Sunday October 28, 2007
Sunday November 18, 2007
Sunday January 27, 2008
Sunday March 9th, 2008
Films from the 2006 season
Films from the 2005 season
Sunday October 28th 2007
The Phantom Of The Opera
The original silent classic from 1925
The Phantom (Lon Chaney Sr.) horribly disfigured by fire, lives in secret in the deep recesses below
the Paris Opera House. But when he falls in love with the beautiful young opera singer, Christine (Mary Philbin)
he becomes aware of his intense loneliness
and isolation. In desparation he carries her off to his lair where he asks only thing - never to remove his mask.
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Sunday November 18th 2007
Comedy Festival
Five Fabulously Funny Films
His Royal Slyness
Harold Lloyd - 1920
Harold is book salesmen that gets caught up in a peasant's revolt in a foreign country and winds up as its president.
A Night In The Show
Charles Chaplin - 1915
When Charlie attends the theatre things get out of hand. It ain't over even after a fat lady is pushed into a fountain.
The Blacksmith
Buster Keaton - 1922
The "Great Stone Face" tries his hand at blacksmithing and winds wrecking a fancy horseless carriage in the process.
Bad Boy
Charley Chase - 1925
Charley tries to please is father, mother and girl-friend. The problem is they all expect something different of him.
The Finishing Touch
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy - 1928
The boys contract to build a house in day, but don't you think the construction quality might suffer a bit?
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Sunday January 27th 2008
True Heart Susie
A D.W. Griffith classic from 1917
Susie May Trueheart (Lillian Gish), a country girl, loves her neighbor William Jenkins (Bobby Harron), but in spite of their good fellowship together, William is as blind to her as a romantic interest. Unbeknownst to William, Susie sells her possessions to secure the wherewithal to send him away to college to study for the ministry and thus fulfill his ambition.
After his graduation, William returns, and Susie has the satisfaction of hearing him preach his first sermon. But her hopes are dashed when William is fascinated by and marries a beautiful but frivolous and worthless girl, Bettina Hopkins (Clarine Seymour).
Susie swallows her pride and grief to serve as bridesmaid at the wedding, but the marriage is a disaster. Will William ever learn of Susie's devotion to him and find in Susie his one true love?
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Sunday March 9th 2008
Wings
Winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1927
On the eve of the First World War, naive Jack Powell and rich David Armstrong vie for the attention of Sylvia Lewis, much to the chagrin of Mary Preston (Clara Bow).
Heeding Uncle Sam's call, Jack and David enlist and become friends as they go through flight training, fight the enemy in spectacularily filmed the air battles, and receive medals for their valor.
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