Sunday | December 9, 2007 9:00 pm

Endless Desire
(Hateshi naki yokubo)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
With Hiroyuki Nagato, Sanea Nakahara, Ko Nishimura.
Japan, 1958, 35mm, color, 100 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

On the tenth anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, a motley group of five gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. Imamura initiates a grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships, prefiguring similar entanglements to come in his later films.

December 1 – 14, 2007

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

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