The Virginia Film Festival is proud to announce that it has joined forces with the Paramount Theater to host a series of films throughout the year under the banner of The Virginia Film Society at the Paramount Theater. We will be playing movies with different themes each month providing great entertainment for all movie lovers! Come and enjoy some great flicks on the largest screen in Central Virginia. All movies will be at 7 pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets are $6 ($5 for UVa Staff, Faculty and Students) and free for existing Film Society members*.
September 13, 2010
The Thief of Baghdad
Paramount Theater, 7pm
Produced, partly written by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks, the 1924 film follows a likeable, swashbuckling thief as he attempts to win the hand of the Caliph’s daughter. To do so, he must undertake a quest and return with a rare treasure, all in a race against competing princely suitors, whose means are considerably greater but whose greedy motives are considerably less noble. Complete with flying carpets and fantastic monsters, The Thief of Baghdad certainly qualifies as an early entry into the epic genre.
September 20, 2010
Charlie Chaplin Double Feature: The Kid & Shoulder Arms
Paramount Theater, 7pm
In this 1921 drama-comedy (one of the very first films to combine these genres), we follow The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) as he finds an orphaned child in the streets and raises him as his own. Over the years, The Tramp teaches the boy to assist him in petty thievery, before his real mother and the authorities arrive to complicate matters.
A 1918 silent comedy, Shoulder Arms stars Charlie Chaplin as a bumbling World War I soldier. The film, Chaplin’s most successful production up to that point, portrays the soldier’s elaborate dream, in which his awkward foibles end up bringing unexpected military success. Eventually, Chaplin’s nameless Doughboy pulls off a caper that manages to capture the Kaiser himself.
September 27, 2010
Nosferatu
Paramount Theater, 7pm
First released in Germany in 1922, Nosferatu is a retelling of the Dracula story, following “Thomas Hutter” (Gustav von Wangenheim) as he unwittingly involves himself with the frightening Count Orlok (Max Schreck). Because the studio could not obtain the rights to Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel, many of the names and details have been changed for the expressionist film, but the adaptation provides enough horror to mark it as one of the original classics of the genre.
