April Fools & Hungry Hearts

April Fools & Hungry Hearts

Curator and film historian, Ken Gordon returns to the Brooklyn Central Library with another series of silent films.

Featuring live piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman.

Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
t.718-230-2100

Buster Keaton

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Family Ties, Slapstick-Wise
Four short films, reflecting four different styles of comedies & comedians:

Snub Pollard in Sold At Auction (1923)

Harry Langdon in Fiddlesticks (1927)

Charley Chase in The Sting of Stings (1927)

Max Davidson in Pass the Gravy (1928)

Sunday April 1, 2007-2pm
Buster Keaton's 'Marriage Trilogy"

The three Keaton shorts spotlighted here form a mini-feature, tracing Buster & Sybil Seely from courtship in The Scarecrow (1920) to marriage in One Week (1920) and family in The Boat (1921).

Also Buster's movie debut in the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle short The Butcher Boy (1917)

Harry Langdon

And on Sunday April 22nd, 2007-2pm

Two Immigrant Tales:

Hungry Hearts
(1922)
Starring Helen Ferguson & Rosa Rosanova

Directed by E. Mason Hopper, this feature film is based on the short stories of Anzia Yezierska who gave voice to the Jewish immigrant woman's experience.

Also

The Immigrant
1917
with
Charles Chaplin & Edna Purviance

A two-reel comedy directed by Chaplin.

Above photos from Silent Ladies & Gents