In honour of the bicentennial celebrations of Giuseppe Garibaldi's birth, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, has restored Il Piccolo Garibaldino, continuing the research on the Risorgimento in the film industry. Restorer Irela Nuñez notes : "When we started restoration, we had two sources at our disposal: a German version of an old tinted nitrate positive from the Joye collection1 i
Monday, September 8----------From October 18–21, BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas will present the Pordenone Silent Film Weekend, featuring highlights from the legendary Pordenone Silent Film Weekend in Italy, the world's most prestigious film festival devoted to the art of the silent cinema. The series, which is celebrating its sixth anniversary at BAM, focuses this year on the early silent classics from the Danish film studio ...
David Wark Griffith's epic melodrama of 1921, ORPHANS OF THE STORM starring Lilian and Dorothy GISH, officially launched the return of the Giornate del Cinema Muto back to the Northern Italian city of PORDENONE, after 8 years, from the enchanting mediaeval town of SACILE. Musically accompanied live by the Friuli Venezia Symphony Orchestra to the work of composer John LANCHBERY and conducted by Timothy BECK, the 2
A truly unique event - mixing live music and the vintage screening of a true silent film classic will take Tuesday, August 7th at the Tabernacle - perfect for classical music and film lovers and for all ages. The Devil Music Ensemble is performing their original score live to the first/best silent version of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1920) starring John Barrymore, on Tuesday, August 7th at the Tabernacle in Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs. The DME, formed in Boston in 1999, is comprised of Brendon Wood ...
Tuesday, May 15------One of the more provocative, outrageous and downright brilliant film events of the New York film season ends its seven day run tonight, with actress Isabella Rossellini live and in person, capping off a series of live narrators during the silent film epic's week-long run at New York's Village East Cinemas. Canadian director Guy Maddin, who draws upon the aesthetics and melodramatic richness of early silent cinema for his expressionistic works, is presenting his la...
Saturday, December 9-----Cinema of the early part of the twentieth century existed on two sides of a divide. Silent or sound. Pre-Code and Code. The sexual frankness, moral corruption and sometimes kitchy melodrama of the early sound films of the 1930s have become a kind of treasure of American cinema. The Film Forum, New York's stellar arthouse complex, is currently presenting some of these tawdry treasures in their December film series, FOX BEFORE THE CODE. The FOX, of course, is Twentieth C...
THE MYSTERY OF RUDOLF VALENTINO
Legendary, hunky male silent screen star Rudolf VALENTINO is resurfacing this year at the 25th edition of the Giornate del Cinema Muto, in Sacile, Northern Italy, with a focus on 2 recently-found and digitally restored films starring the idol and a modern imaginary conversation short in which Edouardo Ballerini, playing the star, agonizes about the vicious rumo
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF GIORNATE (1982-2006)Pordenone/Sacile 6-14 October 2006The programme of the 25th Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone Silent Film Festival) is one of the most varied in the festival’s history. The central presentation is a tribute to the centenary of Nordisk Film, with works from the golden age of Danish cinema, including classics like Carl Dreyer’s Leaves from Satan’s Book and August Blom’s Atlantis, alongside exciting rediscoveries like Holger-Madsen’s A Trip to...
In the restored prints section a group of four early Chaplin shorts, all from the year 1914, were shown with live piano accompaniment. These restorations were made with the cooperation of film archives and collections all over the world and, presumably, show the films in a condition as close as it is possible to achieve, to the form in which audiences saw them ninety years ago. Even the printed inter-titles have been reconstructed, presumably, as originally shown. These films were all made at ...
THE 23RD SACILE-PORDENONE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL9-16 October 2004The programme of the 23rd edition of the Giornate del Cinema Muto, from 9-16 October 2004, will be the biggest and most ambitious to date, with both theatres - Teatro Zancanaro and Teatro Ruffo - running to capacity. The opening show will be a performance of Buster Keaton’s The General (1927), accompanied by the US-based Alloy Orchestra. Alloy's Ken Winokur has formed a new band called "Tillie's Nightmare" to accompany the new UCLA...
SILENT CLOWNS FILM SERIES BEGINS EIGHTH SEASON ON SEPTEMBER 19Live Music to Accompany Classic Silent Films The Silent Clowns Film Series, New York's longest running, regularly scheduled showcase for classic silent film comedy with movies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, and more, kicks off on September 19, 2004. Every show in the series will feature live musical accompaniment by Ben Model, along with an introduction and Q&A with film historian Bruce Lawton...
9TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL - Saturday July 10 & Sunday, July 11 Get ready for the 9th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival! A two day-event showcasing archival silent films with live musical accompaniment, the festival will take place on July 10 and 11 at the Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street) in San Francisco.Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney will appear in person with Jeffrey Vance, author of the beautiful new book Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, for an onstage interview afte...
