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—• MAY 2024 AT SILENT CINEMA •—
May 4th, Saturday | 8:00 PM
Doors & Wine Bar from 7:30 | PG
Come see silent stars in their first film roles: Charlie Chaplin in Making A Living (1915), Buster Keaton in The Butcher Boy (1917), and Harold Lloyd in Bumping into Broadway (1919).
Making A Living is a one-reel comedy short. It was completed in three days at Keystone Studios in Los Angeles, California, and was released for distribution on February 2, 1914. In it, Chaplin portrays a charming swindler who runs afoul of a news reporter and a Keystone Cop.
The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Al St. John, Buster Keaton, and Alice Lake. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keaton's filmdebut. Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut, he buys a pail of molasses.
Bumping Into Broadway is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. This film is notable as Lloyd's first two-reeler featuring his "glasses" character. A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of a struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.
Screening with live
piano accompaniment
by Mila Maia.
*****
IMDb RATINGS: 5.5, 6.3, 6.9/10
Apr 11th, Saturday | 8:00 PM
Doors & Wine Bar from 7:30 | PG
Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films. While Keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove himself as a feature-length star.
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a Man (Buster Keaton) vies with a Villain (Wallace Beery) for the Girl (Margaret Leahy). In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as an Ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the Man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
Screening with live
piano accompaniment
by Mila Maia.
*****
IMDb RATING: 7.0/10
ROTTEN TOMATOES: 93%
May 18th, Saturday | 8:00 PM
Doors & Wine Bar from 7:30 | PG
Cinephile Paradiso and The Silent Cinema presents… HOT GIRL SUMMER. Every third Saturday from May to August, join us at the Silent Cinema for an unforgettable lineup of films featuring four iconic silent film stars: Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, and Gloria Swanson. From gripping tales of horror, love, and deception to heart-wrenching dramas of scandal and sacrifice, rediscover the early works of Hollywood's golden age and the women who made it golden.
Starting on the 18th of May, with the screening of The Unknown, a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower "Alonzo the Armless" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon.
On the run from the law, Alonzo (Lon Chaney) hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder -- a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo has the use of his arms but keeps them concealed so that his true identity remains under wraps. Meanwhile, Alonzo falls in love with another performer, Nanon (Joan Crawford), who has a phobia of being touched by a man. But when the circus owner (Nick De Ruiz) discovers Alonzo's true identity, the performer makes a tragic decision.
Screening with live
piano accompaniment
by Mila Maia.
*****
IMDb RATING: 7.7/10
ROTTEN TOMATOES: 88%
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The Birth of Cinema is a silent mini-documentary from 2021, directed by Adam Scheffler, with live music performed on a piano by our resident pianists — Desiree Oduah and Siochain Fahy. It is taking you on an adventure. You will see the birth of cinematography and experience the same feelings and emotions as the first viewers 100+ years ago.
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