Screenings and Performances
During August 1996


Schedules subject to change!
(* additions/changes)

*Aug 1
CITY LIGHTS (1931), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin; Marin Alsop will conduct the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, using "Chaplin's original score" (as re-orchestrated by Carl Davis); this will be the opening program of the Cabrillo Music Festival's 34th season (and to the best of our knowledge the first silent film ever included in their programs --but note through Aug 10 below, they have scheduled several other silent and sound film accompaniments); Cabrillo Music Festival, 104 Walnut Avenue, Suite 206, Santa Cruz, CA, (408) 429-3444, $25.20-7.35, Civic Aud., 8PM
*Aug 2
PACIFIC 231 (Jean Mitry's 1949 film, with Arthur Honegger's recorded music removed), then played by Marin Alsop conducting the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra; program will also include Philip Glass' Violin Concerto and Joan Tower's Concerto for Orchestra; Cabrillo Music Festival; Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, (408) 429-3444 8PM
*Aug 2
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC (1928, France), Dir. by Carl Th. Dreyer, with Renee (Maria) Falconetti; Composer Richard Einhorn has set the film to music in the form of an opera/cantata called "Voices of Light"; Lucinda Carver, cond., Nat'l. Symph. Orch., Univ. of Maryland Chorus, early-music vocal quartet Anonymous 4; "It's the most successful melding yet of classic cinema and live music" --USA Today; "Live Film Under the Stars," Wolf Trap, Vienna VA, (703)-218-6500 $28-14 8:30
*Aug 2-3
"Buster Keaton Evening": DAYDREAMS (1922), THE BALLOONATIC (1923), THE LOVE NEST (1923) & SPITE MARRIAGE (1929), Dir. by Edward Sedgwick, with Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian; Dean Mora at the organ; Silent Movie Showcase, Hollywood, CA 8PM
*Aug 3
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC (1928, France): "Voices of Light," as described above, except that music will be performed by Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, with the Cabrillo Chorus directed by Cheryl Anderson; Cabrillo Music Festival; Civic Aud., Santa Cruz, CA, (408) 429-3444 8PM
*Aug 3
BEN-HUR (1925), Dir. by Fred Niblo, with Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Carmel Myers; Gillian Anderson will conduct a 10-piece orchestra, using the original score by William Axt and David Mendoza; restored 35MM Turner print with 2-color sequences; Nat'l. Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 3PM (this is the third and final program of the 1996 Grand Music Cinema series, now in its fourth year)
*Aug 4
LOVE, SPEED AND THRILLS (1915), Mack Sennett film; music by David Rimelis (1989); Marin Alsop, cond., Cabrillo Festival Orchestra; "Free Family Concert" Cabrillo Music Fest, Civic Aud., Santa Cruz CA 2PM
*Aug 4-5
"14th Annual Toronto Film Society's Cinematic Pilgrimage to George Eastman House": By registering for this sunday/monday program with TFS by calling Caren Feldman at (416) 636-6767 (eves and weekends), you'll see 10 rare features (incl 4 silents with live piano accomp. by Phil Carli). The silents are: THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA (1915), Dir. by C.B. DeMille, with Blanche Sweet; THE DEMON RIDER (1925), Dir. by Paul Hurst, with Ken Maynard; THREE'S A CROWD (1927), Dir. by and starring Harry Langdon; and the rarely shown THE COSSACKS (1928), Dir. by George Hill, with John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Ernest Torrence. The cost will be $75 per person; you must make your own reservations at Strathallan Hotel or Days Inn Downtown to get special group rates. Films shown at George Eastman House, Rochester (THREE'S A CROWD and sound film THE SECRET SIX are the only two screenings which will be open to the public on an individual ticket basis at GEH)
*Aug 4-5
"Moments of Magic - Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Historic State Theatre in Old Monterey, CA": presented by the State Theatre Preservation Group, there will be a program for children at 12:30PM Sunday the 4th and another for adults at 8PM Monday the 5th; on both days Stan Kann will provide live organ accomp. on the 2/13 Wurlitzer for the Laurel and Hardy silent LIBERTY (1929) and other shorts; there will be clowns and cartoons for the kids; and opera singers, the Monterey Opera Assoc.'s Children's Chorus and the Monterey Bay Symphony Ensemble and Vaudeville featuring music by Martin Conroy for the show on the 5th; State Theatre, Monterey, CA
*Aug 5
CITY LIGHTS (1931), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin; conductor TBA; Cineteca Bologna, Bologna, Italy (to be repeated Aug 10)
*Aug 6
LIMELIGHT (1952, sound), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom; Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
*Aug 6
THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT (1927, France), Dir. by Rene Clair; live organ accomp. by Bob Vaughn; new 35MM print; to be shown at 3:05PM and 7:05PM & Clair's sound film, LE MILLION (1931, France), with Annabella; to be shown at 5:15PM and 9:15PM; UC Theatre, University Ave., Berkeley, CA
*Aug 7
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR (1928), Dir. by Charles F. Riesner, with Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron; Chris Elliott, 3/21 Wurlitzer; Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, CA, (415) 324-3700 7:30PM
*Aug 7
"Charlie Chaplin Mutual Evening": THE FIREMAN, THEVAGABOND, ONE A.M., BEHIND THE SCREEN (all 1916), EASY STREET (1917), THE ADVENTURER (1917); Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie, Hollywood 8PM
Aug 9
CITY LIGHTS (1931), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin; part of "Movie Classics on the Prairie," held in the Conner Prairie Amphitheater; Dennis James, Keyboards; John P. Varineau, cond. the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; for more info call (317) 639-4300, outside Indiana call toll-free (800) 366-8457; Indianapolis. Gates open 6:30 PM, show starts at 8:30 PM
*Aug 9
TEDDY AT THE THROTTLE (1917), Mack Sennett film with Gloria Swanson; score compiled by Donald Hunsberger; performed by Spring Fever, featuring Marin Alsop on violin and other members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra; Alsop calls TEDDY "the funniest film she's ever seen in her life"; there will also be a program of orig. swing music; Cabrillo Music Festival, Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA $18 (404) 429-3444 8PM
*Aug 9
THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920), Dir. by Fred Niblo, with Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery; Chris Elliott, 4/27 Wurlitzer; Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA, (510)-465-6400 $8 8PM
*Aug 9-10
"Great Comics - Laurel & Hardy": BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927), FLYING ELEPHANTS (1928), EARLY TO BED (1927), PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP (1927), YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' (1928) & THE FINISHING TOUCH (1928); Dean Mora at the organ; Silent Movie, H'wood 8PM
*Aug 8-15
"First Native Americas Int'l Film Exposition": opening with THE SILENT ENEMY (1930); an all-Indian cast portrays the Ojibwe before arrival of the white man; filmed largely on the Temagami Forest Reserve in northern Ontario; world premiere live score by Native American composer Brent Michael Davids & other films to be presented with synchronized music: THE VANISHING AMERICAN (1926), Dir. by Geo. Seitz, with Richard Dix, Lois Wilson; REDSKIN (1929), Dir. by Victor Schertzinger, with Richard Dix, Jane Novak, Tully Marshall; shot 80% in 2-color Technicolor, mostly in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; music score by John S. Zamecnik & IN THE LAND OF WAR CANOES (1914), controversial re-enactment of Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest by famed still photographer Edward S. Curtis & THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1919), Dir. by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence(cont'd) Brown, with Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, one of the most beautifully-filmed pictures of the silent era & MGM's early sound epic, ESKIMO (1933), made in Alaska, dir. by W.S. Van Dyke, who previously made WHITE SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1928); a new print of Disney's BAMBI dubbed in Arapaho! Programs to be shown in several Santa Fe, NM theatres, such as the Jean Cocteau and the Grand Illusion (yes, these are theatres!); for more info, call (505) 988-5507 or send E-mail to natvfilm@roadrunner.com (mail to: P.O. Box 2023, Santa Fe NM, 87504)
*Aug 10
QUIET PLEASE (1945 Academy Award-winning cartoon, with music and sound removed), Marin Alsop will conduct Scott Bradley's original score, complete with sound effects and gag noises, and narration by local Shakespeare Santa Cruz Company member, Peter Troxell; there will be two other pieces performed by Spring Fever; they and the full Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, cond. by Marin Alsop, will perform Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Suite from ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) --not with film, but with black and white slide projections; Cabrillo Music Festival; Civic Aud., (408)-429-3444 8PM
*Aug 10
CITY LIGHTS (1931), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin; conductor TBA; Cineteca Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Aug 11
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925), Dir. by Rupert Julian, with Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry; Dennis James, solo organ score, 4/42 Moller; Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree Northeast, Atlanta, GA
*Aug 13
Silent TBA; live accomp. by Rick Parks, 3/18 Wurlitzer; Elsinore Theatre, Salem, OR; for details call stage office (503) 375-0279 $3 7PM (Silents usually shown on 2d Tues. each month)
*Aug 14
THE NAVIGATOR (1924), Dir. by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp, with Keaton, Kathryn McGuire; Dennis James, 3/21 Wurlitzer; Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, CA, (415) 324-3700 7:30PM
*Aug 14
THE CIRCUS (1928), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin; Yuri Turovsky, conductor, I Musici De Montreal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*Aug 14
THE LODGER (1926), Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, with Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, June Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney; Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie Showplace, 611 N. Fairfax, Hollywood 8PM
*Aug 15-18
CARMEN (1915), Dir. by C.B. DeMille, with Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid; Gillian Anderson to conduct the orchestra, using the original score compiled by S.L. Rothapfel and conducted by Hugo Riesenfeld at the Oct 1, 1915, world premiere at Boston Symphony Hall; Drambuie Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; first perf ormance at Filmhouse I on Thursday (15th) at 8PM; remaining 3 perfs al fresco in city square nightly
*Aug 16-17
"Fatty Arbuckle Evening": THE ROUND-UP (1920), Dir. by George H. Melford, with Arbuckle in his first feature (7 reels), with Mabel Julienne Scott, Irving Cummings, Tom Forman, Jean Acker, Edward Sutherland, Wallace Beery, Lucien Littlefield, Buster Keaton (in cameo as an Indian) & BUTCHER BOY (1917) with Arbuckle and Buster Keaton & MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS (1915); Mrs. Addie Arbuckle will make a personal appearance Sat. night (17th); Stan Kann at the organ; Silent Movie Showplace, 611 N. Fairfax, Hollywood, CA 8PM
*Aug 16-18
"Harold Lloyd Festival": Silent/sound shorts and full length feature TBA; music tracks or 4/26 Wurlitzer or piano? Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo, CA 90245, (310)-322-2592 Perfs: 8:15 on 16th/17th, 2:30 on 17th/18th
Aug 18
THE SON OF THE SHEIK (1926), Dir. by George Fitzmaurice, with Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Agnes Ayres, Karl Dane, Bull Montana; Jeff Barker, 3/12 Kimball; Galaxy Theatre, Guttenberg NJ 2PM
*Aug 18
THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH (1926), Dir. by Henry King, with Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, Gary Cooper part of "Silents Under the Stars"; live music; Silent Society/Paramount Ranch, for more info call (818) 597-9192 x201 8PM
*Aug 20
THE CAMERAMAN (1928), Dir. by Edward Sedgwick, with Buster Keaton, Marceline Day; 35MM print; live piano accompaniment by Jon Mirsalis; Pacific Film Archive, Univ. Art Museum, U.C., Berkeley CA 7:30
*Aug 21
THE GENERAL (1926), Dir. by and starring Buster Keaton, with Keaton, Marion Mack; Chris Elliott, 3/21 Wurlitzer; Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto 7:30PM
*Aug 21
COBRA (1925), Dir. by Joseph Henabery, with Rudolph Valentina, Nita Naldi, Gertrude Olmstead; set design by Wm. Cameron Menzies; Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie Showcase, Hollywood, CA 8PM
Aug 22-24
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924), Dir. by Raoul Walsh, with sets by William Cameron Menzies, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong; Sir William Southgate, conducting the Auckland Philharmonia using Carl Davis' score; Civic Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand 3 perfs
*Aug 23
STAGE STRUCK (1925), Dir. by Allan Dwan, with Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Ford Sterling; restored Geo. Eastman House 35MM print with a gorgeous 2-color Technicolor opening sequence, s well as a color sequence near the end; opening program of the Silent Movie's Sixth Annual Film Festival; Stan Kann at the organ; Silent Movie Showplace, Hollywood CA, (213)-653-2389 $10 8PM
*Aug 23
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925), Dir. by Rupert Julian, with Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Gibson Gowland; Carl Davis to conduct his new score with the Scottish National Orchestra; Drambuie Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival; 3,000 seat Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland 9:15PM
*Aug 24
DER ROSENKAVALIER (1926), Dir. by Robert Wiene (of CABINET OF CALIGARI fame), screenplay by Hugo von Hofmannsthal from his original libretto; 15 years after he wrote the opera, Richard Strauss embarked on a major re-arrangement and opening up, to include spectacular outdoor marching scenes, adding the Marschallin's husband and music that were not in the opera; this is the same Berndt Heller restoration, again minus the final reel, that was performed Dec 19, 1993, at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, by the American Symphony Orchestra led by Leon Botstein; there is no singing --the cast includes Michael Bohnen, one of the foremost Baron Ochses of the day, and other leading stars of European film, such as Jacques Catelain, a man, for a change, playing Octavian; Strauss conducted the premiere in Jan. 1926 in Dresden, with another performance in April at London's Tivoli Theatre, with selections recorded the following morning (27 mins. of which are now available on EMI CD 54610-2); it has been reported that Strauss felt the film should be shown at variable speed to keep up with his music, instead of his trying to synchronize his conducting to the film; performance runs about 2 1/2 hours with intermission. There will be 2 perfs at 2PM and 8PM on Sat Aug 24 at the 2,800 seat Edinburgh Festival Theatre, with a conductor TBA, leading the Scottish National Orchestra; part of the Drambuie Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland (this theatre began showing short films as early as 1896!)
*Aug 24
MODERN TIMES (1936, sound), Dir. by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard; this is the sound film with its original complex music and sound effects --nothing new here, just a rare chance to see Chaplin's last great "silent" film! Festival Schichtwechsel, Volklingen Germany
*Aug 24
"Baby Peggy in Person!": Rare showing of two features starring "Baby Peggy," now better known as Diana Serra Cary, author of Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy?, Hollywood's Children and The Hollywood Posse; Miss Cary will make a rare personal appearance. Both films dir. by William Seiter: HELEN'S BABIES (1924), with Clara Bow, Edward Everett Horton & FAMILY SECRET (1924), with Gladys Hulette; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Stan Kann at the organ; Silent Movie, Hollywood CA 8PM
*Aug 25
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920, Germany), Dir. by Robert Wiene, with Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge; 35MM print; live piano accompaniment by Randy Craig; introduced by Marilyn Fabe, UC Berkeley lecturer; Pacific Film Archive, Univ. Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley CA 5:30PM
*Aug 26
NOSFERATU (1922, Germany), Dir. by F.W. Murnau, with Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder; live piano accomp. by Steve Sterner at 8PM show; Film Forum 2, 209 West Houston St., New York, NY, (212) 727-8110
*Aug 26
"Rare D.W. Griffith Classics": THE GREATEST QUESTION (1919), with Lillian Gish, George Fawcett, Robert Harron, Ralph Graves & SCARLET DAYS (1919), with Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, Ralph Graves; both prints tinted; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Stan Kann at the organ; Silent Movie Showcase, Hollywood, CA (213)-653-2389 8PM
*Aug 27
JOAN THE WOMAN (1919), Dir. by Cecil B. DeMille, with Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie Showplace, Hollywood, CA 8PM
*Aug 28
THE GAUCHO (1928), Dir. by F. Richard Jones, with Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Gustav von Seyffertitz; Dennis James, 3/21 Wurlitzer; Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto (415) 324-3700 7:30PM
*Aug 28
"Mary Pickford Classics": MADAME BUTTERFLY (1915), Dir. by Sidney Olcott, with Pickford, Olive West, Marshall Neilan & RAGS (1915), Dir. by James Kirkwood, with Pickford, Marshall Neilan & KIKI (1931, sound), Dir. by Sam Taylor, with Pickford, Reginald Denny, Margaret Livingston; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Stan Kann at the organ, Silent Movie Showplace, 611 N. Fairfax, Hollywood CA 8PM
*Aug 29
ANNIE LAURIE (1927), Dir. by Creighton Hale, with Lillian Gish, Hobart Bosworth, Norman Kerry, David Torrence; restored 35MM print with a reel of two-color Technicolor; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie, H'wood CA 8PM
*Aug 29 - Sep 2
"Cinecon Society for Cinephiles" showing mostly 35MM silents and early, rare sound films, with a special emphasis on Vitaphone on its 70th anniversary. There will be an exhibit of an actual surviving Vitaphone set-up. There will be accompanists for silents (last year this included Phil Carli, Robert Israel, Jon Mirsalis, Michael Mortilla and, on organ, Bob Vaughn). The event will again be held at the Clarion Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, site of first Academy Awards, across the street from the Chinese Theatre and new Galaxy, and a block from the El Capitan (with at least one film shown there or at the Chinese or at UCLA's Melnitz or Paramount's studio theatre in most years). For more info, write CINECON, Society for Cinephiles, Box 1632, Hollywood, CA 90028. You are urged to call in your reservations directly to Clarion Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA (800) 950-7667 or (213) 466-7000; single or double rooms $82; do this as soon as possible, but no later than 8/4/96.
** Just announced 3/15/96, silent or Vitaphone films confirmed so far include: Lois Weber's HYPOCRITES (1914); William S. Hart's THE CAPTIVE GOD (1915); DeMille's JOAN THE WOMAN (1916) with Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid; John S. Robertson's THE BRIGHT SHAWL (1923) with Richard Barthelmess, Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, William Powell, Dorothy Gish, Jetta Goudal; Josef Von Sternberg's first sound (Movietone) film THUNDERBOLT (1929), with Fay Wray, George Bancroft, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall; Michael Curtiz' UNDER A TEXAS MOON (1930), a Vitaphone film in 2-color Technicolor, with Frank Fay, Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery; LENA RIVERS (1914), UCLA Film Archive's Bob Gitt's new restoration from a 5 reel tinted nitrate print; a collection of Vitaphone shorts, including last year's restoration of Al Jolson's PLANTATION ACT, which preceded THE JAZZ SINGER by a year; and, unseen for 70 years, Tod Browning'a NO WOMAN KNOWS (1921), with Max Davidson (!); --with all of the above to be shown in 35mm.
** Just announced 7/15/96: as part of the 70th anniversary of Vitaphone, Cinecon will be showing the UCLA Archive-restored 35MM Vitaphone print of THE BETTER 'OLE (1926), part of the second Vitaphone program to be shown in N.Y. (when you've seen it, like this writer, you may find some interesting comparisons with Powell and Pressburger's masterpiece, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP!). Silents just added include: THE BLACKBIRD (1926), Lon Chaney; WHEN I WAS DEAD (1916), fresh from its Pordenone re-discovery last year, directed by and starring Ernst Lubitsch (his earliest extant film in such a dual role). Chaplin at Cinecon: there will be Chaplin Mutuals in 35MM, selected by David Shepard (in this writer's nearly 30 years of attending the Cinecons he can recall few showings of Chaplin films --that's perhaps an example of how hard Cinecon programmers work to get films we haven't seen!); and another, more controversial film, THE CHAPLIN PUZZLE (1995?), written by Joe Adamson, produced, edited and directed by Don McGlynn, with narration by Burgess Meredith --this two part docu and attempted reconstruction of POLICE from the Chaplin compilation of TRIPLE TROUBLE and previously released two reel version of POLICE into a new three reel version, made the news about two years ago (I thought it was made as a video); be sure to read Stan Taffel's lengthy review, filmmaker McGlynn's interview with Bonnie McCourt, and her editorial in the Summer '96 issue of Limelight (vol. 2, no. 3) --a 21 page issue worth reading.
** 7/15/96 update on Cinecon guests announced so far: Vanessa Brown, Richard Ney, Stanley Kramer, Ann Rutherford, Virginia O'Brien, Abraham Polonsky and "child star panel" incl Edith Fellows, Sybil Jason, Junior Coughlan and Diana Serra Cary (better known as "Baby Peggy," she'll also appear with a rare screening of her 1925 silent, CAPTAIN JANUARY, and talk about her wonderful book, The Hollywood Posse).
** 7/20/96 update: additional silents will incl THE TORRENT (Garbo's first U.S. film); FOR LADIES ONLY (1927), with John Bowers; and there will be a centenary tribute to William Wellman by Lost Films author/Wellman biographer Frank Thompson.
*Aug 30
"Lon Chaney - Master of Disguises": THE UNHOLY THREE (1925), Dir. by Tod Browning, with Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen & THE PENALTY (1920), Dir. by Wallace Worsley, with Chaney, Ethel Grey Terry, Kenneth Harlan; Sixth Annual Film Festival; Dean Mora at the organ; Silent Movie Showplace, Hollywood, CA 8PM (Note: Michael Blake, author of two books on Chaney, will make a personal appearance)
*Aug 30 - Sep 2
"23rd Annual Telluride Film Festival": One of the premiere showcases for new films, independent films, director retrospectives, with lots of filmmakers present. Organized by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and the late William K. Everson, the festival divulges no details on each year's program and guests until just a few hours before it starts. Films are shown continuously in up to six theatres from 8:00AM to 2:00AM. Those who took a chance and came in 1979 were rewarded with a showing of the restored NAPOLEON, with both Abel Gance and Kevin Brownlow present; last year THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA was shown with the new Alloy Orchestra score a month ahead of its formal debut at Pordenone. A Festival Pass costs $425 (includes only two randomly-selected admissions to the main Sheridan Opera House venue); the Patron Pass ($1750, including a tax-deductible contribution of $950 to the Festival) gets you into everything, incl a Patron Brunch at Skyline Ranch featuring filmmakers and celebrities. For more info, write to the National Film Preserve, Box B1156, Hanover, NH 03755, call (603) 643-1255, or fax: (603) 643-5938
*Aug 31
DRUMS OF LOVE (1928), Dir. by D.W. Griffith, with Mary Philbin, Lionel Barrymore, Tully Marshall, William Austin; set design by Wm. Cameron Menzies; don't know music to be used --original score was written by Charles Wakefield Cadman, Sol Cohen and Wells Hively; Sixth Annual Film Festival (last evening); Bob Mitchell at the organ; Silent Movie Showcase, Hollywood, CA Special Engag.- $10 8PM

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