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As part of the Wellington Film Festival 2025, a special screening of F.W. Murnau’s 1926 masterpiece Faust will take place at ...
Director Christophe Gans returns to adapt the acclaimed 'Silent Hill 2' game in a new psychological horror film.
The 1923 silent movie "Safety Last" was screened May 25 at the Hanover Theatre, accompanied by Clark Wilson the Mighty Wurlitzer. The Wurlitzer is increasingly rare. The American Theater Organ Society ...
Sunday not-so-silent matinee While the silent movies of the 1920s don't include sound, they were never meant to be shown in complete silence. Instead, the intent was always to have live musicians ...
The 1925 adaptation (happy centennial!) of Gaston Leroux’s tragic-romance, The Phantom of The Opera is a classic of the silent film genre, campy in its theatrical excess and both hilarious and ...
'Louis': A Silent Movie with Live Accompaniment by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad When: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22. Where: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave.
The Orchestra’s audio and video recordings have been widely praised, and considered instrumental in rekindling interest in America’s rich traditions of theater, cinema, and dance orchestra music.” ...
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence will host a screening of the silent film “The Ancient Law” (“Das alte Gesetz”) with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, March 22, at 7 p.m.
“Most people have never seen (a silent film) presented correctly,” he told the Tribune in 2002. “But what happens, with live music and the proper venue, people start by laughing at the film.
Dennis Wolkowicz, organist who co-founded Silent Film Society of Chicago, dies at 74 Mr. Wolkowicz, who played under the stage name Jay Warren because it was easier to pronounce, first tried his ...
But only a day earlier, filmmakers learned that Buzov’s son – who had been instrumental in allowing the film to be made – died suddenly of a heart attack in Belgrade, Serbia. He was 52.