The DARK ROOM is proud to present
A SPECIAL SCREENING OF WILLIAM WELLMAN'S SILENT ANTIWAR EPIC
WINGS
WITH LIVE MUSIC BY
NIK PHELPS & FREDERICK HODGES
ONE NIGHT ONLY
SUNDAY, MAY 15TH 8PM
$15 at door $12.50 online @ Ticket Web
www.darkroomsf.com for more info
The Dark Room Theatre
2263 Mission St.
btwn. 19th and 18th St
415-401-7987
Get ready for musical fireworks as horn player, composer extraordinaire Nik Phelps and stride piano master Frederick Hodges join forces to bring the blockbuster silent film Wings to the Mission. They will be playing Nik's original score to this powerful early antiwar film. Playing continuous accompaniment for the duration of the 2 ? hour film, Phelps and Hodges bring to life the drama and pathos of this World War I tale directed by William Wellman, featuring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rodgers and Richard Arlen.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly in a WWI biplane? To loop and spin in a dogfight, shoot down enemy balloons, chase down a general's staff car, and watch the clouds spiral around your plane in a deadly tailspin? Lafayette Flying Corps veteran William Wellman bolted cameras on the noses of 1920's barnstorming crates for the ultimate "you are there" experience. In the close-up scenes where the characters are flying, the actors actually had to work the planes themselves. To shoot these scenes, the actors had to get the plane up in the air, keep it up, turn on the (motorized) camera and land the plane - and act at the same time!
In 1927, Wings was on the New York Times "Top 10 Film List" and won the first Best Picture Academy Award for 1927-28, and was the first and the only silent movie to win the Academy Award. Wings is a rip-snorting adventure movie, the best ever made about aerial combat in The Great War. Almost eighty years after its release, Wings remains one of the most beloved of all silent pictures - even when it survived only as a single print in the Cinematheque Francais. (Its 40th anniversary was commemorated by a 1967 "Petticoat Junction" episode, in which the film's surviving stars, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, attended its "premiere" at the Hooterville Bijou.)
A SPECIAL SCREENING OF WILLIAM WELLMAN'S SILENT ANTIWAR EPIC
WINGS
WITH LIVE MUSIC BY
NIK PHELPS & FREDERICK HODGES
ONE NIGHT ONLY
SUNDAY, MAY 15TH 8PM
$15 at door $12.50 online @ Ticket Web
www.darkroomsf.com for more info
The Dark Room Theatre
2263 Mission St.
btwn. 19th and 18th St
415-401-7987
Get ready for musical fireworks as horn player, composer extraordinaire Nik Phelps and stride piano master Frederick Hodges join forces to bring the blockbuster silent film Wings to the Mission. They will be playing Nik's original score to this powerful early antiwar film. Playing continuous accompaniment for the duration of the 2 ? hour film, Phelps and Hodges bring to life the drama and pathos of this World War I tale directed by William Wellman, featuring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rodgers and Richard Arlen.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly in a WWI biplane? To loop and spin in a dogfight, shoot down enemy balloons, chase down a general's staff car, and watch the clouds spiral around your plane in a deadly tailspin? Lafayette Flying Corps veteran William Wellman bolted cameras on the noses of 1920's barnstorming crates for the ultimate "you are there" experience. In the close-up scenes where the characters are flying, the actors actually had to work the planes themselves. To shoot these scenes, the actors had to get the plane up in the air, keep it up, turn on the (motorized) camera and land the plane - and act at the same time!
In 1927, Wings was on the New York Times "Top 10 Film List" and won the first Best Picture Academy Award for 1927-28, and was the first and the only silent movie to win the Academy Award. Wings is a rip-snorting adventure movie, the best ever made about aerial combat in The Great War. Almost eighty years after its release, Wings remains one of the most beloved of all silent pictures - even when it survived only as a single print in the Cinematheque Francais. (Its 40th anniversary was commemorated by a 1967 "Petticoat Junction" episode, in which the film's surviving stars, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, attended its "premiere" at the Hooterville Bijou.)
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