Silent Movie Mondays

Media: Film
Title: Diary of a Lost Girl

Yesterday was a Silent Movie Monday at the Paramount theater, perhaps my favorite on-going Seattle film event. Now, Diary of a Lost Girl was one of my least favorite of the many silent films I have seen. The story was tedious melodrama, and it seemed to end three different times and each time you wished it would. Nevertheless the experience is wonderful. Silent Movie Mondays are time travel. You enter a fully restored silent movie palace (The Paramount’s original function); you listen to archival music played on the theater's original organ; and you watch film prints restored to look as good as they would have 80 years ago. Give all the men hats, put all the women in skirts and you have the 1920s. I urge everyone who will listen, when given the opportunity to experience the magic of time travel it is always worth taking it, even when the film is as lackluster as Diary of a Lost Girl. (By the way, Lousie Brooks is adorable.)