January 2014
Hitchcock Double Feature- The Ring & The Manxman
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 by a pro (Ian Hunter) and must fight to regain the affections of his girlfriend (Lillian Hall-Davis). Highly accomplished cinematography, editing and use of symbolism…
Find out more »Hitchcock Double Feature – CHAMPAGNE & THE FARMER’S WIFE
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 test the true intentions of her fiancé. Though the film is far afield thematically from the director’s later work, Hitchcockian touches bubble up from the…
Find out more »Alfred Hitchcock’s Easy Virtue
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 and Robin Irvine. Suspected of adultery, Larita Filton (Jeans) is divorced by her husband and flees the scandal for France, where she meets a young…
Find out more »February 2014
Silent Romance – Sunrise at the Aero Theatre
Treat your sweetie so something special this Valentine's Day weekend with this classic silent romance still hailed as one the best romance films of all time! SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS 1927, 20th Century Fox, 95 min, USA, Dir: F.W. Murnau Director F.W. Murnau’s first American film stars George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor as a farmer and his loving wife, whose marriage is rocked by the appearance of an alluring "Woman From the City" (Margaret Livingston). An Academy Award…
Find out more »March 2014
The Silent Treatment – Three Women
The Silent Treatment has moved to the First Saturday of the month ! Don't miss this Silent Gem starring May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, and Marie Prevost, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Find out more »Retro Format Fan Appreciation Show – Mark of Zorro
At Retro Format we love our fans so we're having a free fan appreciation show for old and new fans! If you've never seen a silent film before this is a great one to start with! The show is free but seats are limited to a 1st come 1st serve basis unless you reserve a ticket. Douglas Fairbanks is the suave, debonaire original Zorro! In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the…
Find out more »Safety Last
Directed by Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor Attempting to impress the girl he hopes to marry, a department store clerk ends up in the middle of a wild publicity stunt to scale the side of a tall building. Comic gags and edge-of-your-seat thrills---including the unforgettable image of Harold Lloyd dangling precariously from a clock---follow in rapid succession as Lloyd climbs his way to success in this iconic film. Hal Roach Studios. Cinematographer: Walter Lundin. Editor: T. J. Crizer. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother,…
Find out more »The Cameraman
Don't miss this amazing silent comedy staring Buster Keaton The Cameraman is a 1928 American silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick . The picture stars Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, and others. The Cameraman was Keaton's first film with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is considered by fans and critics to be Keaton still in top form, and it was added to the National Film Registry in 2005 as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Within a little over a year, however, MGM would take away Keaton's creative control over his pictures, thereby causing drastic…
Find out more »DW Griffith and Mary Pickford
DW Griffith Silent Film Retrospective featuring Mary Pickford
Find out more »April 2014
The Passion of Joan of Arc
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC 1928, 82 min, France, Dir: Carl Theodor DreyerLA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC No mere biopic or conventional period piece, director Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterpiece is one of the landmarks of silent cinema. Renee Falconetti is heartbreaking as the legendary young woman who died for God and France in1429. Dreyer's closeup-driven style brutally forces the audience to share her pain - no director, not even Bergman, has ever been as conscious of the camera's…
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