Cinefest 2015

Cinefest, hosted by the Syracuse Cinephile Society, showcases some rarely seen cinema. Now in its 35th year, the festival started yesterday and will go on till Sunday, 22nd, and is being held at the Holiday Inn Syracuse-Liverpool.

The festival is an amalgamation of some never-heard-of or seen-of movies. Sometimes, even an IMDb search will prove to be useless.  But this festival is the mecca to cinema enthusiasts with a trajectory of silent and sound feature films.

This year, the festival will screen some early  Fox features like “Painted Woman” (1932), with Spencer Tracy; “Life In the Raw” (1933), with George O’Brien and Claire Trevor and “The Last Man On Earth” (1924), with Earle Foxe among other silver screen beauties. These are not to be missed!

Film showings begin at 9 a.m. and run through 5 p.m. on Sunday. The schedule, barring Day One is as follows:

Friday, March 20
9 a.m.: “SERVICE STRIPES” (1930), Vitaphone short with Joe Penner
9:10 a.m.: “MEN ON CALL” (1931), with Edmund Lowe, Mae Clarke
10:20 a.m.: “ME AND THE BOYS”
10:30 a.m.: “DICK BANN’S HAL ROACH SHOW NO. 1,” hosted by Dick Bann
LUNCH BREAK
1 p.m.: “STORY OF COLOR IN THE MOVIES,” hosted by Eric Grayson
2:30 p.m.: “PAINTED WOMAN” (1932), with Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon (3)
3:40 p.m.: “VITAGRAPH VARIETIES,” from the Library of Congress (1)
4:45 p.m.: “SECOND FLOOR MYSTERY” (1930), with Loretta Young (3)
DINNER BREAK
8 p.m.: “BRIDE OF FINKLESTEIN” (2015), hosted by Michael Schlesinger
8:20 p.m.: “A SONG IN THE DARK, MORE DANGEROUS RYHTHMS,” by Richard Barrios
9:35 p.m.: “HEART TO HEART” (1928), with Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes (1)
10:40 p.m.: “LUCRETIA LOMBARD” (1923), with Irene Rich, Monte Blue
11:45 p.m.: “RISKY BUSINESS” (1938), with George Murphy, Dorothea Kent

Saturday, March 21
9 a.m.:”SMOKING GUNS” (1934), with Ken Maynard, Gloria Shea
10 a.m.: “WELCOME DANGER,” with Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent
Noon: “THE DAWN OF TECHNICOLOR EARLY TECHNICOLOR MUSICALS”
LUNCH BREAK
1:10 p.m.: “FLORIDA STUDIO FILMS”, from the Library of Congress (1)
2:15 p.m.: “NEW KLONDIKE” (1926), with Thomas Meighan, Lilia Lee, Paul Kelly (1)
3:25 p.m.: “SEA SORE” (1934), with Arthur Tracy, Baby Rose Marie
3:45 p.m.: “MY LIPS BETRAY” (1933), with Lilian Harvey, John Boles (3)
4:50 p.m.: “TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” (1914), with Mary Pickford (5)
DINNER BREAK
8 p.m.: “WE WE MARIE” (1930), with Slim Summerville, Eddie Gribbon
8:20 p.m.: GERRY ORLANDO COMMENTS
8:30 p.m.: “TEA MAKING TIPS” (1925)
8:45 p.m.: COLLEEN MOORE HOME MOVIES (1)
8:50 p.m.: “SYNTHETIC SIN” (1928), with Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno (2)
10:05 p.m.: “THE DANGER GAME” (1917), with Madge Kennedy, Tom Moore
11:10 p.m.: “BABIES, THEY’RE WONDERFUL” (1947), with Patsy Kelly
11:20 p.m.: “THREE KISSES” (1955), Paramount Topper
11:35 p.m.: “THE BACK PAGE” (1933), with Peggy Shannon, Russell Hopkin

Sunday, March 22
9 a.m.: “THE BIG BROADCAST” (1932), with Bing Crosby, Burns and Allen
10:30 a.m.: THE AUCTION, hosted by Leonard Maltin and George Read
Noon: “HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT OF THE 35MM PROJECTOR”
12:30 p.m.: “ONCE A SINNER” (1931), with Dorothy MacKaill, Joel McCrea (3)
1:40 p.m.: “CALGARY STAMPEDE” (1926), with Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown
2:35 p.m.: “DICK BANN’S HAL ROACH SHOW NO. 2,” Hosted by Dick Bann
3:40 p.m.: “CODE OF THE SEA” (1924), with Rod LaRocque, Jacqueline Logan
4:40 p.m.: “THE SEA LION” (1922), with Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love

 

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