Schedule of Events:

12:30pm: Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts

A program of newly restored, rarely screened treasures from animation’s Golden Age.

Back From the Ink is the first ever curated restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1930s to 1940s. This new restoration project was completed through an unlikely collaboration between Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and animator, director, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Highlights of the program include Betty Boop in So Does an Automobile, the charming George Pal Puppetoon Wilbur the Lion, the surreal Fleischer Studio’s The Fresh Vegetable Mystery, and much more! Don’t miss this chance to see these cartoon rarities on the big screen! (51 mins., DCP)

Program lineup:

Wilbur the Lion (George Pal, 1947)
An Elephant Never Forgets (Dave Fleischer and Seymour Kneitel, 1934)
The Three Bears (Mannie Davis & Connie Rasinski, 1939)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1939)
Peeping Penguins (Dave Fleischer and Myron Waldman, 1937)
Greedy Humpty Dumpty (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1936)
So Does an Automobile (Dave Fleischer and Roland Crandall, 1939)

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2:00pm: The Greeks Had a Word for Them

(Lowell Sherman, 1932)

For decades known mostly by its reissue title Three Broadway Girls, the bubbly comedy The Greeks Had a Word for Them follows three former showgirls who pool their limited resources to rent a luxurious apartment in New York. Their shared goal? To set themselves up by landing a rich man—by any means necessary. Starring pre-code icon Joan Blondell, this is one of only a few films with costumes designed by Coco Chanel. (79 mins., 4K DCP)

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4:00pm: Winter Kept Us Warm

(David Secter, 1965)

Introduced by David Marriott, cofounder of Canadian International Pictures

The indie film Winter Kept Us Warm may have been the first English-language Canadian film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, but it has remained in relative obscurity for many years. The film follows Doug (John Labow), a popular senior at the University of Toronto who takes shy freshman Peter (Henry Tarvainen) under his wing. Both have girlfriends, but as their friendship grows, Doug begins to develop especially strong feelings for Peter. Director David Secter had to keep the relationship at the center of the film ambiguous due to the era in which it was made, but when viewed today the tension is undeniable. A groundbreaking film in the development of Canadian cinema, Winter Kept Us Warm paved the way for other Canadian queer filmmakers such as John Greyson, Bruce LaBruce, and Patricia Rozema. Introduced by David Marriott, cofounder of Arbelos Films and Canadian International Pictures. (81 mins., 4K DCP)

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5:30pm: Cinema Revival Reception

Join fellow film enthusiasts and Cinema Revival guests for a reception in the lower lobby with complimentary appetizers and a cash bar. Connect with your fellow festival goers then stay for the screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, with special guests Doris Nomathandé Dixon and Heather Linville.

Cost: Free

7:00pm: The Spook Who Sat by the Door

(Ivan Dixon, 1973)

Introduced by Doris Nomathandé Dixon and Heather Linville, Library of Congress

In Ivan Dixon’s The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a white senator up for reelection hopes to curry favor with Black voters by creating a program to recruit African American agents into the CIA. The program, of course, is rigged to the point that none of the applicants have a chance of landing the job—except one. Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook), an undercover Black nationalist who plans to take full advantage of his training by returning to his inner-city Chicago neighborhood to train a guerilla army to fight for liberation and freedom. Dixon is best known from his role on Hogan’s Heroes and in the 1964 indie film Nothing But a Man. Dixon’s daughter Doris Nomathandé Dixon joins Heather Linville of the Library of Congress for a conversation about the film and its preservation following the screening. (102 mins., 35mm)

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