THE LAST COMMAND w/ Pipe Organ Performance by Jeff Rapsis
Sat, Feb 19
|Epsilon Spires
Celebrate Oscar season with Josef von Sternberg's groundbreaking 1928 psychological drama, which won 'Best Actor' for Emil Jannings at the first-ever Academy Awards. Deeply intertextual, this "film within a film" explores shifting power dynamics and motivations during the Russian Revolution.
Time & Location
Feb 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Czarist General who is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him. Silent film accompanist, Jeff Rapsis will perform an improvisational live musical score on our historic Estey pipe organ.
Josef von Sternberg’s groundbreaking The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent melodrama and a witty critique of the Hollywood machine, featuring virtuoso cinematography, grandly designed sets and effects, and rousing Russian Revolution sequences. Towering above it all is the passionate, heartbreaking Jannings, whose portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality is one for the history books.
Director Sternberg, a master of lighting and black-and-white photography, created The Last Command as a visual tour de force. One of early Hollywood's most creative…
Tickets
The Last Command
Admission for one to THE LAST COMMAND with live pipe organ soundtrack by Jeff Rapsis! This is your confirmation- no need to print anything out we will have your name at Roll-call. Refreshments will be provided. Please choose your seating with respect for others and let us know if you require special arrangements. $2 from every ticket goes directly towards the historic preservation of the venue. Thank you for your support! Enjoy the program
$15.00
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