Friday | September 24, 2004 9:00 pm

Sunday | September 26, 2004 9:30 pm

America is Hard to See

Screening on Film

Directed by Emile de Antonio.
US, 1968, black & white, 101 min.

Although he was suspicious of most political figures, both Democrat and Republican, de Antonio felt compelled to make a film about Senator Eugene McCarthy and his bid for the presidency in 1968. Drawing its title from a Robert Frost poem, the film combines footage of the anti-war movement which mobilized around the Minnesota Senator, the Democratic Convention in Chicago and countless campaign stops across the country. Although McCarthy did not win the nomination, the film documents the senator’s pivotal role in what was arguably the most volatile presidential election in U.S. history.

September 10 – October 2, 2004

Cold War Chronicles. The Films of Emile de Antonio

June 27–30, 2008

Emile de Antonio’s America

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy