April 3, 2016

Restored Lorre Film at New York’s Metrograph

As part of their Sunday afternoon series “Old and Improved”, the Metrograph will present a restored print of Peter Lorre’s version of Crime and Punishment (1935) on Sunday, April 3, 2016. The restoration is courtesy of the Library of Congress.

The program will begin at 1 pm.

Admission for this matinee is $12 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the Metrograph box office 30 minutes before the first movie’s show-time. Tickets may also be purchased through the venue's website.

The “Old and Improved” Film Festival will run every Sunday from March 20 to April 24, 2016. The complete schedule is available on the Metrograph’s website.

The Metrograph is located at 7 Ludlow Street, in the Lower East Side of New York City, New York. The area was once a major hub of movie-going in the early part of the twentieth century.

The Metrograph is served by several subway trains – the “F” train to East Broadway and the “B” and “D” trains to Grand Street. Some parking is available on the streets near the theater.

More information about the Metrograph’s location is available on the theater’s website.

For more information, please call the theater at 212-660-0312.

April 1, 2016

Carolina Theatre Begins Film Fest with Lorre and M

The Carolina Theatre of Durham kicks off their Friday night Retro Film Festival with a double-feature of M and Shadow of a Doubt on Friday, April 1, 2016.

The program will begin at 7 pm in Cinema One.

Tickets are $9 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the Cinema Box Office, which opens 30 minutes before the first feature of the day. Tickets may also be purchased through the Carolina Theatre website by clicking the “Buy Now” button. On the Ticket Master website, click “Carolina Theatre Films – Retro Classics” for April 1, 2016, 7 pm. A nominal charge will be added to all on-line ticket purchases.

A Retro Pass, good for admission to the entire festival, is also available for $75.

The Retro Film Festival will run every Friday night from April 1 to June 24. The complete schedule is available on the Carolina Theatre’s website.

The Carolina Theatre of Durham is located at 309 West Morgan Street in Durham, North Carolina.

Parking is available in the Durham Center Parking Garage, located at the corner of West Morgan Street and Foster Street, directly across from the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

More information about parking, as well as directions to the Carolina Theatre, are available on the theater’s website.

For more information, please call the theatre at 919-560-3030.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the making of M through interviews with director Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre’s younger brother Andrew, who visited the set. M was the first sound film for both Lang and Lorre – but it was not the first time Peter had stepped before the cameras, though he always said so in interviews with newspaper and magazine reporters. The long-thought-lost silent movie Die verschwundene Frau (The Missing Wife, 1929) is actually Peter’s first movie credit.

A secret he kept to the end of his life.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available for the Kindle and Nook, as well as hard-cover and soft-bound editions.