To Save and Project: The Third MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
May 26–June 20, 2005

Every year, the member institutions of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) preserve hundreds of motion pictures, working together to find the best surviving materials for each film. Spanning the history of the moving image, these preserved films are vivid reflectitons of the diverse cultures that produced them,making this annual Festival a tribute to the passion and commitment of film conservators and archivists around the world. The films in this third edition of To Save and Project were preserved through the collaborative efforts of FIAF archives, as well as commercial studios and distributors. Virtually all are having their New York premieres, and some are shown in versions never before seen in the U.S.

The Festival opens with a tribute to Il Cinema Ritrovato, the preservation festival in Bologna, Italy, now celebrating its nineteenth year. Festival codirectors Gian Luca Farinelli and Peter von Bagh present the New York premieres of Bernardo Bertolucci's Before the Revolution (1964), Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Soviet epic The New Babylon (1929), and Dusan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected: A New Edition of a Good Old Movie (1968). Other highlights in May include Martin Ritt's Hud (1963); a major reconstruction of the Russian release version of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925); Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal's Sant Tukaram (1936), a masterpiece of poetic realism from preindependence India; and special tributes to the French filmmaker Jacques Feyder and British filmmaker Anthony Asquith. In June, screenings include the first films of actors Asta Nielsen and Michel Simon; classics of silent American animation; a special presentation by Marta Braun, scholar of Étienne-Jules Marey’s revolutionary chronophotographs; two documentaries by Ingmar Bergman; Michael Reeves’s horror masterpiece Witchfinder General (1968); and a weeklong presentation of Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958), in its recently rediscovered English-language version.

Organized by Steven Higgins, Curator; Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator; Anne Morra, Assistant Curator; Leigh Goldstein, Executive Assistant, Department of Film and Media.

*Asterisks denote silent films with piano accompaniment by Ben Model, Stuart Oderman, or Donald Sosin, as noted.

Visages d'Enfants. 1925. France. Written and directed by Jacques Feyder. Long believed lost, Feyder's silent masterpiece has been breathtakingly restored to its original color tinting by the Netherlands Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française (Paris), Cinémathèque Royale (Brussels), and Gosfilmofond (Moscow). Child actor Jean Forest gives one of the most moving, yet unsentimental, portrayals of childhood loneliness ever to appear on screen. Feyder evokes the boy's tender solitude through point-of-view shots, and his extraordinary location work in the Swiss Alps includes a gripping avalanche sequence. Dutch and French intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Ben Model. Approx. 115 min.
Thursday, May 26, 6:00. T1

Hud. 1963. USA. Directed by Martin Ritt. Screenplay by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, based on the Larry McMurtry novel Horseman Pass By.With Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas. Hud Bannon lives hard and rejects his father's traditional values. He is reckless and hedonistic, nearly raping Alma, the family's housekeeper, during a drunken binge. Neal won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of the earthy Alma. Preserved by Paramount Pictures. 112 min.
Thursday, May 26, 8:30. T1; Saturday, May 28, 2:00. T2

Bronenosets Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin). 1925. USSR. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein.With his radical experiments in montage and camera movement, Eisenstein invented a new language of cinema. This reconstruction of the Russian premiere version of Potemkin includes, for the first time, the Russian intertitles with their original graphics as well as Leon Trotsky's opening words. Furthermore, the changes and cuts resulting from censorship and reworking—for instance, on the Odessa Steps sequence—have been corrected. The reconstruction, having its U.S. premiere at MoMA, was managed by the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (Berlin) with the support of the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv (Berlin), the bfi National Film and Television Archive (London), and the Moskau Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin. Russian intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 75 min.
Friday, May 27, 6:00; Monday, May 30, 8:00. T1

Experimental works from the CNC Selva. 1981–83. France. Directed by Maria Klonaris. 75 min.
Chutes.Désert.Syn. (Falling.Desert.Syn.). 1983–85. France. Directed by Katerina Thomadaki. 16 min. A lush, enveloping forest and a desolate dune form the backdrops to this filmed diptych that is at once a portrait study and a meditation on feminine identity. Both films blown up from Super-8 to 35mm, preserved by the Archives françaises du film du Centre National de la Cinématographie.
Friday, May 27, 5:30; Saturday, May 28, 4:30. T2

Scorsese Presents Before the Revolution. 2004. USA. Scorsese reminisces about the sensational effect that Before the Revolution had on him as a budding filmmaker. 11 min.
Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution). 1964. Italy. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Screenplay by Bertolucci, Gianni Amico.With Francesco Barilli, Adriana Asti. Bertolucci, then twenty-two, burst onto the film scene with this portrait of a young bourgeois man's political and sexual awakening. A landmark of Italian New Wave cinema, Bertolucci's most personal work is also his most sensuous. Preserved by Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and Ripley's Film. 115 min. In Italian, English subtitles.
Friday, May 27, 8:15. T1

Underground. 1928. Great Britain. Written and directed by Anthony Asquith.With Elissa Landi, Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen. Two men compete for the affection of a beautiful shopgirl, their rivalry culminating in tragedy atop London's Battersea Power Station. Asquith's second feature film startled audiences with its setting of a working-class love story in an ultramodern London landscape and its German-influenced lighting schemes. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive, London. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Jon Spurney. Approx. 90 min.
Saturday, May 28, 2:00. T1

A Cottage on Dartmoor. 1929. Great Britain. Written and directed by Anthony Asquith.With Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Hans Schlettow. Sent to prison after attacking a rival lover, an escaped convict is now on the run, scrambling through the fog on a desolate moor. For those familiar only with Asquith's later work, the film's Expressionist visual style is a revelation. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive, London. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman. Approx. 85 min.
Saturday, May 28, 4:00. T1

Directed by Les Blank
Three idiosyncratic documentaries by Les Blank, recently preserved by the Academy Film Archive with funds provided by The Film Foundation: Dry Wood (1973), about a Creole community in Louisiana where music plays a critical role in everyday life; Always for Pleasure (1978), which captures the vitality and sensuality of New Orleans street celebrations; and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1979), in which the wildly unpredictable German filmmaker makes good on a bet with documentarian Errol Morris. Program 117 min.
Saturday, May 28, 6:30. T2

Night Nurse. 1931. USA. Directed by William A.Wellman. Screenplay by Oliver H. P. Garrett.With Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable. A private nurse caring for two little girls suspects that the chauffeur and family doctor are starving the children to death to make off with their trust fund. She enlists her sassy sidekick and her bootlegger beau to foil the plot. A pre-Code gem, preserved by the Library of Congress, which seduced Depression-era audiences with its racy dialogue, unrepentant characters, and scantily clad female leads. 71 min.
Saturday, May 28, 6:30. T1

The Trespasser. 1929. USA. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Screenplay by Goulding, Gloria Swanson.With Swanson, Robert Ames, Henry B.Walthall. After the disastrous release of Queen Kelly, Swanson enlisted the financial support of Joseph Kennedy and the talents of up-and-coming director Goulding to make this, her talking debut, a successful melodrama for which she earned an Oscar nomination. Swanson plays a stenographer who endures all manner of suffering and sacrifice when she is abandoned with child by her former husband, a young man from a wealthy, disapproving family. Preserved by George Eastman House, Rochester. 90 min.
Saturday, May 28, 8:30. T1

Nevinost bez zastite (Innocence Unprotected: A New Edition of a Good Old Movie). 1968.Yugoslavia. Directed by Dusan Makavejev. Makavejev lends his inimitable anarchic style to this portrait of circus strongman Dragoljub Aleksic, the star of Innocence Unprotected, a melodramatic thriller made in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Sarajevo. Filled with political subterfuge and subversive humor, Makavejev's film interweaves footage from Innocence Unprotected with scenes of the aging cast, circa 1968, reminiscing about life and moviemaking under fascism. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive. In Serbian, English subtitles. 78 min.
Saturday, May 28, 8:45; Monday, May 30, 8:30. T2

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. 1948. USA. Directed by H. C. Potter. Screenplay by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. Against all odds, and in the face of mounting financial troubles, Mr. And Mrs. Blandings join the postwar exodus from New York City to the suburbs of Connecticut; in the process, they discover what "family values" really mean. Preserved by MoMA from original nitrate elements in its Turner Collection. 94 min.
Sunday, May 29, 2:00. T1

A Car-Tune Portrait. 1937. USA. A Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, directed by Dave Fleischer, in which the animals of the cartoon kingdom present a full-dress symphony concert. 7 min.
True Confession. 1937. USA. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Screenplay by Claude Binyon.With Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore. All hell breaks loose when a novelist and compulsive liar confesses to a murder she didn't commit, fooling even her prim lawyer-husband. The film's giddy sendup of the American judicial system—at a time when President Roosevelt was trying to stuff the Supreme Court with New Deal justices—landed it in hot water with the censors. Both films preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles. 85 min.
Sunday, May 29, 5:00. T1

Sant Tukaram. 1936. India. Directed by Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal. Screenplay by Shivaram Washikar. With Vishnupant Pagnis, Gouri, Bhagwat. The story of the seventeenth-century poet and saint Tukaram, his contentious relationship with his wife, and the jealousy of a local priest. Presented with simplicity and a lack of pretension, this early Indian talkie was an enormous box-office success on its initial release. Preserved by the National Film Archive of India, Pune. In Marathi, English subtitles. 130 min.
Sunday, May 29, 5:00; Monday, May 30, 5:45. T2

Novyi Vavilon (The New Babylon). 1929. USSR. Written and directed by Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kosintsev, inspired by the writings of Émile Zola.With Yelena Kuzmina, Sergei Gerasimov, Sophie Magarill. Kozintsev and Trauberg's last silent film recounts the bloody events of the Paris Commune of 1871 as experienced by Louise, an employee of The New Babylon, a Paris store. Preserved by Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. German intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin. Approx. 80 min.
Monday, May 30, 6:15. T1

Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm. 1968. Great Britain. Directed by Michael Reeves. Screenplay by Reeves, Louis M. Heyward, Tom Baker. With Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer. A religious fanatic unleashes a reign of terror during the English civil war, pitting Roundheads against Cavaliers in a bloody witchhunt for his own profit and pleasure. A masterpiece of horror, Witchfinder General was director Reeves’s last film before his suicide at age twenty-five. Preserved by MGM Studios. 87 min.

Wednesday, June 1, 6:00; Saturday, June 18, 8:30. T1

Before Mickey: Early Animation Masterworks from George Eastman House.

Felix the Cat stars in Gets Revenge (1922), Trifles with Time (1925), Trips through Toyland (1925), Flirts with Fate (1926), and Kept on Walking (1926), all directed by Pat Sullivan and animated by Otto Messmer. Also featured are Bud Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff cartoon Domestic Difficulties (1916); the Fleischer Studios’ Trapped (1923), starring “Out of the Inkwell” Max; Paul Terry and Marnie Davis’s Scaling the Alps (1928), an Aesop’s Film Fable; and two Oswald the Rabbit cartoons. Program approx. 80 min.

Wednesday, June 1, 6:30 (*Model); Saturday, June 11, 2:00 (*Model). T2

Afgrunden (The Abyss). 1910. Denmark. Directed by Urban Gad. In her film debut, Asta Nielsen performs an erotic dance of death that shocks even today. Danish intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 30 min.

The Devil’s Circus. 1926. USA. Written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. With Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack. Directed by a master of Danish silent cinema, this MGM melodrama features rising starlet Shearer as a virginal trapeze artist who falls prey to the lust of a lion tamer and the vengeful jealousy of his mistress. Preserved by George Eastman House. Approx. 80 min.

Wednesday, June 1, 8:00 (*Oderman). T1; Saturday, June 11, 6:00 (*Oderman). T2

A Car-Tune Portrait. 1937. USA. A Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon in which animals present a full-dress symphony concert. 7 min.

True Confession. 1937. USA. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Screenplay by Claude Binyon. With Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore. All hell breaks loose when a novelist and compulsive liar confesses to a murder she didn’t commit, fooling even her prim lawyer-husband. The film’s giddy send-up of the American judicial system landed it in hot water with the censors. Both films preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive. 85 min.

Wednesday, June 1, 8:30. T2

Les Vendanges dans le vignoble vaudois. 1923. Switzerland. Director unknown. Farmers harvest grapes on the shores of Lake Geneva. 3 min.

Rochers-de-Naye sur Caux. 1928. Switzerland. Director unknown. Viewers are taken on an extraordinary “phantom ride” along the cog railway to Rochers-de-Naye. 3 min.

La Vocation d’André Carel. 1925. Switzerland. Written and directed by Jean Choux. With Michel Simon, Blanche Montel, Stéphane Audel. In this rare Swiss silent film, restored with its original tints by the Cinémathèque Suisse, Cinémathèque Française, and the CNC Archives du Film, Bois d’Arcy, a young man works on barges transporting stone. The film makes poetic use of Lake Geneva and its surrounding landscape. English intertitles. Approx. 100 min. Program approx. 103 min.

Thursday, June 2, 6:00 (*Oderman). T1; Saturday, June 18, 8:00 (*Oderman). T2

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. 1948. USA. Directed by H. C. Potter. Screenplay by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas. Against all odds, Mr. and Mrs. Blandings join the postwar exodus from New York City to the suburbs of Connecticut; in the process, they discover what “family values” really mean. Preserved by MoMA from original nitrate elements in its Turner Collection. 94 min.

Thursday, June 2, 6:30. T2

Scorsese presents Before the Revolution. 2004. USA. Scorsese reminisces about the effect Before the Revolution had on him as a budding filmmaker. 11 min.

Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution). 1964. Italy. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Screenplay by Bertolucci, Gianni Amico. With Francesco Barilli, Adriana Asti. At twenty-two years of age, Bertolucci burst onto the film scene with this portrait of a young bourgeois’ political and sexual awakening. A landmark of Italian New Wave cinema, Bertolucci’s most personal work is also his most sensuous. Preserved by Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and Ripley’s Film, Rome. In Italian, English subtitles. 115 min.

Thursday, June 2, 8:15. T1

Directed by Les Blank. MoMA presents three idiosyncratic documentaries by Les Blank, recently preserved by the Academy Film Archive with funds provided by The Film Foundation: Dry Wood (1973), about the life and music of a Creole community; Always for Pleasure (1978), which captures the sensuality of New Orleans street celebrations; and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1979), in which the wildly unpredictable German filmmaker makes good on a bet with documentarian Errol Morris. Program 117 min.

Thursday, June 2, 8:30. T2

La Trouvaille de Buchu. 1917. France. Written and directed by Jacques Feyder. With Françoise Rosay. Buchu, a tramp, must decide what to do with a newly found coin. Approx. 8 min.
Le Pied qui étreint. 1916. France. Written and directed by Jacques Feyder. With Kitty Holt, André Roanne. An episodic thriller in which the famous science detective Justin Crepelle battles the nefarious “Foot Squeeze” Gang. Both films preserved by the Cinémathèque Française. French intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 90 min.

Saturday, June 4, 2:00 (*Oderman). T2

Visages d’enfants. 1925. France. Written and directed by Jacques Feyder. Long believed lost, Feyder’s silent masterpiece has been breathtakingly restored to its original color tinting by the Netherlands Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française, Cinémathèque Royale, Brussels, and Gosfilmofond, Moscow. Jean Forest gives one of the most moving, yet unsentimental, portrayals of childhood loneliness ever to appear on screen. Dutch and French intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 115 min.

Saturday, June 4, 4:00 (*Oderman). T2

Gribiche. 1925. France. Written and directed by Jacques Feyder. Jean Forest gives a remarkable performance as a poor boy adopted by a rich American (played by Feyder’s wife, Françoise Rosay) but desperately homesick for his own family. Feyder’s gorgeous location photography in Paris and sensitive direction led critic Jean Mitry to call him one of the greatest “musicians of silence of the cinematographic art.” Preserved by the Cinémathèque Française. French intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 115 min.

Saturday, June 4, 6:30 (*Oderman). T2

L’Atlantide. 1920. Directed by Jacques Feyder. Screenplay by Feyder, based on the novel by Pierre Benoît. With Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska. An intoxicating fantasy about two French officers who discover the lost city of Atlantis and are seduced by its sylphlike queen into becoming willing captives. Two years in the making, L’Atlantide boasts extraordinary location photography in the north African desert. Preserved by the Netherlands Filmmuseum. French intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 160 min.

Saturday, June 4, 8:45 (*Oderman); Monday, June 20, 7:30 (*Oderman). T2

Night Nurse. 1931. USA. Directed by William A. Wellman. Screenplay by Oliver H. P. Garrett. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable. A private nurse caring for two little girls suspects that the chauffeur and family doctor are starving the children to death to make off with their trust fund. She enlists her bootlegger beau and a sassy sidekick to foil the plot. A pre-Code gem, preserved by the Library of Congress. 71 min.

Sunday, June 5, 2:00. T2

A Cottage on Dartmoor. 1929. Great Britain. Written and directed by Anthony Asquith. With Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Hans Schlettow. Sent to prison after attacking a rival lover, escaped convict Joe Ward is now on the run, scrambling through the fog on a desolate moor. For those familiar only with Asquith’s later work, the film’s Expressionist visual style is a revelation. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive, London. Approx. 85 min.

Sunday, June 5, 3:30 (*Sosin). T2

Underground. 1928. Great Britain. Written and directed by Anthony Asquith. With Elissa Landi, Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen. Two men compete for the affection of a beautiful shopgirl, their rivalry culminating in tragedy atop the Battersea Power Station. Asquith’s second feature film startled audiences with its setting of a working-class love story in an ultramodern London landscape, and its German-influenced lighting schemes. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive. Approx. 90 min.

Sunday, June 5, 5:30 (*Sosin). T2

Raja Harischandra. 1913. India. Written and directed by D. G. Phalke. With D. D. Dabke, Salunke, Babaraya Phalke. Approx. 16 min.

Kaliya Mardan. 1919. India. Written and directed by D. G. Phalke. With Mandakini Phalke. Approx. 45 min. Two films by the father of Indian cinema, preserved by the National Film Archive of India, Pune. Raja Harischandra, the first feature film made in India, tells a story from the epic Mahabharata, and is a fragment of the original four reels. Kaliya Mardan recounts how the Lord Krishna removed the poisonous demon Kaliya from a river.

Monday, June 6, 5:00 (*Oderman); Saturday, June 18, 4:00 (*Oderman). T2

Harry og kammertjeneren (Harry and the Butler). 1961. Denmark. Directed by Bent Christensen. Screenplay by Christensen, Leif Panduro. With Osvald Helmuth, Ebbe Rode. A comedy of manners that parodies the Danish welfare state. A junkyard worker wins the lottery and decides to hire a butler with his newfound wealth. Neither knows what to do with the other. An American remake starring Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins is in the works. In Danish, English subtitles. 105 min.

Monday, June 6, 5:15 (T1); Saturday, June 11, 8:30 (T2)

Lilith. 1964. USA. Directed by Robert Rossen. Screenplay by Rossen, based on the novel by J. R. Salamanca. With Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda. Sony Pictures Entertainment has restored the exquisite black-and-white tonalities of Rossen’s underrated last film, a drama about the emotionally fraught relationship between an apprentice psychoanalyst and a schizophrenic girl. 114 min.

Wednesday, June 8, 5:00; Thursday, June 16, 8:30. T1

She Didn’t Say No! 1958. Great Britain. Directed by Cyril Frankel. Screenplay by T. J. Morrison, Una Troy. With Eileen Herlie, Perlita Neilson, and other Irish Abbey Theatre actors. A dressmaker in a small Irish town is the mother of six illegitimate children whose respective fathers want her gone. Based on a true story and banned in Ireland for moral reasons, this was thought to be a lost film, but Technicolor materials were found and preserved by the Irish Film  Archive. 97 min.

Wednesday, June 8, 7:30. T2

Shooting Stars. 1928. Great Britain. Directed by A. V. Bramble, Anthony Asquith. Screenplay by Asquith, J. O. C. Orton. With Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop. Asquith’s directorial debut (with assistance from veteran Bramble) tells the story of a love triangle in a British movie studio, where a Western and a slapstick comedy are being made back-to-back. Preserved by the bfi National Film and Television Archive. Approx. 90 min.
Thursday, June 9, 6:30 (*Oderman);  Monday, June 20, 5:30 (*Oderman). T2

The Trespasser. 1929. USA. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Screenplay by Goulding, Gloria Swanson. With Swanson, Robert Ames, Henry B. Walthall. In Swanson’s talking debut, a successful melodrama for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a stenographer endures all manner of suffering and sacrifice when she is abandoned with child by her former husband, a young man from a wealthy, disapproving family. Preserved by George Eastman House. 90 min.

Thursday, June 9, 8:30. T2

Mack Sennett Program

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the 125th anniversary of Mack Sennett’s birth with a program of recently restored Sennett comedies, all starring Charles Chaplin, including The Knockout (1914, preserved by MoMA), and four films directed by Chaplin—Caught in the Rain, Getting Acquainted, Mabel’s Married Life, and The Rounders (all 1914)—preserved jointly by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, the bfi National Film and Television Archive, and Lobster Films, Paris. Program approx. 85 min.

Friday, June 10, 6:00 (*Model); Saturday, June 11, 4:00 (*Model). T2

Étienne-Jules Marey: Science and Cinema Explored

Marey (1830–1904) was trained as a physician and spent his life studying physiology. His revolutionary photographic and cinematic experiments, known as chronophotographs, forever changed the way motion and time were visualized and understood. Marta Braun, the author of Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey, presents a fascinating selection of Bandes Chronophotographiques from 1886, preserved by the Cinémathèque Française. Approx. 95 min.

Friday, June 10, 8:00. T2

“Neighborhood Watch”

This diverse program features European street scenes and a picaresque Maine logging camp to illustrate the importance of preserving regional films.

Rose Street Edinburgh. 1956. Scotland. Directed by Margaret Tait. Preserved by Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow. 14 min.

Venezia minore (Smaller Venice). 1942. Italy. Directed by Francesco Pasinetti. Preserved by Istituto Luce, Mediateca regionale del Veneto, Italy. 15 min.

From Stump to Ship. 1985. USA. Directed by Alfred Ames. Preserved by Northeast Historic Film, Maine. 28 min.

The City. 1939. USA. Directed by Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke. Preserved by MoMA. 44 min. Program 101 min.

Sunday, June 12, 2:00. T2

Monte Cristo. 1908. USA. Directed by Francis Boggs. Widely believed to be the first dramatic film ever made in California, this one-reel adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, Chicago. Preserved by the American Film Institute. Approx. 12 min. 

Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour. 1928. Germany. Directed by Karl Grüne. Screenplay by Max Ferner, Bobby E. Lüthge. With Fritz Kortner, Liane Haid. A disciple of Max Reinhardt, Grüne made his mark in film with expressionist evocations of urban life, but soon turned to the more lucrative genre of costume dramas, of which this film is a glorious example. Preserved by the Cinemateca Portuguesa, in collaboration with the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. Portuguese intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 120 min.

Sunday, June 12, 5:00 (*Oderman). T2

The Unholy Three [silent version]. 1925. USA. Directed by Tod Browning. Screenplay by Waldemar Young. With Lon Chaney, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles. Echo the ventriloquist, the strongman Hercules, and Tweedledee, a malevolent midget, are a sideshow trio who turn to a life of crime in Browning’s expressionist grotesquerie, which combines mirth and cruelty in equal and startling measure. Preserved by Warner Bros. Approx. 70 min.

Monday, June 13, 6:30 (*Model). T2

The Unholy Three [sound version]. 1930. USA. Directed by Jack Conway. Screenplay by Elliot Nugent. With Lon Chaney, Harry Earles, Nugent. If somewhat less macabre than the 1925 silent version, this talkie remake is nonetheless a showcase for the vocal talents of Chaney, who died of throat cancer shortly after production. His mimicry of an old woman is just one of the film’s many pleasures. Preserved by Warner Bros. 75 min.

Monday, June 13, 8:30. T2

De-Light: Making an Electric Light Bulb. 1920. USA. A “Ford Educational Weekly” produced by the Ford Motor Company. Silent. Approx. 10 min.

The Set-Up. 1949. USA. Directed by Robert Wise. Screenplay by Art Cohn. With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Wallace Ford. A gritty noir starring Ryan as an aging small-time boxer determined to win a fight he’s been fixed to lose. Preserved by MoMA from original nitrate elements in its Turner Collection. 73 min

A Day’s Fun at Blackpool. 1920. USA. A “Kinteo Review.” Official Urban Movie Chats of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America. Silent. Approx. 10 min. Both preserved  by UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Wednesday, June 15, 6:30 (T2); Saturday, June 18, 2:00 (T1)

A Face in the Crowd. 1957. USA. Directed by Elia Kazan. Screenplay by Budd Schulberg. With Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Kazan’s second collaboration with Schulberg shares with Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) and Robert Rossen’s All the King’s Men (1949) a bitterly sardonic attitude toward the corruptive influence of modern mass media and the cult of personality in American culture. Preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Preservation funding by The Film Foundation. 125 min.

Wednesday, June 15, 8:30 (T2); Saturday, June 18, 4:00 (T1)

Harlan County, USA. 1976. USA. Directed by Barbara Kopple. A landmark documentary about the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky, in June, 1973. Harlan County, USA was elected to the National Film Registry in 1990 and preserved with funding provided by the Women's Film Preservation Fund. 106 min.

Friday, June 17, 6:00. T1

Fårödokument 1979. 1979. Sweden. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Ten years after Fårödokument, Bergman interviews many of his same island neighbors. He confronts environmental and industrial developments that threaten the fabric of rural life—a life of hard labor that he soberly and evocatively captures on camera. Theatrical release version, preserved by Svenska Filminstitutet. In Swedish, English subtitles. 103 min.

Friday, June 17, 8:15. T1

Novyi Vavilon (The New Babylon). 1929. USSR. Written and directed by Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kosintsev. With Yelena Kuzmina, Sergei Gerasimov. Inspired by the writings of Émile Zola, Kozintsev and Trauberg’s last silent film recounts the bloody events of the Paris Commune of 1871 as experienced by Louise, an employee of The New Babylon, a Paris store. Preserved by Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. Russian intertitles, simultaneous English translation. Approx. 80 min.

Saturday, June 18, 6:00 (*Sosin). T2

Deadlier than the Male. 1966. Great Britain. Directed by Ralph Thomas. Bulldog Drummond, 1920s detective hero, is transported to the Swinging Sixties to do battle with Nigel Green, an international archcriminal, and his bikini-clad hitwomen Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina. With a story by Hammer Films screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, a title song sung by Scott Walker, and a raffish performance by Shakespearean actor Richard Johnson, this is arguably the most playful  and knowing of the James Bond spinoffs. Preserved by Granada Media, London. 98 min.

Saturday, June 18, 6:30; Sunday, June 19, 2:00. T1

Amarcord. 1973. Italy/France. Directed by Federico Fellini. Screenplay by Fellini, Tonino Guerra. With Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio. A fresco of life in Fellini’s native Rimini, during the Fascist 1930s. Among the many scenes of carnival-esque spectacle is a wedding ceremony during which the bridal couple receives cheers from well-toned Fascist youths. Preserved by the Cineteca Nazionale, Rome, and Comune di Rimini. In Italian, English subtitles. 127 min.

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