Wednesday | November 15, 2006 9:00 pm

Small Town Girl

Screening on Film

Directed by William A. Wellman.
With Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes.
US, 1936, 35mm, black & white, 90 min.

For the first time in eight years under contract at Fox, Gaynor was loaned out to another studio (MGM) and attached to this project originally intended as a vehicle for Jean Harlow. Gaynor plays the title part of a sharp young woman stifled by the limits of provincial life. Rich brain surgeon (and charming lush!) Robert Taylor sweeps her away to Boston after a quickie marriage, but snobbish urban society is scandalized by the newlyweds’ spontaneous union. Based on a serialized novel by Ben Ames Williams, and reputedly doctored by a passel of scriptwriters, Small Town Girl was directed with wit and intelligence by William Wellman.

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