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by Anne Dawson
Please contact Anne at annedawson72@aol.com if you know of any Buster Keaton cinema screenings with live musical accompaniment in your area so we can add them to this Calendar and help promote Buster's films
and your theater. Thanks!
April 2010
Dear
readers,
If you don't see a screening near you (in the list below), you can contact
one of the musicians listed, or a film programmer at your local historic
movie house, art museum, art institute, public library, or school film/theatre/music
dept. and ask about arranging a screening.
Check with theatres to verify below information.
Thanks
for research assistance by Damfino Carl Allamanno!
See the latest silent screening events - many courtesty of Bruce
Calvert - on www.nitrateville.com!
AUSTRALIA
SILENT FILMS
(including Buster's?)
(see website)
Majestic Theatre
3 Factory Street
Pomona, Queensland 4568
Australia
Tel. (+61) 07 5485 2330
Tickets for some shows: $12
Website: majestic.spiderweb.com.au
Pipe organ accompaniment by
Ron West!
ENGLAND
SLAPSTICK
2010
(Jan 21-24, 2010)
presents their annual
SLAPSTICK COMEDY FESTIVAL GALA
"Something Almost Completely
Different"
Thurs., Jan 21, 2010, 7:30pm
w/ special guest Michael Palin!
and hosted by Graeme Garden!
and screening
The Navigator (1924)
Colston Hall
Bristol, England
Tel. 0117 922 3686
Festival website: slapstick.org.uk
Theatre website: colstonhall.org
with live accompaniment by
The Slapstick Boys!
(5-piece ensemble includes
Oscar-winning film animator and cornet
virtuoso Richard Williams and
silent film maestro Gunter Buchwald!)
UNITED STATES
CALIFORNIA
ILLINOIS
MYSTERY MOVIE NIGHT
Fri., Feb. 5, 2010
8:00pm
Sherlock, Jr (1924)
preceded by musical themes from other detective
films(show is 2 hrs w/ intermission)
Symphony Center Chicago
Tel. (312) 294-3000 or 1-800-223-7114
Tickets: $29-$103
Website: Website: www.cso.org
Event link: http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=
Live accompaniment by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!
with an original score by Ti monthy Brock!
Thanks to Elsie Parker!
KANSAS
14th
Annual
KANSAS SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Fri - Sat., Feb. 26 - 27, 2010
Special guest: Melissa Talmadge Cox!
(granddaughter of Buster Keaton &
Natalie Talmadge!)
To be screened: Our Hospitality (1923)
Topeka , KS
Festival website: kssilentfilmfest.org
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA
Sat.,
Jan. 30, '10,
7:00pm
ST ALBAN'S GOES TO
THE (SILENT) MOVIES
presents
The General (1926)
St. Alban's Episcopal Church
Davidson, NC
Tel: (704) 892-0173
Website: gostalbans.org
Live accompaniment by
Ethan Uslan!
Thanks to Ethan Uslan!
RHODE ISLAND
Sun.,
Jan. 10, '10, 2:00pm
FILM NOIR SERIES
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Buster's on camera for 15 seconds -
watch for the card-playing scene!
Providence Public Library
3rd floor auditorium of the
150 Empire Street branch
Providence , RI 02903
Tel (401) 455-8000
Website: provlib.org
WISCONSIN
Every
Wednesday night at
6:00pm
CINE-MATIC - FREE MOVIES!
Javavino
Racine, WI 53403
Tel. (262) 633-0660
Website: myjavavino.com
Please check all show times before setting out as venues may be subject to change.
Please check all show times before setting out as venues may be subject to change.