Screenings and Performances
During April 1998
This schedule last updated February 18, 1998
Schedules subject to change!
(* additions/changes)
- *Apr 3-10
- "The Charlie Chaplin Collection": Films TBA; Port Theatre, Orange County, CA
- Apr 3-25
- "Mary Pickford: Super-Star": 12 films, including a few
titles beyond the Milestone/Pickford collection:
- .Apr 3 MY BEST GIRL (1927) and SPARROWS (1926)
- .Apr 4 A ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS (1917) and two shorts ARCADIAN MAID (1910), THE MENDER OF NETS (lDl2)
- .Apr 17 M'LISS (1918) and MADAME BUTTERFLY (1915)
- .Apr 18 SIMPLE CHARITY (1911) and STELLA MARIS (1918)
- .Apr 24 AMARILLY OF CLOTHESLINE ALLEY (1918) and
DADDY LONG LEGS (1919)
- .Apr 25 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
music on tracks or live TBA; Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- Apr 5
- THE KID and THE IDLE CLASS (both 1921), Charlie Chaplin;
Chaplin's score adapted by Carl Davis; orchestra, con
ductor and venue TBA; Glasgow, Scotland
- *Apr 6
- UNDERWORLD (1927), Dir. by Josef von Sternberg, with George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Larry Semon & two shorts COPS (1922), with Buster Keaton and LIBERTY (1929), with Laurel & Hardy; Rick Friend, piano; Toronto Film Society/Silent Mondays, Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ont, Canada, call Caren Feldman, (416) 636-6767 7:30PM
- Apr 8-9
- BEN-HUR (1926), Dir. by Fred Niblo, with Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Carmel Myers; restored by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, with 2-color Technicolor sequences; 35MM print; Carl Davis will conduct his own score with orchestra; Konzerthaus Vienna, Austria
- *Apr 12
- "Silent Clowns Series": Films TBA; live piano accomp. by Ben Model; 78th Street Theater Lab, 236 W 78th St. (next to Stand-Up New York); $10 3PM For late news: http://www.interport.net/~manaben/silent.html
- Apr 14
- THE KID BROTHER (1927), Dir. by Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe, with Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston; Rick Parks, 3/18
Wurlitzer; Elsinore Theatre, Salem, OR 7PM
- Apr 17
- SEVEN CHANCES (1925) and STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928), two Buster Keaton films; Dennis James, solo organ score, 3/14 Barton; final program of the 1997-98 "Sounds of Silents" season; Oscar Mayer Theatre, Civic Center, Madison, WI, 8PM
- *Apr 18
- BEN-HUR (1926), Dir. by Fred Niblo, with Ramon Novarro et al; Brownlow/Gill restoration, with 2-color Technicolor sequences; Carl Davis will conduct the orchestra using his own score; Royal Festival Hall, London
- *Apr 19
- Silent Film TBA; Dennis James will accompany on the pipe organ; Egyptian Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
- *Apr 24
- THE GENERAL (1927), Dir. by and starring Buster Keaton; live piano accomp. by Ray Brubacher; part of "Marvelous Movies and More" series, mostly sound classics, organized by film historian David Pierce, who leads 30 mins. discussion after the films, followed by a dessert buffet with coffee and tea; Slayton House, a community arts center in the Wilde Lake Village Center in Columbia, MD call (410) 730-3987 or (301) 596-4883
- *Apr 26
- THE CAMERAMAN (1928), Dir. by Edward Sedgwick, with Buster Keaton, Marceline Day & Keaton short THE PALEFACE (1921; Dennis James will provide both overture music and accompany both films on the Mighty 4/33 Wurlitzer; Berkeley Community Theatre (3,491 seats); Civic Center, Kittredge at Milvia, Berkeley, CA; for info or tickets by phone call John O'Neill, (510) 632-9177 2:30
- Apr (date TBA)
- "A Harold Lloyd Season": films and music TBA; National Film Theatre, South Bank, Waterloo, London
- *Apr (date TBA)
- NAPOLEON (1927, France), Dir. by Abel Gance, with Albert Dieudonne, Antonin Artaud; will this screening use a single wide screen and projector for final triptych sequences or 3 projector polyvision? Carl Davis' score will be from hi-fi stereo tape; Deutsches Historisches Museum, city? Germany
- *Apr (date TBA)
- THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), Dir. by D.W. Griffith, with Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid; Photoplay Productions, Ltd., 35MM print; music composed and conducted by John Lanchbery will be played from hi-fi stereo tape; Deutsches Historisches Museum, city? Germany
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