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…]
Presented by Retro Format Films on 8mm! Program also includes D.W. Griffith’s short films “An Unseen Enemy” (1912, 17 min.), which introduced Gish and her sister Dorothy, “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (1912, 17 min.) and “The Mothering Heart” (1913, 29 min.), all starring Lillian Gish. With live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. TRUE HEART … [Read more…]
“Raymond Griffith seems to me to occupy a handsome fifth place — after Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Langdon — in the silent comedy pantheon, a place that is his by right of his refusal to ape his contemporaries, and his insistence on following the devious curve of an entirely idiosyncratic eye.” — Walter Kerr, The … [Read more…]
Enjoy some spine tingling, bone chilling Halloween Fun ! Presented by the American Cinematheque and Amity Live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. NOSFERATU NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS 1922, 94 min, Germany, Dir: F.W. Murnau F.W. Murnau reinvents the story of Dracula as a silent German Expressionist fable and the result is one of … [Read more…]
JUST ANNOUNCED ! Enjoy some spine tingling, bone chilling Halloween Fun ! Presented by the American Cinematheque and Amity Live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. NOSFERATU NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS 1922, 94 min, Germany, Dir: F.W. Murnau F.W. Murnau reinvents the story of Dracula as a silent German Expressionist fable and the result is … [Read more…]
RED HEROINE (1929) October 12, 2013 – 7:30 pm Billy Wilder Theater Directed by Wen Yimin The only surviving section of the 13-part serial Red Knight Errant, this barn-burner of an action epic is a prime specimen of the martial arts/fantasy film explosion of late-twenties and early-thirties Shanghai—but one with a significant twist. In place of … [Read more…]
SO’S YOUR OLD MAN (1926) and RUNNING WILD (1927) November 17, 2013 – 7:00 pm Billy Wilder Theater 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 … [Read more…]
Retro Format 2013 Live Musical Accompaniment! October 19Th THE COWARD Presented by Retro Format Films on 8mm Plus, a selection of great Thomas H. Ince and D.W. Griffith short films! With live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. THE COWARD (1915) 1915, 77 min, USA, Dir: Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince Charles Ray became a major … [Read more…]