Screening
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative
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Free admission. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.
In person: benshi Ichirō Kataoka, composer and pianist Makia Matsumura.
Screening 1 of 2
That's My Daddy
Year: 1928 Country: U.S. Language: English Runtime: 60 min. Digital. B&W.
One of Reginald Denny’s last silent comedies before he successfully transitioned to sound, That’s My Daddy may also be one of his most charming. Denny stars as a wealthy playboy who invents an injured daughter to get out of a speeding ticket only to find a real little girl (Jane La Verne) waiting to play the role after the obliging cop escorts him to the hospital. And on his wedding day, no less. Denny, one of Universal’s biggest stars at the time, told Kevin Brownlow that he took over from Harold Lloyd’s regular director Fred C. Newmeyer after a disagreement about comedic approach although Denny is only officially credited with the story.
DCP, b&w, silent with live musical accompaniment, 60 min. Director: Fred Newmeyer. Screenwriters: Pierre Couderc, Albert DeMond, Earle Snell, Faith Thomas. With: Reginald Denny, Barbara Kent, Lillian Rich.
Digitally restored version courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute.
Screening 2 of 2
Different From the Others
Anders als die andern
Year: 1919 Country: Germany Language: German and Japanese with English subtitles Runtime: 48 min. 35mm. B&W.
A landmark film almost lost to history, Different from the Others (1919) is widely considered the first feature-length film aimed at a specifically gay audience made all the more significant for its humanistic depiction of gay men and its explicit plea for the end of their social and legal persecution. Soon-to-be screen legend Conrad Veidt plays Paul Koerner, a celebrated concert violinist who lives under constant fear of blackmail and imprisonment because of Germany’s antigay law, Article 175. When his relationship with a new protégé raises suspicions, all of Koerner’s fears become real. Though the film still only exists as a fragment, Different From the Others remains a compelling artifact from a fleeting progressive moment in German and cinema history.
Director: Richard Oswald. Screenwriter: Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Oswald. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh, Ernst Pittschau, Fritz Schulz. Restoration funding provided by The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation and the members of Outfest. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
