Tuesday | November 22, 2005 9:00 pm

King and Country

Screening on Film

Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern.
UK, 1964, 35mm, black & white, 86 min.

Private Arthur Hamp (Courtenay), frustrated with three long years of trench warfare and shell-shocked after a particularly brutal attack, elects to walk home to England from the front. He is subsequently court-martialed; his assigned defender, Captain Hargreaves (Bogarde), slowly begins to understand the helplessness of Hamp and other enlisted men. Losey's characteristically subtle touches play on the "roles" assigned by the British class system (the film is a stage adaptation), employing a mildly Brechtian emphasis on theatrical artifice and reflexivity.

October 11 – November 29, 2005

In The Trenches: Filming World War I

August 1–11, 2008

The Complete Joseph Losey
Part Two

February 13–March 8, 2015

Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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 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

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy