Wednesday | November 9, 2005 7:00 pm

The Belly of an Architect

Screening on Film

Directed by Peter Greenaway.
With Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson.
UK, 1987, 35mm, color, 118 min.

This visually stunning work chronicles the self-destructive decline of an American architect, in Rome to mount an exhibition on the eighteenth century architect Etienne-Louis Boulèe. An obsession with his stomach causes him to lose his wife, his creativity, and perhaps even his sanity. Extravagant in detail and color, the film—in true Greenaway form—is packed with art and architectural references, obsessions and omens, and exquisite traces of life and death.

September 28 – December 14, 2005

Imagining the City

November 2–December 14, 1999

Film Architectures

November 7–December 12, 2000

Film Architectures

November 6–December 11, 2001

Film Architectures

December 2–9, 2003

Film Architectures / The Moving Image

December 1–14, 2004

Film Architectures

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 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

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

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco