Up Through the Air (Retro Film)

NAMED ONE OF THE 10 FUNNIEST FILMS IN HISTORY by eight top critics in BBC poll 2017

The cinema audience in 1923 had never seen anything like it! First they howled with laughter. Then they howled with terror. And then they fainted! 100 years later, nothing as breathtaking and fun has been made... or as dangerous! When Harold Lloyd climbs the outside of a skyscraper or hangs from the hands of a clock in defiance of death, it is done without great safety requirements, without back projection and definitely without a single computer pixel. UP IN THE AIR was a gigantic success in 1923 and made Lloyd pass both Chaplin and Keaton in popularity. The climax of the film has gone down in history as the most iconic of the silent film era and has been "imitated" in films by/with Jackie Chan, Martin Scorsese, Robert Zemeckis and Sylvester Stallone and, of course, the Jönsson gang gets gold fever!

“ THE MOST FAMOUS SCENE OF THE SILENT FILM ERA IS JUST ONE OF MANY FANTASTIC MOMENTS IN WHAT MAY BE THE MOST BRILLIANT COMIC CLIMBER IN MOVIE HISTORY ” Chicago Reader, 2013

“ A PIECE OF COMIC ARCHITECTURE. IT IS PERFECT ” Orson Welles

BONUS: FIVE FILMS WITH HAROLD LLOYD: Now or Never (35 min), Bumping Into Broadway (25 min), High and Dizzy (25 min), Get Out and Get Under (25 min) and Billy Blazes, Esq. (12 minutes)