Mar 5 - arrived at MoMA early to throw the Miditzer together for a show of Josef von Sternberg's Underworld with George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook. Oh, yeah, and Larry Semon in a character part. Brook comes off better than Bancroft as an actor, and Brook's screen presence is great for silents; perhaps that's why Bancroft did better in sound films. Still, it's fun picture, and Larry Semon does a nice job as comedy reliefe, as does Jerry Mandy as one of the other "mugs". I have an old show-at-home of a 1919 "mountie" 2-reeler starring and directed by Edgar Jones with Brent in a supporting role. The show was well-attended.
The print looked okay, about the same as the print we got from Paramount when we ran it at the Cinema Arts Centre last year. At the CAC show I brought a 16mm of Golf with Larry Semon to open, just to show people who Semon was, and the film played really well. I haven't seen the new print(s?) of Underworld that were done by Paramount a year or two ago, but I'd imagine/hope they're a bit sharper than these two 35mm's I've now seen, which seem a tad dupey in parts.
The print looked okay, about the same as the print we got from Paramount when we ran it at the Cinema Arts Centre last year. At the CAC show I brought a 16mm of Golf with Larry Semon to open, just to show people who Semon was, and the film played really well. I haven't seen the new print(s?) of Underworld that were done by Paramount a year or two ago, but I'd imagine/hope they're a bit sharper than these two 35mm's I've now seen, which seem a tad dupey in parts.
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