Film School Screening of The Hoodlum Staring Mary Pickford Spoiled Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) lives with her doting grandfather, ruthless business magnate Alexander Guthrie (Ralph Lewis), in his Fifth Avenue, New York … [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 … [Read more…]
Last Saturday Cliff had the privilege of playing at the Silent Movie Night Fundraiser held in Anaheim to raise money for the Fall Festival and Halloween Parade. It was a … [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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
Don’t Miss the chance to see Cliff Retallick play a beautiful organ to some of your favorite comedy Silents Starring Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others. This fundraiser held by … [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 … [Read more…]
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Bright Shawl (1923) Directed by John S. Robertson. Praised in its day for capturing … [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 … [Read more…]
We take a break from our ongoing D.W. Griffith retrospective to present a night of all-star silent comedy shorts, featuring Harry Langdon, Larry Semon, Gloria Swanson, Bobby Vernon and many more, including episodes from THE WOMAN IN GREY (1919) and an ultra-rare screening of Mickey Rooney in “Mickey’s Movies” from 1926!