The Dryden will screen Nitrate Shorts with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli to kick off the Nitrate Picture Show. The films are: Movies are Adventures (Jack Hively, U.S. 1948, 10 min.): "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen BakushÅ« (Early Summer, YasujirÅ Ozu, Japan 1951, 124 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. "I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irvin Reis, U.S. 1947, 95 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. "We wouldn't be able to tell you whether Sidney Sheldon, the fellow who wrote The Bachelor and the … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, U.S. 1945, 143 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. "Anchors Aweigh mixes music, uniforms and Hollywood cut-ups in such a show as only Hollywood could concoct. Gene Kelly is in … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Siréna (The Strike, Karel Steklý, Czechoslovakia 1947, 77 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. The feature will be preceded by Žhavý jÃcen (Hot Throat, Jiřà Lehovec, Czechoslovakia 1939, 12 min.): "An industrial short produced … Continue reading
In the Dryden Theatre, Alexander Horwath will present a lecture titled My Life without NitrateRouen, Martyre d'une Cité (Louis Cuny, France 1945, 15 min.), and Die Todesmühlen (Death Mills, Hans Burger, U.S. 1945, 22 min.): "Both films address the destructive … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Phanton of the Opera (Arthur Lubin, U.S. 1943, 92 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. "Phantom of the Opera is far more of a musical than a chiller, though this element is not to … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky, Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev, Soviet Union 1938, 108 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. The feature will be followed by the short Le Sang des Bêtes (Blood of … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Night and the City (Jules Dassin, U.K./U.S. 1950, 111 min., format) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. "An exciting, suspenseful melodrama, . . . the story of a double-crossing heel who finally gets his just … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, U.K. 1945, 111 min.) "This writer has had little traffic with practitioners of psychiatry or with the twilight abstractions of their science, so we are not in a position to say whether Ingrid … Continue reading
Language is the primary tool we use to communicate about cinema, but it is not cinema itself. We use language to contextualize the cinematic experience, to talk about the themes and content of film, to relate the emotional journey we've … Continue reading
A gift of the Century Projector Company, the Century Model C projectors have been installed in the Dryden Theatre since it opened in 1951. These MacHines are "closed head" projectors, so called because the entire film path from feed magazine … Continue reading