Monday, August 15, 2011

Sunrise in the dark

This year's Silent Summer Film Festival, running through August 26 with weekly Friday night shows at the Portage Theatre, has focused on the great female stars of the 1920s: Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marion Davies (The Cardboard Lover, Fri 8/19, 8 PM), and Greta Garbo (The Mysterious Lady, Fri 8/26, 8 PM). But screening tonight at 8 PM is the indisputable classic on this year's schedule: F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), starring Janet Gaynor (perhaps best remembered for the original 1937 version of A Star Is Born).?

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