Resounding Silents
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some of the greatest films of the silent era, accompanied by a mixture of classically trained professionals, the best local talent and various avant garde oddballs.
Films in the Resounding Silents:
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Film: The Lodger (1927)
21 Aug 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Starring the exquisite Ivor Novello as the titular reclusive lodger, suspected of being the murderous "Avenger" in Hitchcocks first thriller…live piano score by Bruce Rafeek
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Film: Alice In Wonderland (1915)
28 Aug 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Great design brings the bizarre characters of this classic tale to life in a sadly nearly forgotten early version of Lewis Carrolls satirical fantasy…live score soundclash…Noizechoir vs Phallictite
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Film: He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
11 Jan 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Lon Chaney as an inventor who suffers cycles of abuse and betrayal before (and after) running away to join the circus, Sjostrom and Chaney combine to heartbreaking perfection in the first true MGM studio feature…live score by Newcastle based improvisational big band Helictite
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Film: Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
18 Jan 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Buster Keaton as the dandified prodigal son of grizzled Captain Bill Sr whose outdated paddle boat is being put out of business by a rival with a bigger boat and a pretty daughter…live score courtesy of Analogue Synthesis (Steve Brown & Marek Gabrysch)
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Film: L'Age D'Or (1930) With Live Score From Noize Choir And Sink (1930)
25 Jan 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Gaston Modot and Lya Lys as a passionate couple caught in flagrante delicto, the relations, the state and the church conspire to keep the courting consorts in a constant condition of coitus interuptus…plus short films in support TBC…live score collaboration by Edinburgh's Sink and Newcastle's Noizechoir
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Film: The Last Laugh (1925)
1 Feb 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Emil Jannings as a proud doorman who unfairly suffers a demotion, ostracisation and an ensuing spiral of grief, notable for the masterful technicalities (the first tracking shot) and emotional depth created by cinematographer Karl Freund and director Murnau…live score by the tasteless colourblind tone deaf butter fingered concrete footed dorkestra PHALLICTITE
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Film: Flesh And The Devil (1926)
8 Feb 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Greta Garbo as an iredeemable femme fatale utterly dominating the screen opposite the still charismatic headliner John Gilbert, joined in a tragic love triangle with Lars Hanson, beautifully captured by Brown and cinematographer William H Daniels…score by Sean Cotterill, live coding before your very ears!
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Film: It (1927)
22 Feb 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Clara Bow as the magnetic centerpiece of this early modern romantic comedy, setting the benchmark for "it" for generations to come and still the blueprint for lighthearted rom-coms today…live score by Wudan
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Film: Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927)
1 Mar 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor as the un-named Man & Wife from the sticks torn asunder by the conniving Woman From The City, Murnau takes a simple premise but conjures what is consistently lauded as one of the finest movies of all time…featuring the original synchronised soundtrack
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Film: Earth (1930)
8 Mar 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Semyon Svashenko (nominally) as the farmboy protagonist during the introduction of post-revolutionary collectivised farming techniques, art triumphs over propagana as the real focus of Dovzhenko's cinematic poem is the raw power of Mother Nature…live score by A Small Collection Of Soft Dangling Objects
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Film: The Wind (1928)
15 Mar 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring Lillian Gish in probably her finest role as a vulnerable soul at the mercy of the overwhelming and ever present elemental onslaught unleashed by Sjostrom…live score by Helictite, returning to our silver screen after the raw caustic emotion of "He Who Gets Slapped" in January
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Film: The Crowd (1928)
22 Mar 2015, 7:30 p.m.
starring James Murray and Eleanor Boardman as souls lost among the uncaring masses in the unfeeling metropolis, the innovative Vidor was nominated for the very first Best Director Academy Award…live score by Simon Wood on the Hang, an incredible sounding new type of steel drum
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Film: Lot In Sodom (1933) Noizechoir (Live) & The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928) Phallictite (Live) @ The Cumberland Arms
12 Mar 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Innovative American directors James Sibley Watson (a doctor who developed a 3D X-Ray film technique) and Melville Webber made two avant-garde films, the successful short horror The Fall Of The House Of Usher and the visually spectacular biblical tale of Lot In Sodom, tonight we present them scored live by NoizeChoir (Newcastle's premiere garglers) and Phallictite (Music's lowest ebb)