Friday | June 4, 1999 7:00 pm

Friday | June 4, 1999 9:00 pm

Sunday | June 6, 1999 9:00 pm

The Dress
(De jurk)

Screening on Film

Directed by Alex van Warmerdam.
With Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Ariane Schluter.
Holland, 1997, 35mm, color, 103 min.
Dutch with English subtitles.

It’s the old movie conceit of some object passed hand to hand, with a focus on each person who touches it. Here it’s a simple summer dress, which we see from the cotton fields, through production, through a series of random owners. But the stories about the dress are extremely weird, and the film bounces from genre to genre (dry comedy, thriller, neorealism), and with some scenes which simpy defy genre. Creepy and exhilarating, droll and daffy, The Dress shows Americans why filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, undiscovered here, has become a cult favorite across Europe.

June 4 – July 31, 1999

The Cutting Edge

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