Tuesday | October 3, 2006 9:00 pm

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Screening on Film

Directed by F. W. Murnau.
With George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingstone.
US, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 91 min.

The great German director F.W. Murnau handpicked Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature. A masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, Sunrise tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention. The relatively simple story revolves around a hard-working farmer (O’Brien) torn between devotion to his virtuous wife (Gaynor) and desire for a seductive vamp from the city (Livingstone).

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