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...Sabrina” are some of Billy Wilder’s most famous films as a writer and director. Yet none of these will be shown at the Harvard Film Archive’s upcoming “Major and Minor Notes: A Billy Wilder Centennial” series...
Twelve of Wilder’s feature films and one of his short pieces will be shown at the HFA in the evenings of the upcoming weeks. Ted Barron, senior programmer at the HFA, said “Wilder is one of the great writers of cinema of all time. We wanted to do something for the works that might have been considered minor but that we think are hidden jewels...
...Major and Minor Notes” will celebrate Wilder’s accomplishments as a screenwriter. Throughout his career Wilder wrote screenplays for over 70 films and directed close to 30. While most of the films in this series were also directed by Wilder, some, such as “Hold Back the Dawn,” were directed by outside directors working from his screenplays...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...jeans, leggings, or a skirt. They balance out your proportions. The more you wear on top, the less you have to wear on the bottom. How empowering! 2. Look for high-necked frilly blouses. These are very popular this season and will also make you look like Laura Ingalls Wilder, which is always a plus. 3. Relish how men love you for your mind or something like that. —Columnist Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...