The American Cinematheque Presents an Evening With Sofia Coppola In Person

The American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica has added a double feature on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, with a special guest - Sofia Coppola, director of the upcoming film, THE BLING RING. The evening will consist of a double feature of Coppola's 2003 film LOST IN TRANSLATION starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson as travelers in Tokyo and her feature film directorial debut THE VIRGIN SUICIDES with Kirsten Dunst.

Sofia Coppola will appear in person at the Aero.

With five very diverse features to her credit, Sofia Coppola is among the most fascinating filmmakers working today. The daughter of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, she got an early start in the movies as an actress, but soon gravitated to the other side of the camera. As a writer-producer-director, Sofia Coppola has explored such themes as youth, glamour and loneliness with both sensitivity and visual flair.

The remarkably assured THE VIRGIN SUICIDES demonstrated Coppola's rapport with both veteran and younger performers, a skill put to even more impressive use in LOST IN TRANSLATION, for which she became the first American woman nominated for a Best Director Academy Award. The director reteamed with star Kirsten Dunst for the dazzling MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006), a film energized by Coppola's love of fashion, Paris and alternative rock, while SOMEWHERE (2010) casts a knowing eye on the high life of Hollywood. Based on actual events, the upcoming THE BLING RING follows a group of young burglars (including Emma Watson) who target the rich and famous.

The double feature begins at 7:30 PM. The discussion with Sofia Coppola is between films.

The films screening include:

LOST IN TRANSLATION

 2003, Focus Features, 105 min, USA, Japan, Dir: Sofia Coppola

Two Americans cross paths one night in a luxury hotel bar in Tokyo. Bob (Bill Murray, never better) is a movie star shooting a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi). This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. A box office hit, LOST IN TRANSLATION was nominated for four Oscars, earning one for director Sofia Coppola's Best Original Screenplay.

 

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

1999, Paramount, 97 min, USA, Dir: Sofia Coppola

For her feature directorial debut, Sofia Coppola adapted the Jeffrey Eugenides novel of adolescent repression and rebellion in an upper-class Detroit suburb in the 1970s. A group of local boys are mesmerized by the mysterious Lisbon sisters, who are kept on a short leash by overprotective parents James Woods and Kathleen Turner. When one of the girls (Kirsten Dunst) strikes up a relationship with one of the guys (Josh Hartnett), it sets in motion a chain of events that ends in tragedy.

The Aero Theatre is located at 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Tickets are on sale at the box office or on fandango.com

To view trailers, get ticket information and for updates to the June 5th event, click here. 

Film Noir with an Exotic Tiki Flair at 2013 Tiki Night at the Egyptian Theatre

The exoticism of the South Seas blows through Hollywood with the Cinematheque's annual Tiki Night at the Egyptian Theatre on June 1, 2013, starting at 5:00 PM! Join us in the courtyard for performances from King Kukulele & The Friki Tikis and the Polynesian Paradise Dancers, tiki vendors, and a no-host bar with your favorite Polynesian drinks. A slide show and a 50th Anniversary tribute to the Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room by Bob Baker's Marionettes will precede a screening of the 1954 film noir HELL'S HALF ACRE, filmed in Honolulu. Grab a lei and a Hawaiian shirt and come on down for some Tiki-tainment! 

Vendors will be in the courtyard from 1:00 PM.

HELL’S HALF ACRE

1954, Republic (Kit Parker), 91 min, USA, Dir: John Auer

Filmed in the notorious red light district of Honolulu, this Auer/Fisher concoction is a delirious excursion into low-life noir. Evelyn Keyes becomes a taxi dancer to hunt for her missing G.I. husband Wendell Corey, who she believes is alive and writing hit songs in Hawaii! Little does she know he’s more than a simple songsmith - he’s also a gangster vying with Philip Ahn for control of the island’s vice rackets. Toss the sultry and statuesque Marie Windsor into the mix, and it’s pulp nirvana. Imagine film noir with a slack-key guitar soundtrack ... as good as trashy B-movies get!

Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028. 
Tickets available on www.fandango.com 

INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING CINEMA FESTIVAL SENSATION "THE NIGHT OF THE ADEATERS"® DEBUTS IN LOS ANGELES

The World's Best and Most Entertaining Commercials Showcased forOne Night Only at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood

Now here's a program that would make Don Draper cry with tears of joy. Advertising just doesn't get any better that these curated ads from around the world. Created and produced by Jean Marie Boursicot for more than 30 years, the world renowned international advertising cinema festival, The Night of the Ad Eaters®, featuring the world's best, creative and jaw-dropping commercials on the big screen from amongst 60 different nationalities, premieres in Los Angeles on May 31, 2013, 7:30pm, at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.  Details about the content of the program can be found here. The oldest commercial is a 1917 ad featuring Charlie Chaplin!

A special three-hour edition of the international advertising cinema festival will be showcased at the Egyptian Theatre for one night only, featuring hundreds of amazing, entertaining commercials from 40 countries.  The Los Angeles program will include: 'Singing America' (popular songs in commercials produced in the USA);  some of our favorite stars featured in commercials; New York in commercials; selected European commercials; Pepsi commercials from different countries; Parisienne cigarette commercials shot by the world's best film directors, selected commercials from Great Britain, and cinematic blockbusters in commercials. Presented in two parts, there will be a complimentary wine reception for all ticket holders at the intermission. The box office will remain open through the break and tickets can be purchased to the later segment of the program as well as the entire program. Prices remain the same, And feel free to come as your favorite "Mad Men" character!

A one night only annual event with an enormous cult following internationally, The Night of the Ad Eaters is now heralded in more than in more than 100 cities in 40 countries worldwide including Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, Milan, Santiago de Chile, Beirut, Mexico City, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Geneva, attracting more than 300,000 enthusiasts.

Handpicked by AdEaters founder Boursicot from his own vast personal archive avoiding repetition and familiarity, the ads are amazing, intriguing, shocking, and funny, representing the vitality, creativity, passion and trends present in the world of advertising from around the globe, in this riotous cavalcade of commerce.  Based on a language shared by all, no subtitles are necessary for "The Night of The AdEaters," transcending all linguistic and cultural differences.   

Part 1. (1 hour)

• Singing America. (Popular songs in commercials produced in the USA on 50-60th)
• New York in Ads
• Selected European Ads

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Part 2. (2 hours)

• Pepsi ads (Produced in different countries at different times)
• Star Wars theme and characters in Ads
• Selected ads from the Great Britain

4. World best directors making ads for Parisienne cigarettes:
Jean Luc Godard, David Lynch, Bakhtigar Khoudoynazarov, Giuseppe Tornatore, Emir Kusturica, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, Joel & Ethan Cohen.

5. Movie stars in ads:
​Charles Chaplin (1917), Ziyi Zhang, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Jean Reno, George Clooney, Sharon Stone, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan, Val Kilmer, Catherine Deneuve, Clive Owen, Gerard Depardieu, Hugh Laurie, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Dustin Hoffman, Mickey Rooney, Tommy Tune, Paul Newman, Monica Bellucci, Jack Black

Gwen Deglise, film curator and programmer for the American Cinematheque in Hollywood, comments "The American Cinematheque is proud to present the first edition of this unique cultural program in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theatre, and we anticipate that local audiences will enjoy it as much as audiences have all over the world."

Araz  Mamet, CEO of Amaze Pictures, the Los Angeles producer of The Night of the Ad Eaters®, states: "This unique festival created for Los Angeles will offer ads never  before seen in the U.S., classic and contemporary spots, and something for everyone. "

Tickets are available at www.fandango.com (see links from the American Cinematheque website).

Sponsors for the Los Angeles edition include The American Cinematheque, United Nations Development

Program and Glocalcast.com.  Partners include the Los Angeles Film School.

About The Cinematheque Jean Marie Boursicot

The Cinematheque Jean Marie Boursicot is the biggest and only film library in the world dedicated to TV and cinema commercials. At first, Jean Marie Boursicot only intended his cinematheque to serve as a resource for students of advertising, so he mainly approached business schools and professional training organizations. Wellreceived by the advertising community and supported by the major agencies, the Jean Marie Boursicot Cinematheque gradually expanded its activities. Jean Marie nevertheless soon realized that without public or private subsidies, he would have to find new financial resources to ensure the preservation of advertising archives and guarantee the Cinematheque's survival and independence.

In 1981, he therefore created the very first "Nuit des Publivores®" (in English: "The Night of the Ad Eaters"), called "Friandises", with two aims: to share his passion and collect the funds necessary for the care and restoration of old films. In short, the "Night of the Ad Eaters®" became advertising and advertising became the show. The cinema-crazy little boy had become the "guardian of the temple" and the "memory" of the ephemeral world of fashion and creativity.

Established in Switzerland since 2005, for insurance and copyright reasons, the "Jean Marie Boursicot Cinematheque" is now internationally recognized as the greatest existing museum in the global advertising-film sector.

The Cinematheque Jean Marie Boursciot in figures / The Activity, the Media, the Museum Statistics:

• More than 950,000 films, 80 countries.

• The annual contribution of the agencies: 750 correspondents across 80 countries, 10,000 to 20,000 new films a year.

General philosophy:

To make the Cinematheque, which receives no subsidies, thrive while enriching its contents.

Partnership with TV stations:

Broadcasting of the Night of the Ad Eaters (Rai 3, Canal +, France 2, TF1, TSR, RTBF)

Various retrospectives:

Illustrations of TV broadcasts, telefilms and feature films

Sale of turnkey shows (MCM, COMEDIE, PARIS PREMIERE, PRO TV Romania, QUATRE SAISONS Quebec,

BERLUSCONI Group, TV AZTECA Mexico)

Video publishing:

The Cinematheque produces numerous thematic compilations and documentaries about advertising, with numerous distributors (FOX PATHE EUROPA, POLYGRAM, STUDIOCANAL, UNIVERSAL).

Use by institutions:

The Cinematheque regularly collaborates with Paris's Pompidou Center, the Cité des Sciences and other museums and institutions, with permanent or temporary exhibits.

In early 2003, the Vienna Technology Museum (Technisches Museum Wien) opened a space dedicated to the Jean Marie Boursicot Cinematheque and the history of film advertisements.

Educational activities: 

The Cinematheque collaborates with numerous publishers of academic works, including, notably,  HACHETTE EDUCATION.

Jean Marie Boursicot gives numerous lectures in schools and universities in France and abroad.

Picture Research:

Most of the world's advertising agencies approach the Cinematheque regularly to obtain historic, thematic or sector-based film footage.

Read more on our   website

15th Annual Film Noir Festival Closing Night Party at Jefty's "Road House" Hollywood

Yeah Sister, We’re Having a Party Alright!

Noir City 15th Anniversary Closing Night Party and Screening of ROAD HOUSE in Hollywood

Presented in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation. 
Sponsored by Distillery No. 209, Tito's Handmade Vodka with Support from Paper Moon Vintage & Film Noir Tours

Sunday, April 21, 2013 6:00 PM - ROAD HOUSE & 7:30 PM to 12 AM Noir City Party

Pull down the brim of your fedora and jump on the Red Car to join a bevy of other shady characters for a celebration Noir City style. Set the mood with a 6PM screening of ROAD HOUSE immediately followed by a party at Jefty’s (Egyptian Theatre) Courtyard “Road House!” 

Featuring an Italian dinner that would make Lucky Luciano's mama proud, a chance to wet your beak with a martini in the lounge of the "Antlers Hotel" where you can also grab a dame or a sailor for a shuffle around the dance floor to the rhythms of the Dean Mora Swingtet and the sweetest canary you'll ever hear tweet.

Don't let the coppers catch you gambling when they raid the burlesque show! And of course, no trip to Jefty's Road House would be complete without bowling & vintage cars! gangster! And, introducing our Film Noir murder mystery interactive caper!

Come as a femme fatale, gumshoe, gun moll or 
mobster!

Here’s how much Dough 
it’ll set you back:

$50 VIP Admission
Movie, Drinks, Entertainment, Dinner, Your Very Own Mugshot, and 1st-In-Line Priority
Available until Friday, April 19

$40 Dinner Admission
Movie, Drinks, Entertainment, Dinner
Available until Friday, April 19

$35 Cinematheque Member Dinner Admission
Movie, Drinks, Entertainment, Dinner
Available until Friday, April 19

$25 General Admission
Movie, Drinks, Entertainment
Available through the night of the event! Box Office will remain open until 9PM.

When you join the American Cinematheque at the $350 or above level, you will get two free Member Dinner Admission tickets to this event!

We respectfully ask that you pay in small, unmarked bills and please leave your Luger at home.

Details on the 15th Annual Festival of Film Noir

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - News from CapeTown: April 9, 2013

One particularly nasty ex-Special Forces and now convicted Fed bank robber, “Snake” Plissken (Kurt Russell) is power-gliding back onto the big screen in the 1981 futuristic thriller ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK on May 3 courtesy of Rialto Pictures. There hasn't been a screen-able 35mm print of the film in decades, but Rialto decided to make a brand new DCP just for the EW CapeTown Film Festival screening with Kurt Russell in person! This new DCP of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK will be available to cinemas in May 2013, so take note repertory cinemas! Click here for information on how to book it.

Rialto Pictures is thrilled to announce that ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK will premiere in DCP format at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre on Friday, May 3, as part of the 2013 Entertainment Weekly/CapeTown Film Festival, presented by The American Cinematheque. Kurt Russell will appear in a rare onstage interview. The screening at the Egyptian Theatre is sold out, but there will be a standby line. More CapeTown news.

RETURN OF THE JEDI Returns to the Egyptian Theatre May 4th for Three 30th Anniversary Screenings

The American Cinematheque is very excited to be working with Entertainment Weekly to present the 1st CapeTown Film Festival April 30 - May 6 at he Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Tickets went on sale over the weekend to American Cinematheque members and EW subscribers, but tickets are now on sale to the general public on Fandango. Just about 100 are left for RETURN OF THE JEDI (6 PM & 10 PM shows). Geoff Boucher of Entertainment Weekly said he had "a lot of fun getting in line with fans (who recognized him) to buy tickets for the festival" which features the films and talent he personally helped select along with the Cinematheque's Grant Moninger. 

RETURN OF THE JEDI originally opened at the Egyptian Theatre in 1983 as one of the 70mm engagements. This blog post on in70mm has scans of ads for the film, critic's quotes, as well as a wealth of other information on the film, the third in the Stars Wars saga. On May 4th, it will play at 2 PM, 6 PM and 10 PM in celebration of its 30th anniversary.

The EW CapeTown Film Festival will give sci-fi, super-hero and fantasy fans the opportunity to see their favorite films return to the big screen alongside rare live Q&A sessions with their filmmakers including Kurt Russell ith ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, Leonard Nimoy with STAR TREK, John Carpenter with THE THING, Terry Gilliam with 12 MONKEYS and more!

Earlier this year, EW.com launched CapeTown, a new digital destination devoted to the intersection of Hollywood and "Comic-Con culture" -- the surging scene that encompasses super-hero, sci-fi, fantasy and horror that stretches across film, television, gaming, comics and novels. "Fantasy, sci-fi and super-heroes have transformed nearly every entertainment medium the past few years. EW's CapeTown Festival celebrates these fantastic genres and gives our audience front-row access to the entertainers creating modern mythology," said Jess Cagle, Editor of Entertainment Weekly.

We would love to hear comments from people who saw RETURN OF THE JEDI at the Egyptian in 1983. What were the lines like? Any special decor in the lobby? Here is a nice recollection (and photo of the Egyptian marquee in 1983) on the GeekGirlDiva blog.

For the entire CapeTown Film Festival line-up, please see the American Cinematheque's website.

Egyptian Theatre 90th Anniversary Masquerade Ball

The Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard has been rolling films on the big screen since 1922 when the movies didn’t yet talk and Howard C. Carter was still hot on the trail of King Tut’s tomb in Egypt. A theater owner named Sid Grauman was tapped by developer Charles E. Toberman to open a grand movie palace on Prospect Avenue (now Hollywood Boulevard) in an area of the city not yet particularly known for night life. The theatre opened to great fanfare on October 18, 1922 with silent film era royalty Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin in attendance - and the rest is legend.

The American Cinematheque (owner and operator of this historic landmark) is honoring the legacy of the Egyptian Theatre, the home of the first Hollywood movie premiere, over several days, during the week of October 18, 2012.



Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:30 PM | ROBIN HOOD

90 years ago today, Douglas Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford joined by their friend Charlie Chaplin, turned out for the premiere of Fairbanks' swashbuckling adventure at their pal Sid Grauman's new Hollywood movie palace. This evening went down in history as the very first Hollywood movie premiere.

Join Fairbanks' historian Tracy Goessel for an introduction to the film, which will be presented with live piano accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. Prior to the film, Hollywood Heritage will gift a piece of furniture from the Egyptian's original ladies powder room, back to the Egyptian Theatre on the occasion of the 90th anniversary. They will also mount a display of memorabilia from the theatre. view on website

ROBIN HOOD (1922)
1922, Douris Corporation, 127 min, USA, Dir: Allan Dwan

The story of the medieval English hero who robs from the rich and gives to the poor gets its first Hollywood treatment with this immortal silent classic. Starring Douglas Fairbanks at his swashbuckling best, ROBIN HOOD was one of the most expensive movies of the 1920s, and it shows! A huge castle and the entire village of Nottingham were constructed for the filming. With Wallace Beery as King Richard the Lion-Hearted, Sam De Grasse as his evil brother, Prince John, and Enid Bennett as Robin Hood’s beloved Marian. Its 1922 debut at the Egyptian Theatre was the first Hollywood movie premiere! “Awe-inspiring! Unique in every respect …an unsurpassed and unsurpassable achievement.” - Kevin Brownlow, 'The Parade’s Gone By.'


Friday, October 19, 2012 - 7:30 PM - MUMMYTHON

Egyptomania swept the nation when news traveled across the globe, that Howard C. Carter had discovered King Tut's tomb in November of 1922. Grauman's Hollywood Egyptian Theatre was already open for business a little over a month when explorers dug up to the door of the tomb. All things Egyptian were suddenly the rage and Sid Grauman couldn't have picked a better exotic theme for his movie palace! Since this year is not only the 90th anniversary of the Egyptian, but also, of the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the American Cinematheque felt that the occasion called for a Mummython, four Universal films back to back, that depict Egypt in the zany way that only Hollywood could!

THE MUMMY’S HAND, 1940, Universal, 67 min. Dir. Christy Cabanne. The MUMMY returns to Egypt, as Indiana Jones-style adventurer Dick Foran squares off against nefarious George Zucco and the immortal mummy Kharis (played by a surprisingly effective Tom Tyler). First-rate matinee style entertainment. With Peggy Moran and Wallace Ford.
70th Anniversary!
THE MUMMY’S TOMB, 1942, 60 min. Dir. Harold Young. Foran, Zucco and Ford return for this atmospheric and fast-paced sequel set thirty years after THE MUMMY’S HAND. Here Lon Chaney Jr. debuts in the role of Kharis; and his caretaker Turhan Bey brings the mummy to America to avenge the desecration of Princess Ananka’s tomb in the previous film, by killing all the archeologists and their descendents.
THE MUMMY’S GHOST, 1944, Universal, 61 min. Dir. Reginald Le Borg. In this installment, Chaney is joined by fellow horror great John Carradine, who plays a high priest charged with returning Kharis and the body of Ananka to Egypt. But the plan goes haywire when it turns out Ananka has been reincarnated as a beautiful young woman (Ramsay Ames).
THE MUMMY’S CURSE, 1944, Universal, 62 min. Dir. Leslie Goodwins. “The Devil’s on the loose and he’s dancin’ with the mummy!” The final film with Lon Chaney Jr. as the undead Kharis shifts the action to the Louisiana bayou, where the mummy and his beloved have been buried in a swamp for years, until a couple of Egyptian disciples start brewing up the tana leaves. With Virginia Christine and Martin Kosleck. View this event on our website

Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 6:30 PM 
Egyptian Theatre 90th Anniversary Masquerade Ball

Join us for an evening of 1922 style entertainment featuring silent short films (including some Egyptian theme novelty films), vaudeville acts, dancing to premiere vintage orchestra Dean Mora’s Modern Rhythmists, make your own Hollywood Screen Test, 1920s libations, a buffet fit for King Tut, gaming in our speakeasy gambling den, docent-led tours of the Egyptian's private spaces, a 1920s fashion parade, Paper Moon Vintage Photos and more exotic entertainment than you can fathom - including performances by Princess Farhana and DeVilla who will provide a vintage-style floor show, recreating the glamour of Old Hollywood and the "orientalist" fantasies of silent films, the Victory Variety Hour burlesque troupe who will perform "Egyptian Epic" and a magician!

Dean Mora's Modern Rhythmists is one of the premier big bands on the vintage dance circuit. And we are lucky that they call LA their home base! They will play lively dance (think Charlston and Two steps) music of the 1920s with a few novelty songs from the period that epitomize the interest in all things Egyptian that swept the world after the discovery of King Tut's tomb in November of 1922. Since we are celebrating Hollywood's concept of exoticism with the fantasy architecture of the Egyptian Theatre, Dean Mora promises to treat us to some American songs that celebrate the mystique of ancient Egypt, such as "Egyptian Ella," "By the Silvery Nile," "Old King Tut Was A Merry Old Nut" and "Khartoum." Even if you aren't a dancer you'll be tapping a toe at these amusing, now-cringe-worthy lyrics! When the expert dancers of the Art Deco Society Los Angeles are on the floor, there will be plenty to watch for those who view dancing as a spectator sport.

Sponsors include Fentiman's, Stella Artois, Chivas Regal and more to be announced.
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It's a costume party! Come as your favorite Hollywood icon of the 1920s, an Egyptian fresh off the set of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS or an early 20th century explorer of Egypt. The Costume House is offering a 15% discount to Egyptian Theatre 90th anniversary attendees who spend $50 or more at their shop in North Hollywood. Just mention the event when you go there. Click for more costume resources.

Dressing 1920s for Ladies: 

 The Way We Wore has some beautiful photos of actual 1920s clothing. Since 1920s silhouettes have been revived in fashion by many labels in the recent past, after you take a look at these photos you might realize that you have something in your closet that has a 1920s flair to it! Add a long beaded necklace, t-strap shoes and some red lipstick and you'll be all set to Charleston the night away on the dance floor! Or, if you want the dress like Peppy in THE ARTIST, shop Le Luxe. The Art Deco Society cautions that all-over fringe and feather boas are not actual 20s looks. Check their links for clothing resources.

Dressing for Gentlemen:
Men's evening attire hasn't changed all that much in 90 years! If you want to dress in evening attire (tuxedo) check out The Black Tie Guide for pictures of formal menswear of the 1920s. And remember, you can always come in pith helmet and khakis (a la Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tut's tomb) as an Egyptian Explorer or as an Egyptian or even a Mummy!

Dance the night away on a dance floor and band stage sponsored by the Art Deco Society Los Angeles

Sunday, October 20, 2012 - 7:30 PM - Harry Houdini Night!

What would Los Angelenos have watched in theatres around the time the Egyptian Theatre opened in 1922? Escape artist Harry Houdini was definitely of keen interest. Join us for an evening devoted to the master of escape with an early 1920s double feature.

Budapest-born Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was a world-famous magician and escape artist who also had a short film career starring in and even directing a number of films between 1919 and 1923. Featuring outrageous plots and unusual characters, one of the main treats of these thrillers is a chance to see this master showman actually perform some of his daring feats.
Rare Houdini photographs and footage, and multimedia presentation on Houdini by escape artist Mark Paskell, who will conclude the lecture with an escape from a regulation straitjacket. Bonus drawing for free magic lesson and other prizes!

90th Anniversary! THE MAN FROM BEYOND
1922, Kino International, 74 min, USA, Dir: Burton L. King

Harry Houdini plays Howard Hillary, a man who is thawed out after being encased in Arctic ice for a century. He meets Felice, who seems like the reincarnation of his lover from 100 years past, and soon must rescue the young woman’s abducted father. This silent showcases both Houdini’s interest in life after death and some of his most breathtaking stunts, including a sequence that brings the legendary magician/escape artist to the brink of Niagra Falls!


TERROR ISLAND
1920, Cohen Media, 55 min, USA, Dir: James Cruz

Young Beverly West (Lila Lee) has a map to a priceless cache of pearls, but is much more interested in locating her father. Inventor Harry Harper (Harry Houdini) sails to a South Seas island to find them both, doing battle with treasure hunters and cannibals in the process. Though a couple of its reels are lost to time, this may be Houdini’s most exciting big screen effort, packed to the gills with action (including an underwater safe escape). Costarring Eugene Palette. View this event on our website