mm, black & white, 135 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.

This extraordinary film about the lives of ordinary people focuses on a young woman who rebels against the wishes of her family by choosing her husband herself. Through small stories and smaller moments Ozu meticulously observes the lives of some nineteen characters, transcending the boundaries of the film’s simple plot, creating an elliptical narrative. This is a film driven forward not by its plot but rather by the director’s unique use of space and time and by the constantly changing rhythm of the action.

October 1 – 30, 1999

Ozu: Poet of the Everyday

April 2–May 11, 2004

Yasujiro Ozu.
A Centennial Celebration

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue