Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:38 am
This Wednesday, October 17 the College of William and Mary presents
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT (1926)
Starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
With accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Kimball Theater
$10, $8 seniors, student ID free • 7:30 pm
In France “in an age of light loves and lively scandals,” the Marquis de Bardelys (John Gilbert), casual womanizer and accomplished swashbuckler, makes a rash wager that he can woo and win the virtuous Roxalanne de Lavedan (Eleanor Boardman); and against a background of intrigue and hidden identities, he sets out to court her. Lavishly mounted and superbly directed with spectacular action scenes, Bardelys is a hugely entertaining action romance given an A-plus MGM production.
This film was considered to be lost after MGM destroyed the negative and all known prints in the 1930s, rather than renew the movie rights to the underlying novel. As a missing film directed by King Vidor (Show People, The Big Parade, The Crowd), and with an excellent cast, the discovery of a print in France in 2006 was an internationally celebrated event.
The Mont Alto Orchestra was commissioned to create a score, and accompanied the movie's American premiere in 2009 in Topeka Kansas, followed by screenings at Boulder's Chautauqua Auditorium and at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Mont Alto also recorded the score for a screening on Turner Classic Movies and the DVD release of the restored film on the Flicker Alley label.
"This excellent edition from Flicker Alley offers a crystalline transfer... The score, compiled from period music by Rodney Sauer and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, provides glittering support." -- The New York Times
This will be digital projection, the only format in which the restored Bardelys exists.
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT (1926)
Starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
With accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Kimball Theater
$10, $8 seniors, student ID free • 7:30 pm
In France “in an age of light loves and lively scandals,” the Marquis de Bardelys (John Gilbert), casual womanizer and accomplished swashbuckler, makes a rash wager that he can woo and win the virtuous Roxalanne de Lavedan (Eleanor Boardman); and against a background of intrigue and hidden identities, he sets out to court her. Lavishly mounted and superbly directed with spectacular action scenes, Bardelys is a hugely entertaining action romance given an A-plus MGM production.
This film was considered to be lost after MGM destroyed the negative and all known prints in the 1930s, rather than renew the movie rights to the underlying novel. As a missing film directed by King Vidor (Show People, The Big Parade, The Crowd), and with an excellent cast, the discovery of a print in France in 2006 was an internationally celebrated event.
The Mont Alto Orchestra was commissioned to create a score, and accompanied the movie's American premiere in 2009 in Topeka Kansas, followed by screenings at Boulder's Chautauqua Auditorium and at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Mont Alto also recorded the score for a screening on Turner Classic Movies and the DVD release of the restored film on the Flicker Alley label.
"This excellent edition from Flicker Alley offers a crystalline transfer... The score, compiled from period music by Rodney Sauer and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, provides glittering support." -- The New York Times
This will be digital projection, the only format in which the restored Bardelys exists.
Rodney Sauer
The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com
"Let the Music do the Talking!"
The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com
"Let the Music do the Talking!"