Thursday | July 8, 1999 7:00 pm

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Screening on Film

Directed by Guy Maddin.
With Kyle McCulloch, Margaret Anne McLeod.
Canada, 1988, 35mm, black & white, 72 min.

A major hit on the midnight circuit in New York, Guy Maddin’s magnificently hallucinatory comedy, saturated by the excesses of 1920s German expressionism, never played theatrically in sedate Boston. Yes, it’s as indescribable as it is wonderful: unconsummated necrophilia sets the nightmare tone for the surreal Icelandic sagas shared by two patients confined during a smallpox epidemic in turn-of-the-century Manitoba.

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Gentle Giants

Directed by Bruce Weber.
US, 1995, 35mm, color and b&w, 15 min.

Newfoundland dogs, pre-Stonewall days in Greenwich Village, and the narrator’s passion for 1940s "B" movie actor Guy Madison.

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 16–23

Hamaguchi Ryusuke, The World as Stage

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 4

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection