March 23rd, 2024 – 2:00 pm

7th Heaven (1927)

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

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

In celebration of Feminist March – Women’s History Month, Pipe Organ Pictures is proud to present 7TH HEAVEN…..winner of 3 Academy Awards.

This is the film that rocketed Janet Gaynor into a superstar of the golden silent film era.  Her performance in 7th Heaven won her the very 1st Academy award ever presented – for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress for her performance in SUNRISE filmed the same year. Gaynor co-stars with Charles Farrell, with whom she would make another 10 films with. Director Frank Borzage won the Academy Award for best director for 7TH HEAVEN as well.

The film is set in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, Chico (Farrell) a sewer worker, saves a young prostitute, Diane (Gaynor) , from being abused by her sister. Janet Gaynor’s performance as the film’s female lead was lauded as one of the most memorable and affecting performances of the era.

“7TH HEAVEN can only be described as the eighth wonder of the movie world… inspiring from start to finish. Its gripping storyline, emotional depth, and the director’s excellent use of the camera bring the story to life. Director Borzage has given this film everything it needs to succeed…and indeed, has gripped the hearts of audiences.” — The N.Y. Evening Telegram

Tomatometer 100% Score – Rotten Tomatoes

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE: YES

RUNTIME: 118 MINS

Purchase Tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/24830/

If the direct ticket link above does not work for you, go to the Hollywood Theatre Splash Page and click on the 2:00 Showtime on the right.

February 25th, 2024 – 2:00 pm

Our Hospitality (1923)

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

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

Starring “the great Stoneface” Buster Keaton.

OUR HOSPITALITY was Buster Keaton’s second self-produced, full-length feature that was full of groundbreaking gags, including some of his most terrifying and precisely timed stunts ever filmed…which established him as the most athletic and stylistically daring of all the esteemed great silent comedians.
Keaton stars…as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a shack and that the object of his affection (Keaton’s real-life wife, Natalie Talmadge) is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud.

That waterfall swing and rescue of Talmadge was surely one of the greatest, most thrilling action scenes in cinema history in 1923 and still is today.” Adam Kempenaar – Filmspotting

Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Tomatometer  90% Audience Score.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE: YES

RUNTIME: 74 MINS

Purchase Tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/23518/

If the direct ticket link above does not work for you, go to the Hollywood Theatre Splash Page and click on the 2:00 Showtime on the right.

November 25th, 2023 – 7:00 pm

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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

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

One of the most iconic and influential films ever released, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) was not only the first horror film,  it was also the very first German expressionist film ever made….justly famed for it’s visually skewed, anxiety-inducing angles of its painted backdrops, and for the nightmarish tension of its macabre storyline, in which Francis (Friedrich Feher) attempts to solve a series of murders that he suspects to be the work of an insane carnival hypnotist, Dr Caligari (Werner Krauss), and his somnambulist sideshow attraction, Cesare (Conrad Veidt).

This gothic masterpiece has seeped into the very soul of movie-making itself, continuing to cast its unbreakable spell – thrilling, chilling, electrifying. Arguably,  the most visually influential movie of the silent period.  So many great artists were inspired by this film including, Virginia Woolf, Tim Burton, and the great Alfred Hitchcock, gave credit in his memoirs, “Caligari was the inspiration for Psycho!”
REVIEWS:

“The picture sets itself the task of raising your hair from your head, and it succeeds from the moment the actors appear in the prologue.” – Harriette Underhill, New York Tribune

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is undeniably clever. It is most artistically acted. The lightning is a marvel of spookiness. And if you are looking for something different, well — it is certainly different with a vengeance.” – Mae Tinee, Chicago Tribune

Caligari remains Germany’s greatest gift to cinema.” – Tom Watson, CineVue


IMDB –  8 of 10 Stars Rating
Rotton Tomatoes:  96% Tomatometer Rating

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE: YES

RUNTIME: 77 MINS

Purchase Tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/23518/

If the direct ticket link above does not work for you, go to the Hollywood Theatre Splash Page and click on the 7:00 Showtime on the right.

October 28th, 2023 – 2:00 pm

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)

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

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

At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom haunts 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.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE: YES

FORMAT: DIGITAL

RUNTIME: 90 MINS

Purchase Tickets at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/23267/

If the direct ticket link above does not work for you, go to the Hollywood Theatre Splash Page and click on the 2:00 Showtime on the right.

September 23, 2023 – 2 pm

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

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

100th Anniversary of Nosferatu

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

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)

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)

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