Get Out Friday: Harold Lloyd @ the Paramount

SILENT MOVIES: It seems like only yesterday we were announcing Silent Movie Mondays' Harold Lloyd retrospective. But all good things must come to end, and frankly it's just in time because SIFF and STIFF are cranking up.

First -- this is important -- the last double-feature is this Friday, despite the series being named Silent Movie Mondays. That's right, keep arms and fingers inside the ride at all times. To close out the series, we have The Freshman (1925) and For Heaven’s Sake (1926). The Trader Joe-sponsored show features Dennis James at the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and free TJ-style munchies.

In The Freshman, Harold Lloyd plays Harold Lamb, who discovers college popularity is trickier than it looks. In The Uptown Boy, Lloyd is J. Harold Manners, a millionaire playboy who falls for a girl who works in a downtown mission. If you think black-and-white films are pretentious drivel, just keep in mind that back in 1925 black-and-white was the way the world looked to people -- they hadn't invented color yet.

7pm // the Paramount // Tickets: $12 adults, $9 students/seniors