http://festival.aneres.free.fr
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 Calleja21:00 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 FarleyThursday 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 Cambra14:00 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 Coceano17:00 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 Lobo19:00 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 GuérinFriday 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 Tafial14:00 The Strong Man
d. Frank Capra
with Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor
1926 / USA / 1h15 / 35mm
Copy: Photoplay Productions
Piano: Jacques Cambra17:00 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 Rifflet19:00 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 BerneSaturday 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 Tafial14:00 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 Calleja17:00 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 Beffa19:00 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 BonnardSunday 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 Tafial14:00 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 Bonnard17:00 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 Feiss19:00 The Crowd
d. King Vidor
with Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
1928 / USA / 1h29 / 35mm
Copy: Photoplay Productions
Piano: Karol Beffa21:30 – 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.
The Bioscope 
Wow, what a lineup of films and not a single musician whose name I recognize. It would be great to hear all this somehow. Time to think about webcasts of silent film festivals and broadening the audience.
Good idea. Certainly it would be great if one of the major festivals might be in a position to try out just one such screening, as an experiment. Of course, we did get the premiere of the restored Metropolis broadcast live. I wonder how well it did for Arte, which broadcast it on TV and web?