{"id":30484,"date":"2019-01-27T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=30484"},"modified":"2019-01-27T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:40:49","slug":"films-jubilee-showing-at-harvard-film-archive-hfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/films-jubilee-showing-at-harvard-film-archive-hfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Films: Jubilee Showing at Harvard Film Archive (HFA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/events\/jubilee-fires-were-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/events\/jubilee-fires-were-started\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4927\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"jubilee12c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jubilee12c.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><em>Jubilee<\/em> is showing at the Harvard Film Archive, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,\u00a0tomorrow evening, in a double-feature with <em>Fires Were Started<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fires Were Started<\/em>, Humphrey Jennings\u2019 only feature film, is a docudrama centered around a real group of heroic firefighters as they extinguish the destructive blazes of war; Derek Jarman\u2019s <em>Jubilee<\/em> follows a group of nihilistic punks who love nothing more than to set anything ablaze. In both films the spirit and mettle of the directors\u2019 respective Britains are on display, and Jennings\u2019 heart-heavy optimism is starkly opposed by Jarman\u2019s bitterness. A mythic inferno opposes the British spirit, but may also be the only way to access it as it slips away, and both <em>Fires Were Started<\/em> and <em>Jubilee<\/em> explore this in contrasting but similar ensemble narratives.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading\/More info at <a href=\"https:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/events\/jubilee-fires-were-started\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harvard Library<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilee is showing at the Harvard Film Archive, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,\u00a0tomorrow evening, in a double-feature with Fires Were Started. Fires Were Started, Humphrey Jennings\u2019 only feature film, is a docudrama centered around a real group of heroic firefighters as they extinguish the destructive blazes of war; Derek Jarman\u2019s Jubilee follows a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[171,2066,2067],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30487,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484\/revisions\/30487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}