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FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2026 Start Time: 6:15pm
BEAU GESTE 1926 129 min
CANADIAN PREMIERE: NEW RESTORATION
Director: Herbert Brenon
Starring Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Noah Berry
Accompanist: Bill O'Meara
“Set against the vast sands of the Algerian desert, Beau Geste follows three brothers who enlist in the French Foreign Legion after a family scandal involving a missing jewel. Together they face treachery, honour, and sacrifice inside a besieged desert fort—an epic adventure re-imagined through this stunning restoration.” D
Director Herbert Brenon’s takes author P.C. Wren's adventure novel to a different level to create created an enduring template for the almost mythical tales of the French Foreign Legion, brotherhood and desert warfare.
Among the film’s most visually striking sequences—the desert fort populated by dead soldiers propped up along the parapets—it remains one of silent cinema’s most haunting images. Cinematographer J. Roy Hunt captures the expansive Algerian landscape with the skill of a painter, while Brenon balances intimate character drama with spectacular military action.
Noah Beery’s sadistic Sergeant Lejaune provides a memorably vicious antagonist whose cruelty tests the bonds of fraternal loyalty and honour at the heart of this classic adventure tale.
This stunning new restoration returns the visual glory to this 1926 award winning film.
Restored by Artcraft Pictures, supervised by the Library of Congress.
Screening materials provided by Rialto Pictures.
SATURDAY APRIL 11, 2026 Start Time: 1:15 pmLAFFS IN THE AFT: JUST KIDDINGAccompanist: Jordan KlapmanWe're throwing this to the kids today with three comedies centered on the kids!The masterpiece The Kid 1921 starring Chaplin and Jackie Coogan“The Little Tramp rescues an orphan baby from the streets and raises him as his own. A miraculous pairing in this clever and innovative marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a story of pancakes, fistfights, and dodging social services and policemen - as the opening title card says, “a picture with a smile - and perhaps a tear.” An instant hit in 1921, The Kid remains a masterwork of cinema.”-from Charlie Chaplin.com And once again, Chaplin, as The Little Tramp, makes the statement about how family is one you make not necessarily the one you're born with.Brats 1930 -like you've never seen in close to a century--the SILENT version.In a study of contrast with the Chaplin masterwork, comes the pure comic mayhem that only Laurel and Hardy can provide. All Stan and Ollie want to do is spend a quiet evening at home playing checkers. Little Ollie and little Stanley have other plans as they constantly interrupt the peace with escalating chaos. We're sure many parents will relate. Screening materials courtesy of Kit Parker Films.BONUS: A secret short!Introduced by comedy programmer and Laurel & Hardy expert Chris Seguin.Bring the kids (children 12 yrs and younger get in for free)
SATURDAY APRIL 11, 2026 Start Time: 4pm
LOVE 1927
Directed by Edmond Goulding
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy
Special Guest: Scott Reisfield, author and grand nephew of Greta Garbo
Accompanist: Laura Sgroi
MGM's version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was re-titled Love (1927) but it’s possible that any story starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo would have been given this title. When the off screen romance started in the Flesh and the Devil, the movie magazines screaming headlines and breathless reporting of their love affair made it impossible to do anything else. In that respect, it was inevitable that Tolstoy's story would become heavily modified. Garbo would star in the mid 1930s remake which restored the original story. But here, at the young age of 22, Garbo was already celebrated not only for her beauty as a screen goddess but as a gifted artist. The resulting chemistry between Garbo and matinee idol John Gilbert glowed on film and they became a legendary couple both on and off the screen.
Time wrote in December 1927, “It isn’t Tolstoy, but it is John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, beautifully presented and magnificently acted.”
SUNDAY APRIL 12, 2026 Start Time: 1:15 pm
STRIKE (Stachka) 1925
Accompanist: Tania Gill
The Master Debuts.
Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike 1925, apart from Orson Welle’s feature directorial debut, marks one of the most profound cinematic entrances in film history.
In telling the story of a 1903 strike, triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft and its brutal suppression, Eisenstein experimented using montage, parallel editing, expanded time and intercutting of symbolic images to build the story and emotion on an intertwined path with the characters. It would prove to be a coming out as a director like no other, and one that would change the look of cinema and inspire directors for the next century.
It has all the seeds of his later works but the with an edginess and grittiness that anchors with the rawness of the story. For many, this first feature at age 26 years would remain his greatest work, surpassing even his other masterpiece Battleship Potemkin, for sheer brilliance and power.
SUNDAY APRIL 12, 2026 Start Time: 4pm
GARDEN OF EDEN 1928
CANADIAN PREMIERE OF THE NEW 4K RESTORATION
Accompanist: Morgan-Paige Melbourne
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Starring: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Charles Ray, Maude George
This late silent gem absolutely dazzles in the gorgeous 4K restoration from the San Francisco Film Preserve. It's a sly, sexy romantic comedy mixes sex and deceptions as it follows the trials and tribulations of wide-eyed Toni (Corinne Griffith), the naïve Viennese pretzel baker whose dreams of becoming an opera singer takes a very leap into the unknown when she answers an audition ad. Upon arriving in Budapest, she meets the nightclub madam (Maude George) and agrees to try out. Once on stage she quickly learns that she may have been recruited for more dubious “entertainments” at the club. Her disastrous debut, complete with a see-through dress, catches the eye of a lecherous aristocrat (Lowell Sherman at his debauched best) who mistakes her for part of his evening’s amusements — and sends her fleeing in comic panic.
Escaping to the French Riviera's Hotel Eden, a playground for the sexual escapades of the rich, famous and infamous, with the wardrobe lady (Dresser) who is also not whom she seems, she meets a charming young fellow (Charles Ray). Romance blossoms and she hopes for a happily-ever-after. But scandalous pasts come crashing back into view and it all comes tumbling down in high screwball comedy fashion.
The film boost all the lavishness of production values so inherent of the late 1920s period. Written by Hanns Kräly, Lubitsch’s frequent collaborator and directed by future Oscar®-winner Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), THE GARDEN OF EDEN 1928 might just be the best Lubitsch film Lubitsch never made.
Generously sponsored by the San Francisco Film Preserve