Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick! Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Cinemateca de Cuba La Virgen de la Caridad (Cuba, 1930) Yeyo, a young peasant is in love with Trina, the daughter of a local landowner, but her father, Don Pedro del Valle, objects to her marrying below her class. He has … [Read more…]
Presented as part of the Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing Series Live musical accompaniment for the silent portion of this program will be provided by Cliff Retallick. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive His Nibs (1921) Gregory La Cava directs this riotous, slapstick spoof of the goings-on at a rural movie theater, The Slippery Elm Picture … [Read more…]
All Wet! Will be performing a few musical numbers in the Jazzare Viva La Diva Cabaret Review. We will be debuting a new original tune by Cliff Retallick called Murder In Babylon so don’t miss it! JAZZARE is a Monthly Musical Comedy Burlesque Revue that takes place every second Saturday of the month at Echoes … [Read more…]
Catch All Wet! performing a set at the SLIJCC Cabaret Night at the El Cid. Doors open at 7:30, show Starts at 8pm. Tickets are going fast! Don’t be a dumb Dora! – Tickets are almost gone so don’t wait or you’ll miss Cliff Retallick the bee’s knees on the piano keys and the swellest … [Read more…]
We’ve added a Music page so you can hear some of the new tracks I’ve been working on. I’ve just posted a series of covers I’ve been working on over the last few months, some original tracks are coming soon. I’ll hope you’ll take a listen and tell me what you think.
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Note: Live musical accompaniment provided by Cliff Retallick. PART OF: Our Man Gregory La Cava So’s Your Old Man (1926) Directed by Gregory La Cava In one of W.C. Fields’ best silent outings, he plays Samuel Bisbee, a small town would-be inventor with delusions of grandeur. His daughter is in love with the son of one of the … [Read more…]