Tillie’s Punctured Romance and Safety Last
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with the British Film Institute and in consultation with Bo Berglund with funding provided by The Film Foundation, UK Film Council, … [Read more…]
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The Silent Treatment Presents – Tumbleweeds
Clouds of dust, the clattering of hooves, hundreds of covered wagons huddled together, and BOOM! The cannon is fired. Settlers are released, clamoring for their first slice of the American … [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…]
Humoresque & The Nth Commandment
Humoresque (1920) Director Frank Borzage scored his first major hit with this Frances Marion adaptation of a story by Fannie Hurst about an impoverished Jewish violin prodigy whose success allows … [Read more…]
THE SILENT TREATMENT: Don Q Son of Zorro
For this month’s SILENT TREATMENT, Cinefamily presents the RARELY SEEN sequel to The Mark of Zorro: Don Q, Son of Zorro! Loosely based on a 1909 novel (Don Q.’s Love … [Read more…]
The Red Kimona
In-person: Allison Anders. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by Cliff Retallick. The Red Kimona (1925) Director Dorothy Arzner’s screenplay adaptation of Adela Rogers St. John’s sensational story emphasizes women’s extreme … [Read more…]
Retro Format: Silent Stars in Drag
See some of your favorite silent stars like Gloria Swanson, Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chapin dressed in drag (some more convincingly than others) and all the comedy and confusion that … [Read more…]
Lucky Star / The River Double Feature
The UCLA Film and Television Archives Presents: “7th Heaven: The Films of Frank Borzage“ Lucky Star (1929) A pastoral melodrama that director Frank Borzage whips into soaring romantic rapture, Lucky … [Read more…]
LAZYBONES / SECRETS Double Feature
UCLA Film and Television Archive Presents “7th Heaven: The Films of Frank Borzage” Don’t miss this double feature with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Lazybones (1925) A shiftless young farmer … [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…]