January 25th, 2014
Retro Format Films on 8mm presents A Retrospective of D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Films, Part 1. These rare silents include The Adventures of Dollie (1908), The Curtain Pole (1909), Resurrection (1909) and others, featuring live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Click here for tickets and details.
January 24th – 26th, 2014
As part of their Frank Capra Festival, the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto will screen the rare Capra silent That Certain Thing (1928) featuring Dennis James at the mighty Wurlitzer, followed by It Happened One Night (1934). Click here for tickets and details.
January 18th, 2014
Join the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA as they celebrate the ninth anniversary of their Saturday Night Silents with a screening of The Mark of Zorro. The 1920 Douglas Fairbanks feature will be preceded by Chaplin and Broncho Billy shorts, featuring Frederick Hodges on piano accompaniment. Click here for tickets and details.
January 12th, 2014
The American Cinematheque presents D.W. Griffith’s landmark silent Intolerance (1916) at the historic Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Click here for tickets and details.
January 8th, 2014
The Silent Treatment and the Cinefamily present The Patent Leather Kid (1927), a rarely-shown drama starring Richard Barthelmess and Molly O’Day. Featuring live music by Cinefamily accompanist Cliff Retallick at the historic Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood. Click here for tickets and details.
January 1st through January 7th, 2014
Join New York City’s Film Forum as they celebrate the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s film debut. Catch recently restored classics like The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928) and The Great Dictator (1940), plus rare early shorts and the 1983 documentary Unknown Chaplin. Click here for showtimes, tickets and details.
December 28th, 2013
Kick off the Charlie Chaplin 2014 centennial celebration early at the Niles-Essanay Film Museum in Fremont, CA. Catch a showing of the Chaplin comedy Easy Street (1917) and comedy shorts with Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel & Hardy. All films feature Frederick Hodges on piano. Click here for tickets and details.
December 20th, 21st and 22nd, 2013
Celebrate Christmas at the historic Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, CA with a special screening of the silent Scrooge (1922) preceded by a selection of classic Christmas comedy shorts. All films feature accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Click here for tickets and details.
December 15th, 2013
UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a double dose of early Gregory La Cava comedies. His Nibs (1921) features comedian “Chic” Sale, and Feel My Pulse (1928) stars Bebe Daniels, both with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Click here for tickets and details.
December 14th, 2013
Catch two classic silent comedies in 35mm at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago. At 3:00 Buster Keaton stars in Sherlock Jr. (1924), followed by Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931). Sherlock Jr. will feature live piano accompaniment by Dave Drazin.
December 14th, 2013
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA presents the rarely-screened Hoodoo Ann (1916), written by D.W. Griffith, directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron. Two comedy shorts will precede the feature, and Judy Rosenberg will provide piano accompaniment. Click here for tickets and details.
December 14th, 2013
The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will celebrate Retro Format’s 4th anniversary in the Spielberg Theatre with the William S. Hart feature Wagon Tracks (1919) on 8mm. Featuring live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick and a selection of D.W. Griffith shorts also on 8mm. Click here for tickets and details.
December 13th, 14th and 15th, 2013
Join the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, CA for Laurel and Hardy’s family-friendly comedy Babes in Toyland (1934). Click here for tickets and details.
December 8th, 2013
The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago presents what may be the finest film directed by Mary Pickford’s discovery, Ernst Lubitsch. Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas star in Ninotchka (1939), Garbo’s first comedy and penultimate appearance in motion pictures. Click here for tickets and details.
December 7th, 2013
Join the Niles Essanay Film Museum in Fremont, CA for a night of silent shorts. Douglas Fairbanks stars in Flirting With Fate (1916), Felix the Cat stars in Felix Flirts With Fate (1926), and Lloyd Hamilton stars in Somebody’s Fault (1927), all featuring piano accompaniment by Judy Rosenberg. Click here for tickets and details.
December 4th, 2013
Join the American Cinematheque for the 90th anniversary of Cecil B. DeMille’s silent masterpiece The Ten Commandments (1923), starring Estelle Taylor and Theodore Roberts. The screening will be accompanied by a string-and-horn ensemble led by Cliff Retallick, at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre where the film premiered in 1923. Click here for tickets and details.
December 3rd, 2013
See Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s first part-talking picture The Barker (1928) at the Eastman House Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY. Also starring Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills, The Barker was remade in 1933 as Hoopla starring Clara Bow. Click here for tickets and details.
December 12th, 2013
Join the Silent Clowns series at New York’s Lincoln Center for a screening of Buster Keaton’s first feature film Three Ages (1923), preceded by the 1922 Charlie Chaplin short Pay Day. Both films will be accompanied by Ben Model on piano. Click here for tickets and details.
November 26th, 2013
See Mary Pickford’s close friend Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (1926) at the Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY. Recently restored by the George Eastman House and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, this Victor Sjostrom-directed drama also stars Lars Hanson and will feature live piano accompaniment by Philip Carli. Click here for tickets and details.
November 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013
Charlie Chaplin’s first talking picture The Great Dictator (1940), starring Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie, will be showing at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, CA. Click here for tickets and details.
November 16th, 2013
Retro Format presents the 1919 D.W Griffith silent True Heart Susie starring Lillian Gish, screened in 8mm glory at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Also showing are three Griffith Biograph shorts featuring Gish, all accompanied live by Cliff Retallick on the piano. Click here for tickets and details.
November 10th, 2013
New York City’s Film Forum Jr. is holding a special screening of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy classic Steamboat Bill Jr (1928) for kids. The event will feature live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner and will be followed by a Great Stone Face Contest. Click here for tickets and details.
November 9th, 2013
Join the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA this Saturday night for Fritz Lang’s late-era silent Woman in the Moon (1929), preceded by the Harold Lloyd short Spring Fever (1919) with live accompaniment provided by Jon Mirsalis. Click here for tickets and details.
November 8th, 9th and 10th, 2013
The Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo brings the acclaimed silent epic Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) to the big screen as it was meant to be seen. Starring Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman – and reportedly featuring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as onlookers in the chariot race scene – the film will be accompanied by Bill Field on the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. Click here for tickets and details.
November 7th, 2013
The Silent Clowns Film Series at New York City’s Lincoln Center presents a screening of the 1921 drama Tol’able David, starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by Henry King. Pianist Ben Model will provide live accompaniment and a 1924 Charley Chase short will precede the feature. Click here for tickets and details.
November 6th, 2013
Join The Silent Treatment and the Cinefamily as they present the only surviving print of Paths to Paradise, a 1925 comedy starring Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson and directed by Clarence Badger, along with the 1925 short Hold My Baby. Click here for tickets and details.
October 31st, 2013
Join the American Cinematheque this Halloween as they screen the original vampire thriller Nosferatu (1922) at Santa Monica’s Aero Theater. Click here for tickets and more details.
October 18th, 2013
Join the UCLA Film & Television Archive as they present a restored print of the early sound classic Applause (1929) at the Billy Wilder Theater. Director Rouben Mamoulian — who would later direct The Gay Desperado for producer Mary Pickford — used the latest sound recording technology to create a realistic backstage drama starring Helen Morgan and Joan Peers. Click here for tickets and more details.
October 11th, 12th, 13th & October 18th, 19th, 20th
Catch two early horror classics at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, CA. Director F.W. Murnau’s innovative 1922 vampire film Nosferatu runs Oct. 11-13, and Tod Browning’s 1931 talkie masterpiece Dracula runs Oct. 18-20. Click here for tickets and more details.
October 12th, 2013
The Lincoln Center Silent Clowns series is taking a break from clowning to present the original uncut 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera just in time for Halloween. Starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin and directed by Rupert Julian, this silent classic will be accompanied by pianist Ben Model. Click here for tickets and more details.
September 29th & 30th
Join New York City’s Film Forum for Lost… Now Found, a special screening of five short films believed to be lost until recently discovered in archives: Hello, Pop! (1933) starring The Three Stooges in a rare Technicolor two-reeler, the Depression-themed short Your Technocracy And Mine (1933), the Vitaphone comedy Gobs of Fun (1933), and two 1928 Vitaphone vaudeville shorts, Sharps and Flats and The Beau Brummels. Click here for tickets and details.
September 29th, 2013
Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 masterpiece City Lights will screen at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas as part of the Art for the Citizen Symposium. The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing Chaplin’s own score along with the film. Click here for more details.
September 22nd, 2013
Watch firecracker Clara Bow show off her abundance of “it” in Victor Fleming’s 1926 comedy Mantrap, screening at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago. Click here for tickets and details.
September 21st, 2013
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum continues their ongoing series of silent shorts on Saturday nights with four comedies starring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. Screening at the Edison Theater in Fremont, CA with piano accompaniment by Frederick Hodges. Click here for tickets and details.
September 20th, 21st and 22nd, 2013
See Buster Keaton’s iconic silent comedy The General (1926) on the big screen at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo this weekend, featuring live accompaniment by Bill Field on the Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ. Click here for tickets and details.
October 4th & 5th, 2013
The town of Muskegon, MI, where Buster Keaton spent much of his childhood, will host the 19th Annual Buster Keaton Convention. The event will include special guests, a 1926 party and screenings of such Keaton silents as The Iron Mule and Our Hospitality. Click here for more details.
September 26th – 29th, 2013
The 2013 Fall Cinesation film preservation festival will begin Sept. 26th at the Lincoln Theater in Massillon, Ohio. This year’s selection of rare classics includes His Picture in the Papers, a 1916 Douglas Fairbanks comedy directed by John Emerson. Click here for more details.
September 22nd, 2013
Catch D.W. Griffith’s 1916 classic Intolerance on the big screen at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Restored with original tinting, this silent epic features a musical score written and conducted by Carl Davis. Click here for tickets and details.
September 11th – 17th, 2013
Join the Museum of Modern Art in NYC as they present “Lame Brains and Lunatics: Cruel and Unusual Comedy Part 4” (1912-1928), a festival of silent slapstick comedies screened at the The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. All films are introduced by author Steve Massa and accompanied by Ben Model. Click here for tickets and details.
September 4th, 2013
Catch Mary Pickford’s friends, film-star sisters Constance and Norma Talmadge in a double feature from The Silent Treatment. Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) stars Constance and Latin lover Don Alvarado, and Camille (also 1927) stars Norma and Gilbert Roland in a rare version of the classic romance made from the only known surviving print. Films are shown the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood, with live music by resident Cinefamily accompanist Cliff Retallick. Tickets and more details can be found here.
August 22nd – 25th, 2013
All Chaplin, comedy and silent film fans should try and make it to the third annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, a huge event for the village of Waterville on the Ring of Kerry in the South West of Ireland. The festival features screenings of Chaplin classics, special guests, stand-up comedy, a film competition and much more. Click here for more details.
August 22nd, 2013
Seventeen years after Mary Pickford brought Ernst Lubitsch to the U.S. he directed his comedic masterpiece Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Catch this 1940 classic on the big screen at the George Eastman House’s Dryden Theatre in Rochester, N.Y. Click here for tickets and details.
August 13th – September 3rd, 2013
Join New York City’s Film Forum as they pay tribute to the late special effects master and recipient of USC’s 2007 Mary Pickford Foundation Alumni Award, Ray Harryhausen. Film Forum will screen double features of Harryhausen’s films on Tuesdays through September 3. Click here for tickets and showtimes.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
The 26th Annual Summer International Organ Festival in San Diego presents Silent Movie Night with accompanist Dennis James on Monday, August 19 at 7:30 pm. See The Eagle (1925) starring Rudolph Valentino free of charge with live organ accompaniment at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park.
Saturday, August 17th, 2013
See a young Clara Bow in one of her first performances as the American Cinematheque presents Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Raymond McKee, the film will feature live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Tickets and details are here.
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
Catch a screening of The General, the 1926 United Artists comedy starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, in an actual 1926 movie palace. The historic Tampa Theatre in Tampa, FL will present the film with live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment as part of their Summer Classics series. Click here for tickets and details.
Saturdays through August 3rd
Enjoy some silent comedies this summer as the Silent Clowns Film Series screens rare 35mm prints from the Library of Congress at Lincoln Center in NYC. On July 20th, Edward Everett Horton, Clara Bow and Baby Peggy star in Helen’s Babies (1924), and on August 3rd Mack Sennett star Louise Fazenda stars in Footloose Widows (1926). All shows feature live accompaniment by Ben Model. Visit the website for more screenings and details.
July 19th – August 23rd, 2013
Join the The Silent Film Society of Chicago for their annual “Silent Summer” Film Festival, Fridays through Aug. 23rd at the historic Des Plaines Theater. This year’s line-up includes favorites such as The Sheik (1921), The Patsy (1928) and The Flapper (1920), starring Jack Pickford’s first wife Olive Thomas and written by Mary Pickford’s frequent collaborator Frances Marion. Click here for more information.
August 2nd – 8th, 2013
Don’t miss Film Forum’s NYC screening of the “overwhelmingly spectacular” 1916 epic Intolerance, directed and produced by Mary Pickford’s first director D.W. Griffith. Featuring an original score by Carl Davis performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, the film has been restored with its original color tinting. Click here for tickets and details.
July 26th and July 28th, 2013
Catch a pair of early Hitchcock classics at AFI’s Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD. The silent version of Blackmail (1929) will screen Friday, July 26th and The Ring (1927) will screen on Sunday, July 28th. Both programs feature live accompaniment by the Mont Alto Picture Orchestra. Click here for tickets and details.
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
As part of their Silents Please silent film series, the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA will screen the 1925 classic Ben-Hur, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro and featuring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as crowd extras in the chariot race scene. Click here for tickets and more details.
July 3rd- July 5th, 2013
Catch Mary Pickford’s Secrets co-star Leslie Howard onscreen with Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage (1934) this weekend at the historic Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, CA. Click here for tickets and more details.
June 28th – 30th, 2013
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA will hold their 16th Annual Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival this weekend, featuring screenings of classic features and shorts with live accompaniment. Films include Show People (1928), starring Mary Pickford’s close friend Marion Davies, and one of the first animated films ever made, Charles-Émile Reynaud’s Pauvre Pierrot (1892). Click here for tickets and details.
June 5th – July 8th, 2013
In NYC? Catch the rest of Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios, MoMA’s retrospective of frequent Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks director Allan Dwan. Dozens of Dwan’s films will be screened with live piano accompaniment and panel discussions. Click here for more details.
July 21st, 2013
Bring a picnic and see the 1928 silent version of Chicago under the stars at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills. This Cecil B. DeMille production starring Phyllis Haver was the first filmed version of the Oscar-winning 2002 musical. Click here for tickets and details.
June 18th, 2013
See the silent and the sound versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night. Commonly known as the first British “talkie,” Hitchcock also shot a silent version for theaters not yet equipped for sound. Both versions will be screened, the silent accompanied by Michael Mortilla. Visit Oscars.org for tickets and details.
July 18th – 21st, 2013
Got your tickets for the 2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival? This year’s program includes the rarely seen silent version of Louise Brooks’ final feature Prix de Beauté (1930), King Vidor’s madcap 1928 comedy The Patsy starring Marion Davies, and a newly restored print of The Half-Breed, a 1916 Douglas Fairbanks western. Click here for tickets and details.
July 10th, 2013
Join the Cinefamily and The Silent Treatment for a screening of the 1928 silent Dressed to Kill, starring Mary Astor and Edmund Lowe. Organist Cliff Retallick will provide accompaniment. Visit the Cinefamily site for more details.
June 1st & 2nd, 2013
Join the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA for Charlie Chaplin Days, a celebration honoring Mary Pickford’s friend and United Artists partner. The two-day event will feature screenings of early Chaplin short films accompanied by Bruce Loeb on piano, a Chaplin look-alike contest and more. Click here for details.
June 5th, 2013
The Silent Treatment and the Cinefamily shine the spotlight on silent vixen Pola Negri this June with a screening of the rarely-seen Barbed Wire (1927) at the historic Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood. The archival 16mm print from the George Eastman House will be projected with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick, Click here for tickets and details.
May 30th, 2013
See Mary Pickford’s first husband Owen Moore star alongside sex icon Mae West in the 1933 pre-code classic She Done Him Wrong, screening as a double feature with I’m No Angel (also 1933) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Click here for tickets and details.
May 17th, 2013
Join Flicker Alley and the American Cinematheque as they present an evening of silent comedies at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Pianist Cliff Retallick will accompany the short films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Georges Méliès and others. Click here for tickets and details.
May 11th, 2013
Spend your Saturday night with silent heartthrob Rudolph Valentino as Retro Format West screens the 1922 classic Blood and Sand in West Los Angeles, featuring live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Click here for tickets and details.
May 5th, 2013
Bring the kids to a matinee of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), presented by New York City’s Film Forum as part of their Film Forum Jr. program. Click here for tickets and details.
April 21st & 22nd, 2013
Celebrate Charlie’s birthday with a double feature of two Chaplin classics at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood. A restored print of The Gold Rush (1925) will be followed by The Kid (1921), co-starring Jackie Coogan and Edna Purviance. Check out the New Beverly calendar for more details.
March 28 2013 – March 30 2013
This month check out some classics by director Ernst Lubitsch — the man Mary Pickford brought to Hollywood — with screenings at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) screens on March 29th and 30th at the New Beverly,Ninotchka (1939) is on March 28th at the Aero, and on March 29th the Aero will show a double feature of The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Merry Widow (1934). See the websites for tickets and details.
March 10 2013
Join AFI’s Silver Theatre in Maryland for a special 90th anniversary screening of Universal’s classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Starring Lon Chaney and directed by Wallace Worsley, the 1923 silent will be shown with live musical accompaniment by Gabriel Thibaudeau and his ensemble.
March 06 2013
Before Gloria Swanson joined Mary Pickford at United Artists, she was one of Paramount’s most popular stars. Catch Swanson in the rarely seen 1925 comedy Stage Struck at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood. Part of the Silent Treatment series presented by the Cinefamily and the Academy, Stage Struck will feature live piano accompaniment.
March 06 2013 – March 10 2013
The Mary Pickford Foundation’s Resident Scholar Cari Beauchamp will be giving a presentation on the machinations behind the wedding of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at the annual Society of Cinema & Media Studies Conference in Chicago. “No Path to Follow: The Marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks” will be part of the Modeling Marriage: Star Couples and the Politics of Sex and Scandal in Hollywood Romance session on Saturday, March 9th at the Drake Hotel.
March 01 2013 – March 30 2013
Celebrate classic film preservation all month long at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater. From March 1st through March 30th, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will screen a wide array of recently restored films such as the 1950 noir Gun Crazy, the 1926 Clara Bow comedy Mantrap, the little-seen 1933 thriller Supernatural, rare newsreels, a series of short films from the 1910s and much more. Tickets and festival passes can be purchased here.
January 25 2013 – January 27 2013
The historic Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo will pay tribute to comedic duo Laurel and Hardy by screening several of their classic films. Visit their site for more details.
January 17 2013
Join the American Cinematheque and Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre as they pay tribute to Charlie Chaplin as a director by screening his 1940 sound masterpiece The Great Dictator, also starring Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner and Jack Oakie. For tickets and details click here.
January 04 2013 – February 10 2013
The UCLA Film & Television Archive will pay tribute to screen great Clara Bow with a series of screenings and a personal appearance by David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild. For schedule and tickets, click here.
December 21 2012 – December 23 2012
Celebrate Christmas with a silent icon as the American Cinematheque screens a series of favorite Chaplin classics. Modern Times, City Lights, The Gold Rush and The Kid will be shown at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, while the Aero in Santa Monica will screen The Circus and the 1918 short A Dog’s Life. Visit the Cinematheque website for showtimes and tickets.
December 13 2012
Join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as they present a selection of films made 100 years ago. Featuring 1912 silents from Biograph, Essanay, Keystone and Vitagraph studios, the program will be presented on a 1909 hand-cranked motion picture machine and accompanied by Michael Mortilla’s live music. Visit Oscars.org for tickets. At the Pickford Center on Vine Street in Hollywood.
December 10 2012
Join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA as they present a selection of films made 100 years ago. Featuring 1912 silents from Biograph, Essanay, Keystone and Vitagraph studios, the program will be presented on a 1909 hand-cranked motion picture machine and accompanied by Michael Mortilla’s live music. Visit cafilm.org for tickets.
November 11 2012 – January 11 2013
New York’s Film Forum is celebrating the career of Douglas Fairbanks with a festival featuring 12 of the star’s films, including The Three Musketeers, The Gaucho and Don Q, Son of Zorro. Most of the screenings will feature live piano accompaniment. Details can be found here.
October 11 2012 – November 12 2012
MoMA is screening new prints of recently preserved films through Nov. 12th. For details visit Moma.org.
October 01 2012 – December 03 2012
Every Monday, UCLA Film & Television Archive will present a screening of a newly restored film and a discussion on film preservation. For more details, visit UCLA’s Events page.
September 10 2012 – September 11 2012
The Mary Pickford Foundation and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be hosting their first annual celebration of silent films at the Mary Pickford Study Center on Vine Street. Douglas Fairbanks’ The Mark of Zorro will be preceded by New York Hat, the final film Mary Pickford made with D.W. Griffith and the first film written by Anita Loos. The evening includes a tour of the Academy’s film archives. Tickets are on sale to the public for the September 11 evening for $5 at Oscars.org