Kennington Bioscope presents its ninth Silent Film Festival, with the support of The Cinema Museum. All silent films will have live accompaniment by our highly acclaimed team of musicians. The line-up below is provisional. Saturday 10:00 Weekend Wives (1929), directed by Harry Lachman and starring Monty Banks. Introduced by Lisa Stein Haven, author of the upcoming Monty […]
With LIVE musical accompaniment by Hank Troy A film of and about deceptive appearances, The Garden of Eden starts as a Viennese drama but soon morphs into a Riviera comedy. Its script was penned by Hans Kraly, Ernst Lubitsch’s collaborator on 30 films, and was briskly directed by Lewis Milestone in a joyful, light-hearted mood. […]
Canadian premiere of a new restoration by the San Francisco Film Preserve. Live accompaniment by Morgan-Paige Melbourne Directed by Lewis Milestone Starring: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Charles Ray, Maude George This sly, sexy romantic comedy follows wide-eyed Toni (Corinne Griffith), a naïve Viennese pretzel baker whose dreams of becoming an opera singer takes […]
To celebrate this year’s Earth Day, please join the Sierra Club’s archivist Joanna Black for The Sierra Club Presents: Three Films that Shaped Wilderness Conservation. Joanna will discuss how the Sierra Club’s early film program, spearheaded by environmentalist and the Sierra Club’s first Executive Director David Brower, helped galvanize the environmental movement and lead to the […]
Réalisation : Friedrich Ermler Scénario : Friedrich Ermler et Ekaterina Vinogradskaïa Photographie : Evgueni Schneider Décors : Evgueni Enei Production : Lensovkino Avec : Fedor Nikitine, Lioudmila Semenova, Valeri Solovtsov, Yakov Goudkine, Viatcheslav Viskovski, Sergueï Guerassimov Lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, le sous-officier Filimonov est victime d’une grave commotion qui le laisse amnésique. Une […]
Growing up tomboy on her family’s Hawaiian ranch, wild child Hula Calhoun is as comfortable eating with her hands as she is on horseback. Then she falls head over heels—with a married man. In her second collaboration with director Victor Fleming Clara Bow lights up every frame she’s in, demonstrating again that, yes, she’s a […]
