Director Ozu Yasujiro's noir and gangster films reveal his own creative way of bending the rules, usually with an act of penance added to the final act. Based on an original story by Shimizu Hiroshi, Walk Cheerfully follows Takada Minoru’s gangster Kenji (a.k.a. Ken the Knife), whose feelings for office typist Yasue (Kawasaki Hiroko) inspire him to go straight. As Kenji tries to find another line of work and win over Yasue, his girlfriend Chieko (Date Satoko) retaliates with a scheme involving Yasue’s boss (Sakamoto Takeshi).
Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Dale Stinchcomb for a 30-minute guided tour of the Royal Chicano Air Force posters currently on display in Houghton's lobby gallery. This will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.
Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Peter X. Accardo for a special guided tour of Sentences: Prison Writing through the Ages. This 45-minute tour will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.
Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Peter X. Accardo for a special guided tour of Sentences: Prison Writing through the Ages. This 45-minute tour will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.
Repeats every week every Friday until Fri Aug 25 2023 .
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Join us for an introduction to Houghton Library, Harvard’s primary rare book and manuscript library. The tour includes visits to our exhibition spaces and display rooms dedicated to the English writer Samuel Johnson and his circle, Romantic poet John Keats, American poets Emily Dickinson and Amy Lowell, as well as the library of Harvard collector William King Richardson. A history of the building and an overview of services available to library patrons will also be provided.
Conservator Penley Knipe and curator Miriam Stewart will lead an in-depth look at the materials and techniques used to create the varied works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Learn about watercolor cakes, papers, and techniques, such as "wet-into-wet," "resist," and "scraping."
Join curator Joachim Homann for an in-depth discussion about works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Homann will share insights about the making of the exhibition, which seeks to inspire conversations and enrich today’s practitioners of watercolor.
Ozu’s earliest surviving film exhibits the young filmmaker’s dexterous integration of Hollywood influences into contemporary popular genres. Live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
Director Ozu Yasujiro's film drew significant praise and went on to win Kinema Junpo’s prestigiousfirst prize. It is because of the film’s harsh lesson about humor as a necessary means of survival that its jokes are so profound. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
Director Ozu Yasujiro's canonized film is also one of his most profoundly moving and mystical: a meditation on the distance between generations and the loss of intimacy amongst a family pulled apart by selfish habit. Showing on a new 35mm print!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
