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

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100