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| rodney at (no spam) mont-alto.com... |
 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:23 am |
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When touring to California, we always love playing at the Rafael
Theater in San Rafael. It's a renovated (rather than restored) vintage
theater with an intimate auditorium that is always ideal for our
sound, and features the top-notch projection you'd expect from a
modern repertory art cinema.
After considerable discussion, the Rafael Film Center has decided to
run CHICAGO (1927), the lively and long-unavailable silent version of
the well-known murder-and-celebrity-trial story that has been
discussed here several times recently. This is a bit of a risk for
them, as their silents in the past have almost all been Lloyd or
Keaton comedies.
CHICAGO
Rafael Film Center
Monday, July 14, 2008
Start time and price TBA (check Mont Alto's web site or the Rafael
Theater web site).
Phyllis Haver stars as the seductive, shallow, and manipulative “jazz
slayer” Roxie Hart, and Victor Varconi plays a sympathetic and complex
Amos Hart. Unlike later film versions of the story, the silent version
is not a nostalgic look at the 1920s -- it was made in the time
itself, and holds no romantic illusions about the era. The film is
funny and dramatic by turns, and cruelly satirizes the perversion of
justice by celebrity. A lively jazz-era score, using music suggested
by the original musical cue sheet, will be provided by the Mont Alto
Motion Picture Orchestra.
And, as announced previously, we'll be playing for Harold Lloyd's THE
KID BROTHER on Friday July 11 at 7 pm, and THE SILENT ENEMY on Sunday
July 13 at 1:10 p.m. at the Castro Theater in San Francisco as part of
the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:38 pm |
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On Jun 17, 4:23 pm, "rod... at (no spam) mont-alto.com" <rod... at (no spam) mont-alto.com>
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Quote: When touring to California, we always love playing at the Rafael
Theater in San Rafael. It's a renovated (rather than restored) vintage
theater with an intimate auditorium that is always ideal for our
sound, and features the top-notch projection you'd expect from a
modern repertory art cinema.
After considerable discussion, the Rafael Film Center has decided to
run CHICAGO (1927), the lively and long-unavailable silent version of
the well-known murder-and-celebrity-trial story that has been
discussed here several times recently. This is a bit of a risk for
them, as their silents in the past have almost all been Lloyd or
Keaton comedies.
Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestrawww.mont-alto.com
I can assure any fan of comedy that they won't be disappointed by
"Chicago," since it has both sight and word gags throughout the
wonderfully told story.
I was able to attend the Three Oaks, Michigan showing of "Chicago"
last year and hope that it might someday be shown someday in the
Detroit area.
I liked the musical, but I really enjoyed the 1927 Silent film,
"Chicago."
Rich Wagner |
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