Sunday October 2, 2005
Sunday November 13, 2005
Sunday January 29, 2006
Sunday March 19, 2006
Films of the current season
Sunday October 2, 2005
College
Buster Keaton
goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in College.
Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in
pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of
athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary (Anne Cornwall).
More than he had in any other feature, Keaton stretched the boundaries of solo
physical comedy. In a series of unforgettable vignettes, stone-faced Ronald
tries his hand as a baseball player, soda jerk, waiter, coxswain, and track
star, perfomring each task with a steady determination but with consistently
disastrous results. These scenes are epecially amazing because in demonstrating
Ronald's athletic inadequacies, Keaton reveals a surprising degree of physical
prowess and finesse, particularly during the film's exhilarating climax.
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Sunday
November 13, 2005
The Black Pirate
Douglas
Fairbanks plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he
boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous
rapscallions, and sets about achieving his goal. Along the way, he rescues a
damsel-in-distress princess (Billie Dove), and mangages to get in a few bloody
duels. On the high seas, the athletic Fairbanks provides a no-holds barred,
rip-roaring, stunt-filled voyage -- complete with a one-man takeover of a
merchant ship.
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Sunday
January 29, 2006
Sky High
Tom
Mix is an undercover government agent intent on stopping unlawful Chinese
immigrants being smuggled into the US via the Grand Canyon. Tom also tries to
save a girl who has wandered away from her companions and become lost, but soon
discovers her father may be the guy behind the smuggling operation. Shot on
location in the Grand Canyon, this film features spectacular scenery and boasts
the first ever filmed aerial shots of the Grand Canyon.
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Sunday
March 19, 2006
The Kid
The
opening title reads: “A comedy with a smile — and perhaps a tear." "The
Kid" was director Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film and is considered
one of his best. The film co-stars five-year-old Jackie Coogan (better known to
modern audiences as Uncle Fester on the "Adams Family" tv show) as a child
abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother. When The Little Tramp finds him,
he tries unsuccessfully to find a home for the boy. Obliged to keep him, The
Little Tramp teaches the youngster about life on the streets and just as they
have bonded and become a family, the boy's mother returns in a bittersweet
finale.
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