Tuesday | October 3, 2006 9:00 pm

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Screening on Film

Directed by F. W. Murnau.
With George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingstone.
US, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 91 min.

The great German director F.W. Murnau handpicked Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature. A masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, Sunrise tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention. The relatively simple story revolves around a hard-working farmer (O’Brien) torn between devotion to his virtuous wife (Gaynor) and desire for a seductive vamp from the city (Livingstone).

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100