Saturday | October 16, 1999 7:00 pm

A Story of Floating Weeds
(Ukigusa Monogatari)

Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
With Takeshi Sakamoto, Choko Iida, Hideo Mitsui .
Japan, 1934, 16mm, black & white, silent, 89 min.

This moody, lyrical work is loosely based on an American silent called The Barker. Infinitely superior to its model, it is the story of the leader of a small group of traveling players who returns to a small town and meets his son, the product of a distant affair. Ozu transforms the slightly melodramatic tale into an atmospheric and intense drama. Celebrated Japanese film historian Donald Richie has called this film, "the first of those eight-reel universes in which everything takes on a consistency greater than life: in short, a work of art."

October 1 – 30, 1999

Ozu: Poet of the Everyday

April 2–May 11, 2004

Yasujiro Ozu.
A Centennial Celebration

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf