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Event Date as Display String:

Sunday, November 24, 2019, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/pharos-of-chaos-2019-11

Event Description:

Wolf-Eckart Bühler was at work on a different film about the
adventurous, seafaring Sterling Hayden (Der Havarist/The Shipwrecker)
when he finally tracked down the man in person to make this frank,
fascinating document. Bühler finds the semi-retired actor, war hero,
occasional writer and itinerant sailor whiling away his days —
frequently drunk or stoned — living on a barge in France. Bearing more
than a passing resemblance to his character in Altman's "The Long
Goodbye," the wild and weathered old man of the sea and out of time
enjoys quoting his favorite literature and telling anecdotes until
finally opening up about his alcoholism, his loneliness, his "creative
impotency," and his deepest shame: publicly naming names in Hollywood
during the Red Scare. Dismissing most of his acting career as
meaningless roles offered as a reward for his betrayal, he is proud of
only of a handful of films — "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) and "Dr.
Strangelove" (1964) among them. By the time Bühler catches up with
him, Hayden's dark and stormy life exists between paradise and the
"prison without bars" his tortured soul has become.

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Sunday, November 24, 2019 - 19:00 to 21:00

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