Synopsis
Telluride’s 1994 screening of Paul Fejós’ film brought the Alloy Orchestra to the international spotlight and became one of the Festival’s legendary events. Since then, the reputation of Fejós’ film—a lyrical romance of two lonely hearts in New York—has continued to grow. By popular demand, we proudly present an encore performance from the fabulous Alloys with a brand new restored print from George Eastman House, thus offering another opportunity to discover one of the greatest achievements of silent cinema during its transition to sound. Released with two brief talking sequences and endowed with evocative splashes of manually applied color (a rarity for 1928), this masterwork of poetic realism is regarded as the highest achievement of Hungarian-born director Fejós during his brief career in Hollywood. LONESOME reminds us that the simplest of all love stories can be as compelling as a thriller. –PCU (U.S., 1928, 69m)