Saturday | October 11, 2003 9:15 pm

Lili Marleen

Screening on Film

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer.
West Germany, 1980, 35mm, color, 120 min.
German with English subtitles.

Following the success of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fassbinder created a controversial picture of life in Nazi Germany, focusing on another woman who is both participant in and victim of her times. Schygulla portrays the singer Lale Andersen, whose famous rendition of the song "Lili Marleen" became as popular with the besieged and dying troops of Germany as it did with those on the Soviet side. The story focuses on the unfulfilled love affair between the Nazi darling and a brilliant young Jewish-Swiss composer. This lush and incisive production both critiques and sympathizes with the state of mind of common people who are subject to powerful cultural forces.

October 3 – November 17, 2003

Fassbinder!

May 1–9, 2000

Film in the Third Reich:
The Power of Images and Illusions

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