Three Warren Sonbert Films Screened at Doc Films at University of Chicago

Three Warren Sonbert Films Screened at Doc Films at University of Chicago

On Sunday, April 13th, at 7pm, three films by Warren Sonbert — 1966’s HALL OF MIRRORS, 1986’s THE CUP AND THE LIP, and 1989’s FRIENDLY WITNESS — screened at Doc Films at the University of Chicago on 16mm. This program was introduced by film scholar Fred Camper, who has written extensively about Sonbert’s films, and screened as part of a larger Doc Films series curated by Hannah Yang, titled Encounters in the Cinema. Yang describes the series as “draw[ing] attention to… the way in which both film and spectator shape each other, and cinema as a whole, in the dark space of the movie theater.”

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A Day of Silents: CHICAGO and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE at San Francisco Silent Film Festival

A Day of Silents: CHICAGO and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE at San Francisco Silent Film Festival

On Sunday, February 2nd, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival screened Frank Urson and Cecil B. DeMille’s CHICAGO (1927) and Frank Lloyd and Josef von Sternberg’s CHILDREN OF DIVORCE (1927) at the San Francisco Jazz Center, as part of their celebration A Day of Silents. GME distributes CHICAGO on DVD and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE as a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack to North American universities, in conjunction with Flicker Alley.

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