“A MARVEL ... Could be the most brilliantly sustained comic climax in film history ... The great silent comics defined their own other grea worlds; Ll Lloyd lives dangerously in ours.”
ME O C L E W E ALL AG
DAVE KEHR, C CHICAGO READER
“Demonstrates Lloyd’s ability to do more than milk a gag, but to top it ... Each new floor is like a new stanza in a poem; and the higher and more horrifying it gets, the funnier it gets.” JAMES AGEE, COMEDY’S GREATEST ERA
“To see it today with an audience alternately roaring with laughter and gasping is one of the greatest experiences of cinema.” DAVID SHIPMAN
USA 1923. Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Tayl Taylor Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott B. Clarke
Harold Lloyd ranks with Chaplin, Keaton, and Harry Langdon as one of the giants of American silent comedy, and is central to one cinema’s most indelible and iconic sights: a man, in straw-boater hat and round spectacles, dangling dangerously from the hands of a giant clock over a busy city street. That still-thrilling side-of-a-skyscraper sequence is found in 1923’s Safety Last!, one of Lloyd’s best and best-known movies, screening here in a new 35mm print struck for the film’s 90th anniversary, featuring a sparkling score by composer Carl Davis. “The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd — the modern guy striving for success — is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to his world. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do that gives him a head start on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jawdropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is an unforgettable movie experience from a genuine legend” (Janus Films). B&W, 35mm, silent. 67 mins. FRIDAY, JUNE 7 – 8:30 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 8 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, JUNE 9 – 6:30 PM TUESDAY, JUNE 11 – 8:30 PM
FREE SCREENING SATURDAY, JUNE 15 – 2:00 PM
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Membership requirement in effect for those 18+ (except for Open House free screening on June 15)
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15
June is Film Lovers Month at The Cinematheque and to celebrate our doors will be open for a glimpse beyond the screen. Join us on Saturday, June 15 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm for our 5th Annual Open House. Tour the projection booth, library, and archive. Participate in a special silent-film activity with our Education Department. Join our donor program. Bid on film posters. Then, at 2:00 pm, grab a complimentary bag of the city’s best popcorn and settle into your seat for an Essential Cinema experience with free screenings of Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 two-reeler Easy Street, with live piano accompaniment by world-class keyboard artist Sara Davis Buechner, followed by Harold Lloyd’s 1923 comic classic Safety Last!
OPEN HOUSE: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM FREE SCREENINGS: 2:00 PM
Charlie Chaplins’s Easy Street with Live Piano Accompaniment by Sara Davis Buechner
+ Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! Tickets to the free 2:00 pm screenings will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis starting at 12:00 pm on Saturday, June 15th. For more information, call 604688-8202.