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Flirting With Fate
$5.00 Add to cartAlgernon the starving artist loses his girl, his big commission and his best picture (of the girl) all on the same day, and decides to end it all. Happily his plan does not work out as intended.
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A Girl’s Folly
$5.00 Add to cartFollow a bright, imaginative country girl to the big city with a silent film star and his director to make their next film. Maurice Tourneur shows us what filmmaking looks like behind the scenes in 1917.
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Why Change Your Wife?
$5.00 Add to cartHow do you bring the sparkle, the romance, the forbidden fruit, back into your marriage? Divorce, of course! Plus the latest 1920 fashions in liquor, swimwear and home furnishings.
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The Duchess of Buffalo
$5.00 Add to cartSee Constance Talmadge’s hilarious romantic comedy The Duchess of Buffalo, with a live introduction and expertly improvised piano score by Dr. Philip Carli, one of the greatest modern silent film accompanists.
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The Student of Prague
$5.00 Add to cartSee the 1913 doppelgänger horror film The Student of Prague, with a live introduction and expertly improvised piano score by Dr. Philip Carli, one of the greatest modern silent film accompanists. Doppelgänger – mysterious doubles – have a long history in folklore around the world, but the word we use was coined as recently as 1796, by a German novelist. In this film Baldwin, a lively student who has run through his money, is inveigled by a sharp and diabolical-looking fellow student, a jokester named Scapinelli, to exchange for a fortune in gold – not his soul, oh no! Merely, “anything I may choose in your room.” Baldwin is astonished when Scapinelli chooses his image in the mirror, and it obediently follows the jokester out of the room. Baldwin soon learns how complicated and downright spooky life becomes when your mirror image belongs to someone else.
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Snow White
$5.00 Add to cartSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a fantastical 1912 Broadway play by Winthrop Ames, was adapted by Ames as a film in 1916. Two wonderful features of the film are the stunningly sumptuous costumes, sets and properties, and Ames’ adaptation of the fairy tale to modern psychological taste, including the social niceties of living as a princess with an evil stepmother and the motivation of the huntsman. And then there is Marguerite Clark. Her fame at the time rivaled that of Mary Pickford, but unfortunately so few of her films survive that we barely know her now. Here is a lovely introduction!
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Les Deux Timides
$5.00 Add to cartLes Deux Timides is a French film, René Clair’s last silent feature, which hops back and forth between drawing room farce and slapstick. A shy young lawyer accidentally helps to get a wife-beating thug what’s coming to him, and when the thug finishes his prison sentence he finds that his wife has died and the lawyer has fallen in love with a girl. So he naturally courts the girl himself – her and her shy elderly father. With two shy protectors, how will Cecile escape disaster?
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The Virginian
$5.00 Add to cartDeMille’s film The Virginian is an exciting adaptation of Owen Wister’s classic novel, which explores how free agency, high spirits and the natural desire for material gain are tempered by both moral values and law and order – surely a tale for our times. The title character, a handsome cowboy named only by his native state, fights for honor and the love of a woman while working hard to create a life for them both in the untamed West. As always, Dr. Carli’s introduction illuminates its place in silent film history, and his expertly improvised piano accompaniment to the film brings it to new life.
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The Italian
$5.00 Add to cartIn 1915 the wave of poor Italian immigrants was reaching its height, as was racial and ethnic bigotry. In The Italian, which was placed on the Library of Congress National Registry of landmark films, we see incidents from the life of one of the immigrants, a Venetian gondolier. As always, Dr. Carli’s introduction illuminates its place in silent film history, and his expertly improvised piano accompaniment to the film brings it to new life.