NYC WHY BE GOOD? & SYNTHETIC SIN SCREENINGS
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:10 pm
OK, here's the advance announcement on our upcoming Film Forum NYC screenings of the just-restored WHY BE GOOD? and SYNTHETIC SIN this November. Ticket purchases will not appear on the www,filmforum.org site for at least another month, but I wanted my friends to know for planning purposes. Not I've arranged for a recently restored early Technicolor short to have their first screenings with each feature. Here's the scoop.....
NOVEMBER 9/10 SUN/MON
WHY BE GOOD? New York Restoration Premiere!
(1929, William A. Seiter) "Some of the girls are hot stuff. Don't get mixed with any of them." Too late, Dad! Junior (Neil Hamilton, 35 years later Inspector Gordon on TV’s Batman), has already had a fine time with employee Colleen Moore, a supposed floozy – but is she? Thought impossibly lost, quintessential Jazz Baby Coleen’s last silent was discovered in Italy and married to its original Vitaphone discs unearthed here – a wedding that began with a chance meeting at Film Forum over 20 years ago! Plus Manhattan Serenade (1929): a just-restored MGM Colortone Technicolor musical short and tour of 1929 New York City, featuring the sizzling Nina Mae McKinney and The Brox Sisters.. Special Thanks to Ron Hutchinson (The Vitaphone Project), Joseph Yranski, and Ned Price (Warner Bros). Introduced by the Vitaphone Project’s Ron Hutchinson.
SUN 1:00PM MON 3:00PM, 7:40PM
NOVEMBER 16/17 SUN/MON
SYNTHETIC SIN New York Restoration Premiere!
(1929, William A. Seiter) Oh, so famed playwright Antonio Moreno’s latest work flopped because fiancée Colleen Moore was too “unsophisticated” to play the lead; guess it’s time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia, to get to Gotham for some experience – good luck! Her next-door neighbors are gangsters! Plus PIRATES (1930): recently restored and premiering here, this musical MGM Colortone Technicolor short stars Benny Rubin as the head of a band of dancing & singing scourges of the high seas. Special Thanks to Ron Hutchinson (The Vitaphone Project), Joseph Yranksi, and Ned Price (Warner Bros). Introduced by the Vitaphone Project’s Ron Hutchinson.
SUN 1:10PM MON 7:15PM
NOVEMBER 9/10 SUN/MON
WHY BE GOOD? New York Restoration Premiere!
(1929, William A. Seiter) "Some of the girls are hot stuff. Don't get mixed with any of them." Too late, Dad! Junior (Neil Hamilton, 35 years later Inspector Gordon on TV’s Batman), has already had a fine time with employee Colleen Moore, a supposed floozy – but is she? Thought impossibly lost, quintessential Jazz Baby Coleen’s last silent was discovered in Italy and married to its original Vitaphone discs unearthed here – a wedding that began with a chance meeting at Film Forum over 20 years ago! Plus Manhattan Serenade (1929): a just-restored MGM Colortone Technicolor musical short and tour of 1929 New York City, featuring the sizzling Nina Mae McKinney and The Brox Sisters.. Special Thanks to Ron Hutchinson (The Vitaphone Project), Joseph Yranski, and Ned Price (Warner Bros). Introduced by the Vitaphone Project’s Ron Hutchinson.
SUN 1:00PM MON 3:00PM, 7:40PM
NOVEMBER 16/17 SUN/MON
SYNTHETIC SIN New York Restoration Premiere!
(1929, William A. Seiter) Oh, so famed playwright Antonio Moreno’s latest work flopped because fiancée Colleen Moore was too “unsophisticated” to play the lead; guess it’s time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia, to get to Gotham for some experience – good luck! Her next-door neighbors are gangsters! Plus PIRATES (1930): recently restored and premiering here, this musical MGM Colortone Technicolor short stars Benny Rubin as the head of a band of dancing & singing scourges of the high seas. Special Thanks to Ron Hutchinson (The Vitaphone Project), Joseph Yranksi, and Ned Price (Warner Bros). Introduced by the Vitaphone Project’s Ron Hutchinson.
SUN 1:10PM MON 7:15PM