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

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive

May 8–11

The Spring is Over (Prague 1970)