Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 34: Sun Feb 3

He Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom, 1924): Barbican Cinema, 4pm


This masterpiece of silent cinema will be screened in 35mm and accompanied by composer and pianist Taz Modi.

Chicago Reader review:
Victor Sjostrom's 1924 silent film features a rare restrained performance by Lon Chaney, as a disgraced scientist who works as a circus clown while plotting his revenge. Sjostrom is probably best known to most filmgoers for his performance as the old man in Ingmar Bergman's 
Wild Strawberries, but as a director, both in Sweden and the U.S., he pioneered a naturalistic style that is still unsurpassed in its grace and lyric subtlety.
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is an extract.

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