East Hartford Commission on Culture and Fine Arts Invites you to Silent Movie Night

East Hartford, CT - East Hartford Commission on Culture and Fine Arts invites you to a silent movie night on Thursday, September 29 at 7 PM at the East Hartford Cultural Community Center (50 Chapman Pl) to celebrate the day “dedicated to… preserving and creating access to silent movies.” The screening is free and open to the community.

Silent Movie Day was created by its founders because they believe silent films are neglected and misunderstood, and “silent motion pictures are a vital, beautiful, and often powerful part of film history.”

“La Revue des Revues” [France, 1927] stars St. Louis-born and Harlem-raised Paris music hall superstar Josephine Baker, the highest paid entertainer of her day; it is a collection of sexy and tres risque Le Jazz Hot performances from the notorious nightclubs of Montmartre. 

The loose storyline from KINO LORBER:  Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for La Revue des Revues's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the Tiller's Follies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann Girls, and danseuse russe Lila Nikolska. But it's Josephine Baker, "the high priestess of primitivism" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice), who triumphs in two show-stopping numbers in which "her clownish backfield-in-motion Charleston shimmy is unlike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did."