Screenings and Performances
During January 1998


This schedule last updated February 17, 1998
Schedules subject to change!
(* additions/changes)

*Jan 1-15
"Chaplin Retrospective" (continued from Dec 26-31 above) We list both silent and sound films; all the films from CITY LIGHTS on have Chaplin music scores; those from 1918-28 have synch. music tracks by Chaplin; many before 1918 have synch. tracks by others; only one film in the retrospective, THE GOLD RUSH (1925 silent vers.), will have live piano accomp. by Steve Sterner; UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (1983), the superb docu by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, has a fine score by Carl Davis; the films:
.Jan 1-3 THE GOLD RUSH (1925/1942 sound reissue) & THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
.Jan 4-5 THE KID (1921) & THE CHAPLIN REVUE (1958): incl A DOG'S LIFE (1918), THE PILGRIM (1923), SHOULDER ARMS (1918)
.Jan 6 UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (1983) 3 screenings
.Jan 7 "Chaplin at Mutual - Pt-3": THE VAGABOND, THE FIREMAN, THE COUNT, BEHIND THE SCREEN (all 1916) & "Chaplin at Essanay -Pt-1": HIS NEW JOB, THE CHAMPION, A WOMAN, THE TRAMP (all 1915)
.Jan 8-9 MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947), WOMAN OF PARIS (1923)
.Jan 10-11 LIMELIGHT (1952) & THE CIRCUS (1928)
.Jan 12 THE GOLD RUSH (1925), Steve Sterner, piano 8:30 & CHAPLINIANA, a program of Chaplin imitators/oddities
.Jan 13 "Chaplin at Essanay -Pt-2": BY THE SEA, THE BANK, SHANGHAIED, A NIGHT AT THE SHOW (all 1915) & "Chaplin at Keystone": MAKING A LIVING, CAUGHT IN A CABARET, MABEL'S BUSY DAY, THE MASQUERADER, ROUNDERS (all 1914)
.Jan 14-15 A KING IN NEW YORK (1957) & "Chaplin at First National": PAY DAY (1922), THE IDLE CLASS (1921), A DAY'S PLEASURE (1919)
All of these films will be shown at Film Forum 2, 209 West Houston Street, New York, (212) 727-8110 also, FF2 is on the Web: http://filmforum.com.
*Jan 1, 13
"New York City 100": 7 films made by the Biograph Co. New York, all but one dir. by D.W. Griffith, 1905-1911; films incl DREAM OF THE RACE TRACK FIEND, OLD ISAACS THE PAWNBROKER, MONEY MAD, THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN, POLITICIAN'S LOVE STORY, BOBBY THE COWARD, THE MESSAGE OF THE VIOLIN; approx. 60 mins.; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 2:30PM on 1st, 6PM on 13th
*Jan 1-10
"Treasures from the NFTVA Archive": silents at the Museum Cinema, London:
.Jan 1
QUEEN KELLY (1928), Dir. by Erich Von Stroheim, with Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall; 1985 restoration, incorporating long unseen Stroheim material set in an East African brothel; 7:30 Museum Cinema
.Jan 2 THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA (1929, USSR), Dir. by Dziga Vertov & A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, France), Dir. by Jean Vigo; 7:30 Museum Cinema (MC)
.Jan 3 BLACKMAIL (1929, UK), silent version, Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, with Anny Ondra; 7:30 Museum Cinema
.Jan 4 THE WONDERFUL LIE OF NINA PETROVNA (1929 Germany) with Brigitte Helm, Franz (Francis) Lederer; 7:30 MC
.Jan 10 PICCADILLY (1929, UK), Dir. by E.A. Dupont, with Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Charles Laughton (feature film debut); 7:30 Museum Cinema
*Jan 3-18
"Robert Flaherty": American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, has put together a collection of all the films --both silent and sound --that he worked on; we list them all here --even the sound films, because they have a beautiful visual style, have good musical scores and use minimal dialog:
.Jan 3 NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922), produced, directed, edited, photog. and screenplay by Flaherty; live musical accomp. by Donald Sosin; 64 mins.; preceded by a short he made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art THE POTTERY MAKER (1925); 14 mins. 2PM
Sep.adm. MOANA OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1926), dir.,photog., scenario by Flaherty; edited with wife Frances' help; "John Grierson coined the phrase 'documentary' to describe the movie"--AMMI Notes; Flaherty's daughter Monica will share memories of her father and discuss the music track she created for MOANA; the screening will be followed by a reception sponsored by International Film Seminars 4PM
.Jan 4 TABU (1931), Dir. F.W. Murnau; script by Murnau & Flaherty; synch. music score by Hugo Riesenfeld 2PM
Sep.adm. WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS (1929), Dir. by Flaherty & W.S. Van Dyke; synch. music track 4PM
.Jan 11 MAN OF ARAN (1934, UK), dir., photog.,scenario by Flaherty 2PM and 5PM
Sep.adm. HOW THE MYTH WAS MADE (1978), Dir. by George Stoney, who went back to the isle of Aran to interview participants in Flaherty's film to show how the filmmaker adapted reality to fit his artistic vision 3:30PM
.ELEPHANT BOY (1937,UK), Dir. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, with Sabu, who was discovered by Flaherty, in this docudrama about an Indian boy's search for a mythical elephant herd 2PM
.Jan 17 THE LAND (1942), INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN (1933, UK) & GUERNICA (1949, silent) 4PM
.Jan 18 LOUISIANA STORY (1948); Pulitzer Prize winning score by Virgil Thomson; 77 mins.; 2PM
Sep.adm. LOUISIANA STORY STUDY FILM (1962), Dir. by George Amberg; 128 mins.; unedited footage, etc., with commentary by photographer Ricky Leacock and the filmmaker's widow 4PM American Museum of Moving Image, Astoria, N.Y. (a short $5 taxi ride across East River from mid-town Manhattan)
*Jan 4
L'ATLANTIDE (1921, France), Dir. by Jacques Feyder; "a very rare silent"; 125m; live piano accomp. by Curtis Salke; Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Walter Reade Theatre, New York; two perfs: 4:30PM, 7PM
*Jan 4-30
"Eisenstein Season": Nat'l Film Theatre on his Centenary
.Jan 4 STRIKE (1919) & GLUMOV'S DIARY (1923) 4:15 NFT-1
.Jan 5 OCTOBER (1928) 8:20 Museum Cinema
.Jan 6 STRIKE (1919) & GLUMOV'S DIARY (1923) 6:30 NFT-1
.Jan 8 OCTOBER (1928) 7:30 Museum Cinema
.Jan 9 THE GENERAL LINE (1929) 6:15 NFT-2
.Jan 11 MISERY AND FORTUNE OF WOMEN (1929 Switzerland) & ROMANCE SENTIMENTALE (1930, France) 6:15 NFT-2
.Jan 13 THE GENERAL LINE (1929) 6:30 NFT-1
.Jan 14 TIME IN THE SUN (1930) & BEZHIN MEADOW (1935), partial reconstructions (total 89 mins.) 8:45 NFT-1
.Jan 16 POTEMKIN (1925) 6:30 NFT-1
.Jan 16 repeat of TIME IN THE SUN, etc. 8:40 NFT-2
.Jan 17 POTEMKIN (1925) 4:15 NFT-1
.Jan 18 STUDY FOR A MEXICAN FILM (1931-53) 2:40 NFT-1 (Note: This is Jay Leyda's exhaustive, rarely screened `study film' reconstruction - 260 mins. + intermission)
.Jan 18 POTEMKIN (1925) 8:30 NFT-2
.Jan 19 POTEMKIN (1925) 6:15 NFT-2
.Jan 20 ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938) 8:45 NFT-1
.Jan 20-22 POTEMKIN (1925) 2:30 NFT-2, 6:30 NFT-1
.Jan 24 IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1944-46) 4:15 NFT-1
.Jan 24 ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938) 8:30 NFT-2
.Jan 26 ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938) 8:30 NFT-2
.Jan 27 POTEMKIN (1925) live piano accomp. 6:30 NFT-1
.Jan 30 IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1944-46) 6:30 NFT-1
All of the above Eisenstein films will be shown at the National Film Theatres -1, -2 or Museum Cinema, South Bank, Waterloo, London
*Jan 9
SPEEDY (1928), Dir. by Ted Wilde, with Harold Lloyd, Babe Ruth; recently restored 35MM print from UCLA Film Archive; 19-piece Robert Israel Orchestra; $5-3, incl champagne reception; tie-in with Harold Lloyd's photo portrait "Rogues Gallery" collection at the Academy; Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 7:30PM
*Jan 9
BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY (1919, Canada), a Nell Shipman-James Oliver Curwood production (they also wrote the scenario from Curwood's "Wapi, the Walrus"), Dir. by David Hartford, starring Nell Shipman; filmed in Brunton Studios/Los Angeles, Kern River, and San Francisco, and Lesser Slave Lake/Alberta Canada; 73 mins. at 18 FPS; with live musical accomp. by Vox Violins (Mark Clifford and Beth Bartley on violin, guitar, keyboard and programmed sequences); Sean O'Sullivan Theatre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Can. Centre for the Arts Box Office, (905)-688-5550 7:30PM
*Jan 9-31
"Chaplin: A Life on Film": Series at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; all films have Chaplin music tracks or are sound films with his music, except those flagged "#" which have live musical accomp. by Robert Israel:
.Jan 9 THE IDLE CLASS (1921), THE KID (1921) & MODERN TIMES (1936) David Raksin to introduce screening 7:30
.Jan 10 THE TRAMP# (1915), THE BANK# (1915), VAGABOND# (1916), THE IMMIGRANT# (1916), CITY LIGHTS (1931) 7:30
.Jan 16 KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE# (1914), CAUGHT IN A CABARET# (1914), SHANGHAIED# (1915), THE RINK# (1916), PAY DAY (1922) & CHARLES CHAPLIN: A TRAMP'S LIFE (1997), Dir. by Peter Jones for A&E Network "Biography" (90 m 3/4 inch video projection/ air date May 10) 7:30
.Jan 17 THE ROUNDERS# (1914), THE PAWNSHOP# (1916), BEHIND THE SCREEN# (1916), ONE A.M.# (1916), THE ADVENTURER# (1917) & THE GOLD RUSH# (1925 version) 7:30
.Jan 23 A WOMAN OF PARIS (1923) & THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) 7:30PM
.Jan 24 THE CURE# (1917), EASY STREET# (1917), SHOULDER ARMS (1918) & MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947) 7:30PM
.Jan 31 THE CIRCUS (1928) & LIMELIGHT (1952) 7:30PM (NOTE: at 7:30PM before THE CIRCUS screening, the U.S. Postal Service will unveil its new Chaplin stamp) All films shown at the Bing Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
*Jan 10-31
"Star Power: The Films of Mary Pickford": Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago:
.Jan 10 ROSITA (1923), Dir. by Ernst Lubitsch; piano accomp. by David Drazin at 2PM and 6PM & SECRETS (1933, sound), Dir. by Frank Borzage, with Leslie Howard at 4PM
.Jan 11 SPARROWS (1926), Dir. by Wm. Beaudine, with Gustav von Seyffertitz; music track; at 4:15PM & STELLA MARIS (1918), Dir. by Marshall Neilan; piano accomp. by David Drazin at 6PM
.Jan 12 repeats of SECRETS at 6PM and SPARROWS at 7:45
.Jan 17 DADDY LONG LEGS (1919), Dir. by Marshall Neilan; piano accomp. by David Drazin at 2PM & TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (1922), Dir. by John S. Robertson; piano accomp. by David Drazin at 4PM
.Jan 20 AMARILLY OF CLOTHESLINE ALLEY (1918), Dir. by Marshall Neilan & AS IT IS IN LIFE (1910, 13 mins.) & THE MENDER OF NETS (1912, 13 mins), these two short films Dir. by D.W. Griffith; entire program accomp. on piano by David Drazin at 6PM & POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917), Dir. by Maurice Tourneur; David Drazin, piano, at 7:45PM
.Jan 24 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1921), Dir. by Alfred E. Green; music track at 4PM & REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1917), Dir. by Marshall Neilan; music track 6PM
.Jan 31 MY BEST GIRL (1927), Dir. by Sam Taylor, with Buddy Rogers; music track at 4PM & THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1929, sound), Dir. by Sam Taylor, with Douglas Fairbanks & WILFUL PEGGY (1910, 13 mins.) Dir. by D.W. Griffith at 6PM Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive and Jackson Blvd., (312) 443-3733
*Jan 11
THE GOLEM (1920, Germany), Dir. by and starring Paul Wegener; part of 7th Annual N.Y. Jewish Film Festival; translated intertitles; 35MM; live accomp. composed and performed by guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas; Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theatre 2PM
*Jan 12
FAUST (1926, Germany), Dir. by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn, Wilhelm Dieterle; recently restored by the Filmoteca Espanola; 100 mins.; solo organ score, Dennis James, 4/26 Wurlitzer; Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA 7PM
Jan 13
THE SAPHEAD (1921), Dir. by Herbert Blache, with Buster Keaton, William H. Crane; Rick Parks, 3/18 Wurlitzer; Elsinore Theatre, Salem, OR, 7PM call stage office (503) 375-0279
*Jan 13
"Silent Clowns Series": "Charlie and Doug: Best of Friends": THE MATRIMANIAC (1916), with Douglas Fairbanks & BURLESQUE ON CARMEN (1916), with Charlie Chaplin; live piano accomp. by Ben Model; 78th Street Theater Lab 236 W 78th St. (next to Stand-Up New York); $10 7:30PM
*Jan 14
"Superb Silents": Film historian Kevin Brownlow presents an evening of rare silent films on 35MM, some tinted and toned, accompanied by pianist Neil Brand; a Museum of the Moving Image Special Event; Museum Cinema, South Bank, Waterloo, London 7:30
*Jan 15-16
THE FARMER'S WIFE (1928, UK), Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, with Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davies; organist TBA, 5/34 Wurlitzer; the Organ Loft, Salt Lake City, Utah
*Jan 16
"Sergei Eisenstein Centennial": POTEMKIN (1925, USSR); restored with Edmund Meisel score in 1970's by Arthur Kleiner; 65 mins & SERGEI EISENSTEIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1996, Russia), Dir. by St. Petersburg filmmaker Oleg Kovalov; based on Eisenstein's Autobiographical Notes (1946); 90 mins.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 7PM
*Jan 16-20
THE KID and THE IDLE CLASS (both 1921), Charlie Chaplin; Chaplin's score adapted by Carl Davis, who will conduct a symphony orchestra for the Holland tour.
*Jan 16-27
"Paul Robeson: A Centennial Retrospective": mostly a collection of sound films, but there is one silent: BODY AND SOUL (1924), Dir. by Oscar Micheaux, with a 26-year-old Robeson; shown with live piano accomp. by Steve Sterner on Jan 19-20 at 7:20PM; also on these two days, BORDERLINE (1930), Dir. by Kenneth McPherson, is a rare late silent/early experimental sound film with Robeson; on Jan 18 and Jan 20 Film Forum will both show "Remembering Robeson: A Film Lecture by Paul Robeson Jr," who will appear in person to narrate the film clips, slides, recordings, etc., and Paul Turrell's PAUL ROBESON: TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST (1980); these perfs will be at: 1PM on the 18th, 7:30PM on the 20th; in addition, Film Forum will show 8 Robeson sound films: Film Forum 2, 209 West Houston St., New York
*Jan 16-31
"The Charlie Chaplin Collection": films TBA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Jan 17 (date tent.)
THE CIRCUS (1928), Charlie Chaplin; Gillian Anderson will conduct the 13-piece Michigan Theatre Sinfonieta in the original compiled score of 1928, at 20 FPS; this program will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI
*Jan 18
UKRIZOVANA/THE CROSS (1921, Czech.), Dir. by Boris Orlicky; part of 7th Annual New York Jewish Film Fest.; 35MM; simultaneous translation; 60 mins.; live piano accomp. by Curtis Salke; Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Walter Reade Theatre, N.Y., 2PM
*Jan 19
THE NEW YORK HAT (1912), Dir. by D.W. Griffith, with Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore; scenario by Anita Loos & JOANNA ENLISTS (1918), Dir. by Wm. Desmond Taylor, with Mary Pickford, Monte Blue; scenario by Frances Marion; restored by the Library of Congress; 50 mins. & ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1917), Dir. by Wm. Brady, with Carlyle Blackwell; scenario by Frances Marion; restored by Library of Congress; 50 mins.; all 3 films live piano by Stuart Oderman; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 2PM (NOTE: More of the films in the series, "The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood: Frances Marion and Her Circle" are being shown Jan 19-Feb 16 as can be seen from women listed as "scenario by, screenplay by, or script by"; also, many of these films are shown twice with music: once in Jan, then again in Feb)
*Jan 19
BACK PAY (1922), Dir. by Frank Borzage; scenario by Frances Marion; print restored by Library of Congress; 65 mins. & THE FLAPPER (1920), Dir. by Alan Crosland, scenario by Frances Marion; 55 mins.; live music for BACK PAY by Stuart Oderman; Museum of Modern Art NY 5PM
*Jan 20
SIMON JUDIT/JUDITH SIMON (1916, Austria-Hungary), Dir.by Adolf Merai; part of 7th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival; simultaneous translation; live piano accomp. by Curtis Salke; Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Walter Reade Theatre, N.Y., 7PM
*Jan 20
MALE AND FEMALE (1919), Dir. by C.B. DeMille, with Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee; scenario by Jeanie Macpherson; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, New York 6PM
*Jan 21
"Will Day: The First Collector": The life and work of William Ernest Lytton Day (1893-1936), with rare films from the Day collection, restored by les Archives du Film du CNC, including films by William Friese-Greene; a Museum of the Moving Image Special Event; Museum Cinema, South Bank, Waterloo, London 7:30
*Jan 21 - Feb 18
"Film 50" a series of 3PM Wed screenings for both students at U.C. Berkeley's film/lecture undergraduate course and open to the public as space permits; lecture by Prof. Marilyn Fabe and guest lecturers precedes showing of films; silents through Feb 18 (series continues with sound films through May 6):
.Jan 21 "The Beginnings of Cinema": Lumiere, Edison, Melies, Porter, Griffith; Bruce Loeb, piano
.Jan 28 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), Bruce Loeb, piano
.Feb 4 MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA (1928) R. Craig, piano
.Feb 11 METROPOLIS (1926) Randy Craig, piano
.Feb 18 MODERN TIMES (1936), sound Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, U.C. Berkeley
*Jan 21-29
National Film Registry Tour: San Francisco, CA: the 25th stop, which is also the 25th state and only stop in California, will be held at the Castro Theatre; 34 of available films, incl the 7 silents below, will be shown:
.Jan 21 THE CHEAT (1915), Dir. C.B. DeMille & THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) & GERTIE THE DINOSAUR, Winsor McCay's landmark animated film; special intro. by David Francis of the National Film Registry, and Arthur Hiller (director of many films and President of the Motion Picture Academy); Dennis James will accompany on the Mighty 4/21 Wurlitzer 8PM
.Jan 24 SAFETY LAST (1923), Harold Lloyd & BIG BUSINESS (1929); special intro. by San Francisco Film Festival Director Peter Scarlet; Bob Vaughn will accompany on the Mighty 4/21 Wurlitzer at 7:00PM
.Jan 25 WITHIN OUR GATES (1919), Dir. by Oscar Micheaux; the earliest surviving feature by pioneer African-American director Micheaux"; live accomp. by Bob Vaughn on the Mighty 4/21 Wurlitzer 1:00PM
.Jan 29 SUNRISE (1927), Dir. by F.W. Murnau, with Janet Gaynor (who, in her younger years, worked as an usherette at the Castro!) and George O'Brien (his Dad was Chief of the San Francisco Police!); special intro. by film scholar and author Russell Merritt; 35MM print will be shown with Hugo Riesenfeld score and sound effects at 8:00PM Castro Theatre, Castro at Market
*Jan 22
HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS (1916) & DOWN TO EARTH (1917) two films Dir. by John Emerson and written by Emerson and Anita Loos, starring Douglas Fairbanks; 50 mins. ea; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 6PM
*Jan 22 - Feb 22
"Sergei Eisenstein: 100 Years": Pacific Film Archive presents superb 35MM silents with Russian intertitles and live English trans.; we also list the sound films:
.Jan 22 STRIKE (1924, USSR) Bruce Loeb, piano & short GLUMOV'S FILM DIARY (1923, USSR)
.Jan 25 POTEMKIN (1925, USSR) Bruce Loeb, piano; 5:30PM (series continues in Feb --see Feb 1-22) Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, U.C. Berkeley
*Jan 23
"Eisenstein Centenary": STRIKE (1924, USSR); music?; Russian intertitles; English voice-over; 82 mins.; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.; at 2:30 and 7PM (intro. by Annette Michelson, Prof. of Cinema Studies NYU 7PM only) (This is MOMA's Eisenstein Centenary opener --more to come throughout 1998)
*Jan 23, 25
MARIE, A HUNGARIAN LEGEND aka SPRING SHOWER/TAVASI ZAPOR (1932, Hungary: released in 4 versions: Hungarian, French, German, English), Dir. by Paul Fejos, whose earlier successes in Hollywood incl LONESOME, BROADWAY, LAST MOMENT, THE LAST PERFORMANCE; "haunting tale of Marie, a young maidservant--beautifully played by French actress Annabella--who is seduced and abandoned, with an infant daughter to care for. While attacking social and sexual hypocrisy, Fejos gives his work a touching, lyrical quality...--Film Society of Lincoln Center notes Walter Reade Theatre, N.Y.; 2PM on 23rd, 9PM on 25th
*Jan 24
BEN-HUR (1926), Dir. by Fred Niblo, with Ramon Novarro, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson, Carmel Myers; Gillian Anderson, cond. members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra with the restored original score by William Axt and David Mendoza; Paramount Theatre (formerly Majestic movie palace); 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX, (512)-472-5470 8PM
*Jan 24
LIGHTNIN' (1925), Dir. by John Ford, scenario by Frances Marion, with Jay Hunt, Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, NY 2PM
*Jan 24
WILD AND WOOLLY (1917) & AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY (1916), both scenarios by by Anita Loos, with Douglas Fairbanks; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, NY, 5PM
*Jan 25
THE FLAG LIEUTENANT (1926, UK), Dir. by Maurice Elvey, with Henry Edwards, Dorothy Seacombe; 95 mins.; a "Sunday Silent"; National Film Theatre -1, South Bank, Waterloo, London 4:15
*Jan 25
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920), Dir. John S. Robertson, with John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Nita Naldi, Louis Wolheim & Laurel and Hardy in HABEAS CORPUS; Bob Vaughn, 3/14 Wurlitzer; Towne Theatre San Jose, CA 5PM (concert by another organist at 4:30)
*Jan 25
GOLDEN MAN/ARANYEMBER (1918, Hungary), Dir. by Sador (Alexander) Korda; 61 mins. & MY BROTHER IS COMING/JON AZ OCSEM (1919, Hungary), Dir. by Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz); 8 mins.; both films with live piano accomp. by Curtis Salke; Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Walter Reade Theatre, N.Y., 5PM
*Jan 25
STELLA MARIS (1918), Dir. by Marshall Neilan, scenario by Frances Marion, with Mary Pickford & THE TOLL OF THE SEA (1922), Dir. by Chester Franklin, scenario by Frances Marion, with Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan; 2-color Technicolor print restored by UCLA Film Archive; both films with Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, New York 2PM
*Jan 25
THE LOVE LIGHT (1921), Dir. by and scenario by Frances Marion, with Mary Pickford; one of the most beautifully photographed (by Charles Rosher and Henry Cronjager) of all the Pickford films; much of it was shot along the California coast (Point Lobos, Pebble Beach); restored by UCLA Film Archive; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5PM
*Jan 25
GIRL SHY (1924) and BUMPING INTO BROADWAY (1919), both with Harold Lloyd; 35MM prints from the UCLA Film and Television Archive; live accomp. on the Steinway piano by Michael Mortilla; U.C. Santa Barbara, Campbell Hall, (805) 893-3535 $6 1PM
*Jan 25
"Homage to Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein on His Centenary" Lecture by David Bordwell, Prof. of Film Studies at Univ. of Wisconsin at 2PM & two of the films directed by Eisenstein, POTEMKIN (1925) + OCTOBER (1927) at 3:30; music tracks or live music?; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; seating: first come, first served
*Jan 25, 26
"William Haines Series": WAY OUT WEST (1930), Dir. by Fred Niblo; early talkie; Haines' biographer William Mann will introduce the 7PM show on the 26th & TELL IT TO THE MARINES (1928), Dir. by George Hill, with Lon Chaney, Haines; Steve Sterner, piano at 2:30 on the 25th 8:30PM on the 26th; Film Forum 2, New York (rest of the series will be Mondays Feb 1, 9, 16, 23) (The above opening double-bill and in-person biographer will be at UCLA Archive/Silent Society showing Feb 24 at 7:30)
*Jan 26
TUMBLEWEEDS (1925), Dir. by King Baggot, with William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield; may include 8 mins. sound intro to film, which is also Hart's farewell to the westerns; synch. music track or live piano; & THE SKY'S THE LIMIT (1925), Dir. by I.W. Irving, Bruce Gordon, Charlotte Pierce; 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, 7:30
*Jan 26
STRUGGLE FOR LIFE (1918, Hungary), Dir. by Alfred Deesey; a short fragment from a film until recently thought lost, in which you can see a very young Bela Lugosi robbing a post office; music?; & MAN UNDER THE BRIDGE (1936, Hungary) a sound film dir. by Laszlo Vajda; Film Society of Lincoln Center, N.Y., The Walter Reade Theatre, N.Y., two shows: 4PM and 8:15PM
*Jan 27
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923), Dir. by C.B. DeMille, screenplay by Jeanie Macpherson, with Theodore Roberts, Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque; 146 mins.; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 6PM
*Jan 28
"Fashion Fun and Fancy": The story of Eve's Film Review, the '20s/'30s screen magazine for women, which offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and desires of the flapper generation; Jenny Hammerton presents a selection of these beautiful and revealing films on the big screen with live piano accomp.; a Museum of the MovingImage Special Event; Museum Cinema, So.Bank, London 7:30
*Jan 29
WHEN A MAN LOVES (1927), Dir. by Alan Crosland, screenplay by Bess Meredyth, with John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland; this showing will be accomp. by Stuart Oderman, piano; 80 mins.; the original was the 3rd feature to open on N.Y.'s Broadway with Vitaphone synch. music and sound effects; it was the very first (even before THE JAZZ SINGER), to open San Francisco's Embassy Vitaphone Theatre; music was composed/compiled by Henry Hadley, founder and first director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (he later became asst. conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic), with Herman Heller conducting the 75-piece Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra; UCLA Film Archive has both the picture and original Vitaphone disks, with a project on its current list for restoration when they get sufficient funding; (Film is based on same story as Puccini's MANON LESCAUT) The Museum of Modern Art, New York 6PM
*Jan 30
DON JUAN (1926), Dir. by Alan Crosland, screenplay by Bess Meredyth, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Warner Oland; the first Vitaphone feature; print and music and sound effects track restored by the UCLA Film Archive; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2:30PM
*Jan 30
THE SON OF THE SHEIK (1926), Dir. by George Fitzmaurice, scenario by Frances Marion, with Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Montagu Love; Stuart Oderman, piano; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 6PM
*Jan 30
A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (1929), Dir. Clarence Brown, screenplay by Bess Meredyth, with Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown; music track; The Museum of Modern Art, New York 8PM
*Jan 30
FAUST (1926, Germany), Dir. by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn; "one of the most beautifully crafted films ever made has recently been restored in its original American release version by the Filmoteca Espanola"--PFA Notes; 35MM print; English intertitles; Bruce Loeb, piano; 103 mins.; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, U.C. Berkeley 7:30PM
*Jan 31
BEN-HUR (1926), Dir. Fred Niblo, script by June Mathis and Bess Meredyth, with Ramon Novarro, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson, Carmel Myers; Stuart Oderman, piano; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 2PM
*Jan 31
LAZYBONES (1925), Dir. by Frank Borzage, scenario by Frances Marion, with ZaSu Pitts, Madge Bellamy; Stuart Oderman, piano; The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 5PM

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