Friday | June 18, 1999 7:00 pm

The Eden Myth

Mark Editz and Producer Jerry Kolber in Person at 7pm show
Screening on Film

Directed by Mark Editz.
With Julia Dion, Justin Kirk, Zohra Lampert.
US, 1999, 35mm, color, 82 min.

The American hit of the recent Rotterdam Film Festival, first-time filmmaker Mark Editz tells a modern-day almost-horror story in the most disarmingly straightforward, matter-of-fact way (think pre-stoning in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery). A family reunion of pale, phlegmatic types (why does a son agree so readily to his dad’s choice of an appropriate bride?) climaxes with revelations which remind of H.G. Wells’ evil Dr. Moreau. We can’t tell you more.

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