Friday | November 11, 2005 7:00 pm

The Big Parade

Live piano accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

Directed by King Vidor.
With John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth.
US, 1925, 35mm, black & white, silent, 118 min.

Vidor's stunning antiwar film is one of the classics of silent cinema.Containing realistic, remarkably staged battle sequences and moments of powerful drama, the film follows the enlistment and service of an American soldier (silent-screen great Gilbert) who fights in France in World War I. Though the film was made in the early years of American filmmaking, Vidor has a superior command of the medium, creating scenes that are not only brilliantly constructed but achingly intimate and disturbing.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

July 30–August 5, 2001

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Directors U–Z

June 26–August 15, 2004

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: A–Z

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

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