Cuban Silent Cinema at UCLA!
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 … [Read more…]
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THE VOYAGER INSTITUTE: AN INTERVIEW ABOUT SILENT FILM SCORING AND MUCH MORE! 9/30
I am honored to be a participant in the first of what I am certain will be many events put on by the amazing new VOYAGER INSTITUTE here in Los … [Read more…]
LON CHANEY: OUTSIDE THE LAW – OCTOBER 14th
As part of the RETROFORMAT SERIES at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood I will be performing live accompaniment for this silent gem! From the good folks at RETROFORMAT: Saturday, October … [Read more…]
UCLA Festival of Preservation
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Trust and The Film Foundation Tramp Strategy (1911) A … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment: Feel My Pulse
Archival print courtesy of the Library of Congress Featuring live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick This madcap tale of hypochondria and bootlegging is the work of the then up-and-coming director Gregory La … [Read more…]
Felix the Cat’s Silent Animation Spectacular
Celebrate the career of Felix the Cat, the No. 1 cartoon star of the 1920s, with a program including Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer’s “Felix in Hollywood” (1923) and other … [Read more…]
Retroformat: Wild and Woolly – Starring Douglas Fairbanks
With Surprise Shorts! In possibly his best pre-swashbuckling comedy, Douglas Fairbanks stars as a young New Yorker who longs for the excitement of the Old West. Energetically directed by John … [Read more…]
ART DIRECTORS GUILD FILM SOCIETY SERIES 2016: THE BELOVED ROGUE
Co-presented by the Art Directors Guild Film Society William Cameron Menzies was likely the most celebrated art director in silent motion pictures for his work on such extraordinary films as … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment: Sally of the Sawdust – Starring W.C. Fields
A rare comedy from the typically austere D.W. Griffith, Sally of the Sawdust is a delightful gem and the veritable kick off of W.C. Fields’s unmatched career. Based on the 1923 stage … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment – Goose Woman
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a … [Read more…]