Friday | July 2, 1999 7:00 pm

Lena's Dreams

Screening on Film

Directed by Heather Johnston and Gordon Eriksen.
With Marilyn Forte, Gary Perez, Susan Peirez.
US, 1998, 35mm, color, 85 min.

As the driven-to-distraction New York actress, Lena, Marilyn Forte delivers a stormy tour-de-force performance in the Cassavetes vein, with almost all the shooting in master shots, allowing Forte to go all out. The tryout scenes for this Cuban-American thespian are especially heartrending and on target, as she keeps being pushed toward demeaning roles as Latino spitfires and domestics.

PRECEDED BY

Go to Bed, Darling! He's Not Going to Call...

Directed by Ines Hofmann.
US, 1999, video, color, 10 min.

A clever conceptual short in which a young woman waits obsessively at a telephone for "him" to call her up. The filmmaker, from former East Germany, works at WGBH.

June 4 – July 31, 1999

The Cutting Edge

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Lena's Dreams

Go to Bed, Darling! He's Not Going to Call...