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All programs are held at the New-York Historical Society,
located at Central Park West at West 77th Street.
Tickets are $10 all adults, and $5 for seniors, kids and members.
Live piano accompaniment by Ben Model at all shows.
Our winter/spring 2009 line-up:Click on Buster's hat to see our programming
(please note our new ticket price of $10)
Sunday, February 22 at 2pm
Buster Keaton in "The General"
THE GENERAL ('27) is not only Buster Keaton’s most highly praised and famous film, but was one of his own personal favorites. So accurate that it looks like Matthew Brady Civil War photographs come to life, Buster nevertheless made sure that the film is as funny as it is authentic. Extra-added attraction MOOCHING THROUGH GEORGIA ('39) has Buster revisiting the Civil War in the sound era.
Sunday, March 8 at 2pm
Raymond Griffith in "Hands Up!"
Our second Civil War program stars the neglected Raymond Griffith in HANDS UP! ('26), a clock-work timed comedy of wartime intrigue, assumed identities, and dual leading ladies, that presents Griffith in all his smarmy elegance. The early Griffith short HIS FOOT-HILL FOLLY ('17), from his days at Triangle/Keystone, opens the show.
Sunday, March 29 at 2pm
Erich von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives"
Erich von Stroheim, the “man you love to hate” of the silent era, takes the stage with his Monte Carlo set extravaganza, the making of which almost bankrupted the young Universal studio. This drama about a completely amoral con man became a smash hit, but made von Stroheim a life-long enemy in the person of producer Irving Thalberg.
Click here to watch the episode of Kevin Brownlow's "Hollywood" on von Stroheim
**this film recently added to the National Film Registry**
Sunday, April 5 at 2pm
W.C. Fields in "So's Your Old Man"
When anyone thinks of W.C. Fields they immediately hear his nasal drawl and muttered asides, but Fields made his first film in 1915 and we’re happy to present one of his rare silents. SO’S YOUR OLD MAN ('26) w as filmed at Paramount’s Long Island Studio (today’s Kaufman-Astoria Studio) and contains his famous Ziegfeld Follies golf routine. Rounding out the bill is Buster Keaton’s house problems in ONE WEEK ('20).
**both films recently added to the National Film Registry**
Sunday, April 19 at 2pm
Celebrating Chaplin's 120th birthday!
Essanay shorts
This 120th Chaplin birthday celebration focuses on his second year in films at Essanay in 1915. Not content to have his screen character just be a figure of fun, today’s bill of A NIGHT OUT, THE CHAMPION, THE TRAMP and WORK, illustrates Charlie’s development into a comic underdog, hero, and lover. Chaplin’s inspiration and hard work produced films that remain fresh and funny for audiences of all ages.
from this past spring and more!
