Friday | March 26, 2004 9:00 pm

Sunday | March 28, 2004 7:00 pm

Breaking the Waves

Screening on Film

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge.
Denmark/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Norway, 1996, 35mm, color, 159 min.

In a remote northern Scottish village in the early 1970s, Bess (Watson), a young and trusting girl who is “not quite right in the head,” meets resistance from her close-knit community for her decision to marry a North-Sea oil-rig worker. A heart-wrenching study of faith, innocence, cruelty, and the crushing mores of religion, Breaking the Waves received the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and launched the career of Emily Watson, who delivers an extraordinary debut performance.

March 1 – 31, 2004

From Dogme to Dogville.
The Films of Lars von Trier

August 2–10, 2002

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Actors U–Z

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco