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October 7th, 2023 – 1 pm & 4 pm

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Organ Grinder 50th Anniversary Concerts

Join us for one of two concerts filled with nostalgic tunes as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Organ Grinder — get ready to party!

Saturday, October 7th – 1 pm and 4 pm
Cleveland High School
3400 SE 26th Ave., Portland, OR

BUY TICKETS ($10 per person): organgrinder50.eventbrite.com

Join us for a groovy celebration of the Organ Grinder’s 50th anniversary! on Saturday, October 7th, 2023. It’s gonna be a blast from the past, filled with music, memories, and good vibes. Don’t miss out on this epic event happening at Cleveland High School in Portland, OR, USA. Get ready to rock and roll with some of the best theatre organ music you’ve ever heard. This concert is a one-of-a-kind experience featuring original organists with a surprise or two that you won’t want to miss. So mark your calendars and get ready to celebrate 50 years of Organ Grinder magic while raising money through ticket sales for Cleveland’s Choral and Music Departments!

NOTE: The top of your ticket will clearly indicate the concert you select (1 PM EARLY AFTERNOON or 4 PM LATE AFTERNOON) even though the time indicates 1 pm beneath. This is because there are two different concert time tickets sold under a single event.

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Portland remembers the celebrated Organ Grinder Pizza Restaurant located on SE 82nd and Foster. This afternoon’s performances help bring back those electric times with family and friends including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars medley, a short clip from one of the famous silent movies accompanied by the organ and some bubbles thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

September 23, 2023 – 2 pm

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IT (1927)

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR

Featuring Hollywood organist Dean Lemire at the Mighty Wurlitzer performing his original score.

This is IT.  The 1927 film sensation that rocketed the fabulous Clara Bow into a Hollywood legend. She lights up the screen in this delightful and light-hearted comedy. Critics praised the star and the film as “a joy to behold.”

Appropriately named “IT”… (the 1920’s word for sex appeal)  Clara Bow defines the jazz era and was the quintessential definition of a flapper.

“All the women wanted to be her and all the men wanted to be with her!”

Don’t miss IT.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE: YES
YEAR: 1927
RUNTIME: 72 MINS

Purchase Tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/22928/

April 22nd, 2023 – 2:00 pm

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR

From the creator of NOSFERATU and LAST LAUGH, we are proud to present,  F.W. Murnau’s 1927 masterpiece, SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS.

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

Considered by many to be the best film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau’s SUNRISE represents “pre-talkie” silent artistry at its peak.

Murnau’s graceful moving camera, expressive lighting, and superimpositions lyrically evoke the inner passion, pain, and romanticism driving the love triangle among a simple country couple and a vampish city woman. SUNRISE as a whole is wonderfully moving, and remains to this day one of the most visually poetic films to have ever been made.

SUNRISE’s artistic impact can be seen most notably in CITIZEN KANE (1941).

It won two Academy Awards: Janet Gaynor for best actress and Karl Struss and Charles Rosher for best cinematography.

#15 – Top 100 Films of All Time – Variety

IMDB – 92% rating  –  8.1 of 10 stars (52,090 reviews)

Rotten Tomatoes – 98%  rating

Runtime: 94 minutes

Purchase tickets here

March 25th, 2023 – 2:00 pm

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Buster Keaton’s One Week & Sherlock Jr.

Saturday March 25th, 2023 – 2:00 pm at The Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd.,Portland, OR 97212

Back by popular demand…Buster Keaton “The Great Stoneface.”  We are screening two of his best and most comedic films plus a special cartoon!

ONE WEEK (1920): Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a mail order house kit you can “easily put together in one week”  It doesn’t help that Buster’s rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts.

SHERLOCK JR. (1924): Local movie theatre projectionist (Buster Keaton) longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.

“Self-referentiality, impeccable stunts and eye-popping cinematography: Keaton’s grace and visual wit are unmatched even today.” Tom Shone – London Times

Organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Run Time: 77 minutes

Tickets Available here

February 25th, 2023 2:00pm

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Buster Keaton in Seven Chances (1925)

Saturday February 25th, 2023 – 2:00 pm at The Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd.,Portland, OR 97212

Told that he will inherit  $7 million by 7:00pm if he can get married in time, lovelorn lawyer Jimmie Shannon sets off on a wild bride-chase. The hilariously inventive comedy culminates with one of Buster Keaton’s most renowned set pieces, finding him pursued through the streets of Los Angeles by a gaggle of wannabe-wives – as well as scores of massive, dislodged boulders.

The hilarity of Buster Keaton continues with one of his famous short comedies!

Organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Run Time: 70 minutes

Tickets Available here

100th Anniversary of Nosferatu

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Nosferatu (1922) – Saturday November 26th 7:00 PM

Hollywood Theatre – 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR 97212

Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the mighty Hollywood Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ to celebrate NOSFERATU’S 100th Anniversary.

This was the first vampire film…and still reigns today as the granddaddy 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. Director F. W. Murnau was a huge influence for Alfred Hitchcock…this film proved especially influential for PSYCHO.

Feel free to wear your best Goth outfit….we will be having a costume contest right before the show starts!

“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

Buy Tickets Online Here

The Phantom of the Opera

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Saturday, October 29th – 2 pm

The original masterpiece of horror that shocked cinema for decades! Starring “The Man of a 1000 Faces”,  Lon Chaney with Mary Philbin.

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 Christine Daae.

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

Tickets available at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/19634/

Runtime: 90 min

Metropolis (1927)

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Saturday September 24th, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Fritz Lang’s 1927 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.

Organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

“It leaves you dazed and 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% audience score!

Runtime 274 minutes

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Flesh and the Devil (1927)

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Saturday March 26th, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Greta Garbo gives an incendiary performance as the smoldering femme fatale in this romantic, and erotically charged melodrama. Co-starring John Gilbert – the ”The Great Lover” of the silent film era.
Organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Tickets available at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/17649/

Runtime: 109 minutes

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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Saturday, February 26th, 2:00 pm

From the midst of the Russian revolution of 1905, the crew of the Battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Battleship Potemkin brought cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase.

Organist Jonas Nordwall will be performing his original score on the mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Tickets available at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/17330/

Runtime: 67 min

Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening. Learn more here. This screening will be at at 100% capacity. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking.