Sunday | October 1, 2006 9:00 pm

Street Angel

Screening on Film

Directed by Frank Borzage.
US, 1928, 35mm, black & white, silent, 99 min.
With music track.

Fox swiftly reunited Borzage with Gaynor and Farrell in a bid to repeat the popular and critical acclaim of 7th Heaven. Even more mystical and visually ravishing than its predecessor, this stylized studio melodrama rings a few variations on Borzage’s patented romantic formula. Gaynor stars in the title role as an impoverished Neapolitan waif running from the law who finds refuge in the arms of Farrell’s vagabond painter. The least-known of the three films for which Gaynor garnered her Oscar, Street Angel was adapted from a novel by Monckton Hoffe and incorporates authentic details into an expressionistic backlot design surely influenced by the émigré genius Murnau.

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