Despite a starring career that lasted only five years, Rudolph Valentino has remained one of Hollywood's most intriguing icons, ever since his death in 1926 at age thirty-one. Admired by his fans as a moody dark-skinned lover but reviled by editorial writers for his androgynous sexuality, Valentino exhibited "a depth of feeling, a capacity for suffering, an artistry, and a princely bearing that belonged to him alone," as Emily W. Leider writes in her new biography, Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003). This retrospective features the rarely revived The Wonderful Chance (1920), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), and Cobra (1925), as well as the New York premiere of Edoardo Ballerini's Good Night Valentino (2002; filmmaker present) and a presentation and book signing by Ms. Leider. All films except Good Night Valentino are silent with piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman or Ben Model.