| Halloween
Special Event
Monday,
October 31 at 8:00pm
Phantom
of the Opera Philadelphia Premiere
dir.
Rupert Julian, USA, 1925/1929, 35mm, 88 mins, b/w and color,
silent w/ English intertitles
with
live musical accompaniment by ALLOY ORCHESTRA
Co-presented
by Cinema Studies, Department of Music and Penn Humanities Forum
at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Film
Society
Just
in time for Halloween, one of the greatest horror films of all
time - the original Phantom of the Opera - is back
and better than ever! This newly restored print recreates the
elaborate colorization of the 1929 release, with hand-colored
scenes, intricate tinting and experimental Technicolor sequences.
Lon Chaney’s rendition of the ghoulish Phantom is so terrifying,
you’ll wonder why anyone ever tried to remake this classic.
Alloy Orchestra’s creepy new score adds just the right note
to make this masterpiece come alive.
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