THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
October 8, 1999
Sponsored by Grand Marnier
Additional suppport from La Perla
and the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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the 37th new york film festival at the walter reade theater:
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS October 8, 1999 Sponsored by Grand Marnier Additional suppport from La Perla
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Main Program |
Views from the Avant Garde |
Pietro Germi Retrospective |
Kusturica's UNDERGROUND |
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS |
Lanzmann's A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING | NYFF Archive
With a beautifully restored print and a new score
composed by Gabriel Thibaudeau and performed by the ensemble Octuor de
France, this Paul Leni silent film is a marvelously atmospheric adaptation
of a Victor Hugo novel. It stars Conrad Veidt as a kidnapped aristocrat,
whose face has been mutilated into a perpetual, mad grin. Mary Philbin is
the blind girl who loves him; voluptuous Olga Baclanova (Freaks), a duchess,
finds him both repulsive and irresistibly attractive. 110 minutes, USA;
1928. The silent film program at the Walter Reade Theater is made possible through the generosity of the Ira M. Resnick Foundation.
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