The Barbican in London is putting on a new series of silent films with special music accompaniment for its Silent Film & Live Music series. It’s a superb line-up once again:
16 September: Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)
Live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand
Invitation to a Dream – Silent Film & the Avant-Garde
7 October: The Smiling Madame Beudet (La Souriante Madame Beudet) (Germaine Dulac, 1922) + Themes et Variations (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
Live piano accompaniment by Errolyn Wallen
+ Disque 957 (Germaine Dulac, 1928) + Invitation to a Journey (Germaine Dulac)
Live performance by L’Inquiétant Supsendu
+ The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le clergyman) (Germaine Dulac, 1927)
With live accompaniment by Minima
21 October: Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
The London premiere of a new score composed by Jean Hasse and conducted by John Traill
31 October: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John S. Robertson, 1920)
Live accompaniment by DJ Nacho Martin
Crime and Deviancy in Silent Cinema
4 November – Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, 1927)
Live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand
11 November – The Hound of the Baskervilles (Maurice Elvey, 1921)
Live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne
2 December – The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1926)
Live performance by Cipher
16 December – Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924)
Live fairy harp accompaniment by Elizabeth Jane Baldry
More information as always, including booking details, from the Barbican site.
The Bioscope 