DONT MISS THIS FOLKS IN L.A.! VERY SPECIAL! The Cine Family at THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER presents SPECIAL SCREENING OF "DRACULA" (The Spanish Version of 1931)! PELICULA DE "DRACULA" EN ESPAÑOL DE 1931 Tuesday July 30 @ 7:30pm 611 N Fairfax Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90036 TICKETS: $12 DRACULA Film (Spanish version with Lupita Tovar): A very strange thing happened on Universal Studios’ famous back lot over the course of 22 nights late in 1930. On each of those nights, after Tod Browning and his cast and crew went home from a hard day at work making Dracula, two other directors-- George Melford and Enrique Tova Avalos were their names-- would arrive on the set with a cast of Mexican actors to set about piecing together their own Dracula for the Spanish-speaking market. Melford and Avalos didn’t just use the same sets as Browning. They also employed the same basic script (right down to the terrible, out-of-place sight gag involving the big fat bug and the miniature coffin), along with the same props, the same matte paintings, and alternate takes of the same special effects sequences-- hell, even the same widow’s-peak hairpiece that Bela Lugosi wore during the daytime shooting! But in spite of all the elements it has in common with Browning’s more famous version, the Dracula made by Melford and Avalos is a strikingly different and altogether superior film. Grammy-nominated Gary Lucas, whom Rolling Stone calls “one of the best and most original guitarists in America”, returns to the Cinefamily to perform his solo live score to Dracula, although it’s not quite the same Dracula as you remember it. Unknown to most film-goers — even die-hard horror and fantasy cinema buffs — an alternate (and, many would hold, superior) version was filmed at night on the same sets as the famous Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi classic, with virtually the same script — but with a Spanish-speaking cast, in a production aimed at the burgeoning Latin market. The resulting film boasts more fluid camerawork, more atmospheric lighting, better performances — and, like the original, virtually no music beyond the opening and closing titles, leaving magnificent space for Lucas to musically flow beneath, between and behind this forgotten horror masterpiece’s darkest corners. Click here for more info on Gary Lucas — and click here for more on Gary’s score to “Spanish Dracula”! Dracula (Spanish Version) Dir. George Melford, 1931, 104 min. cinefamily.org/films/special-events-july-2013/
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