Restored M On-Screen in Portland, Oregon

Beginning Friday, March 29, the independent movie theater Cinema 21 presents for one week only a digitally restored M (1931) from the Munich Film Archive. The run ends on Thursday, April 4, 2013.

M will be shown every evening at 7 pm, with additional shows at 2:45 on Saturday and Sunday. On Wednesday, April 3, there will be one show only, at 4:30 pm.

For matinee shows before 6 pm, general admission is $7 for adults. Evening shows are $9 for adults and $8 for students (with ID). For seniors aged 62 and older and children, admission is $6 for any show.

Tickets may be purchased at the box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. Tickets may also be purchased on-line through the cinema’s website. Click on the link “Buy Tickets Online” at the top of the Cinema 21 webpage.

Cinema 21 is located at 616 Northwest 21st Avenue, in Portland, Oregon. Parking is available on the streets surrounding the theater. For more information, please contact Cinema 21 at (503) 223-4515.

M On-Screen at New York City’s Film Forum

Peter Lorre’s first sound movie M will be shown at the Film Forum, beginning Friday, Mar. 15, until Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013.

Scheduled times for Mar. 15 through Thursday, Mar. 21 will be four showings daily, at 2 pm, 4:30 pm, 7 pm, and 9:30 pm, with the exception of Monday, Mar. 18, which will include only 2 pm, 4:30 pm, and 9:30 pm.

Beginning Friday, Mar. 22, until Thursday, Mar. 28, the Film Forum will show M one time only, at 5:30 pm.

Ticket prices are $7 for Film Forum members and $12.50 for regular admission. Tickets may be purchased at the box office through the cinema’s website. Click the "Buy Tickets Now" button and select M and a date and time.

The Film Forum is located at 209 West Houston Street, between 6th and 7th avenues, in New York City, NY. Directions are available through the Film Forum website. For more information, please call the cinema at (212) 727-8110.

The Film Forum is well-served by both bus lines and subway lines. Parking is available at meters on the streets surrounding the cinema. Parking is also available in the Icon garage, located at 375 Hudson Street, between Hudson and Greenwich. More information regarding transportation and parking may be found on the Film Forum website.

Stephen Youngkin details the making of M and its impact on Peter Lorre’s life and career in the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (University Press of Kentucky, 2005).

M On-Screen in Brookline, MA – and On Stage

In March, Peter Lorre fans in the Boston area will have an opportunity to experience a showing of M (1931) on the big screen, and a stage presentation with a unique point-of-view.

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As part of their “Stage and Screen” series, the Coolidge Corner Theatre will show M on Monday, March 11, 2013, in Movie House 1. The program will begin at 7 pm.

Tickets are $9.25 for adults, and $7.25 for seniors (62 and older) and children (12 and younger). Tickets may be purchased at the Coolidge box office, which opens a half hour before the first show of the day. 75 cents of every admission sold at the box office goes toward the Capital Campaign Renovation fund. Tickets may also be purchased online through the cinema’s website.

Coolidge members may purchase tickets at a discount.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located at 290 Harvard Street, in Brookline, MA. To hear recorded information, please contact the Coolidge at (617) 734-2500. The office at the Coolidge may be reached at (617) 734-2501.

Parking is available at meters behind the Coolidge, on Centre Street (one block from Harvard Street) and along Beacon Street. Parking is also available at an hourly rate in the garage at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, located at 40 Webster Street, Coolidge Corner, in Brookline.

The Coolidge is also served by train and bus.

More information about parking, as well as directions to the Coolidge, is available on the cinema’s website.

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Boston playwright Ryan Landry will introduce this special screening of M at the Coolidge – as a prelude to his own theatrical version of M later this month at the Boston Center for the Arts. Following the screening of M at the Coolidge, M. Bevin O’Gara, Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company, will moderate a discussion about adapting the film to the stage. Participating in the discussion will be Ryan Landry, lighting designer Deb Sullivan, and cast member Ellen Adair.

Landry’s version of M will involve puppets. Local Boston actress Karen MacDonald will take Peter’s role as the child murderer, Hans Beckert. Caitlin Lowans will direct the production.

“Not for the squeamish!” warns the theatre’s website. . .

The stage version of M will be performed at the Huntington Theatre Company’s Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, beginning Friday, March 29 and running through Saturday, April 27. The Calderwood is located in the Boston Center for the Arts, at 527 Tremont Street, in the South End of Boston, MA. The Calderwood’s phone number is (617) 933-8600.

Directions to the Calderwood, as well as information about parking and public transportation, may be found on the theater’s website.

Tickets are available every evening, with matinees on the weekends. Tickets may be purchased on-line through the Calderwood website.

In addition to the stage performance will be several special events:

• 35 Below Wrap Party – Friday, March 29, 8 pm
• Press Opening Night – Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm
• Humanities Forum – Sunday, April 21, 2 pm
• Actors Forum – Wednesday, April 24, 2 pm

Theatergoers will have an opportunity to meet the cast of M at the Actors Forum, while the Humanities Forum will consider the play’s context and significance with an expert. More information on these events may be found on the Calderwood website.

Restored The Chase Included in Preservation Festival

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents their annual Festival of Preservation this March, and on the schedule will be The Chase (1947), one of a handful of movies Peter Lorre made after leaving behind his lucrative years at Warner Bros.

The Chase will be shown on Sunday, March 10, 2013, on a double bill with High Tide, another noir movie from 1947. The program begins at 7 pm.

More information on the Festival, as well as a complete schedule, may be found on the UCLA Film and Television Archive website. The Festival of Preservation includes documentaries and television programs, as well as silent and sound movies. Silent movies will be accompanied by live music.

Tickets for The Chase / High Tide double feature are $9 general admission and $8 for non-UCLA students, seniors, and UCLA Alumni Association members. ID is required for students and Alumni Association members. Current UCLA students with ID are eligible for one free ticket to any Archive show.

General admission tickets may also be purchased on-line through the Festival website for $10 each. Tickets may be called for at the Billy Wilder Theater box office, which opens one hour before the first show.

The Festival will be held in the Billy Wilder Theater located at the Courtyard Level of the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood boulevards in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, CA. For more information, please call (310) 206-8013.

Parking is available in the lot under the Billy Wilder Theater. Enter the lot from Westwood Blvd., just north of Wilshire. Parking for the disabled is provided on levels P1 and P3. On Saturdays and Sundays, the fee is a flat rate of $3. More information about parking may be found on the Festival webpage.

The Hammer Museum is also easily reached by public transportation.

Restoration of The Chase was completed by UCLA Film and Television Archive preservationist Nancy Mysel, who passed away in 2012. The print was preserved from various incomplete 35mm nitrate prints and 16mm acetate picture and track negatives.

Billy Wilder, the Hungarian writer and director for whom the venue is named, was 19 when he knew the equally young Peter Lorre in Berlin, where each began his career in theater and film. For Stephen Youngkin’s book The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Wilder reminisced about Peter Lorre, their escape from Germany to Paris after the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, and their journey to America and the film studios of Hollywood.

The popular internet story about Peter and Billy sharing rooms in Hollywood? Just a story with no basis in fact. Peter traveled to California with his wife Celia Lovsky, whom he married in London during a break in filming The Man Who Knew Too Much. The contract Peter held with Columbia Studios enabled the couple to rent a house in Santa Monica soon after their arrival in Los Angeles.

The Cinema, Inc. Screens M on Mar. 10

Peter Lorre fans holding season tickets for The Cinema, Inc.’s “Sunday Night at the Movies” film series will have the opportunity to enjoy Peter’s first sound movie M (1931) on the screen of the Rialto on Sunday, March 10.

The program begins at 7 pm. In addition to the feature film M, assorted short subjects will also be shown.

Season tickets are $20 and may be purchased by completing the order form on page 3 of the 2012-13 season-ticket brochure and mailing the form and a check or money order (no cash) for $20 to:

The Cinema, Inc.
Dept. M
P.O. Box 20835
Raleigh, NC, 27619

Built in 1942, the Rialto is located at 1620 Avenue, in Raleigh, NC. The cinema’s phone number is (919) 856-8683. Parking is available at the cinema.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin details the making of M, including interviews with director Fritz Lang and Peter’s brother Andrew, who visited the set. The Lost One is available in hardback and softbound, in addition to the Kindle and Nook.

The Maltese Falcon at the First Time Festival, New York City, Mar. 1

The Maltese Falcon (1941) will be among the first movies presented in the First Time Festival on Friday, March 1, 2013. The Festival will run from Friday, March 1 to Monday, March 4.

The full schedule is located on the Festival website.

Introduced by William Luhr, The Maltese Falcon will be shown at the AMC Loews Village 7. The program begins at 11:30 am. A professor of film at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, Mr. Luhr is also the author of The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director, published in Nov. 1995.

Admission to The Maltese Falcon, and to any single film, is $15, and $12 for students and members of Museum of the Moving Image, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Forum, IFP, the Players, and Motion Picture Industry Unions and Guilds, including SAG, DGA, WGA, ICG, MPEG. Passes for the Festival are also available. More information on tickets and passes may be found on the Festival website.

AMC Lowes Village 7 is located at 66 3rd Avenue, in New York City. The cinema’s telephone number is (212) 982-2116.

The First Time Festival honors new filmmakers. In the summer of 1941, The Maltese Falcon was then-screenwriter John Huston’s first directorial effort. In fact, director Martin Scorsese will present the first ever “John Huston Award” to Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan at the Players Club in New York City, on March 4, the final day of the Festival.

The Maltese Falcon was stage actor Sydney Greenstreet’s first movie.

The film also represents a number of “Firsts” for Peter Lorre. It was the first film Peter made at the Warner Bros. studio. The first film he made with Greenstreet, an on-screen partnership that would include another eight movies for Warners. It was also the first movie Peter made with star Humphrey Bogart, who became one of his closest friends and with whom he would make another four movies – three at Warners.

And it was also the first movie in which Peter Lorre met actress Karen Verne, who was visiting the set. Peter went on to work with Karen a short time later in another Bogart movie, All Through the Night – and in 1945 made her the second Mrs. Lorre.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin details the making of The Maltese Falcon, as well as the on- and off-screen friendship of Peter and Bogie, and the romance of Peter and Karen. The Lost One is available in hardback, soft bound, and the Kindle and Nook.

Lorre Lovers, Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Peter

Peter Lorre fans in the Amherst and Hamburg areas in New York state will be able to spend Valentine’s Day with Peter through showings of Casablanca (1942).

At the Screening Room in Amherst, NY, Casablanca will be shown twice on Valentine’s Day at 7 pm and 9:15 pm. Additional screenings will be on these dates and times:

• Friday, Feb. 15 – 7 pm
• Saturday, Feb. 16 – 7 pm

Tickets for Casablanca are $6 and are available at the box-office on a first-come basis, beginning 30 minutes before the movie begins.

The Screening Room is located within the Northtown Plaza, in the Northtown Plaza Business Center, at 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, NY. The Business Center faces N. Bailey Avenue, behind the Arthur Murray Dance Studio. Parking is available on the N. Bailey side of the building.


At the Hamburg Palace in Hamburg, NY, Casablanca will be shown on Valentine’s Day at 7 pm.

Admission is $5.50 for adults, and $4.50 for children and seniors.

The Hamburg Palace is located at 31 Buffalo Street, in Hamburg, NY. Directions to the theater are available on the Hamburg Palace website.

Parking is available at the cinema.

For more information, please contact the theater at (716) 649-2295.

Secret Agent, Casablanca at the AFI Silver

Lorre fans will have an opportunity to catch two Peter Lorre movies at the American Film Institute theater in Silver Spring, MD, this weekend when both Secret Agent (1936) and Casablanca (1942) will be shown.

In honor of Alma Reville – Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock – and her contribution to her husband’s work, the AFI presents Mr. and Mrs. Hitchock, a series of Hitchcock movies from Feb. 3 to Apr. 10, 2013. Included in the retrospective is Secret Agent (1936), for which Alma Reville received on-screen credit as one of the screenwriters.

Casablanca is among the Special Engagements at the AFI.

Secret Agent will be shown on the following dates and times:

• Saturday, Feb. 16 – 1 pm
• Sunday, Feb. 17 – 5:25 pm
• Wednesday, Feb. 20 – 7:15 pm

Casablanca will be shown on these dates and times:

• Saturday, Feb. 16 – 7:15 pm
• Sunday, Feb. 17 – 3:15 pm
• Monday, Feb. 18 – 5:15 pm

Tickets are $11.50 for general admission; $9 for seniors 65 years and older, students, and the military (with proper ID); and $7 for children 12 and under. For AFI members, admission is $8.50. AFI Member Passes will be accepted for all movies in both series.

Tickets for may be reserved on-line through the AFI Silver website. Click the “Buy Tickets” button, then scroll to the title Secret Agent or Casablanca, click the link and select a show date and time. Tickets reserved on-line must be claimed at the box office with the same credit card used to make the reservation. The AFI Silver accepts American Express, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover credit cards.

Tickets may also be purchased at the AFI Silver box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first film of the day.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road, at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue, in Silver Spring, MD. Directions to the cinema may be found on the AFI Silver website.

Parking is available in several public parking decks close to the theater. Most convenient is the Wayne Avenue garage, located at 921 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, MD. Parking at the Wayne Avenue garage is free on weekends and after 8 pm on weekdays. More information on parking can be found on the AFI Silver website, under Parking.

M at the Detroit Film Theatre, Jan. 26

As part of their DFT 101 classic film series, the Detroit Film Theatre will screen M (1931) on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

The program begins at 4 pm.

Admission is $5 for all seats, and free for members of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tickets may be purchased on-line through the DIA website. Pick up tickets at the Will Call office at the DIA.

The Detroit Film Theatre is located within the Detroit Institute of Arts at 5200 Woodward Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan. Directions to the DIA are available on the museum’s website.

Parking is available in a number of locations near the DIA. The Cultural Center Lot offers secure self-parking on John R. Street, directly behind the museum, for a cost of $5 daily. Other self-parking locations at Wayne State University include the Welcome Center, Structure #8, Visitor Lot #59, and Lot #35. Valet parking is available at the Farnsworth Street entrance during museum hours. More information about parking may be found on the DIA website.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Lorre biographer Stephen Youngkin details the making of M, including the remembrances of people who worked on the film or visited the set, such as Peter’s brother Andrew. A remastered version of M is available on DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, including the French-language version and the long-lost English-language version.

Film Noir Series Includes 2 Lorre Films

The Providence Public Library’s Film Noir Series “Crime: Pulp, Art and Hollywood” will include two Peter Lorre movies this season – M (1931) and The Maltese Falcon (1941).

On Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, M will be shown. On Thursday, Mar. 14, The Maltese Falcon is the feature.

Movies will be shown in the Auditorium, located on the third floor of the library. The program begins at 6 pm. All movies are free and open to the public. Sign-up for the series on-line through the library’s website.

Film writer and director Ron Hagell will lead a discussion on each movie in the series. Mr. Hagell, who holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts, has taught screenwriting around the world, including such institutions as University of London and Frankfurt University.

The Providence Public Library is located at 150 Empire Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Directions may be found on the library’s website.

Parking is available close to the library along Washington Street in the following locations: Hilton Providence Garage, adjacent to the Dunkin’ Donut Center; Intown Parking, 131 Washington Street; and Dunkin Donut Center Parking, 165 Washington Street. Discount parking is available at the Providence Hilton Parking Garage – $3 for 3 hours for most programs; bring your ticket with you for validation at the library.