In the context of a “Comedy shorts night” with “The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum”:http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org come and see a Screening of Behind The Screen (1916) in Fremont USA, Saturday October 18 at 7:30 PM.
37417 Niles Blvd,
Fremont, CA 94536 USA
(510)494-14-11
Charles Chaplin directs and appears in four films that demonstrate how his comic persona evolved during the sound era. All shown in new or archival 35mm film prints! Each film $8, CMA members $6, seniors 65 & over $5, students $4, or one Panorama voucher.
h3. “City Lights”
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* Wednesday, August 6, 7:00
* Friday, August 8, 7:00
The “Little Tramp” falls in love with a blind flower seller in this peerless silent comedy (made during the sound era) that skillfully combines slapstick and pathos. Always on lists of the best movies ever made. New 35mm print! (USA, 1931, b&w, silent with musictrack, 87 min.)
h3. “The Great Dictator”
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* Wednesday, August 13, 6:30
* Friday, August 15, 6:30
With Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie. Chaplin plays both a Jewish ghetto barber and the mustachioed, megalomaniacal dictator Adenoid Hynkel in this prescient, passionate satire that was released a year
before the U.S. entered WWII. New 35mm print! (USA, 1940, b&w, 128 min.)
h3. “Monsieur Verdoux”
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* Wednesday, August 20, 6:45
* Friday, August 22, 6:45
With Martha Raye.Chaplin plays a dapper Parisian bank clerk who murders rich widows for their money in this celebrated but controversial black comedy that marked a startling change of pace for the great clown. New 35mm print! (USA, 1947, b&w, 123 min.)
h3. A Countess from Hong Kong (With Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren)
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* Wednesday, August 27, 6:45
* Friday, August 29, 6:45
Loren, Sydney Chaplin, and Tippi Hedren. Chaplin’s rarely revived final film is a romantic comedy about an émigré Russian countess who escapes to America on a luxury liner, stowing away in the cabin of a wealthy diplomat. Chaplin has a small role. Studio print!
(Britain, 1967, color, 35mm, 108 min.)
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Wed., August 6, 7:00
Fri., August 8, 7:00
h3. Cleveland Museum Of Art Informations
adress
11150 East Blvd
Cleveland Ohio 44106
Tel 216-421-7340 or 1-877-262-4748
Screening in New York at The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street,
Between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 6:00 p.m.
“Film Screenings & Events”:http://www.moma.org/calendar/film_screenings.php
Shanghaied Lovers. 1924. USA. Roy Del Ruth. Approx. 16 min. The Floorwalker. 1916. USA. Charles Chaplin. Approx. 24 min.
With piano accompaniment by Ben Model
In the Film exhibition Dalí Laughs
In conjunction with the exhibition Dalí: Painting and Film