Toronto SILENT FILM Festival presents Rarities from the silent masters March 31, 2011

MARY PICKFORD - Toronto born icon was America's Sweetheart but she made more than just films, she made history. Founder of United Artists, film pioneer, writer, actor, producer and one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood. The Mary Pickford Foundation sends us three exceptional shorts from her early years at Biograph, and all directed by D. W. Griffith. They will show you why she became a star.

THEY WOULD ELOPE 1909 w. Billy Quirk; TENDER HEARTS 1909; WHAT THE DAISY SAID 1910
Pickford collector Rob Brooks will introduce the shorts.

KING VIDOR - From the director of such iconic silent classics as The Big Parade & The Crowd comes this rarely seen early work.
JACK KNIFE MAN 1920 A lonely artist living on a shanty boat on the Mississippi River has his world turned upside down with an unexpected arrival. Vidor shows here through his expressionistic framing and trademark dry humour that he was a force to be recognized. Very rare print. 16mm
Musical Interpretation - Bill O'Meara on piano