LIMITED SERIES
SILENT
SUNDAYS JUL 23–AUG 27, 2023
Safety Last Sun, Aug 27 | 2pm | DGT
As a nod to Turner Classic Movies (TCM)’s “Silent Sunday Nights,” hosted by Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart, the museum is launching a series of silent film screenings. Historian David Pierce has concluded that only 26% of American silent features survive in complete form. Both TCM and the Academy Museum are dedicated to showcasing the films of this important period in filmmaking history as part of our cultural heritage. Taking place on Sundays at 2pm, Silent Sundays will showcase iconic movies from the silent era as well as forgotten gems and international classics.
Programmed by Bernardo Rondeau. Notes by Dorota Lech, K.J. Relth-Miller, and Robert Reneau.
Earth ( Zemlya ) Sun, Jul 23 | 2pm | TMT
been preserved. With vibrant colors recreated from the original tinting notes and a new score by composers Julian Ducatenzeiler and Andy Gladbach, this life-affirming love story, which finds Pickford onscreen for the only time with both her sister Lottie and her brother Jack, is further enhanced by Pickford’s captivating performance and an abundance of lush outdoor photography. DIRECTED BY: James Kirkwood. WRITTEN BY: James Kirkwood, Frances Marion. WITH: Mary Pickford, Jack Standing, Lottie Pickford, Gertrude Norman. 1915. 74 min. USA. Tinted. Silent. English intertitles. 4K DCP. Restoration in 2007 by the Mary Pickford Foundation and La Cinémathèque française at the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. Intertitles translated from the French duplicate kept at La Cinémathèque française. Colors from the incomplete copy kept at the BFI and the duplicate primers.
A poetic montage film that draws upon director Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s personal folklore, Earth depicts the onset of the USSR’s era of collectivization. Banned by Soviet authorities nine days after its release, the version that circulated globally was censored. Not until 2012 was Dovzhenko’s original script in the Ukrainian language used to restore the intertitles for this new restoration. Screening for the first time outside of Europe and accompanied by a live musical performance by Kyiv-based composer Luke Corradine, Earth is a cinematic monument to resistance and a staunch reminder that hope cannot be defeated. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Oleksandr Dovzhenko. WITH: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova. 1930. 75 min. Soviet Union. Tinted. Silent. Ukrainian intertitles. DCP. Restored to the order of The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre. The new soundtrack for the film was created by the Ukrainian “ethnic chaos” band DakhaBrakha.
Fanchon the Cricket with Rosita Sun, Jul 30 | 2pm | TMT Fanchon the Cricket
Once thought to be a lost film, this romantic drama about an untamed girl (Mary Pickford), whose reputation suffers due to the villagers’ perception of her grandmother as a witch, was located at the Cinémathèque Française in 2012, where nitrate dupe elements miraculously had
ROSITA (1923)
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