Sunday | October 8, 2006 8:45 pm

The Thief of Bagdad

Screening on Film

Directed by Raoul Walsh.
With Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston.
US, 1924, 35mm, black & white, silent, 140 min.

Fairbanks, who wrote, produced, and starred in this lavish, action-packed Arabian Nights-inspired epic, was so impressed by The Toll of the Sea that he cast Wong as a double-crossing “Mongol Slave.” She delivered a sultry, scene-stealing performance that launched her to stardom.

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

February 1–March 10, 2013

Action! Action! Action!
A Raoul Walsh Retrospective

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas