masterpieces of silent cinema. The story of a small- town husband who tries to repair his marriage after being tempted by a woman from the city features unforgettable visuals. Charles Rosher and Karl Struss won the first-ever Oscar for Cinematography, and the film took the Oscar for Unique and Artistic Picture. DIRECTED BY: F. W. Murnau. WRITTEN BY: Carl Mayer. WITH: George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing. 1927. 95 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Four veteran film artists—actor-director Charlie Chaplin, actor Douglas Fairbanks, director D. W. Griffith, and actor Mary Pickford—established United Artists in 1919. This venture allowed them to release their own projects, gaining control of their creative output and salaries amidst the rise of the Hollywood studio system. Chaplin’s brilliance as a producer, writer, director, and star manifests through his iconic persona character, the Tramp, in his 1925 silent comedy The Gold Rush , the second feature he released under United Artists with total creative control. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Charlie Chaplin. WITH: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale. 1925. 95 min. USA. B&W. Silent. 35mm.
THE PUBLIC ENEMY
The Public Enemy in 35mm Sun, Sep 22 | 2pm | TMT Mon, Sep 23 | 2pm | TMT Wed, Sep 25 | 2pm | DGT In 1923, brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner founded their namesake studio in Hollywood. The Polish Jewish family entered the movie business in 1906 when they pooled their savings to buy a Kinetoscope projector in their adopted home of Youngstown, Ohio. Harry, as studio president, and Jack, sole head of production after Sam’s untimely death, ultimately ran the company. Warner Bros. refrained from lavish, fantastical productions favored by some rivals, instead establishing a reputation for realism, urban dramas, and hard- boiled protagonists, such as the characters and sensibilities featured in William A. Wellman’s Oscar- nominated gangster picture The Public Enemy . DIRECTED BY: William A. Wellman. WRITTEN BY: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright. WITH: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell. 1931. 83 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
KING KONG
King Kong Thu, Oct 3 | 2pm | TMT Wed, Oct 9 | 2pm | DGT Thu, Oct 10 | 2pm | TMT
In 1927, electronics company Radio Corporation of America (RCA), led by David Sarnoff, began to acquire stock in Joseph P. Kennedy’s studio, Film Booking Offices of America (FBO). Over the next year, Sarnoff and Kennedy enacted a series of mergers involving FBO and theater chain Keith-Albee-Orpheum that ultimately formed Radio-Keith-Orpheum, or RKO Radio Pictures. In the studio’s indelible 1933 picture King Kong —an essential pre-Code creature feature—the innovative audio work of Murray Spivack and Earl A. Wolcott amplifies the thrills and drama. Fay Wray’s scream and Kong’s roar cannot be unheard! DIRECTED BY: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. WRITTEN BY: James Creelman, Ruth Rose. WITH: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher. 1933. 104 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.
Drácula in 4K Sat, Oct 26 | 2pm | TMT Mon, Oct 28 | 2pm | TMT Wed, Oct 30 | 2pm | TMT
Jewish, German-born producer Carl Laemmle merged his East Coast–based studio with five others to form Universal in 1912. As president of Universal, Laemmle soon converted a 230-acre San Fernando Valley farm into Universal City, California, the world’s largest filmmaking facility. Universal produced foreign-language versions of their films to target non-English speaking markets, using the same original sets and props. George Melford’s 1931 Drácula —in Spanish, starring Carlos Villarías and
THE GOLD RUSH
The Gold Rush in 35mm Thu, Sep 26 | 2pm | TMT Sun, Sep 29 | 2pm | TMT (Free Museum Day!) Wed, Oct 2 | 2pm | DGT
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