Silent Movie Mondays: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Cost: $20.81
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Organist: Edward Norman

Celebrate spooky season at Silent Movie Mondays! Join us at the near century-old Orpheum to watch a classic silent horror film accompanied by a haunting score performed live on the theatre's rare Wurlitzer organ—the last theatre organ in Canada still performing in its original home. Enjoy a 'Halloween Costume-Optional' dress code and a pre-show performance by the Gatsby Strutters Jazz Band.

Stick around for a fascinating post-show talk about the movie and its role in film history hosted by Vancouver Film School's Paul Jensen and featuring special guest Kat Montagu.

Paul Jensen is a film scholar, award-winning educator, and public speaker with a passion for cinema and visual storytelling. He teaches Film and Screenwriting at Vancouver Film School, Langara College, and ActorVan Studios, and is a frequent guest on public radio, film podcasts, and web series.

Kat Montagu is the Head of Writing at Vancouver Film School. The author of Amazon bestseller The Dreaded Curse: Screenplay Formatting for Film & TV, and a screenwriter and film producer herself, she is currently writing murder mystery and revenge thriller pilot scripts. Also the senior story editor for Crazy 8s short filmmaking competition, Kat loves helping writers find their own voices.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stars John Barrymore as a respected doctor who develops a potion intended to separate the good and evil sides of human nature. His experiment releases the cruel Mr. Hyde, an alter ego who becomes increasingly difficult to control, with tragic consequences. An especially remarkable feature of the silent film is Barrymore’s first transformation into Hyde, which he performed largely by contorting his face and body rather than relying on makeup or camera effects.
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