The Black Pirate in 4K Thu, Nov 21 | 7:30pm | TMT
The Black Pirate employed Technicolor II, an early two-color process that took two filmstrips, one dyed orange-red and the other dyed blue-green, and cemented them together for projection. Douglas Fairbanks—who portrays a nobleman posing as the “Black Pirate” to seek justice for his father’s death— took a daring and adventurous route by designing the production for color cinematography in the 1920s. Bringing added dimension to the remarkable action scenes, Fairbanks ultimately realized his childhood admiration for pirate stories through innovative filmmaking of the silent era. DIRECTED BY: Albert Parker. WRITTEN BY: Dougals Fairbanks, Jack Cunningham. WITH: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp. 1926. 100 min. USA. Technicolor. Silent. 4K DCP. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation in cooperation with the British Film Institute. Funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Special thanks to Alexander Payne.
THE WOMEN
The Women Sat, Nov 23 | 2pm | TMT
Co-written by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, The Women delivers a cast of 135, each with a speaking role, to the total exclusion of men. The delightfully witty and rapid-fire dialogue pours out of a cadre of familiar faces, including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell. While the majority of the film unfolds in black-and-white, a delightful six-minute fashion show shot in dazzling Technicolor included. It features gowns by Adrian, the iconic MGM-based costume designer behind many Technicolor splendors, including The Wizard of Oz (1939) . DIRECTED BY: George Cukor. WRITTEN BY: Anita Loos, Jane Murfin. WITH: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland. 1939. 133 min. USA. B&W, Technicolor. English. DCP.
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