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

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

February 20

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

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