Tuesday | November 2, 1999 6:30 pm

The Naked City

Screening on Film

Directed by Jules Dassin.
With Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Howard Duff.
US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 96 min.

While this highly influential neorealist thriller, shot on location in New York’s teeming streets, claimed to be giving an impression of city life, its real mission was to tell an ordinary murder tale through an accumulation of detail and humor. The narrator’s last words have become a widely quoted urban cliché: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."

November 2 – December 14, 1999

Film Architectures

October 4–24, 2001

A Dynamic Duo: Jules Dassin and Melina Mercouri

September 14–November 30, 2004

Film Architectures

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