Monday | March 29, 2004 7:00 pm

Dancer in the Dark

Screening on Film

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse.
Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/US/UK/ France/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Norway, 2000, 35mm, color, 140 min.

Selma, the third of von Trier’s “good women,” is a factory worker with deteriorating eyesight struggling to earn enough money to pay for an eye operation for her son. After a tragic turn of events, her fate is irrevocably altered. Recalling the Hollywood musicals of her youth, Selma drifts in and out of a fantasy world punctuated by alternately joyous and melancholy musical pieces (including a courtroom cameo by Broadway legend Joel Grey). After the exhaustive production, Icelandic songstress Björk vowed never to act on film again.

March 1 – 31, 2004

From Dogme to Dogville.
The Films of Lars von Trier

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 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

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