CCFF March 6-15 2026
10 days of award-winning features, documentaries, shorts and silent films at several screening locations along with a hands-on
workshop and a Young Filmmakers Competition. All for free and popcorn too!
With live piano music from Dr. Larry Schanker
Three Ages with Buster Keaton 64 min
Three Ages is a 1923 American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films. While Keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove himself as a feature-length star. It has been alleged that, had the project flopped, the film would have been broken into three short films, although this has been disputed by film historians who note that neither Keaton nor his associates made this claim in their lifetimes. The structure also worked as a parody of D W Griffith 1916 film Intolerance.
Duck Soup screens first.
Duck Soup 1927 USA 21 min with Laurel & Hardy
Seeking refuge from a contingent of forest rangers engaged in the recruitment of vagrants for firefighting duties, Laurel and Hardy seek sanctuary within an uninhabited mansion. Exploiting the absence of the owner, who is on vacation, and the absence of household staff, Hardy assumes the role of the proprietor, proffering the property for rent to an English couple. Engaging Laurel in the ruse, he enlists him to impersonate a maid. However, their attempt at subterfuge is foiled when the rightful owner unexpectedly returns, exposing their deception to the prospective tenants. Subsequently, Laurel and Hardy are compelled to evade capture once more, but are ultimately apprehended by the forest rangers and compelled to participate in firefighting efforts to mitigate wildfires.
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