BY ANDRE SOARES. LOS ANGELES (CINEMA MINIMA) — A screening of a new print of THE GAUCHO (1927) will be the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s celebration of Hollywood’s biggest action-adventure star of the silent era, Douglas Fairbanks. The event will take place 2008 November 6 Thursday, at 7:30 p.m., at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California.
This new print (from the Museum of Modern Art) of Fairbanks’ penultimate silent film will be accompanied by music composed and conducted by Michael Mortilla, performed by a quintet. The screening will be preceded by outtakes shot in two-strip Technicolor.
THE GAUCHO is presented in conjunction with the publication of the Academy’s new book, Douglas Fairbanks, by Jeffrey Vance (with Tony Maietta and photo editor Robert Cushman). All three contributors will be on hand signing books before and after the screening.
This screening will be an excellent chance to watch a major silent — or rather, dialogue-less — production the way it was meant to be watched: a great print, on the big screen, with live musical accompaniment. Not to be missed by those interested in the development of the art of cinema.
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