The Debut of All Wet! went off with out a hitch! The audience loved the original songs and incredibly talented ladies and we raised a bundle of money for the Stop the Millennium Project! Stay Tuned for more ALL WET! Shows in 2015 We have some very unique shows to finish out 2014. … [Read more…]
Don’t miss these amazing rare films highlighting Native Americans with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick West Coast Premiere! The Daughter of Dawn (1920) Directed by Norbert Myles. Recently rediscovered, director Norbert Myles’ film concerns a rivalry between two braves for the hand of one woman, amidst an inter-tribal conflict. Cast entirely with Kiowa and Comanche … [Read more…]
This month The Silent Treatment honors Charley Chase and Raymond Griffith with the presentation of DOG SHY (1926) and YOU’D BE SURPRISED (1926). Live Musical Accompaniment on Piano and Organ by Cliff Retallick
Don’t miss the best episodes of the famous silent serial The Perils of Pauline in one night! The Perils of Pauline, starring Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer. Retroformat presents the best episodes of the legendary silent serial, including Through Air and Fire, The Reptile Under the Flowers, and many more. Brent Walker, author … [Read more…]
Gear up for Halloween with an evening of gore and spooks in Downtown Newhall at GORE SLAM – a special October edition of Art Slam. Retro Format will be showing a few spooky early silents featuring death, murder and mayhem. As well as clips from the über creepy Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu!
Screening of rare early cinema clips followed by Oscar Micheaux’s full length film, The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), with silent film musician Cliff Retallick on the Baldwin organ, supplemented with lectures by Galen Wilkes, ragtime music historian, and Les Wills, film historian. A light-skinned black woman (Hall) settles the homestead she’s inherited from her grandfather … [Read more…]
Don’t miss Valentino and Gloria Swanson in this rare Silent Romance. Beyond the Rocks was long considered lost but a nitrate print of the film was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003. The film was then restored. Don’t miss your chance to see this rare print with a live original score by Cliff Retallick
WORLDS BUILT TO ORDER: ART DIRECTORS GUILD FILM SOCIETY SERIES 2014 Panel Discussion On Production Design! Live Musical Accompaniment! THE GAUCHO (1927) Presented by the American Cinematheque and the Art Directors Guild Film Society. Sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter. Douglas Fairbanks’ remarkable swashbuckling adventure fantasy THE GAUCHO (1927) screens with a spotlight on the production … [Read more…]
Retroformat is proud to continue our chronological series of the legendary D.W. Griffith Biograph shorts. This evening’s program includes eight films from 1910, including “The Smoker,” “A Romance of the Western Hills,” “The Unchanging Sea” and “The House With Closed Shutters.” Featuring Mary Pickford, Arthur Johnson, Henry Walthall and many more stars. With sterling live … [Read more…]
One of the ULTIMATE FLAPPER FILMS! Dir. Jack Conway, 1929, 35mm, 76min. “Heiress Billie Brown (Crawford), is engaged to marry her longtime sweetheart, budding diplomat Gil Jordan (Fairbanks). When Billie goes to see senior diplomat Glenn Abbott (La Rocque) about ensuring that Gil get a favorable assignment, Billie and Glenn are undeniably attracted to one … [Read more…]