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Silent Stars Come Out at Night
May/June 2017
By Dean Glass
Join SOHO for our 2017 series of classic films from the silent era, featuring "a film without actors," John Wayne's screen debut, and two classics directed by F.W. Murnau, "the greatest poet the screen has ever known."* Now part of SOHO's Third Thursday programming, the monthly series runs May 18 through August 17.
"Silent films had a language of their own; they aimed for the emotions, not the mind, and the best of them wanted to be, not a story, but an experience," Roger Ebert noted. Experience these classic films, filled with memorable images and incredible performances in a historic setting: Old Town's Adobe Chapel Museum.
The adobe chapel was originally built in 1850 as a home, and was converted to a church by Don José Aguirre in 1858. Father Antonio D. Ubach, formerly a missionary among the Indians and the model for Father Gaspara in Helen Hunt Jackson's classic novel Ramona, was parish priest here from 1866 to 1907. After the chapel was bulldozed for street realignment in the 1930s, the WPA rebuilt it in 1937. Much of the interior artifacts from the original chapel have been retained, including the tabernacle, the altar with its beautiful marbleized finish, and some woodwork including pews and doors. José Aguirre's tombstone is laid in the floor. Today the adobe chapel is a museum and wedding, lecture, and arts venue.
*French film theorist and director Alexandre Astruc
Third Thursdays: Silent Movies
at the Adobe Chapel
Doors open at 7:15pm
Movie begins at 7:30pm
$10 per person
May 18 · Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
June 15 · A City Girl (1930)
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