The Garden of Eden preceded by Kipho (Film) In this pre-Code gem from the late silent era, The Garden of Eden, a woman flees her pretzel-baking guardians in Vienna to pursue her dreams of becoming an opera singer in Budapest, where she lands a job as a showgirl in a seedy nightclub. After she and her coworker are […]
Introduced by Cinemateket curator Magnus Rosborn, and accompanied by Matti Bye.
Intro by Bryony Dixon, Curator, BFI National Archive With live accompaniment by Stephen Horne Minus only the gatling-gun dialogue, this is effectively a silent screwball. Scripted by Hans Kraly, Lubitsch’s regular writer, the film follows the fortunes of Corinne Griffith’s radiant young singer as she flees a pretzel bakery for the bright lights of Budapest, […]
The idea that film history was worth preserving received wider acceptance in the 1920s, when some of the first archives entirely dedicated to the cinema emerged around the world. This presentation by Aurore Spiers, author of Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, 1927–1978, will discuss how women contributed to the production of global […]
Lewis Milestone's 1928 classic, The Garden of Eden, stars Corinne Griffith as Toni, an aspiring opera singer who travels to Budapest to pursue her dreams, but the shady Madame Bauer and her dodgy establishment, Palais de Paris, are far from what Toni envisioned! Luckily, wardrobe mistress Rosa comes to her rescue, and the two friends […]
Part of the Maurice Tourneur retrospective.
Lewis Milestone's 1928 classic, The Garden of Eden, stars Corinne Griffith as Toni, an aspiring opera singer who travels to Budapest to pursue her dreams, but the shady Madame Bauer and her dodgy establishment, Palais de Paris, are far from what Toni envisioned! Luckily, wardrobe mistress Rosa comes to her rescue, and the two friends […]
