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Silent Summer 2012
The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced its lineup for their summer film festival, one of our favorite events of the season. The festival runs on Friday nights from July 20 through August 24 at the Portage Theater in Chicago. This year will bring us some comedy from Harold Lloyd, some action from Douglas …
Silent Summer 2011
The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced its 2011 Silent Summer Film Festival, one of our favorite summertime traditions. Running for six Fridays at 8 PM from July 22 to Aug. 26 at the Portage Theater, this year’s festival brings a great cross-section of classic silent films to the big screen. Here’s what’s coming …
Silent Summer 2010
The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced the 2010 lineup for one of our favorite events! It’s the annual Silent Summer Festival (link to be updated soon) at the Portage Theatre on Chicago’s Northwest side. This year’s schedule looks like this: July 23: The Freshman (1925) with Harold Lloyd. July 30: Ben-Hur (1925) starring …
Silent Summer 2009
This past Friday night, we attended the opening of the Silent Film Society of Chicago’s Silent Summer Festival at the Portage Theatre. The show was Running Wild, starring W.C. Fields, in a much more sympathetic role than you may be accustomed. The feature was preceded by the Buster Keaton short “My Wife’s Relations,” a classic …
Silent Summer 2008
It’s an annual summer tradition: The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced their schedule for their 2008 Silent Summer Film Festival at the Portage Theater. In brief, here’s what’s coming up: July 18: Speedy (1929) with Harold Lloyd, directed by Ted Wilde. Live organ accompaniment: Dennis Scott. Shown with “Swing Your Partners” from 1918. …
Silent Summer 2007
The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced their Silent Summer 2007 Film Festival. This is one of my favorite things to do on Friday nights in July and August. This year’s schedule looks like this: July 20 – Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) July 27 – Wings (Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers, Jr. in the …
Silent Summer 2005
I just learned that the Silent Film Society of Chicago’s “Silent Summer 2005” festival has been rescheduled for the fall. It will also be at a different venue. The guy at the SFSC was very nice and polite about it, but it sounds like they had a lot of challenges trying to make it happen …
RIP Jay Warren
I was sad to learn of the passing of Dennis Wolkowicz, the creator of the Silent Summer Film Festival which I’ve written about here before. Known professionally as Jay Warren, he came up with the idea of presenting silent films to a Chicago audience the way they were meant to be seen: on a big …
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat
(A repost, originally published here on October 4, 2005. The documentary referenced here, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, is available in several parts on YouTube, with part 1 at this link.) Today is Buster Keaton’s birthday. Those are his words in the title of this blog entry, denying the “genius” title given to …
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No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat
Today is Buster Keaton’s birthday. Those are his words in the title of this blog entry, denying the “genius” title given to him by people who discovered his work long after it was made. When most people think of silent film comedians these days, they think of Chaplin’s Little Tramp and maybe Harold Lloyd, hanging …
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