Join us again as we draw back the curtain on another superb slate of silent-era masterpieces and newly restored discoveries, presenting them as they were meant to be experienced: on the big screen with extraordinary live musical performances.

Schedule Of Events

Sep 27,2024

Beggars Of Life

Programmed By Anita Monga - Artistic Director Of The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Whom We Are Honoring With Our David Shepard Career Achievement Award

With Live Musical Accompaniment By The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

Louise Brooks – Not Yet An International Phenomenon   Plays A Young Woman Who Kills Her Abusive Stepfather, Runs Off With A Hobo And Hops Trains Disguised As A Boy. Director William Wellman Makes Visceral The Feeling Of Being Unjustly Pursued And Living In Constant Danger.

A Beautiful And Touching Film, Chosen For The Festival By David Shepard Honoree Anita Monga.

Sep 28,2024

10:00 AM - 12:40 PM - The Sea Hawk

With Live Musical Accompaniment By The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

Jealousy, Deceit, Murder And Piracy! Coveting His Fiancée, Sir OLiver Tressilian's (Milton Sills) Jealous Half-Brother Frames Tressilian For Murder And Arranges His Banishment To A Spanish Slave Galley. But Tressilian Escapes, Rises To Captain A Pirate Ship Out Of The Barbary Coast And Acquires A Fearsome Reputation. Yet The Love Between Tressilian And His Former Fiancée Who Has Been Forced To Marry Tressilian's Half-Brother, A Man She Loathes Never Wanes  .Until, In A Daring Duel To The Death, Tressilian Fights To Regain His Honor And His Love! Based On The Novel By Rafael Sabatini.

1:30 PM - The Organist At St. Vitus Cathedral

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Hank Troy

Celebrated Actor/Composer/Theater Director Karel Hašler Is The Organist In This Beautiful Czech Film (Original Language Title: Varhaník U Svateho Víta). Jaroslav Blazek’s Exquisite Cinematography Imparts A Dreamlike Quality To This Drama Set In Prague, An Affecting Story Of Devotion, Suicide, Blackmail, And Atonement.

1:30pm - The Organist At St. Vitus Cathedral

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Hank Troy

Celebrated Actor/Composer/Theater Director Karel Hašler Is The Organist In This Beautiful Czech Film (Original Language Title: Varhaník U Svateho Víta). Jaroslav Blazek’s Exquisite Cinematography Imparts A Dreamlike Quality To This Drama Set In Prague, An Affecting Story Of Devotion, Suicide, Blackmail, And Atonement.
Film Courtesy Of Národní Filmový Archiv, Prague.

3:45pm - The Symbol Of The Unconquered

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Tenia Nelson
In An Effort To Be Accessible To All Of Our Community Members This Screening Will Have Sliding Scale Pricing. Our Recommended Ticket Price Is $15 With A Minimum Of $5, But Please Choose The Price That Suits Your Financial Ability.

In This Silent Film, Eve Mason (Iris Hall) Learns Of Her Grandfather's Death, Leaves Her Small Southern Town And Travels West To Inspect Her Newly-Inherited Land. With Help From Her Neighbor, Hugh Van Allen (Walker Thompson), She Arrives At Her Grandfather's Homestead. When The Self-Loathing Jefferson Driscoll (Lawrence Chenault) Learns That Van Allen's Property Sits Atop A Vast Oil Reserve, He Teams Up With A Group Of Unsavory Criminals To Threaten Mason And Force Van Allen Off His Land.

5:30 PM MDT - The Beginners (Early Silent Shorts)

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Rodney Sauer

In An Effort To Be Accessible To All Of Our Community Members This Screening Will Have Sliding Scale Pricing. Our Recommended Ticket Price Is $15 With A Minimum Of $5, But Please Choose The Price That Suits Your Financial Ability.

A Look At Short Films By The Earliest Filmmakers (Thomas Edison, Lumiére Brothers, George Méliès, Alice Guy) Whose Work Showed The Filmmakers Who Followed Them The Way To Do It. Even At The Beginning You Can See The Delight These Artists Found In Inventing An Artform.

Thomas Edison Shorts (16 Min):
Record Of A Sneeze, Annabelle Serpentine Dance, Execution Of Mary Queen Of Scots, John Rice - May Irwin Kiss, Mr Edison At Work In His Laboratory, The Great Train Robbery (16 Minutes Approx)

Auguste And Louis Lumiére Shorts (8 Min):
Workers Leaving The Lumiére Factory, The Gardener Gardened, Feeding The Baby, Lyon, Birthplace Of The Cinématographe, Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat

George Méliès Shorts (17 Min):
Jupiter's Thunderballs, The Cook’s Revenge, A Trip To The Moon (Color Version)

Alice Guy Shorts (10 Min):
The Cabbage Patch Fairy, The Drunken Mattress

7:30pm - The Phantom Carriage

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Hank Troy

The Last Person To Die On New Year’s Eve Before The Clock Strikes Twelve Is Doomed To Take The Reins Of Death’s Chariot And Work Tirelessly Collecting Fresh Souls For The Next Year. So Says The Legend That Drives The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), Directed By The Father Of Swedish Cinema, Victor Sjöström. The Story, Based On A Novel By Nobel Prize Winner Selma Lagerlöf, Concerns An Alcoholic, Abusive Ne’er-Do-Well (Sjöström Himself) Who Is Shown The Error Of His Ways, And The Pure-Of-Heart Salvation Army Sister Who Believes In His Redemption. This Extraordinarily Rich And Innovative Silent Classic (Which Inspired Ingmar Bergman To Make Movies) Is A Dickensian Ghost Story And A Deeply Moving Morality Tale, As Well As A Showcase For Groundbreaking Special Effects.

Film Courtesy Of Janus Films

Sep 29,2024

10am- Intolerance

With Live Musical Accompaniment By The Dollhouse Thieves

In An Effort To Be Accessible To All Of Our Community Members This Screening Will Have Sliding Scale Pricing. Our Recommended Ticket Price Is $15 With A Minimum Of $5, But Please Choose The Price That Suits Your Financial Ability.

2:00 PM - Three Shots Of Buster (A Buster Keaton Revue)

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Tenia Nelson

Buster And Sybil Exit A Chapel As Newlyweds. Among The Gifts Is A Portable House You 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.

5:00 PM - Poker Faces

Closing Film Of The Denver Silent Film Festival On Sunday, September 29th At 5pm

With Live Musical Accompaniment By Hank Troy

This Madcap Farce Stars The King Of The Double-Take, Edward Everett Horton, As A Henpecked Husband Who Is Desperately Trying To Close A Contract To Please His Boss. When His Wife, Played By The Equally Adept Laura La Plante, Is Unable To Attend An All-Important Business Dinner He Hires A Woman To Play Her. But She Turns Out To Be Married To An Insanely Jealous Boxer!

Date: Sep 27-29,2024

Location :Sie FilmCenter - 2510 East Colfax Denver, CO 80206

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