(Cecil B. DeMille, US 1929, 118 min., 35mm)
Silent Tuesdays. A high-voltage melodrama of wild youth and institutional abuse based on real events: Judy, mouthpiece for the Godless Society, a group of teenage atheists, locks horns with Bob, class president and ardent defender of the Christian faith, and tragedy strikes. Both are sentenced to time in a notorious reform school, where a sadistic guard known only as "The Brute" awaits. The Godless Girl is part topical, part hysterical, part spectacle-and pure Cecil B. DeMille. Live piano by Philip C. Carli. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.