This year, the annual Silent Movie Day will take place on September 29. Celebrations -- in the form of screenings -- are taking place all over the United States, as well as in Europe. Click on their Facebook page to see if a theater near you will be screening a film -- and if they are, GO! From what I saw, there are Buster Keaton, Clara Bow, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks and other silent films being screened in theaters..... even Joan of Arc and The Phantom of the Opera.
To mark the occasion, the Little Theater in Rochester, New York will screen the most recent restoration of Pandora's Box. The Little Theater opened in 1929, the same year Pandora's Box was released. Over the years, it has become the area's leading venue for classic films. In the 1960s and 1970s, while Louise Brooks was living in Rochester, she would sometimes go to the Little Theater to watch movies.*
The Little Theater (240 East Ave. in Rochester) will screen Pandora's Box twice on September 29th, at 10:30 in the morning and 7:00 in the evening. More information, as well as ticket availability, can be found HERE. According to the Little Theater website:
"One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora’s Box.
Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Brooks’s dazzling individuality.
Restored from the best surviving 35mm elements at Haghefilm Conservation under the supervision of the Deutsche Kinemathek with the cooperation of George Eastman Museum, the Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca di Bologna, Národní filmový archiv, and Gosfilmofond."
* For instance: In March of 1966, Brooks went to the Little Theater to see Lord Love a Duck starring Roddy McDowell. And in late August of 1969, she went to see The Loves of Isadora, a film Brooks thinks highly of.
More about Pandora's Box can be found on the newly revamped Louise Brooks Society website on its Pandora's Box (filmography page).
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