An autumn tradition at the Dryden Theatre, Silent Tuesdays is a survey of some of the best films in early cinema history: all with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli. This year’s selection runs from 1920 to the early 1930s, and features the familiar faces of Buster Keaton, Jon Chaney, Jr., Victor McLaglen, Olive Thomas, Pola Negri, and the Gish sisters, as well as directors such as Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Josef von Sternberg, Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, D.W. Griffith, and William Wyler, among others. Experience dramas and comedies, romances and westerns—not to mention a special Halloween film and a program of silent short comedies from the George Eastman Museum collections on Silent Movie Day in September. This is the way to see a silent film: On the big screen with live music!
Dates and Titles:
September 3: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925, 56 min., 35mm)
September 10: Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon, 1928, 73 min., 35mm)
September 17: The Sea Hawk (Frank Lloyd, 1924, 123 min., 35mm)
September 24: Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru, Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1925, 111 min., 35mm)
October 1: The Salvation Hunters (Josef von Sternberg, 1925, 70 min., 35mm)
October 8: What Price Glory? (Raoul Walsh, 1926, 116 min., 35mm)
October 29: The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag, Henrik Galeen, 1926, 110 min., 16mm)
November 5: The Flapper (Alan Crosland, 1920, 88 min., 35mm)
November 19: Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921, 150 min., 35mm)
November 26: Forbidden Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924, 76 min., 35mm)
December 3: TBA
December 10: Hell’s Heroes (William Wyler, 1929, 68 min., 35mm)
December 17: Rome Express (Walter Forde, 1932, 94 min., 16mm)
Events in this Series
Silent Short Comedies | Matinee
Saturday Matinees | Silent Movie Day The Dryden Theatre is celebrating Silent Movie Day one day early with this program of comedic gems exclusively from our collection at the George Eastman Museum.