Saturday | June 2, 2018 7:00 pm

Sunday | June 3, 2018 4:30 pm

White Nights
(Le notti bianche)

Screening on Film

Directed by Luchino Visconti.
With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais.
Italy/France, 1957, 35mm, black & white, 102 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

A cinematic gem, White Nights is an essential formal exercise leading up to the titanic Rocco and his Brothers. Set in a winter Venice, far from the hustle and bustle of the city’s summer months, the film follows the nocturnal wanderings and romantic pursuits of a loner played by Marcello Mastroianni (who received his start with Visconti in theater). Visconti lends a fluid editing style that blends memory and reality to craft the relationship of the film’s principle love triangle, an amorous geometry that proves to be a consistent theme in Visconti’s body of work.

June 1 – July 15, 2018

Luchino Visconti, Architect of Neorealism

January 6–17, 2006

The Film Experience: Existentialist Adaptations

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

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Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

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Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

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Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

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The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

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The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

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Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco