The
Festival acknowledges the assistance of Flicker Alley ,Film Preservation
Associates, Blackhawk Films and Lobster Films in Festival screenings. The world
renowned David Shepard has lent unstintingly generous and enthusiastic assistance and guidance. The Festival benefits
from and is enhanced by David’s warm continued support and his vast experience
with silent film.
Date |
Movie |
Location |
Sat-11/9/10
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM | For the Term of His Natural Life 1927 (Australia) | Pitt Street Uniting Church 264 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: Norman Dawn
Starring: George Fisher, Arthur McLaglen, Jessica Harcourt, Beryl Gow, Mayne Lynton,
Arthur Tauchert, Eva Novak and Dunstan Webb
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 98 minutes
Live music: accompanist Colin Offord
Presenter: Bruce Elder Senior
Entertainment Writer with the Sydney Morning Herald
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Thu-16/9/10
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM | Passing Fancy Dekigokoro 1933 (Japan) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: by Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Sakomoto
Takeshi, Fushime Nabuko and Tomio Aoki
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 101 minutes
Live music: accompanist Riley Lee, world-class
master of the shakuhachi.
Presenter: Dr. Carol Hayes Senior Lecturer, Japan
Centre,School of Culture, History and Language College of Asia
and the Pacific, The Australian National
University
Peace through a bowl of tea. The Festival is pleased to
present prior to the screening from 6.15-6.45pm
a demonstration of a Japanese tea ceremony. This unique and rich
event for Festival supporters is presented
by the Japan Foundation and Chado Urasenke Tankokai Sydney Association Inc. The
Festival acknowledges the assistance of Wakao Koike; Masafumi Konomi , Yoshiaki
Matsunaga,, Ryoko Freeman and David Freeman.
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Sat-18/9/10
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | The Last Great Magic Lantern Show (Australia) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Presenters: Professor Ian and Margery Edwards and Antony Catrice
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and children
Film: Magic Lantern Slide Presentation
Duration:75 minutes
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Sat-18/9/10
12:15 PM to 2:15 PM | Comedies for Kids and the Young at Heart! (USA) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: A selection of the Kings of Comedy at their
funniest and at full throttle!
Charlie Chaplin in THE ADVENTURER
(1917) 23 minutes; Buster Keaton in COPS
(1922) 18 minutes; Laurel
and Hardy in WRONG AGAIN (1929) 20 minutes; and Max Sennett's LIZZIES OF THE FIELD (1924) 10 minutes. Winsor McKay,
THE PET (1921) 11 mins See the
Australian born star Billy Bevan in Lizzies of the Field driving his
snoozenburg!
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 90 minutes
Live music: accompanist Mauro
Colombis
Presenter: Dr Stephen Juan
Anthropologist Dr Stephen Juan is a commentator on all things human in books,
newspapers, on radio and television. For more than three decades he taught at
the University of
Sydney where in
retirement he remains the Ashley Montagu Fellow. The author of several
best-selling books and member of Channel Nine's Today, Stephen has long
had an interest in cultural history generally and films in particular.
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Sat-18/9/10
2:30 PM to 4:15 PM | The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari 1919-20 (Germany) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: by Robert Wiene
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad
Veidt and Lil Dagover
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 76 minutes
Live music: accompanist Mauro
Colombis
Presenter: Klaus Krischok
Director, Goethe-Institut Australien
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Sat-18/9/10
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM | Miss Mend Part One Mess Mend 1926 (Russia) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: by Boris Barnet and
Fedor Ozep
Based on the novel by “Jim
Dollar” aka Marietta Shaginian
Starring: Natalya
Glan, Igor Ilyinsky and Vladimir Fogel
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 88 minutes
Live music: accompanist Maria Okunev
Presenter: Dr. Karen Pearlman
Head of Screen Studies; Australian Film, Television and Radio School
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Thu-23/9/10
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM | The Italian Straw Hat Un chapeau de paille d'Italie 1927 (France) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: by René Clair
Starring: Albert Préjean,Geymond
Vital, Olga Tschechowa and Paul Ollivier
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 105 minutes
Live music: accompanist Sharolyn
Kimmorley
Presenter: Jason di Rosso, Associate Producer MOVIETIME ABC Radio National and Film Writer GQ
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Sat-25/9/10
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | Buster Keaton and Snub Pollard! (USA) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: NEIGHBOURS – 1920 - Romeo and Juliet given an update and set in a tenement neighbourhood where Buster and Virginia's family fight over the fence separating their respective homesteads.
- 18 Minutes
THE PLAYHOUSE – 1921 - The genius of old Stoneface as Buster plays everyone, including a monkey, in a theatre simultaneously.
- 22 Minutes
MY WIFE’S RELATIONS – 1922 - Buster to the fore again is falsely accused of breaking a window and is hauled before a judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married. The family nightmare starts.
- 22 Minutes
IT’S A GIFT – 1923 - The talents of the incomparable Australian born, Snub Pollard
- 10 Minutes
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 72 minutes
Live music: accompanist Robert Constable
Presenter: Jason di Rosso, Associate Producer MOVIETIME ABC Radio National and Film Writer GQ
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Sat-25/9/10
12:15 PM to 2:15 PM | Bardelys the Magnificent 1926 (USA) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Directed: by King Vidor
Starring: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy, Karl Dane and John T Murray
Tickets: $20/$15 concession and
children
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 91 minutes
Live music: accompanist Robert
Constable
Presenter: Jason di Rosso, Associate Producer MOVIETIME ABC Radio National and Film Writer GQ
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Sat-25/9/10
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Fashion and the 1920s | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Fashion and the 1920s – Presented by Charlotte Smith Silent films have played a significant part in the evolution and development of fashion, and it is therefore very appropriate to include this special session in our journey back in time through the silent film medium. Besides being a time capsule by giving us a fascinating and entertaining glimpse into how people lived and dressed in the past, silent films of the 1920s also presented fashion styles to a worldwide audience and to all classes of society. Many silent screen stars became fashion icons, leading new fashion trends and inspiring people of all walks of life to dress in a similar way. Charlotte Smith, author of the best-selling book, Dreaming of Dior: Every Dress Tells a Story (HarperCollins Australia) is the curator of the famous Darnell Collection, having inherited it from her godmother, Doris Darnell, in 2004. Since then it has continued to grow to number over 5500 pieces representing 23 different countries, and is considered the largest private vintage clothing collection in Australia. Tickets: $10/$5 concession and children
Duration: 60 minutes |
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Sat-25/9/10
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM | Chicago 1927 (USA) | Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney |
| Details: Produced: by Cecil B DeMille
Directed: by Frank Urson
Starring: Phyllis Haver, Julia
Faye, May Robson and Victor Varconi
Tickets: $20/$15 concession
Film: digital presentation of restored film
Duration: 112 minutes
Live music: accompanist Mauro
Colombis
Presenter: Bruce Elder Senior
Entertainment Writer with the Sydney Morning Herald
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