Stick around long enough, and decay is inevitable.
It's true for humans and for film stock: Half of all films made before
1950 are now lost forever. Preservation and restoration are the clarion
calls of
Kicking off this Monday with Hitchcock's
Shadow of a Doubt,
the eight-film series will pair restored 35mm prints with original
poster art from Mondo. Sneak-peeped here are the art contributions of
Jeff Kleinsmith's
The Unholy Three, Delicious Design League's
Film, and Elvisdead's
The Old Dark House; other artists featured in the series include Alan Hynes, Laurent Durieux, Jay Shaw, and the Phantom City Creative.
The films will also get the Mondo treatment with an original, stunning
work of art available for sale at each of the screenings with remaining
prints sold online at
http://www.mondotees.com.
The series runs Monday nights at the Alamo Ritz. The lineup includes:
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| Alan Hynes |
May 7:
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Joseph Cotten plays the suavest serial killer around in the thriller Hitchcock once pegged as his favorite from his filmography.Alan Hynes poster design is for Alfred Hitchcocks’
Shadow of A Doubt, regarded
by many as the seminal Hitchcock film and Alfreds’ personal favorite.
”The movie follows a murderer on the lam (Joseph Cotten) visiting his
relatives in Santa Rosa, Calif. and forming a strange bond with his
rebellious niece (Teresa Wright). As she grows increasingly suspicious
of her uncle’s motives, the young woman must reconcile her personal
allegiances with a higher sense of moral responsibility”
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| Jeff Kleinsmith |
May 14:
The Unholy Three (1925)
This is the original Tod Browning silent, starring Lon Chaney and
screening here with a live score by Peter Stopschinski & Graham
Reynolds. Also screening that night will be Alan Schneider's
“Film” (1965), a silent short starring Buster Keaton and scripted by Samuel Beckett.
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| Delicious Design League |
May 21:
Rashomon (1950) Poster artist TBD
Kurosawa's international breakthrough is a masterstroke in unreliable narration. (See: "The Rashomon effect")
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| Laurent Durieux |
May 28:
King Kong (1933)
"Throw your arms across your eyes and scream … scream for your life!"
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| Jay Shaw |
June 4:
Paths of Glory (1957) Artist Jay Shaw
An unflinching look at war and a meditation on what is bravery, this was
Stanley Kubrick's first collaboration with future Spartacus Kirk Douglas.
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| Elvisdead |
June 11:
The Old Dark House (1932)
"Dark house" horror from James Whale and a cast that can't be beat:
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey.
June 18:
The Night of the Hunter (1955) Artist Phantom City Creative
Charles Laughton moved behind the camera, his only whack at it, for this Southern gothic spine chiller. It's a good bookend to
Shadow of a Doubt,
though Cotten's Uncle Charlie's got nothing on Robert Mitchum's
murderous con man with hate in his heart and hard-lettered in ink across
his knuckles.
Tickets for series starter
Shadow of a Doubt are
on sale now; the remaining shows will go on sale soon.
