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Five Directors (Part I)

This series presents works by five influential directors from the second half of the twentieth century. February brings four films by Ingmar Bergman, plus Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. March, April, and May will bring more Ray followed by films by Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Robert Altman. All these directors broke new ground in making serious and compelling art of the fiction film. In their respective ways they invented new forms, explored new territory in human psychology, offered new political and cultural critiques, and made a strong case for reawakened spirituality as the desperate need of late twentieth-century humankind. To view the films in this series is to open ourselves to some of the deepest and most interesting crosscurrents of world cinema in the last forty years.

Current and upcoming film series

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Psychedelic Cinema

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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

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The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

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From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

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a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

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a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

Wings of a Serf

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a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

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

Carol for Another Christmas