Rosita The King of Spain has designs on street singer Rosita (Mary Pickford), whose love for the penniless Don Diego (George Walsh) leads to the couple’s imprisonment. Marking historic moments both for director Ernest Lubitsch, whom Pickford brought from Germany for his debut Hollywood picture, and Pickford, who, at age 31, stars in her premiere adult role, this historical costume romance represents creative producer Pickford’s desire to create an enduring cinematic work. Met with commercial and critical success in 1923, the materials nonetheless fell into obscurity, recovered from Russian archives by The Museum of Modern Art and beautifully restored with recreated English intertitles. DIRECTED BY: Ernst Lubitsch. WRITTEN BY: Edward Knoblock, Norbert Falk, Hans Kraly. WITH: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh. 1923. 90 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. DCP. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art. Restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, RT Features, The Film Foundation, and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.
showcases his trademark empathy within the shomin-geki , or “common people drama,” with a film that is equal parts domestic drama, student comedy, and “salaryman” story centering patriarch Okajima, a low-income insurance salesman counting on his annual bonus to buy presents for his expectant family. Between the difficult authenticity of working-class life and reprieves of ingenious physical comedy, Tokyo Chorus is essential viewing for fans of King Vidor’s The Crowd , which Ozu cited as an inspiration. DIRECTED BY: Yasujirō Ozu. WRITTEN BY: Kōgo Noda. WITH: Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara, Mitsuo Ichimura. 1931. 90 min. Japan. B&W. Silent. Japanese intertitles. 35mm.
THE RACKET (1928)
FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926)
The Racket Sun, Aug 20 | 2pm | TMT
Flesh and the Devil Sun, Aug 6 | 2pm | TMT
Lewis Milestone followed his Oscar-winning direction of the comedy Two Arabian Knights (1927)—awarded at the first Academy Awards in 1928—with this gangster thriller, one of his final silent films and a nominee for Outstanding Picture, also in the first year of the Academy Awards. Silent star Thomas Meighan plays Captain James “Mac” McQuigg, a tough Chicago cop fighting both gangsters and his own corrupt department. The film was long believed lost until one surviving copy was found in Howard Hughes’s personal collection and preserved by the Academy Film Archive. DIRECTED BY: Lewis Milestone. WRITTEN BY: Bartlett Cormack, Del Andrews, Tom Miranda. WITH: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, Pat Collins. 1928. 84 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. DCP. Restored in 2016 by the Academy Film Archive. Elements for this restoration provided by The Howard Hughes Corporation and by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, College of Fine Arts’ Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Greta Garbo achieved top Hollywood stardom with this silent romance about a young man who kills the husband of his great love in a duel and must compete with his best friend for her affections. The Big Parade ’s John Gilbert was at the peak of his career when he played the film’s lead, and his chemistry with Garbo led to three more movies together as well as a passionate off-screen romance. The film’s cinematographer, Oscar-winner William H. Daniels, would be Garbo’s principal lensman for the rest of her career. DIRECTED BY: Clarence Brown. WRITTEN BY: Benjamin F. Glazer. WITH: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent. 1926. 112 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. 35mm.
Safety Last! 100th Anniversary Sun, Aug 27 | 2pm | DGT
The Boy (Harold Lloyd) leaves The Girl (Mildred Davis) and moves to the city to make his fortune but runs into nothing but bad luck, leading to an escalating series of lies and mishaps. One of Harold Lloyd’s most popular films, it includes the most iconic image of his remarkable career— hanging precariously from a giant clock face in downtown Los Angeles—just one of the many memorable moments in this comedy classic, which was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1994. DIRECTED BY: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. WRITTEN BY: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, H. M. Walker. WITH: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. 1923. 64 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. DCP. Courtesy of Harold Lloyd Entertainment.
TOKYO CHORUS (1931)
Tokyo Chorus Sun, Aug 13 | 2pm | TMT
Capitalizing on popular genres of the Shōwa period and coming off his twentieth feature as director, Yasujirō Ozu
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