Friday | September 29, 2006 7:00 pm

Piccadilly

Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film
Recently Restored

Directed by E. A. Dupont.
With Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Charles Laughton.
US, 1929, 35mm, black & white, silent, 108 min.

In her most famous performance, Wong is a scullery maid turned nightclub performer who steals the screen—and the leading man—from her rival (Gray). “She shimmers and so does this newly restored, alternately blue- and amber-tinted print,” writes critic J. Hoberman

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas