Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays

Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays

JULY 9-30, MONDAYS AT 12 & 7PM

Lunchtime Matinees
Opulence & Epics Series
At the Paramount Theatre

This summer, get acquainted with the unique art of the silent film at The Paramount Theatre, as Seattle Theatre Group (STG) and Northwest Film Forum present Trader Joe’s Silent Movie Mondays. This all-classic silent film series is accompanied by live music from the historic Mighty Wurlitzer Organ, one of the last three remaining organs of its kind to reside in its original environment, played by critically-acclaimed organist Jim Riggs.

This summer, bring your lunch inside the air-conditioned Paramount Theatre to enjoy some great silent film shorts by Georges Méliès, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton.  In the evenings, the Opulence and Epics series of silent features present sumptuous worlds, tragically flawed characters and biblical adaptations which are epic in scale and scope, melodramatic and operatic in their vision.

 


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A Trip to the Moon

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 09, 2012

Three classic silent film shorts are presented for your lunchtime viewing pleasure, including Georges Melies' seminal A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), and two of Charlie Chaplin's hilarious classics.

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Piccadilly

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 09, 2012

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act. The film stars the luscious Anna Mae Wong, who casts intense glamour and enchantment over a nightclub in danger of decline in a tale of betrayal, forbidden love and murder. Year: 1929.

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Impossible Voyage

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 16, 2012

Two silent film classic shorts are featured in this lunchtime program, including Georges Melies' fantastical Impossible Voyage and Chaplin's iconic Tramp caring for The Kid.

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L'Argent

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 16, 2012

L'Argent (1928) is a gripping exposé of the destructive power of money, featuring ruthless stock-market speculators, desperate bids, ruined rivals, and sexual seduction. In the film, business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.

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Kingdom of Fairies

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 23, 2012

Let Buster Keaton and George Melies spirit you away on your lunch break in the Kingdom of Fairies and The Cameraman, two classic silent films.

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 23, 2012

This 1925 epic was the most elaborate and expensive silent film ever made, a legendary production, whose costs were overshadowed only by the film's box office, over $9 million!  Young Arrius, the adopted son of a Roman nobleman, is acclaimed as the most accomplished chariot racer in all the Empire. Few people know that Arrius is really a former Jewish slave, Prince Judah (Ben-Hur), who was thought to have perished. Young Arrius decides to accept an offer to race horses in an upcoming chariot competition in order exact his revenge on a Roman Tribune named Messala. 

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Rips' Dream

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 30, 2012

Buster Keaton and Georges Melies join together in this lunchtime program of classic silent films, in stories of cowhands and Rip Van Winkle.

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The King of Kings

At the Paramount Theatre

Jul 30, 2012

Cecil B. Demille's biblically-proportioned King of Kings (1927) mixes sex and religion, turning the redemption of Mary Magdalene, a high priced courtesan and possible lover of Jesus, into a vamp. At the start of this classic story, Mary Magdalene becomes angry when Judas (now a follower of Jesus) won't come to her feast. After going to see Jesus, she becomes repentant. From there the Bible story unfolds through the crucifixion and resurrection.

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It

Apr 04, 2011

(Clarence G. Badger, 1927, USA, 35mm, 72 min)

The 1927 masterpiece It stars Clara Bow as Betty Lou Spence, a poor sales girl at a large department store. In this straight-forward Cinderella-esque story, Betty sets her sights on winning the love of the rich owner’s son, Cyrus Walthm Jr. (Antonio Moreno). 

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Speedy

At the Paramount Theatre

Apr 11, 2011

(Harold Lloyd, 1928, USA, 86 min)

Speedy was both Harold Lloyd's last silent film as well as his only film to get an Oscar nomination. A fine example of why Lloyd was even more popular than Chaplain or Keaton at the end of the silent era. This fast paced dramatic comedy explores the theme of modernization, pitting the last horse drawn trolley in the city against the evil forces of the transit monopoly.

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The Crowd

At the Paramount Theatre

Apr 18, 2011

(King Vidor, 1928, USA, 100 min)

This realistic, bittersweet drama of the day-to-day existence of an ordinary American is as relevant today as it was in 1928, just before the great stock market crash. In director King Vidor's Academy Award nominated timeless silent masterpiece we see James Murray, an everyman white-collar worker, trying to make it with his wife in the big city of New York. 

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The Cameraman

At the Paramount Theatre

Apr 25, 2011

(Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgewick, 1928, USA, 67 min)

The first film he made after moving to MGM, The Cameraman is arguably Buster Keaton's last truly great work before the studio system stifled him. Here "The Great Stone Face" is cast as an aspiring, but lousy, newsreel cameraman in quest of the perfect shot, and, of course, the requisite pretty but oblivious Keaton ingénue. 

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