Webster University Film Series: Queen Kelly (New 4K restoration)
Title: Queen Kelly
Showtimes: Friday, 2/6 – Sunday, 2/8, at 7PM
Box Office: Opens at 6PM in front of the auditorium entrance
Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster Hall 1st floor, 470 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119.
Parking: Webster U. campus parking in front of Webster Hall (Lot B) and behind the building (Lot D) is free to patrons on nights we are showing movies!
Admission: $8 for general admission, $7 for seniors(60+), Webster alumni & students from other schools
(Erich von Stroheim, 1929, USA, 105 minutes)
New 4K restoration!
Erich von Stroheim had a reputation for being one of the best filmmakers of the silent era but also a bit of a tyrant to work with, prone to going drastically over budget, and making films of quite long running times. After a run of films in the 1920s legendary both for how great they were (or could have been) as well as for the fights he got in over making and releasing them (see 1922’s Foolish Wives, 1924’s Greed, 1928’s The Wedding March), he teamed up with one of the greatest stars of the silent era, Gloria Swanson, to make Queen Kelly. It did not go well. Taken away from Stroheim, it got finished and released in bastardized form in some territories (not the U.S.) in 1932. From there it took a Metropolis-like path to reconstruction and restoration, turning up in some newer/better/more faithful form every few decades since. Most recent is this version, completed just last year and playing at some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, including Venice and New York. From the heroes at Milestone Film & Video, who we also have to thank for the Killer of Sheep restoration we ran in April 2025. Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, said Queen Kelly is a “harrowing masterwork of erotic ecstasies and horrors.”
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