Slapsticon Film Festival

The Slapsticon Film Festival in Arlington, Virginia features screenings of dozens of rare silent and sound comedies with LIVE MUSIC on grand piano by three of today’s leading silent film accompanists. Due to the remodeling of the Spectrum theater Slapticon 2009 has been cancelled. The event will return in 2010.

Highlights of the 2008 Slapticon Film Festival

• "The 3 Stooges Rarities Show”, (Thursday July 17 at 7:00 p.m.)
  
  
• W.C. Fields’ first starring feature, "Sally of the Sawdust" (1925), directed by D.W. Griffith from Fields’ Broadway hit, "Poppy" (Thursday, July 17 at 9:00 p.m.)
  
  
• Buster Keaton’s inventive genius is evident even in the television and industrial films he made in the 1950s and 60s. See the rarely screened "The Silent Partner" made for TV in 1955 and "The Scribe" (1966), a Canadian industrial film in which 70-year-old Buster walks on construction girders on a windy autumn day just months before his death. (Saturday July 19 at 2:00 p.m.)
  
  
• "Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath" (1928) shows how silents could sizzle even before the talkies. Forgotten comedienne Dorothy Mackaill is ripe for a modern-day rediscovery, with Laurel & Hardy foil James (“Doh!”) Finlayson in support. (Saturday July 19 at 8:00 p.m.)

Location

Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
1611 N. Kent Street, Mezzanine Level
Rosslyn, VA.
The theater is located near the Rosslyn Metro Station.

Garage parking is available under the theatre (entrance on Arlington Ridge Rd), free weekday evenings and Sat. & Sun.

Admission

$16 for 1/2 day, $30 for 1 day, $99 for 4 days.

Official Website

www.slapticon.org