SHERLOCK JR. / THE CAMERAMAN Live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. SHERLOCK JR. 1924, Douris Corp., 45 min, USA, Dir: Buster Keaton Buster Keaton’s sublime comedy about reality and illusion, in which projectionist Buster literally dreams himself into the detective movie he’s screening! A film with myriad … [Read more…]
STARRING THE MAGNIFICENT ANNA MAY WONG! “A ‘film noir’ before the term was in use, ‘Piccadilly’ is one of the true greats of British silent films, on a par with the best work of Anthony Asquith or Alfred Hitchcock in the period.” – BFI International superstar … [Read more…]
RetroFormat Presents Few examples of silent serials have survived, but, using wildly entertaining clips and complete individual chapters, RetroFormat presents an enormously fun look at a virtually lost era. With complete episodes from GRANT THE REPORTER (1912), WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY (1914), THE PERILS OF PAULINE (1914), THE HAZARDS OF HELEN (1915), A WOMAN IN GREY (1919), CAPTAIN … [Read more…]
Cliff is playing ROCK N ROLL with the legendary KIM FOWLEY and Snow Mercy at the HIVE GALLERY on Saturday June 2, 2012 http://hivegallery.com/2010/ Kim Fowley & Snow Mercy with our All Star Band of Cliff Retallick, Mike Wolf, Steven Darrow plus Special Guests will be Live In Overdrive @ The Hive Gallery 2nd Annual “Circus, Circus” Themed show …Get there … [Read more…]
JUNE 6, 2012 – THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE – 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles 90036 presents THE SHOWDOWN LUST AND PASSION IN SOUTH AMERICA Reuniting the principal players from Josef von Sternberg’s classic late silentUnderworld, The Showdown brings the burly, surly duo of George Bancroft and Fred Kohler — along with the stunning Evelyn Brent — down to … [Read more…]
FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2012, 7:30 PM Live Musical Accompaniment! Short Film Programs 2012 Silent Comedy Shorts Program Join us for our monthly program of favorite early comedians and pranksters, presented with live musical accompaniment. Included in the program: “Cops” (1922, 18 min.) Buster Keaton gets chased by a city’s entire police force! “Young Sherlocks” (1922, … [Read more…]
Silent Comedy Shorts Program Friday April 20th at 7:30 At The Aero Theatre Join us for our monthly program of favorite early comedians and pranksters: A compilation of shorts from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Georges Méliès, Winsor McKay, Segundo de Chomón and Harold Lloyd will be presented with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. … [Read more…]
HAROLD LLOYD RETURNS TO THE CINEFAMILY! APRIL 4, 2012 The Silent Treatment http://www.tstnews.net/ $12/free for members “The good American, still devoutly believed in during the 1920s, was two things: he was aggressive, and he was innocent…and then there was Harold Lloyd. A boy whom nothing could defeat.” — Walter Kerr, “The Silent Clowns” Made famous by … [Read more…]
UCLA Film And Television Archive – BILLY WILDER THEATRE in the HAMMER MUSEUM: THURSDAY MAY 10th, 2012 A Retrospective Celebrating Universal Pictures’ Centennial. Traffic in Souls (1913)(88 min.) – directed by George Loane Tucker Where Are My Children? (1916) (62 min.) – directed by Lois Weber
Fri, March 16 • 7:30pm Join us for our monthly program of favorite early comedians and pranksters: A compilation of shorts from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Georges Méliès, W.C. Fields and Fatty Arbuckle will be presented with live musical accompaniment. “The Cure” (1917, 31 min). Charlie Chaplin plays “The Inebriate,” a well-intentioned drunk who checks … [Read more…]