The General (1926)

Saturday, February 28th, 2026 – 2:00pm

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

****Special 100TH Anniversary Screening of THE GENERAL****

One of the finest and most revered comedies of the silent era….Buster Keaton’s favorite film…the iconic masterpiece of the “Great Stoneface.”

Shot on location in Cottage Grove, Oregon in the summer of 1926, THE GENERAL contains the most expensive stunt ever filmed in the silent era…the iconic shot of a real locomotive crashing off a collapsing bridge and into the ravine below.

More than just a constant stream of great gags, what makes THE GENERAL so extraordinary is that it is superlative on every level: in terms of its humor, suspense, historical reconstruction, character study, visual beauty, and technical precision. One might even argue that it comes as close to flawless perfection as any feature ever made, comic or otherwise.

We will also be screening a rare silent short!

Fandom review:  #25 of top 100 films to see before you die

The late-great Orson Welles review: “The greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”

Rotten Tomatoes review: Tomatometer 92% (63 reviews)PopcornMeter 92% (10,000+ ratings)

IMDB:  8.2 of 10 Rating

Director: Buster Keaton
Run time: 94 mins
Format: Digital

Purchase Tickets at: The Hollywood Theatre

Metropolis (1927)

Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 – 7:00 pm

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire performs his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Fritz Lang’s 1927 iconic science-fiction masterpiece…. fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang’s personal fascination with the darker side of human nature.

Written by Fritz Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and starring Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.

Stunning art-deco visuals set in a futuristic urban dystopia, the film follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city’s ruler, and Maria, a poor worker, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes of their city.

“It leaves you dazed and fully sated. Compared to the fast food eye candy surrounding it these days. Metropolis is a gourmet 20-course meal.”  Michael Sragow – Baltimore Sun

“An awesome cinema spectacle.”  Steven Rea – The Philadelphia Inquirer

“What you come to see are the strokes of a visual master. You will not be disappointed.”  Marta Barber – Miami Herald

“Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating”.   Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun Times

Rotten Tomatoes:  Rated 97% TomatoMeter / 92% 50,000+ Ratings!
Runtime:  2 hrs: 31min. (151 minutes)

Experience Metropolis as it was originally meant to be seen (and HEARD) …on the big silver screen,  with a vintage theatre pipe organ…at Portland’s historic 1926 movie palace….. the Hollywood Theatre.

More about Pipe Organ Pictures and The Hollywood Theatre’s mighty Wurlitzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Kd9m6BouE

Director: Fritz Lang

Wheelchair Accessible
Format: Digital
Purchase Tickets at: The Hollywood Theatre

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Saturday, October 25th, 2025 – 2:00 pm

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy Portland, OR 97212

Come join us for the 100th Anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera (1925-2025).

This is the original masterpiece of horror… that shocked cinema for decades! (Many critics say it is still the best version.) Starring Lon Chaney “The Man of a 1000 Faces” in his most famous role!

At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta, and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown singer Christine Daae.

Organist Martin Ellis will be performing his original score – live on the mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

Wheelchair Accessible
Run time: 90 mins
Format: Digital
Purchase Tickets at: The Hollywood Theatre

The Circus (1928)

Saturday April 19th, 2025 – 2:00 pm
The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy
Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of “The Circus”, paying tribute to the acrobats and pantomimists who inspired his virtuoso pratfalls. This gag-packed comedy ranks among Chaplin’s finest, thanks to some of the most outlandish set pieces of the director-performer’s career.
Truly one of the greats.  

“THE CIRCUS may be the film that most definitively silences critics who claim that Charlie Chaplin’s movies aren’t cinematic.” – Christian Blauvelt, Slant Magazine

“Innovative and timelessly hilarious.” – Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
“THE CIRCUS is a magnificent film — a mental tonic and a good hour’s physical exercise. No one should miss it.” – Celia Simpson, The Spectator
Rotten Tomatoes review:
Tomatometer: 97%
Popcornmeter: 94% (5,000+ ratings)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Run time: 85 mins

Purchase Tickets at https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-circus/

Broken Blossoms (1919)

Saturday March 22nd, 2025 – 2:00 pm
The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy
Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

Starring legendary actress Lillian Gish, who lights up the screen in one of her most famous and critically acclaimed roles.

Directed by D.W. Griffith, BROKEN BLOSSOMS is considered his most tragic, serious, poetic, intricate and melodramatic film…yet with a soft-focus, and unique ethereal quality. Controversial and groundbreaking, as one of the first films to feature an interracial love affair.

The film tells the story of a mystical, fragile romance in London’s foggy slums between a young, gentle, opium-addicted Chinese man (Richard Barthelmess as Cheng Huan) and an illegitimate Cockney waif (Lillian Gish as Lucy Burrows), who is abused by her brutish, bigoted prize-fighting father. The purest dreams of the couple, both ‘broken blossoms’, are destroyed by the sordid reality of racism.

“Griffith in 1919 was the unchallenged king of serious American movies (only C.B. DeMille rivaled him in fame), and BROKEN BLOSSOMS was seen as brave and controversial. What remains today is the artistry of the production, the ethereal quality of Lillian Gish, the broad appeal of the melodrama, and its social impact. Films like this…helped nudge a xenophobic nation toward racial tolerance.” – Roger Ebert


“Pure Griffith poetry, marvelous use of light and shadow in cameraman Billy Bitzer’s evocation of foggy Limehouse, and a truly unforgettable performance from Gish” – Tom Mile, Time Out

Rotton Tomatoes: 
95% Tomatometer          
71% Popcorn Meter

Purchase Tickets at https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/broken-blossoms/

Run time: 107 mins
Format: Digital

The General (1926)

Saturday February 22nd, 2025 – 2:00 pm
The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy
Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

One of the finest and most revered comedies of the silent era….Buster Keaton’s favorite film..the iconic masterpiece of the “Great Stoneface”.

Shot on location in Cottage Grove, Oregon in the summer of 1926, The General contains the most expensive stunt ever filmed in the silent era: The iconic shot of a real locomotive crashing off a collapsing bridge and into the ravine below.

More than just a constant stream of great gags, what makes The General so extraordinary is that it is superlative on every level: in terms of its humor, suspense, historical reconstruction, character study, visual beauty, and technical precision. One might even argue that it comes as close to flawless perfection as any feature ever made, comic or otherwise.

We will also be screening a rare silent short!

Fandom review:  #25 of top 100 films to see before you die!

The late-great Orson Welles review: “The greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”

Rotten Tomatoes review: Tomatometer 92% (63 reviews)PopcornMeter 92% (10,000+ ratings)IMDB:  8.2 of 10 Rating

Purchase tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-general/

Director: Buster Keaton
Run time: 92 mins
Format: Digital

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

Saturday November 30th, 2024 – 7:00 pm
The Hollywood Theatre
4122 North East Sandy
Portland, OR 97212

Hollywood organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on our mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

This was the very first “Dracula” film…and still reigns as the epic “grand-daddy”of all horror films. Starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife of his estate agent and brings the plague to their town.

While there have been countless remakes by filmmakers, trying to improve and capitalize on the success of NOSFERATU, none has really ever hit the mark…compared to the original (which, by the way,  has no blood and gore anywhere in the film). This iconic original stands alone….and one of those “you must see” films.

We will also be screening a very rare 1929 silent short, filmed in Portland!

“It’s not just a great horror movie. It’s a poem of horror, a symphony of dread, a film so rapt, mysterious and weirdly lovely it haunts the mind long after it’s over.” Michael Wilmington – Chicago Tribune

“It doesn’t scare us, but it haunts us. It shows not that vampires can jump out of shadows, but that evil can grow there, nourished on death.”Roger Ebert –  Chicago Sun-Times

“One of the best and most beautiful horror classics.  It is visually stunning, has great acting, and is one of the creepiest movies you’ll ever see, even today.”CinemaSiren


Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 97%
Popcorn Meter 85% (85,000+ ratings)

Director: F.W. Murnau
Run time: 104 mins
Format: Digital

Purchase tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/nosferatu-1922/