Coming Soon: Harold Lloyd @ The Paramount
Last night, the Paramount finished up its three-film silent German Expressionist festival with Asphalt, a 1929 movie by Joe May. With Dennis James helming the Mighty Wurlitzer, we headed back in time to Berlin.
Holk, an upstanding young traffic cop, gets entangled in an affair with thief and girl-of-leisure Else (this poster sums it up). It turns out she kinda likes him laying down the law, if you get our drift. "So romantic!" said a woman to her friend on the way out. That vaseline on the lens will do it every time.
Next up is a Harold Lloyd festival, all double-features, which encompasses almost half of Lloyd's feature film output. (They're not running Lloyd's very famous Safety Last or Girl Shy, because they showed those relatively recently.) Lloyd ranks up with Chaplin and Keaton as one of the great comic actors of 1920s and '30s. He's known for that hanging-from-a-clock scene from Safety Last, but that's just one highlight. His movies almost always leave you wondering did-he-really and how-did-he? Mark your calendars:
April 30 - Grandma's Boy / Dr. Jack
May 7 - Why Worry / Hot Water
May 21 - The Kid Brother / Speedy
May 25 - The Freshman / For Heaven's Sake
