Tuesday | September 26, 2006 9:00 pm

King of Chinatown

Screening on Film

Directed by Nick Grinde.
With Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn.
US, 1939, 16mm, black & white, 60 min.
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This gangster film is also a tribute to Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung, the first American-born Chinese female physician and founder of the first clinic in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Based on Chung, Wong’s character is a surgeon who saves a mobster’s life.

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Hollywood on Parade

Directed by Lewis Lewyn.
With Anna May Wong, Eddie Kane.
1933, 35mm, black & white, 20 min.
Print source: Library of Congress

Wong recites a Chinese poem in this revue-style short.

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas