The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow in-person)

Harvard Film Archive

For two decades she’s succeeded in a genre — the Action Movie — traditionally reserved for men. Her latest, The Hurst Locker, addresses a subject — the Iraq War — that’s undone many a film. So you know Kathryn Bigelow doesn’t back down from a challenge. She’s at the Harvard Film Archive to host a screening of The Hurt Locker; it’s part of the retrospective “Filmmaking at the Dark Edge of Exhilaration,” which began yesterday with her first feature, The Loveless (1982, starring Willem Dafoe), and will continue next weekend (July 10-13). Featured films include her vampire flick Near Dark (1987) and her underrated apocalyptic thriller Strange Days (1995). That’s in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | 7 pm | 617.495.4700 or //hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.

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