Silents at PFA in 2000
ChaneyFan
Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA are opening. Beginning in a few weeks,
they are running a large number of silents as part of several upcoming series.
A brief listing is as follows. Where I list times the films/dates are
confirmed. Where I just list dates they are still subject to change. I
believe every print listed below is an archival 35mm print.
July 16, 6:30 pm Bay Area and New York on Film, 1898-1915; rare silent clips
of these two cities from Library of Congress. Introduced by Pat Loughney;
Bruce Loeb on piano
July 20, 7 pm THE RING (1927, Hitchcock) Jon Mirsalis on piano. On a
double-bill with VERTIGO!
July 23, 5:30 pm ANNIE LAURIE (1927, Lillian Gish...a great picture!); 7:30
THE BLUE EAGLE (1926, John Ford) JM on piano
July 30 THE ITALIAN (1914) with shorts THE ADVENTURES OF DOLLIE (Griffith),
NEIGHBORS (Keaton), A SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Charlie Bowers!) JM on piano
Sept 1-3 Treasures from the Eastman House: FORBIDDEN PARADISE, THREE WOMEN,
STAGESTRUCK, TEMPTRESS, SMOULDERING FIRES (don't know exact dates yet). Don't
know yet who is playing for which films.
Sept.10 Lon Chaney Night! FALSE FACES and THE PENALTY (new Eastman House
print off the nitrate camera negative!) JM on piano
Sept.17 THE LOVE THAT LIVES and MADAME X JM on piano
Sept.30 BLUE JEANS and THE STAIN JM on piano
Oct 8 Shorts from the Eastman House. I believe this is similar to the
program we saw in March at Cinefest: 3-D silents, Keaton/Arbuckle in THE COOK,
other shorts. All introduced by Paolo from Eastman.
And starting in October there is a Silent Italian Diva series, all teens
Italian melodramas...don't have more info.
Oct.15 TIGRE REALE JM on piano
Oct.22 DER BASTARD and SCAMPOLO JM on piano
Oct. 28 MALOMBRA and STORY OF A WOMAN JM on piano
Others in this series that I don't have dates for are listed below, but they
are all in October and I believe BL on piano for all of them. (I think one has
an orchestral score on tape.)
SANGUE BLEU
ASSUNTA SPINA
MAMAN POUPEE
CENERE
SCAMPOLO
RAPSODIA SATANICA
In addition to all this great stuff, in July they are running lots of restored
35mm Hitchocock prints, and they are doing lots of great film noir in archival
35s.
Get in line now!
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Jon Mirsalis
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Derek Boothroyd
ChaneyFan <chan...@aol.com> wrote:
>After a bit of a slow start this year, the floodgates of silent films at
>Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA are opening. Beginning in a few weeks,
>they are running a large number of silents as part of several upcoming series.
>A brief listing is as follows. Where I list times the films/dates are
>confirmed. Where I just list dates they are still subject to change. I
>believe every print listed below is an archival 35mm print.
Thanks for the notice. I am looking forward to a number of these films
particularly those on the 23rd and those in September.
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, CA has put out a tentative schedule
for the summer (with final schedule expected "mid-July"). They plan on
showing silents every Wednesday. The films listed on the current schedule
"are mostly confirmed". It shows Silent Wednesdays with Dennis James:
July 19: Safety Last + 2nd feature TBA on each of these dates
July 26: Son of the Sheik
Aug. 2: Peter Pan
Aug. 9: It
Aug. 16: Nosferatu
Aug. 23: So This Is Paris
Aug. 30: The Lost World
Sep. 6: Seven Chances
Sep. 13: Skinner's Dress Suit
Sep. 20: The Cat and the Canary
There is no indication whether the second features will be sound or
silent films.
The sound features scheduled also include some that they have not
shown before or have only shown rarely.
Derek B.
Derek Boothroyd
Derek Boothroyd <der...@Stanford.EDU> wrote:
I wrote:
>The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, CA has put out a tentative schedule
>for the summer (with final schedule expected "mid-July"). They plan on
>showing silents every Wednesday. The films listed on the current schedule
>"are mostly confirmed". It shows Silent Wednesdays with Dennis James:
>
>July 19: Safety Last + 2nd feature TBA on each of these dates
>July 26: Son of the Sheik
>...
According to the latest phone recording [at (650) 324-3700], July 19
will instead be the last day for musicals _On the Town_ and _Royal Wedding_
with the silents to start July 26 with _Safety Last_ and _Oh, Doctor!_
(with Reginald Denny).
Derek B.
Derek Boothroyd
>Derek Boothroyd <der...@Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>
>I wrote:
>>The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, CA has put out a tentative schedule
>>for the summer (with final schedule expected "mid-July"). They plan on
>>showing silents every Wednesday. The films listed on the current schedule
>>"are mostly confirmed". It shows Silent Wednesdays with Dennis James:
Apparently, it was the sound films that were mostly confirmed, not the
silents. Of the 10 silents on the tentative schedule, 3 are not being
shown and 3 are on different dates. The summer schedule was out at the
Theatre tonight and the schedule of Silent Wednesdays is:
July 19: none (1 week later start)
July 26: Safety Last (1923) & Oh, Doctor! (1925)
Aug. 2: Peter Pan (1924) & That's My Daddy (1928)
Aug. 9: It (1927) & The Plastic Age (1925)
Aug. 16: Seven Chances (1925) & The Homemaker (1925)
Aug. 23: The Lost World (1925) & The Green Goddess (1923)
Aug. 30: Changing Husbands (1924) & Sensation Seekers (1927)
Sep. 6: Stage Struck (1925) & Soul-Fire (1925)
Sep. 13: Skinner's Dress Suit (1926) & What Happened to Jones (1926)
Sep. 20: The Cat and the Canary (1927) & The Bright Shawl (1923)
The first of each pair listed above is scheduled at 7:30 pm. Times
are not given for the others but it looks like they follow them.
Dennis James will accompany all 9 programs.
The program says "Each week the second feature is a rare silent
preserved at the Stanford Theatre's own film lab in Hollywood."
I'm glad to see the change from the Lloyd/Fairbanks/Keaton dominated
schedules of the last couple of summers, even though they are all among
my favorites. There are 4 Reginald Denny films listed; I guess Mr. Packard
was as impressed as I was by _I'll Show You the Town_ in June.
Derek B.
Dennis James
exciting playing a part in bringing such a hitherto obscure
title back to life. There were so many direct music cues that
the 2-day lead time for preparing the score was reallya
snap . . . I especially enjoyed that direct reference in the
titles to RED HOT MAMA that led to the idea of scoring the whole
thing wherever indicated with songs popular in 1924 & 23.
We've got lots of other "new" films to see this Summer in the
Stanford series- and the weekly opportunity to create the new
scores will certainly keep things hopping in the Silent Film
Concerts studio!
Dennis James
Silent Film Concerts
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