Tuesday | April 3, 2001 7:00 pm

Wednesday | April 4, 2001 7:00 pm

The Pillow Book

Screening on Film

Directed by Peter Greenaway.
With Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor.
France/UK/Netherlands, 1996, 35mm, color and b&w, 126 min.
Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Mandarin with English subtitles.

The controversial British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway deploys a broad arsenal of formal effects (varying screen widths, multiple imagery, textual inscription) to construct this complex story of a beautiful fashion model-turned-writer, who is obsessed with calligraphy and the flesh. Based on the classic tenth-century Japanese text by Sei Shonagon of the same title, radically transposed by Greenaway to modern day Japan and the information age, The Pillow Book melds a timeless erotics and a fascination with language that is at once erudite and libidinal into a dreamlike, startlingly beautiful, and sometimes shocking narrative.

March 6 – April 25, 2001

Frames of Mind

May 2–3, 2000

Mapping and Fashioning Space

March 5–April 24, 2002

Frames of Mind

March 2–April 14, 2004

Texture Analysis. Fashion and Film

March 1–April 26, 2005

Fashion and Film

March 7–April 25, 2006

Fashion and Film

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