Clouds of dust, the clattering of hooves, hundreds of covered wagons huddled together, and BOOM! The cannon is fired. Settlers are released, clamoring for their first slice of the American West, in a flurry of chaos and anticipation. It’s 1893 on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, the site of the Cherokee Strip Land Run, and Don—William S. … [Read more…]
Don’t miss your chance to see this spooky classic with special live accompaniment featuring the Theremin.
Maldone (France, 1928) One of director Jean Grémillon’s earliest successes, Maldone sets up an internalized class conflict in the person of Olivier Maldone, who prefers a working-class existence to the comforts of his wealthy family. Summoned home at the death of his brother to assume control of the family estate, he dutifully returns, but cannot … [Read more…]
Art Deco Society Of Los Angeles Historic Lecture Series 2015 “The Elegance of Erté” Presentation / LA BOHEME Co-presented by the American Cinematheque with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles From the aristocratic world of Imperial Russia to the opera houses of Europe and the lights of Broadway, the designer Erté created costumes, theater … [Read more…]
Humoresque (1920) Director Frank Borzage scored his first major hit with this Frances Marion adaptation of a story by Fannie Hurst about an impoverished Jewish violin prodigy whose success allows him to marry his sweetheart and move his family out of the ghetto. When the U.S. enters WWI, however, he joins the fight with tragic … [Read more…]
For this month’s SILENT TREATMENT, Cinefamily presents the RARELY SEEN sequel to The Mark of Zorro: Don Q, Son of Zorro! Loosely based on a 1909 novel (Don Q.’s Love Story, a mother and son collaboration), this 1925 film begins with a careless mistake that unleashes a glut of drama of aristocratic proportions, complete with … [Read more…]
In-person: Allison Anders. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by Cliff Retallick. The Red Kimona (1925) Director Dorothy Arzner’s screenplay adaptation of Adela Rogers St. John’s sensational story emphasizes women’s extreme and often impossible dilemmas. Young Gabrielle Darley has been lured into prostitution by a man who trifled with her emotions…and whom she ultimately murders. Becoming … [Read more…]
The UCLA Film and Television Archives Presents: “7th Heaven: The Films of Frank Borzage“ Lucky Star (1929) A pastoral melodrama that director Frank Borzage whips into soaring romantic rapture, Lucky Star reteams Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell as a simple farm girl and wounded WWI vet whose love for each other overcomes all odds. Borzage’s … [Read more…]
UCLA Film and Television Archive Presents “7th Heaven: The Films of Frank Borzage” Don’t miss this double feature with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Lazybones (1925) A shiftless young farmer (Charles Buck Jones) takes a fatherless infant girl under his wing after he rescues her and her mother from the river, until, years later, his … [Read more…]
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE!!! Recently rediscovered in Bologna, Italy, this is the first presentation of SYNTHETIC SIN in Los Angeles in more than 82 years! A partial VITAPHONE soundtrack survives for the last few minutes of the film. Cliff Retallick will provide a live score up to that point and then let the original Vitaphone splendor … [Read more…]