HEIGHTS 90TH ANNIVERSARY FILM EVENT

"SYNTHETIC SIN"

July 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION.

Once again The Heights is presenting a long lost silent film! Synthetic Sin was considered a lost film since a fire at Warner Bros in the 1950's wiped out the last known existing prints, but a lone surviving print was discovered in an Italian film Archive by Film Historian Joe Yranski in 2002, and with the generous support of Warner Bros, The UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Vitatphone project the film has been restored to its original glory!

In this Jazz age comedy Colleen Moore plays an actress who just flopped trying to portray a "wicked woman" in a local small town play, so she decides to head to New York City and see what it takes to become a "wicked woman" to get the part, and gets mixed up with all kinds of mischief in the big city!

This special screening will include a live accompaniment on the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer by HARVEY GUSTAFSON!

DCP courtesy Warner Bros.

"LIMELIGHT"

Nov. 7, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

35MM PRESENTATION.

When Calvero (Chaplin), a drunken clown who has seen better days, saves Terry (Claire Bloom), from suicide, he not only helps get her back on her feet and back to ballet, but begins to revitalize his own career. Limelight saw the one and only pairing of Chaplin and Keaton, and is a melancholy--and hilarious--masterpiece, arguably Chaplin's last great film.

35mm print courtesy Janus Films.

"KING OF JAZZ"

Oct. 16, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION

In his push to establish Universal as a first-rank studio, Carl Laemmle, Jr spent over 2 million dollars to produced this spectacular musical revue built around the popular band leader Paul Whiteman. Considered by many to be one of the greatest of the early musical films, it more than lives up to it's publicity as A NEW ERA in sound and color entertainment! Every aspect of the movie was innovative, from the pre-recording of the musical performances, the two color Technicolor, Russell Markert's high-precision choreography, an animated color cartoon prologue to a miniaturized orchestra emerging from a giant suitcase and bewitched shoes dancing without benefit of feet, everything smacked of newness.

Universal spent a half million dollars restoring this film in 2016 and it really must be seen on the big screen in all it's Technicolor glory to be appreciated for the work of art that it is!

DCP courtesy Universal Pictures.