Tuesday | November 22, 2005 9:00 pm

King and Country

Screening on Film

Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern.
UK, 1964, 35mm, black & white, 86 min.

Private Arthur Hamp (Courtenay), frustrated with three long years of trench warfare and shell-shocked after a particularly brutal attack, elects to walk home to England from the front. He is subsequently court-martialed; his assigned defender, Captain Hargreaves (Bogarde), slowly begins to understand the helplessness of Hamp and other enlisted men. Losey's characteristically subtle touches play on the "roles" assigned by the British class system (the film is a stage adaptation), employing a mildly Brechtian emphasis on theatrical artifice and reflexivity.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

August 1–11, 2008

The Complete Joseph Losey
Part Two

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

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