Monday | November 21, 2005 9:00 pm

Paths of Glory

Screening on Film

Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
With Kirk Douglas, Adolph Mejou, George Macready.
US, 1957, 35mm, black & white, 87 min.
English and German with English subtitles.

During World War I, a French general (Macready) orders his men on a suicidal charge; when they fail, he picks three of them to be tried and executed for cowardice. An extraordinarily effective film showing the insanity of war, Paths of Glory is more genuinely pacifist than either Saving Private Ryan or The Thin Red Line. The screenplay is written by Kubrick with two of his favorite novelists, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

June 5–19, 1999

Stanley Kubrick – An HFA Memorial Tribute

July 16–21, 2001

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Directors K–N

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

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

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

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

November 23

Wings of a Serf

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

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

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

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy