Tue 9/15-Sun 9/20
The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium returns this week, with four days of screenings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, one at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and one at Cleveland Grays Armory Museum, with silent films in a wide range of genres, accompanied by live music.
The opening event on Tuesday September 15 is 1923’s East and West, featuring Yiddish theater legend Molly Picon, a romantic comedy centering on the clash between a modern young Jewish woman and her family’s more traditional Europea beliefs.
On Wednesday September 16, the CMA series opens with 1926’s 3 Bad Men, a Western directed by the genre’s master John Ford, and starring Tom Mix, William S. Hart and Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson as outlaws who rescue a young woman after her father is killed and become her protectors. Prior to the film at 6:30, John Ford expert Grafton Nunes will give an introduction to the film.
The General (1926), featuring Buster Keaton, screens at Grays Armory on Thursday September 17. The Johnston Flood will screen at CMA on Friday September 18, followed Japanese film A Page of Madness on Saturday September 19, and closing with Beau Geste on Sunday September 20; all are from 1926.
Learn more about the films and purchase individual tickets or a festival pass HERE.