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Alfred Hitchcock’s Easy Virtue
Screening as a Double Feature with ROPE EASY VIRTUE is presented with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Restored! Live Musical Accompaniment EASY VIRTUE 1927, British Film Institute, 69 min, UK, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock This adaptation of Noel Coward’s play skewers high-society hypocrisy with a couple of familiar faces from the director’s DOWNHILL, Isabel Jeans … [Read more…]
Hitchcock Double Feature – CHAMPAGNE & THE FARMER’S WIFE
Both films presented with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Restored! CHAMPAGNE 1928, Rialto, 105 min, UK, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock In this effervescent romantic comedy, British star Betty Balfour plays a spoiled rich girl whose free-spending ways inspire her father (Gordon Harker) to play a trick that will teach her a little frugality – and … [Read more…]
Hitchcock Double Feature- The Ring & The Manxman
Both films presented with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.Restored! THE RING (1927) 1927, Rialto, 108 min, UK, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Director Alfred Hitchcock was a boxing aficionado, and his first original screenplay is set in the ring. “One Round” Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) takes on all comers at the circus until he gets decked … [Read more…]
Time Out Los Angeles Article
Time Out Los Angeles says: See a whole new side of Alfred Hitchcock at this double feature, part of the Aero’s “The Hitchcock 9, Plus 8” series—both 1928 films are silent romantic comedies. Champagne opens with a shot of the bubbly and tells the story of a prodigal socialite’s father, who pretends he’s lost his fortune in … [Read more…]
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Pleasure Garden
Playing a double feature with Stage Fright The BFI drew from several extant prints for this meticulous restoration of THE PLEASURE GARDEN, which features the film’s original color tints and tones. THE PLEASURE GARDEN is presented with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Restored! Live Musical Accompaniment! THE PLEASURE GARDEN 1926, British Film Institute, 90 … [Read more…]
THE SILENT TREATMENT: The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
“If you aren’t a fight fan, you will be when you have seen it.” — Screenland Epic in scope, this deeply human character study showcasing the formidable acting talents of megastar Richard Barthelmess (Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Tol’able David) stands alongside The Big Parade one of the silent era’s most empathetic WWI epics. Beginning on New York’s … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment: F.W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh”
After shocking audiences worldwide with Nosferatu, but before emigrating to Hollywood for Sunrise, F.W. Murnau revolutionized filmmaking with this most silent of silent films — one rare for its lack of intertitles, and timeless for its artful social commentary. Using daring camera angles, expressionist framing and groundbreaking P.O.V. effects to convey a subjective psychological state, The Last … [Read more…]
I Love Dogs ! A Dog’s Life and Where North Begins
Co-sponsored by Palos Verdes Art Center and Palos Verdes Library District, this special film screening combines silent movies starring dogs and live piano accompaniment. First up, Charlie Chaplin and Scraps star in the 1918 comedy A DOG’S LIFE followed by 1923 Rin Tin Tin adventure WHERE THE NORTH BEGINS. Both films will feature Cliff Retallick … [Read more…]
90th Anniversary Screening of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 1923
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 1923 Co-presented by the American Cinematheque and Hollywood Heritage with the support of the DeMille Foundation to celebrate the Centennial of the partnership of Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille, the 15th anniversary of the grand re-opening of the Egyptian Theatre and the 90th Anniversary of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS The American Cinematheque … [Read more…]