Monday | December 17, 2001 7:00 pm

Tuesday | December 18, 2001 7:00 pm

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Screening on Film

Directed by Roy Rowland.
With Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig, Peter Lind Hayes.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 88 min.

Dr. Seuss wrote and Stanley Kramer produced what can only be referred to as the most surreal children’s fantasy film ever conceived. Bart Collins’s overbearing, prissy, and vaguely foreign piano teacher forces his 500 pupils to play his dreary piano exercises on a continuous keyboard located in his monstrous palace, while Bart’s mother is hypnotized and locked in a gilded cage. Dreamlike and imaginative, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T can be read as both an aesthetic form of delirium and as a fascinating expression of cold-war hysteria in America.

November 5 – December 18, 2001

Adventures in Surrealism

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

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

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