Dave Kehr is one of
America’s foremost critics and programmers. Over a career lasting decades he
has been one of those who constantly display an encyclopaedic knowledge of
American cinema. He has put this to good use writing for newspapers and
magazines and now in his present role as a curator at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art. Immediately prior to this job he built a devoted international
following writing about DVD releases in the New York Times. Dave is in
Australia at the moment attending the FIAF Conference but will be playing
hookey from that jaunt when he presents screenings of the silent classic The
Iron Mask in Melbourne at ACMI on April 22 and in Sydney at AFTRS on April
23 at 6.30 pm. ADMISSION IS FREE!!
The
Sydney screening is being hosted by the Film Critics Circle of Australia. Please book via Email: FilmCriticsAust@bigpond.com
Include Name and number of tickets
required.
Bookings will be confirmed via Email.
Venue: Australian Film Television and Radio School's (AFTRS) theatre, Building 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore
Park. 6.15 for 6.30 sharp start. Iron Mask (Dir: Allan Dwan, 1929,
95 mins, DCP (orig. 35mm). This will be a premiere and once only screening of
MoMA's restored DCP.
The Iron Mask stars the king of
Hollywood swashbucklers, Douglas Fairbanks Snr, in a lavish production
originally released as a part-talkie, but only recently restored with its
original Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack.
The film was directed by Allan Dwan - one of Hollywood's most prolific
directors, with an oeuvre of over 400 films made over 50 years, including ten
films with Fairbanks.
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