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The Festival d’Anères, silent film festival takes place 19-23 May 2010 at Anères in Hautes-Pyrénées department, southern France. The programme has just been announced, and it’s a really excellent one:

Wednesday 19 May

17:00 Son premier film
d. Jean Kemm
with Grock, Pierrette Lugand, Gaston Dubosc
1926 / France / 1h52 / video
Copy: Film Régents (Archives Jacques Haïk)
Music: le groupe Magine – Saxophones: Alexandra Grimal; Voice and effects: Lynn Cassiers; Drums: Mathieu Calleja

21:00 The Phantom of the Opera
d. Rupert Julian
with Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
1925 / USA / 1h32 / video
Copy: Lobster Films
Piano: Roch Havet; Voices: Kova Réa, Marion Dhombres; Voice and guitars: Guillaume Farley

Thursday 20 May

12:00 Seven Years Bad Luck
d. Max Linder
with Max Linder, Alta Allen, Ralph McCullough
1921 / USA / 1h02 / video
Copy: Lobster Films
Piano: Jacques Cambra

14:00 The Three Must-Get-Theres
d. Max Linder
with Max Linder, Bull Montana, Frank Cooke
1922 / USA / 55 minutes / video
Copy: Lobster Films
Music: a group of young musicians under the guidance of Mauro Coceano

17:00 Cœur fidèle
d. Jean Epstein
with Gina Manès, Léon Mathot, Edmond Van Daële
1923 / France / 1h27 / video
Copiy: Pathé / Cinémathèque française (D.R.)
Guitar: Paco El Lobo

19:00 Concert: Manu Galure

21:00 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
d. Alfred Hitchcock
with Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp
1927 / UK / 1h11 / 35mm
Copy: Carlotta Films
Accordion, trumpet: Virgile Goller; Saxophones: Florent Lalet; Double bass: Guillaume Guérin

Friday 21 May

11:30 Miss Mend (Episode 1)
d. Fédor Ozep and Boris Barnet
with Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel, Boris Barnet
1926 / USSR / 1h28 / video
Copiy: Lobster Films
Music by Aidje Tafial: trumpet: Xavier Bornens; saxophones, flute: Olivier Py; piano: Roch Havet; double bass: Jeff Pautrat; drums: Aidje Tafial

14:00 The Strong Man
d. Frank Capra
with Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor
1926 / USA / 1h15 / 35mm
Copy: Photoplay Productions
Piano: Jacques Cambra

17:00 La Terre
d. André Antoine
with Armand Bour, René Alexandre, Germaine Rouer, Jean Hervé, Émile Mylo, Berthe Bovy
1921 / France / 1h37 / video
Copy: Gaumont Pathé Archives
Violins: Frédéric Norel; clarinet, saxophone, machines: Sylvain Rifflet

19:00 Concert: Kova Réa

21:30 The Vagabond
d. Charlie Chaplin
1916 / USA / 25 min.
Music: Famille Gouffault
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Novyy Vavilon (New Babylon)
d. Grigori Kozintsev et Leonid Trauberg
with David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin
1929 / USSR / 1h15 / video
Original music by Dmitri Shostakovitch, arranged by Baudime Jam
Violin 1: Elzbieta Gladys; Violin 2: Survier Flores Lopes; Viola:Baudime Jam; Cello: Jean-Philippe Feiss; clarinet: Béatrice Berne

Saturday 22 May

11:30 Miss Mend (Episode 2)
de Fédor Ozep and Boris Barnet
with Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel, Boris Barnet
1926 / USSR / 1h28 / video
Copy: Lobster Films
Music by Aidje Tafial: trumpet: Xavier Bornens; saxophones, flute: Olivier Py; piano: Roch Havet; double bass: Jeff Pautrat; drums: Aidje Tafial

14:00 Klovnen
d. Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
with Gösta Ekman, Karina Bell, Maurice de Féraudy
1926 / Denmark / 2h08 / video
Copy: Danish Film Institute
Music: le groupe Magine: saxophones: Alexandra Grimal; Voice and effects: Lynn Cassiers; Drums: Mathieu Calleja

17:00 Die Königin vom Moulin Rouge
d. Robert Wiene
with Mady Christians, André Roanne, Livio Pavanelli
1926 / Austria / 1h27 / video
Copy: Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Piano: Karol Beffa

19:00 Concert: Aldona

21:30 Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
with Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova
1920 / Germany / 1h26 / 35mm
Copy: Murnau Stiftung / Transit Film
Saxophone: Léonard Le Cloarec; Piano: Bertrand Allagnat; Bass: Antoine Reininger; Drums: Julien Bonnard

Sunday 23 May

11:30 Miss Mend (Episode 3)
d. Fédor Ozep and Boris Barnet
with Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel, Boris Barnet
1926 / USSR / 1h14 / video
Copy: Lobster Films
Music by Aidje Tafial: trumpet: Xavier Bornens; saxophones, flute: Olivier Py; piano: Roch Havet; double bass: Jeff Pautrat; drums: Aidje Tafial

14:00 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
d. Christy Cabanne and John Emerson
with Douglas Fairbanks
1916 / USA / 24 min.
Guitar, piano: Quentin Buffier; Flute: Julia Guillonton
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Go West
d. Buster Keaton
with Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
1925 / USA / 1h10 / video
Saxophone: Léonard Le Cloarec; Piano: Bertrand Allagnat; Bass: Antoine Reininger; Drums: Julien Bonnard

17:00 Shennü
d. Wu Yonggang
with Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Zhizhi, Li Keng, Li Junpan
1934 / China / 1h20 / video
Copy: ZZ Productions
Original music by Baudime Jam
Played by quatuor Prima Vista: Violon 1: Elzbieta Gladys; Violon 2: Survier Flores Lopes; Viola: Baudime Jam; Cello: Jean-Philippe Feiss

19:00 The Crowd
d. King Vidor
with Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
1928 / USA / 1h29 / 35mm
Copy: Photoplay Productions
Piano: Karol Beffa

21:30 – grand ball

A fine programme indeed, and really good to see after tales of the festival having struggled to find sufficient funding to continue. The attention paid to the music accompaniment looks particularly commendable. More details can be found on the festival website (in French), and if any Bioscopist is intending to go, or knows someone who is, it would be good hear what the festival is like.