Friday | October 15, 1999 8:30 pm

Sunday | October 17, 1999 8:30 pm

Early Summer
(Bakushu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
With Chikage Auajima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu.
Japan, 1951, 35mm, black & white, 135 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.

This extraordinary film about the lives of ordinary people focuses on a young woman who rebels against the wishes of her family by choosing her husband herself. Through small stories and smaller moments Ozu meticulously observes the lives of some nineteen characters, transcending the boundaries of the film’s simple plot, creating an elliptical narrative. This is a film driven forward not by its plot but rather by the director’s unique use of space and time and by the constantly changing rhythm of the action.

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