Tuesday | December 21, 1999 9:00 pm

Monday | December 27, 1999 8:00 pm

The Seventh Seal
(Det Sjunde Inseglet)

Screening on Film

Directed by Ingmar Bergman.
With Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson.
Sweden, 1957, 35mm, black & white, 95 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.

Bergman’s classic film is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning in life. A knight, returning home from the Crusades, plays a game of chess with Death while the plague ravages medieval Europe. An exceptionally powerful film, The Seventh Seal is a work of awesome scope, which remains a textbook to the craft of filmmaking.

PRECEDED BY

Odilon Redon

Directed by Guy Maddin.
Canada, 1995, 16mm, black & white, 5 min.

December 14 – 29, 1999

Farewell 20th Century

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