Sun 9/29 @ 4PM
Sun 9/29 @ 6:30PM
Sunday September 29 is National Silent Movie Day and the Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium, a nonprofit organization founded in 2002, is celebrating with a double bill of classic silent films, taking place at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.
At 4pm, you can see the 1918 Ernst Lubisch film Carmen, featuring one of the legends of silent film Pola Negri as the seductive, unfaithful and ill-fated gypsy, best known from the 1875 Georges Bizet opera of the same name. Then stick around for the 6:30 screening of the 1924 adventure film The Thief of Bagdad, starring another silent film legend, Douglas Fairbanks, in a story adapted from One Thousand and One Nights. It give him the chance to show off his acrobatic skills as well as his charm with which he wins the princess. They tell us that it’s “considered to be one of the greatest silent films, impressed audiences with its spectacular production design and imaginative special effects.”
The films will both be accompanied by live music from Dr. Philip Carli, who specializes in silent film music.
Get tickets to Carmen here and The Thief of Bagdad here.