Monday | November 20, 2000 9:00 pm

The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Die Ehe der Maria Braun)

Screening on Film

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny.
West Germany, 1978, 35mm, color, 120 min.
German with English subtitles.

A parable of post–World War II Germany, Fassbinder’s film recounts the transformation of an impoverished war bride (Schygulla) into a mercenary business woman. Best known of Fassbinder’s trilogy of historical films about the Federal Republic’s "economic miracle" of the 1950s and one of the major productions of the New German Cinema, The Marriage of Maria Braun is equally a melodrama of the highest order—Fassbinder’s successful realization of his desire to create for Germany the equivalent of a classic Hollywood movie.

November 1 – December 12, 2000

New German Cinema: Alternative Visions and Utopian Designs

September 25–October 24, 1999

Hanne Darboven & Film

October 3–November 17, 2003

Fassbinder!

September 27–December 13, 2006

The New German Cinema and Beyond

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