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May
14
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Silent Film Series with Live Score: Ben-Hur @ Mount Baker Theatre
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May 14 @ 3:00 pm
Silent Film Series with Live Score: Ben-Hur @ Mount Baker Theatre | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Transport your family to a luxe movie palace of yesteryear, featuring famous films and a live orchestra of sound from MBT’s pipe organ.

The universal themes of the fight against oppression and spiritual redemption are the source of Ben-Hur’s continued appeal. Condemned to a lifetime of slavery by Roman officers, the son of a wealthy Jewish family embarks on an epic quest to reclaim his family and freedom, rising from lowly ship slave to champion charioteer. The film cost 20 times the average MGM release in 1925 and featured an infamous chariot race scene—the product of 200,000 feet of film from 42 cameras, this death-defying sequence is still a thrilling theatre experience today.

“[Dennis] James masterfully recreates the musical scores with which these early films were meant to be seen. The Mount Baker Theater, which opened in 1927, is one of the last of the Grand Silent Movie Palaces built in the Pacific Northwest and, as such, is the perfect setting for James’ performances and showing of these films.” -Scot Casey, What’s Up Magazine

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: ben hur silent film
Feb
17
Sun
VISIONS & VOICES: Forgotten Films From Cinema’s Women Directors @ Mount Baker Theatre
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Feb 17 @ 4:00 pm
VISIONS & VOICES: Forgotten Films From Cinema's Women Directors @ Mount Baker Theatre

“VISIONS & VOICES: Forgotten Films From Cinema’s Women Directors,” samples films from “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers,” a collection of historical films recently curated by Kino Lorber distribution company and the Library of Congress.

The series includes a variety of features and short films ranging from slapstick comedies to melodramas and thrillers – all from female directors. Audience members are invited to participate in a Q&A event after each film.

FULL SCHEDULE:

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17: Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham 4 p.m. Films include “The Red Kimona,” “The Wild Engine” and “Mabel’s Blunder.” Tickets are $10 (+ $1.25 historical venue fee) and are available here: https://bit.ly/2EL7NP1

FRIDAY, MARCH 1: Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham 6 p.m. “The Curse of Gwon Quon,” “When Little Lindy Sang,” and feature “49-17.” Tickets are $10 (+ $1.25 historical venue fee) and are available here: https://bit.ly/2EL7NP1

FRIDAY, MARCH 8: Firehouse Events Center, Fairhaven. 7 p.m. “Be Natural,” a new Oscar-nominated documentary about silent film director Alice Guy Blache, directed by Pamela Green. Tickets $10 and available at Brown Paper Tickets. https://bpt.me/4034334

More information is available at www.cascadiafilmfest.org

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Categories: Festivals, Expos & Parades Tags: film Film festival silent film
Apr
3
Sun
The Ancient Law with live original music performed by pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals @ Pickford Film Center
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Apr 3 @ 1:00 am
The Ancient Law with live original music performed by pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals @ Pickford Film Center

Pickford Film Center, in cooperation with Congregation Beth Israel, presents an afternoon of live music accompanying the silent film The Ancient Law. Joining us are pianist-composer Donald Sosin and violinist-composer Alicia Svigals performing their score for the film.

The film: From Pordenone’s Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and Vienna’s Metro Kinokulturhaus to Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and dozens of other major venues around the country, E.A. Dupont’s 1923 masterpiece, The Ancient Law, has been hailed by critics and audiences alike. The film is a partly true story of a rabbi’s son who shuns the shtetl to become an actor. Henny Porten plays a sly archduchess courting budding actor Ernst Deutsch, with a superb backup cast of Weimar Berlin’s finest actors and stunning sets and costumes.

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