The Fremont Focus - Late Submissions
Fremont Rotary now meets on Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. at Spin-A-Yarn Restaurant, 45915 Warm Springs Boulevard, Fremont.
The Niles Town Plaza Summer Series has been extended!
9/11 (a Sat), and then three Sundays in a row - 9/26, 10/3, and 10/10The concerts go from 1-4pm, and are FREE to the public, sponsored by the Niles Main Street Association & The Golden Spike Music Program.
The entertainers are being signed as you read this! Bands on tap for the series are: The Stairwell Sisters, Hugh & The Heffners, WOOSTER, The Tritip Trio/ Zydeco Flames, The Houston Jones Band, Gregory Page, The Blushin Roulettes, and several other surprises in the mix, subject to change of course. The Niles Town Plaza Concert Series includes Americana, Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Pop, World, Old Timey, Zydeco, and various other genre's to keep it fun and interesting.
------------------------------------------------------The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Edison Theater at 37395 Niles Boulevard, Fremont (just across the street from the Niles Plaza) will be showing the following films in September
A donation of $5 per person is suggested. Popcorn, soft drinks and candy are for sale in the lobby, and most of the shows have live piano accompaniment. Shows often sell out! For more detail, or to reserve tickets, visit the Niles Film Museum website at http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/.
Saturday September 11th at 7:30 PM
Reaching for the Moon (1917, Artcraft) Douglas Fairbanks plays a factory worker dreaming of better things, and then discovers he is the successor to the crown of Vulgaria.
With shorts: Felix in Hollywood (1923, Sullivan) Felix the Cat and A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1924, Ince)
Accompanied by Judy Rosenberg at the piano
Sunday September 12th at 4:00 PM
Laurel & Hardy Talkie Matinee
Hog Wild (1930) Laurel & Hardy
Readin' and Writin' (1932) Our Gang
County Hospital (1932) Laurel & Hardy
Teacher's Beau (1935) Our Gang
Saturday September 18th at 7:30 PM
Comedy Short Subject Night
A Night at the Show (1915, Essanay) Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Get Out and Get Under (1920, Rolin) Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis
The Playhouse (1921, Schenck) Buster Keaton
You're Darn Tootin' (1928, Roach) Laurel and Hardy
Piano accompaniment by Greg Pane
Sunday September 19th at 4:00 PM
The Bay Area Movement to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally presents the award-winning documentary Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2008)
Admission: $10 general, $8 museum members
This independent documentary film chronicles six Americans with "incurable" diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin. The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this diet and lifestyle change. After the conclusion of the program, you are welcome to join the filmmakers for a healthy dinner at the Essanay Cafe, specially prepared for this event by Executive Chef, Matthew Close. For more information or to reserve tickets for this special show, see http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/
Friday September 24th at 8:00 PM
Chaplin at Keystone
Over a six-year period, the British Film Institute, the Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films (Paris), with support from Association Chaplin, drew upon their own collections, the film archives of the world and private collections for prime-quality 35mm source prints from which to reconstruct Charlie Chaplin's comedies made at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914. For those who have seen these films only in blurry, scratched, halated copies projected much too fast, the results will be amazing. From the film sources, these digital restorations have achieved further great improvements in image quality. Come for a sneak preview of this eagerly-awaited collection, available in DVD on October 26th (everyone attending will receive a $5 off coupon for purchase of the DVD collection in our Museum store).
David Shepard will present seven Chaplin Keystones and discuss the process of restoring these films.
Mabel's Strange Predicament (the first film in which Chaplin wore the tramp costume) Music: Mont Alto
Caught in the Rain (the first film entirely written and directed by Chaplin) Music: Mont Alto
The Masquerader (Chaplin as a very feminine and seductive woman) Music: Mont Alto
The Rounders (Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle as drunks in a comedy duel) Music: Robert Israel
The New Janitor (Chaplin's first introduction of pathos in a comedy) Music: Robert Israel
His Musical Career (Chaplin and Mack Swain as piano movers) Music: Stephen Horne
Dough and Dynamite (Chaplin as waiter and inept baker) Music: Eric Beheim
Saturday September 25th at 7:30 PM
Long before Renee Zellweger and Cathrine Zeta-Jones heated up the screen in the 2002 version of Chicago, there was the 1927 version, starring Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart
Chicago (1927) Sexy, jazz-loving Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) has a doting husband in Victor Varconi, not to mention a golddigging affair on the side with Eugene Pallette who pays and pays, eventually with his life. Put on trial for murder, Roxie secures lawyer Billy Flynn (Robert Edeson), equal part "mouthpiece" and publicist. When Roxie hits the headlines, the courtroom theatrics begin.
With short The Scarecrow (1920, Comique) Buster Keaton
Accompanied by Judy Rosenberg at the piano
Sunday September 26th at 4:00 PM
Talkie Matinee
Film historian David Shepard presents a program of rarely shown films not commercially available.
One Way Passage (1932) On an ocean crossing, a man condemned to death (William Powell) meets a woman who is terminally ill (Kay Francis). Neither knows the destiny of the other, but as they arrive at full awareness, the emotion rises to a transcendence rare in a Hollywood film.
With shorts: Pas De Deux (1968) Directed by Norman McLaren, Precious Images (1986) Directed by Chuck Workman and Moods of the Sea (1941) Directed by Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman