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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
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.
One of the most revered comedies of the silent era….Buster Keaton’s favorite film and masterpiece, The General. 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.
THE GENERAL finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny’s fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using various modes of transportation in comic action scenes that highlight Keaton’s boundless wit and dexterity.
The late-great Orson Welles gave this review:
“The greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made”
Organist Dean Lemire will be performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.
Tickets available at: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/16511/
Runtime: 75 min
Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening. Learn more here. Most screenings are currently at 75% capacity. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking.
1928 classic starring comedian extraordinaire, Buster Keaton. Buster plays a college graduate trying to gain the respect of his father, a roughneck riverboat captain, as well as the love of Kitty, pretty daughter of his father’s business rival. This film contains one of cinema’s most famous (and dangerous) stunts as Buster narrowly avoids being crushed by a tumbling house façade.
Along with our feature film, we will be showing a rare recently restored Thanhauser Studio short film: TOODLES, TOM & TROUBLE (1915)
Both films will be accompanied live by organist Jonas Nordwall, performing his original score on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ
Tickets available from The Hollywood Theatre
Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening. Learn more here. Most screenings are currently at 75% capacity. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking.
The first EVER Drive-In silent film! Hollywood organist Dean Lemire, will be performing his original LIVE music score at the EXPO Center.
Starring Harold Lloyd in his most famous and iconic film. SAFETY LAST! was highly successful and critically hailed, and it cemented Lloyd’s status as a major figure in early motion pictures. It is viewed today as one of the great film comedies of all time. Get ready for an action-packed romantic comedy that will keep you on the edge of your “car”seat!
Tickets available from Tickets West PDX