Slapstick Saturday, the annual highlight of the Dutch Silent Film Festival, returns to the Parktheater. Harold Lloyd's classic Grandma's Boy (1922) is the main film of the evening. A touching story about insecurity and overcoming your fears, of course framed with a lot of humor. Harold is a young man who has been bullied his whole life. When he […]
Piano accompaniment by Ben Model By 1919, Maurice Tourneur had established himself as one of American cinema’s most sophisticated visual stylists, known for his innovative use of chiaroscuro lighting and painterly compositional techniques. The White Heather demonstrates his characteristic ability to transform talky theatrical material into compelling images, here elevating a Victorian stage melodrama into a visually […]
Get swept away by the haunting beauty of “The Dragon Painter.” Starring the incredible Sessue Hayakawa, this film tells the tale of Tatsu, a passionate artist who loses himself in his art—literally! Believing his beloved princess has been captured by a dragon, Tatsu’s obsession blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. This is more than […]
