Thursday | July 1, 1999 7:00 pm

The Falls

Screening on Film

Directed by Peter Greenaway.
UK, 1980, 35mm, color and b&w, 185 min.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s rarely seen first feature is a brilliant, Nabokov-like synthesis of narrative and experimental techniques. Greenaway is monumentally ambitious: ninety-two characters, all of whose surnames begin with Fall, are among the nineteen million victims of a catastrophe called "the Violent Unknown Event."

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 16–23

Hamaguchi Ryusuke, The World as Stage

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

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 4

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection