Time Out Los Angeles says: See a whole new side of Alfred Hitchcock at this double feature, part of the Aero’s “The Hitchcock 9, Plus 8” series—both 1928 films are silent romantic comedies. Champagne opens with a shot of the bubbly and tells the story of a prodigal socialite’s father, who pretends he’s lost his fortune in … [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…]
“If you aren’t a fight fan, you will be when you have seen it.” — Screenland Epic in scope, this deeply human character study showcasing the formidable acting talents of megastar Richard Barthelmess (Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Tol’able David) stands alongside The Big Parade one of the silent era’s most empathetic WWI epics. Beginning on New York’s … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]