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

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

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