The Black Pirate
Live music by the Donald Sosin Ensemble
Douglas Fairbanks like you’ve never seen him before in this Technicolor restoration of the rousing yarn that set the standard for Hollywood pirate-adventure films. Ever lithe and charismatic, Fairbanks plays a nobleman disguised as a buccaneer who out-connives the most nefarious of high-seas villains in pursuit of justice. Restored by MoMA to its original color palette inspired by the Dutch masters, the film looks as if it were aged in a cask of time. It is quite simply, as the New York Times declared back in the day, “glorious.”
Source Information:
Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation in Cooperation with the British Film Institute. Funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Special thanks to Alexander Payne.
Live music by the Donald Sosin Ensemble
Composer/pianist Donald Sosin has been creating and performing silent film music for fifty years, playing for major festivals, archives, and DVD recordings. He has been resident accompanist at New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His scores are heard regularly on Turner Classic Movies and his music accompanies films on more than fifty DVD releases. Pianist Wayne Barker, percussionist Frank Bockius, violinist Guenter Buchwald, saxophonist Mas Koga, and bassist Sascha Jacobsen will join Sosin for The Black Pirate.
Details
Director
Albert Parker
Country
United States
Year
1926
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Donald Crisp, Billie Dove
Runtime
97 min.
Source
Museum of Modern Art
Format
DCP
Wed, Apr 10, 2024
7:30 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
$25 general
$23 member
12 and under, free