Tag Archives: Classics

A long-lost 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, Beyond the Rocks, will receive its U.S. re-premiere with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla at the motion picture Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, November 29. Made when Valentino was at the apex of his …

Screen legend Olivia de Havilland will be honored with an Academy Tribute on June 15, 2006

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Every city should have something as cool as Cleveland’s UnSilent Film series – a multimedia juxtabulation of classic silent films and live electronic music performance. Just in time for Halloween, UnSilent Film celebrates its first anniversary proudly with its fifth presentation, the 1921 classic silent horror film The Cabinet of …

Half a century has passed since Rebel Without a Cause, the ur-film of postwar teenage alienation, made matinee idols of James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo. The Barely Balancing Artists Group, a theatrical company formed especially for the Hollywood classic’s golden anniversary, is marking the occasion with a stage …

To help celebrate Halloween, the film Academy will screen the classic 1925 silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, featuring a disfigured composer, a fatal obsession, the Paris Opera House and silent film stars Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin, on Thursday, October 20 at their Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly …

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When I first discovered the joy of foreign films, I decided a salutary mission would be to see all the films that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the non-US winners of the Golden Palm (Palme d’Or) Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The venture teaches a few …

My parents, especially my dad, were very good about sharing their enthusiasms with their children: they wanted us to understand why they liked certain records, TV shows, movies, etc. It helped us to know them, the world around us, and made us feel important to them. Once of my warmest …