Wednesday | October 25, 2006 7:00 pm

Aguirre, The Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)

Screening on Film

Directed by Werner Herzog.
With Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro.
West Germany, 1972, 35mm, color, 95 min.
German with English subtitles.

Filming in South America, Herzog recreated the exploits of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Aguirre (Kinski), who with his retinue searched for El Dorado over mountains, through jungles, and down a great river. The film is at once documentary-like and deliriously lyrical: although it identifies with Aguirre's obsessed and unbalanced state of mind, it keeps a critical and ironic distance from the whole adventure. Kinski's performance in the title role is nothing short of phenomenal.

September 27 – December 13, 2006

The New German Cinema and Beyond

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

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil