Wednesday | October 11, 2006 7:00 pm

The American Soldier
(Der amerikanische Soldat)

Screening on Film

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Margarethe von Trotta.
West Germany, 1970, 16mm, black & white, 80 min.
German with English subtitles.

A full-scale, mood-thick homage to the world of Humphrey Bogart and great American action directors like Raoul Walsh and Sam Fuller, Fassbinder’s film centers on a hired gunman named Ricky, a charismatic figure in a rakish hat and white suit. Recently returned from a Vietnamized America, Ricky carries out the murders he has been assigned with a startling lack of interest and emotion, all the while trying to reconnect with his old neighborhood and his family. The amazing final shoot-out is probably the most startling of Fassbinder’s patented off-beat endings.

September 27 – December 13, 2006

The New German Cinema and Beyond

September 25–October 30, 2000

New German Cinema: Alternative Visions and Utopian Designs

October 3–November 17, 2003

Fassbinder!

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

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