old hollywood

  1. Events
  2. old hollywood

Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Fatty and Mabel Adrift – An evening with Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand

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

Our "Retroformat," movies on 8mm series presents “Fatty and Mabel at Keystone” in our intimate, Spielberg Theatre. This two hour program is an evening of silent shorts on 8mm featuring two of the era’s most beloved stars, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. The program includes a 100th anniversary screening of the beautifully made comedy ... [Read more...]

$11

ART DIRECTORS GUILD FILM SOCIETY SERIES 2016: THE BELOVED ROGUE

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

Co-presented by the Art Directors Guild Film Society William Cameron Menzies was likely the most celebrated art director in silent motion pictures for his work on such extraordinary films as THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924). He won the first Oscar for Art Direction for THE DOVE (1927), and in 1936 directed the landmark sci-fi epic ... [Read more...]

$11

The Silent Treatment: So This Is Paris

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

35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress Featuring live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick! A glittering social satire staged safely abroad, So This Is Paris passes off the routine infidelities of Jazz Age blue-bloods as “the French way.” Teasing the audience with urbane good humor—and featuring a nigh-surrealist montage of an “artist’s ball” (read: nightclub) ... [Read more...]

$12

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

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