Special Award: Brattle Theater, on its 100th anniversary, «
for maintaining the tradition of revival film programming in the Boston area and
for its commitment to quality prints and projection» (the Globe's language, not necessarily the BSFC's) Special Award: The Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation and Friends in Support of the Somerville Theater, «
for their efforts to preserve historic theaters as sites
for alternative film programming» (ditto) Best Discovery or Rediscovery: The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle (Temple), The
Dybbuk (Waszynski), Coonskin (Bakshi), restored Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Carnival of Souls (Hervey) Best Film Series: The West Rides Again (Museum of Fine Arts), The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (MFA), The Boston Jewish Film Festival (MFA), The Films of Anna Magnani (MFA), and The Films of John Cassavetes (Harvard Film Archive)
What makes them uniquely hers is the filter they passed through; the panic of a childhood trapped in abuse; the guilt of an upstairs - downstairs housewife - artist as anxious to turn out the perfect roast
for her sons as to get down to the plaster in her studio below; the ambiguity of a hostess entertaining a haloed intelligentsia who was first savaged, then immortalised by the
dybbuk that invaded her body and ultimately her materials.