According to Clara Bow, the Twenties’ “It” girl herself: “the best silent picture I ever made”. Proving she wasn’t just a pair of bare ankles, the then-20-year-old took it upon herself to upgrade her scripted Mantrap character Alverna from boring and drab to a flirtatious minx. Clara foregrounds a delicious love triangle amongst a charming … [Read more…]
UCLA Film & Television Archive is proud to celebrate the legacy of storied producer and director Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959). At the heart of this retrospective are restorations of 10 DeMille features performed by the Archive throughout its own history. A founding figure of American cinema, Cecil B. DeMille was one of filmdom’s most influential … [Read more…]
An enormous hit from director Cecil B. DeMille’s independent production phase, this telling of the life of Christ is a masterpiece of pictorial arrangement, offering the essential episodes of the Biblical story as devotional tableaux, capped with teeming sequences of intense, dramatic action (in particular, the crucifixion). H. B. Warner’s wan, ethereal Jesus is breathtaking, … [Read more…]
For a feller who claimed to vastly prefer working with male actors rather than female ones, director William Wellman certainly knew how to construct a lush romantic lark. After a string of dusty oaters in the first half of the Twenties (and before the machismo of films like Wings, The Public Enemy and The Call … [Read more…]
“Garbo’s acting, across near a century of time, can still put a tingle in your gut. Garbo makes you suspend disbelief.” — Chris Edwards, Silent Volume Ahhhh, that kiss! That legendary first kiss between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the one that’s reverberated across the decades as a landmark in cinematic sensuality, is contained within … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
Don’t miss this Lon Chaney / Todd Browning Double Feature West of Zanzibar Dir. Tod Browning, 1928, 35mm, 65 min. The Unknown Dir. Tod Browning, 1927, 35mm, 50 min. –
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!