His Nibs & The Smallest Show on Earth
Presented as part of the Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing Series Live musical accompaniment for the silent portion of this program will be provided by Cliff Retallick. Restored by UCLA Film & … [Read more…]
rare silent cinema
Retroformat: Wild and Woolly – Starring Douglas Fairbanks
With Surprise Shorts! In possibly his best pre-swashbuckling comedy, Douglas Fairbanks stars as a young New Yorker who longs for the excitement of the Old West. Energetically directed by John … [Read more…]
ART DIRECTORS GUILD FILM SOCIETY SERIES 2016: THE BELOVED ROGUE
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 … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment – Goose Woman
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a … [Read more…]
Fatty and Mabel Adrift – An evening with Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand
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 … [Read more…]
Ephemera(l) City: Los Angeles in Travelogues, Industrial Films & Amateur Movies
Booster dreams and noirish visions comingle in tonight’s program covering almost 60 years of Los Angeles history as seen through a selection of travelogues, industrial films and amateur movies. Between … [Read more…]
Maldone
Maldone (France, 1928) One of director Jean Grémillon’s earliest successes, Maldone sets up an internalized class conflict in the person of Olivier Maldone, who prefers a working-class existence to the … [Read more…]
SYNTHETIC SIN – Starring Coleen Moore at the Silent Treatment
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE!!! Recently rediscovered in Bologna, Italy, this is the first presentation of SYNTHETIC SIN in Los Angeles in more than 82 years! A partial VITAPHONE soundtrack survives for … [Read more…]
The Lonedale Operator and other early shorts
An Evening of D.W. Griffith Shorts Presented by the American Cinematheque and Retro Format Films on 8mm Our outstanding series resumes with films from early 1911. Mary Pickford stars in … [Read more…]
The Silent Treatment – Molly O. starring Mabel Normand
The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre presents: THE SILENT TREATMENT: MOLLY O. (1921) – starring Mabel Normand. Produced by Mack Sennett. Molly falls in love with a famous bachelor, … [Read more…]