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.

PRECEDED BY

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

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960