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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
“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…]