Sunday, September 21, 2014

Channel Zero Returns!!

Friday October 3rd at 8p (sharp) in the cozy screening room of the Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square Somerville with a screening of.... "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND" (!929) Lionel Barrymore stars in this silent steampunk classic as Captain Nemo whose super submarine The Nautilus is hijacked by a Balkan Dictator and taken to the sunken City of Atlantis. Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne with a few sea monsters, sentient amphibians and even a girl thrown in for Good Measure! Admission: $7.50 (cheap!) Three Years in the making and unseen in Boston for Eighty Five Years!!

2 comments:

joyatri said...

I went to this screening where you mentioned the Czech version in Technicolor. Thought you might be interested to know that that version was shown at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival a few days ago. My boyfriend was there and reported back.

Zolok said...

Wow that is cool! Was the soundtrack intact I wonder, we had to use the public domain silent black and white version which was still well worth it given that it hadn't screened in Boston in some eighty five years.
I am envious

John G.