I will be rawther busy in June. Here is the schedule for the repeat-showings of nearly all the silent film programs in Charles Silver’s Auteurist History of Film series. It’s going to be a blast revisiting all these, and in three weeks of daily screenings of silent film. This go-round, the shows will be held in MoMA’s larger Titus I theater, and will be held at times when most people can attend. I will use piano for accompaniment in the first half, switching over to Miditzer theatre organ somewhere around Keaton’s Our Hospitality/Sherlock Jr.; exceptions being Cabiria (Miditzer) and French Avante-Garde (piano).
Weds, June 9 at 4:30 – Actualities and Glimmerings of More (Lumiere et al)
Weds, June 9 at 8:00 – Pre-Cinema (compilation/doc with track)
Thur, June 10 at 4:30 – Lesser-Known Pioneers of Cinema
Thur, June 10 at 8:00 – Georges Melies and His Rivals: Melies, Zecca, et al
Fri, June 11 at 4:30 – D. W. Griffith at Biograph
Fri, June 11 at 8:00 – Stellan Rye: The Student of Prague and Benjamin Christensen: The Mysterious X
Sat, June 12 at 2:00 – Edwin S. Porter (Before the Nickelodeon doc, plus shorts shown MOS)
Sat, June 12 at 5:00 – D. W. Griffith: The Avenging Conscience and Judith of Bethulia
Sat, June 12 at 8:00 – Giovanni Pastrone: Cabiria
Sun, June 13 at 5:00 – “Anthology of Italian Cinema” (compilation/doc with track)
Weds, June 16 at 8:00 – Von Stroheim: Foolish Wives (print has track)
Thur, June 17 at 8:00 – Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin and October (prints have tracks)
Fri, June 18 at 8:00 – Send in the Clowns: Linder, Chaplin, Normand, Arbuckle, Keaton
Sat, June 19 at 2:00 – Ince: Custer’s Last Fight / De Mille: The Cheat
Sat, June 19 at 5:00 – Marshall Neilan The Jackknife Man / King Vidor: Amarilly of Clothesline Alley
Sun, June 20 at 5:30 – Raoul Walsh: Regeneration /Maurice Tourneur: The Blue-Bird
Mon, June 21 at 4:30 Buster Keaton: Sherlock, Jr. and Our Hospitality
Mon, June 21 at 8:00 – Ernst Lubitsch: The Marriage Circle
Weds, June 23 at 4:30 – Fritz Lang: Siegfried
Weds, June 23 at 8:00 – F.W. Murnau: The Last Laugh
Thur, June 24 at 4:30 – Merian C. Cooper: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
Thur, June 24 at 8:00 – King Vidor: The Big Parade
Fri, June 25 at 4:30 – F.W. Murnau: Sunrise (print with orig track)
Fri, June 25 at 8:00 – Buster Keaton: The General, plus Steamboat Bill, Jr. (last 2 reels only)
Sat, June 26 at 2:00 – Carl Th. Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sat, June 26 at 5:00 – French Avant-garde shorts, incl. Clair’s Entr’ Acte, Leger’s Ballet Mechanique, Buñuel’s Un Chien Andelou and more.
Sat, June 26 at 8:00 – Frank Borzage: Street Angel (print with orig track)
Sun, June 27 at 2:30 – Dziga Vertov: Man with a Movie Camera, plus Kino Pravda
Sun, June 27 at 5:30 – V. I. Pudovkin: Storm Over Asia, plus Chess Fever
Mon, June 28 at 4:30 – G.W. Pabst: Pandora’s Box
Mon, June 28 at 8:00 – Josef von Sternberg: Docks of New York
Weds, June 30 at 4:30 – Victor Sjöstrom: The Wind
Weds, June 30 at 8:00 – Aleksandr Dovzhenko: Arsenal