Wednesday | March 3, 2004 9:15 pm

Tuesday | March 9, 2004 9:15 pm

Medea

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Udo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen.
Denmark, 1988, color, 76 min.
Danish with English subtitles.

Fifteen years ago, von Trier made a television adaptation of an unfilmed screenplay by one of the cinema’s greatest figures, Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer. Medea is a stark, compelling rendition of the classical Greek tragedy transposed to a pagan Danish setting. Aside from two brief, delirious blue-screen video epiphanies, von Trier subordinates his baroque, stylized signature to the simplicity and purity of Dreyer’s conception. The resulting tension and narrative economy confirm von Trier’s status as a master of visual design.

March 1 – 31, 2004

From Dogme to Dogville.
The Films of Lars von Trier

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 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco