This program of 11 recently restored and newly scored, anarchic silent comedy shorts from early 20th-century teems with feminist protests, slapstick rebellions, suggestive gender play, and other liberating but “non-ladylike” behavior.
USA/UK/France, 1903-19, various directors
“Nasty women” appeared on the world’s movie screens a century before Donald Trump hurled that epithet at Hillary Clinton—and decades before film noir’s femmes fatales (also nasty). These rediscovered movies help to restore women’s rightful, central place in cinema’s early history. Features performances by forgotten French comedienne Léontine, Black actress Bertha Regustus, and the great lesbian performer Fay Tincher. “Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh—often guffawing, not tittering—through one predicament after another.” –Manohla Dargis, NY Times. Cleveland revival premiere. English intertitles. DCP. 82 min. www.kinolorber.com/film/cinemas-first-nasty-women-vol-1-queens-of-destruction
General admission $11; members, CIA & CSU I.D.holders, and those age 25 & under $8.
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2022/11/26 - 2022/11/26
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque
11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106
