Dressing Norma: Fashion in Early Cinema, on Thursday 6 October, will inaugurate a new series of annual lectures devoted to “Character, Costume Design, and Silent Cinema”. The first lecture will be delivered by fashion historian Michelle Tolini Finamore, with an introduction by noted costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

Wednesday 5 October the Norma Talmadge retrospective continues with Yes or No,
and from the section “Venice 90”, Biały Ślad (The White Trail, 1932), which represented Poland at the first Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica).

LE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA MUTO, PORDENONE

NORMA TALMADGE, THE LADY. TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER CONTINUES THE RETROSPECTIVE DEVOTED TO THE AMERICAN STAR

The Ruritania retrospective presents two historic documentaries from 1912 featuring King Nicolas of Montenegro, one from Italy by Luca Comerio, Dalla Villa Reale di Rjeka (Montenegro), the other from France by Gaumont, Le Roi Nicolas de Monténégro.

PORDENONE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
MONDAY 3 OCTOBER

LA DIXIÈME SYMPHONIE, BY ABEL GANCE
ONE OF CINEMA’S MOST INGENIOUS AND POWERFUL DIRECTORS, NOT ONLY OF SILENTS

Today’s programme also includes Jean Epstein’s 1923 documentary La Montagne infidèle,
with very close shots of the eruption of Mount Etna

LE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA MUTO, PORDENONE

SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER SPECIAL EVENT
NANOOK OF THE NORTH BY ROBERT FLAHERTY

On Sunday 2 October, the Norma Talmadge retrospective continues with 3 Vitagraph shorts plus Charles Miller’s feature Ghosts of Yesterday, an adaptation of the play Two Women by Rupert Hughes, itself based on a work by Friulian playwright Teobaldo Ciconi, La statua di carne.

The 41st edition of the festival begins on Saturday 1 October with the world premiere of the newly restored version of
Tod Browning’s THE UNKNOWN,
starring LON CHANEY and JOAN CRAWFORD.

Live musical accompaniment by the Orchestra San Marco of Pordenone, with a score by José Maria Serralde Ruiz

Saturday 1 October also marks the opening of the retrospectives devoted to Norma Talmadge and Ruritania

Venerdì 30 settembre, ore 20.45 Teatro Zancanaro, Sacile

UP IN MABEL’S ROOM (NELLA CAMERA DI MABEL, 1926)

Con l’accompagnamento musicale eseguito dal vivo dalla Zerorchestra, diretta da Gunter Buchwald.

L’evento sarà preceduto da due comiche italiane di Polidor e Robinet, con il commento dei musicisti in erba della Scuola Media Statale Balliana-Nievo di Sacile

At the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone, 1-8 October 2022
OPENS WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE NEW RESTORATION OF THE UNKNOWN
BY TOD BROWNING, STARRING LON CHANEY AND JOAN CRAWFORD.

IN CLOSING: THE MANXMAN, HITCHCOCK’S LAST SILENT FILM.

OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDE ROBERT FLAHERTY’S NANOOK OF THE NORTH; THE RIOTOUS COMEDY UP IN MABEL’S ROOM STARRING MARIE PREVOST; AND THE FIRST FEATURE FILM SHOT IN ICELAND, ONE HUNDRED AND TWO YEARS AGO.

THE MAJOR RETROSPECTIVES ARE DEDICATED TO “RURITANIA” AND AMERICAN STAR NORMA TALMADGE.

PREMIERING JEAN EPSTEIN’S REDISCOVERED DOCUMENTARY LA MONTAGNE INFIDÈLE, AN EXCEPTIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE 1923 ERUPTION OF ETNA.

ALLE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA MUTO DI PORDENONE L’ANTEPRIMA DI LADRONI, VERSIONE ITALIANA DI NIGHT OWLS, UNO DEI PRIMI FILM SONORI DELLA COPPIA COMICA PIÙ FAMOSA DEL CINEMA

Pordenone, Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, 1-8 October 2022
Pre-opening, Teatro Zancanaro, Sacile, Friday 30 September
Replica of closing event, Teatro Verdi, Sunday 9 October