FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE in 35mm
Special Features: 100th Anniversary. Silent with live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson
Rex Ingram's epic, mystical WWI melodrama owed its huge success less to its battlefield recreations and more to the sultry tango danced in a smoky Buenos Aires cantina by star Rudolph Valentino, launching the little-known actor to international fame and clinching his image as the "Latin Lover." The spoiled scion of a wealthy international family, the art-loving Valentino only enlists in the French army after a mystical vision of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, prophesied in the Book of Revelation — Conquest, War, Famine and Death — convinces him to do his duty. DIR/PROD Rex Ingram; SCR June Mathis, from the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. U.S., 1921, b&w, 132 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
About Andrew Simpson
Andrew Earle Simpson is an acclaimed composer of opera, silent film, orchestral, chamber, choral, dance, and vocal music based in Washington, DC. His musical works make multi-faceted, intimate connections with literature, visual art, and film, reflecting his own interest in linking music with the wider world, an approach which he calls "humanistic music." One of America’s foremost silent film musicians, he has performed across the United States, Europe, and South America. In addition to composing and performing, Simpson is a professor and head of the division of Theory and Composition at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. andrewesimpson.com
Run Time: 132 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, November 06, 2021
Genre: Silent drama