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BUY TICKETS NOW Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the middle ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century…
Dubbed one of the 100 greatest films of all-time, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is one of the jewels of American silent comedy. The Great Stone Face plays a lovelorn projectionist who one night dreams that he enters the silver screen,…
"Gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." -Dave Kehr Silents, Please STL presents free silent films at the Arkadin, kicking off with Harold Lloyd's classic college comedy, The Freshman. A massive box-office smash in its…
This film is presented by Silents, Please! STL and will feature a special introduction from SPSTL's Kate Stewart! It came from the hand of F. W. Murnau and premiered in 1922, the same year as the director’s legendary Nosferatu, a…
Considered one of Chaplin’s best films, THE KID is a tender and humorous film, complete with Chaplin’s trademark pathos and social commentary. Paired with THE KID is the 1921 (often overlooked) film THE PILGRIM, when an escaped convict (Chaplin) evades…
Silents, Please! STL is throwing Charlie Chaplin a 135th birthday party and you’re invited! Featuring MODERN TIMES. This comedic masterpiece finds the iconic Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and…
This screening is SOLD OUT. "A madcap genre-hopper, mixing silent film performance styles with hand-drawn animation, slapstick comedy, Looney Tunes-like sound effects and stop-motion graphics." -The New York Times In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman…
"Wong is sensationally expressive and projects a modern, coolly appraising sexuality. Visually eloquent and often dazzling, the movie is no less terrific." J. Hoberman E.A. Dupont's Piccadilly, the 1929 silent masterpiece brilliantly restored by the British Film Institute, stars the sultry…
In this silent drama, lifelong school chums Leo (John Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are soldiers in the German army. Leo falls in love with Countess Felicitas (Greta Garbo) and courts her, which enrages her husband (Marc McDermott). When Leo…
