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Film Preview: “The Man Who Laughs” — A Perfect Fit for the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

This effort is the most ‘Hollywood’ score the BSFO has created yet, a plush musical carpet for The Man Who Laughs’s emotional high and lows.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, silent film, The Man Who Laughs

Film Interview: Jeff Rapsis’ Code of Silents

For the past decade, Jeff Rapsis has improvised live scores for silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Jeff Rapsis, Ken Bader, Music, silent film

Film Preview: Silent Film Comedian Raymond Griffith — Sophisticated Slapstick

A rare opportunity to see — on the big screen — a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Betty Compson, Jeff Rapsis, Paths to Paradise, Raymond Griffith, silent comedy, silent film, Somerville Theatre’s Silents Please

Film Preview: Death and Desire at the Circus — “Varieté” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Betsy Sherman, Coolidge Corner Theatre, E.A. Dupont, Sheldon Mirowitz, silent film, Sounds of Silents, Varieté

Film Review: Acknowledging Jean Epstein — Brilliant Maverick Filmmaker and Critic

Jean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Jean Epstein, silent film, Young Oceans of Cinema – The Films of Jean Epstein

Fuse News Film Review: “Blancanieves” — Silent Film Redux

“Blancanieves” is not quite as charming as “The Artist,” but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Blancanieves, Pablo Berger, silent film

Silent Film Feature: Soviet Masterpiece “Battleship Potemkin” Steams into Town with a New Score

As the Occupy and Tea Party movements attest, this is a time in America of social action and political upheaval -– not to the degree that we see in “Battleship Potemkin,” but significant nonetheless –- and this classic silent film has resonance today in that regard.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Battleship Potemkin, Berklee College of Music, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Sheldon Mirowitz, silent film, Sound of Silents, Sounds of Silence

Short Fuse Movie Review: “Hugo” Triumphant

I had written Martin Scorsese off, and never expected he had a “Hugo” in him. That he did is the among the touching things in this film.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: fantasy film, France, George Méliès, Hugo, Martin Scorsese, Short Fuse, silent film

Film Feature: Nathan the Wise — A Silent Film for Humanity

Thought to be lost, the only existing print of NATHAN THE WISE was discovered in Moscow in 1996. The Coolidge Corner Theater is screening a tinted and beautifully restored version of the film, with an original score by Aaron Trant performed live by the After Quartet.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Film, Popular Music Tagged: Aaron Trant, After Quartet, german, Jewish, Nathan der Weise, Nathan the Wise, silent film

Movie Feature: Making Music for the “It” Girl

It is really very much of its time and place, its particular moment in history. The social revolution of the 20s, the new freedoms for “modern” women, the flapper phenomenon, and the challenges to the class structure in urban 20th century America are among the issues in this 1927 silent comedy. By Bill Marx The […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Clara Bow, Coolidge Corner Theater, IT, silent film

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