Screen Deco

About:

To commemorate the Art Deco Centennial, Film Forum, in association with ADSNY, presents Screen Deco, a series of over 25 classic films from the 1920s and 1930s. Curated by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Repertory Artistic Director, the series will feature some of the finest examples of silver screen artistry and an array of special guest presenters. 

Festival highlights include silents OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS, with Joan Crawford, the first Hollywood movie with extensive Deco production design; A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS, with Greta Garbo; PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks; and the insanely Deco French film L’INHUMAINE. Pre-Code movies in the festival include Michael Curtiz’s FEMALE; Edgar G. Ulmer’s THE BLACK CAT, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; William Wyler’s COUNSELLOR AT LAW, with John Barrymore; GRAND HOTEL, with Garbo and Barrymore; Ernst Lubitsch’s ONE HOUR WITH YOU and TROUBLE IN PARADISE; the Busby Berkeley musical FOOTLIGHT PARADE, with James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell; INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, with W.C. Fields, Burns & Allen, and Cab Calloway; and TOP HAT, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and many others.