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OUTFEST: Different From The Others

The Director's Guild of America 7920 Sunset Blvd , Los Angeles , CA, United States

Different From The Others (German: Anders als die Andern) is a German film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. The story for Anders als die Andern was co-written by Richard Oswald and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science, with the aim ... [Read more...]

Felix the Cat’s Silent Animation Spectacular

The Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Celebrate the career of Felix the Cat, the No. 1 cartoon star of the 1920s, with a program including Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer’s “Felix in Hollywood” (1923) and other shorts featuring the fabulous feline. Plus such animated gems as Winsor McCay’s “The Sinking of the Lusitania” (1918) and “The Pet” (1921), Max Fleischer’s “The ... [Read more...]

$12

Silent Treatment: A Woman of the World

The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles , CA, United States

A chic European countess visits her small-town American cousin and wreaks mayhem with her liberated continental habits, like smoking cigarettes and seducing men of high ranking public office. Pola Negri is very good at imbuing small gestures with explicit suggestions, and, with eyelids perpetually at half-mast, exudes an attractive combination of contempt and boredom. As ... [Read more...]

$12

Lost Cleopatra Screening

The Hollywood Heritage Museum 2100 N Highland Ave , Los Angeles , CA, United States

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association & Hollywood Heritage Present: Evening at the Barn - THEDA BARA - LOST CLEOPATRA Please join us on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 for a special celebration of the silent 1917 epic "CLEOPATRA"  starring Theda Bara. The movie was truly a masterpiece, unfortunately this film along with virtually the entire Fox ... [Read more...]

$15

The Silent Treatment: Feel My Pulse

The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Archival print courtesy of the Library of Congress Featuring live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick This madcap tale of hypochondria and bootlegging is the work of the then up-and-coming director Gregory La Cava, who was – naturally – a former cartoonist. When his employer tanked, he started making features replete with comic strip style stories. This one ... [Read more...]

$12

Retroformat – Peck’s Bad Boy starring Jackie Cogan

The Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Please join us this Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. for a special presentation of Peck's Bad Boy, starring the greatest child star of the silent era, Jackie Coogan, with live accompaniment by the one and only Cliff Retallick!  See the attached poster for details.  Later this year, we will be presenting Jackie Coogan and Lon ... [Read more...]

$10

UCLA Festival of Preservation

The Billy Wilder Theatre 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by New York Women in Film & Television's Women's Film Preservation Trust and The Film Foundation Tramp Strategy  (1911) A mischievous vagabond infiltrates a bourgeois household in this newly discovered one-reel comedy by the pioneering female director Alice Guy. 35mm, tinted, silent with Dutch intertitles, ... [Read more...]

LON CHANEY: OUTSIDE THE LAW – OCTOBER 14th

The Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

As part of the RETROFORMAT SERIES at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood I will be performing live accompaniment for this silent gem! From the good folks at RETROFORMAT: Saturday, October 14, 2017, Lon Chaney returns to Retroformat in Tod Browning's Outside the Law (1920), with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. In his second collaboration with ... [Read more...]

$12

Cuban Silent Cinema at UCLA!

The Billy Wilder Theatre 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick! Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Cinemateca de Cuba La Virgen de la Caridad  (Cuba, 1930) Yeyo, a young peasant is in love with Trina, the daughter of a local landowner, but her father, Don Pedro del Valle, objects to her marrying below her class. He has ... [Read more...]

$9