Wednesday | April 25, 2007 9:00 pm

Shock Corridor

Screening on Film

Directed by Samuel Fuller.
With Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans.
US, 1963, 35mm, color, 101 min.
Print source: UCLA

An ambitious newspaper reporter attempts to infiltrate a psychiatric hospital and locate an elusive killer by convincing a psychiatrist to admit him as an inmate. Among the absurd characters populating the asylum is an African-American who thinks he is a member of the KKK. But, Fuller’s critique of American society is most eloquently voiced through the character of a disgraced Korean war veteran, brainwashed by Communists, who pleads for understanding.

April 25 – May 8, 2007

Alex de la Iglesia: Films and Inspirations

March 7–April 25, 2007

Poetic Horror, Pop Existentialism and Cheap Sci-Fi: Cold War Cinema 1948–1964

June 19–August 30, 2015

The Complete Samuel Fuller

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