Monday | April 3, 2000 9:00 pm

The False Step
(Der Schritt vom Wege)

Screening on Film

Directed by Gustaf Gründgens.
With Marianne Hoppe, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Paul Hartman.
Germany, 1939, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
German with English subtitles.

Theodore Fontane’s tale of a woman who forsakes respectability and obligation in the name of personal happiness, famously remade by Fassbinder in the 1970s, indicts the strict codes of an unbending Prussian order. The film represented a challenge for Nazi observers since party logic dictated that the tragic figure must be the betrayed officer-husband; but Marianne Hoppe’s performance as Effi was so engagingly sympathetic one had no problem understanding why she had strayed.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

Films in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions Screenings

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