Most Tuesdays in September through early December, the Dryden will present its annual series of marvelous movies from the era before synchronous sound. The films are presented in conjunction with the University of Rochester’s course in Silent Cinema, taught by George Eastman House Curator of Motion Pictures Patrick Loughney, and most screenings feature splendid live piano accompaniment from Rochester’s own Philip C. Carli.

Among the diverse offerings on this calendar are the official release version of Erich von Stroheim’s much-abused masterwork, Greed (September 9); D.W. Griffith’s The Avenging Conscience and The Musketeers of Pig Alley (September 16); South (September 23), the remarkable filmed record of Shackleton’s legendary journey to the arctic; Charles Chaplin’s seminal comedies The Kid and The Tramp (September 30); John Barrymore in the deliriously romantic When a Woman Loves (October 7), one of the first films released with a synchronous Vitaphone music score soundtrack; Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s Dragnet Girl (October 21); and just in time for Halloween (October 28), Robert Wiene’s expressionistic head trip, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.