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a talk, film screening & book signing for "Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever"
Sunday, November 12 at 7:30 pm
at the Balboa Theater (3630 Balboa Street) in San Francisco
On Sunday November 12th, world renown film critic and biographer Peter
Cowie, author of the just published "Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever," will
give a talk as part of "Celebrating Louise Brooks: An Evening of Rare
Films" at the Balboa Theater (3630 Balboa Street) in San Francisco.
Rare films, special guests, door prizes, Louise Brooks give-aways and
more will round out the program, which starts at 7:30. A book signing
will follow. More info at http://www.balboamovies.com/
"You are the only person I know who speaks the truth to me," Louise
Brooks once wrote to the author of "Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever."
Cowie, who will be joining us from his home in Switzerland, is a world
famous film historian and the author of some thirty books including
"The Cinema of Orson Welles," "John Ford and the American West," and
"Revolution!: The Explosion Of World Cinema In The Sixties," as well as
acclaimed biographies of Ingmar Bergman and Francis Ford Coppola. This
special event, co-sponsored by The Booksmith (http://www.booksmith.com)
and the Louise Brooks Society, will take place at the historic Balboa
Theater (3630 Balboa) in San Francisco. Tickets are $8.50 and can be
purchased in advance on http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com
Two brief articles about this event have already shown up in the local
media. Author and local film critic Mick LaSalle issued a short article
at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/06/DDGQDM607K1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
for the "San Francisco Chronicle." And the two area Louise Brooks
screenings were the pick of the week on the SFGate website - see
http://sfgate.com/eguide/epicks/
Louise Brooks Birthday Bash
a raucous celebration
Tuesday, November 14th at 7:00 p.m.
Victoria Theater (2961 16th Street) in San Francisco
This special event includes a screening of a rare film, live music,
birthday cake, refreshments and festivities with the cast and crew of
"Lulu" - followed by a 10 p.m. staging of the Wedekind play done as a
silent film a la Louise Brooks in "Pandora's Box." If you haven't
already seen the Silent Theater Company's dramatic homage to Lulu,
here's your chance. This should be a lot of fun. More info at
http://www.victoriatheatre.org/
"Love Em and Leave Em"
a free film screening
Tuesday, November 21st at 6 p.m.
at the San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin Street at Grove)
Thomas Gladysz, director of the Louise Brooks Society, will introduce
this little shown, Louise Brooks comedy from 1926 - a film most likely
not shown in San Francisco in 80 years. Please join us for this free
event at the Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium. Please note
early start time.