May 2008

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. - AD

CHILDREN'S BOOK
Now available:
"Keep Your Eye on the Kid:
The Early Years of Buster Keaton"
(2008, hardcover)
by Catherine Brighton
You can order from BusterStuff.com.
(Thank you, Ms. Brighton!)

ENGLAND

Tues., May 14, '08, 6:30pm
BUSTER KEATON AND SILENT COMEDY
presents
The General (1927)
and Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
part of a study program
on Wednesday evenings from
May 14 - June 11 (5 mtgs)
from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
w/ films by Charlie Chaplin
and Harold Lloyd
and followed by study and discussion.
National Media Museum
Bradford BD1 1NQ
England
Tel 0870 70 10 200
Tickets Pd 35/
25 concessions
for both films.
Website: nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

IRELAND

Sat., May 31, '08, 4:00pm &
Sun., Jun 1, 08, 4:00pm
Smithwick's CAT LAUGHS
COMEDY FESTIVAL presents
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
Watergate Theatre
Parliament Street
Kilkenny
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Tel. +353 56 7761674
Tickets: C 10
Website: thecatlaughs.com/steamboat/
Email at info@watergatekilkenny.com
Live piano accompaniment by
Neil Brand!

UNITED STATES

ARKANSAS

Sun., Jun 1, '08, 2:00pm
Ozark Arts Council's
LYRIC CINE FILM SERIES
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Lyric Theatre
113 E. Rush Street
Harrison, AR 72601
Tel. (870) 391-3504
Tickets: (check w/ box office)
Website: thelyricharrison.org

CALIFORNIA

MAY SILENTS AT THE NILES:
Sat., May 3, '08, 7:30pm - The Knockout (1914)
with Buster's mentor, Roscoe Arbuckle,
and Charlie Chaplin.
Piano accompaniment by Molly Axtmann
and violin by Stephen Spies;
Sat., May. 10, '08, 7:30pm - The General (1927)
piano accompaniment by Jon Mirsalis;
Sat., May 17, '08, 7:30pm - The Goat (1921)
+3 other comedy shorts,
w/ piano accompaniment by Judy Rosenberg;
Sat., May 31, 7:30pm - One Week (1921)
w/ accompaniment by Bruce Loeb;
+ a Koko the Clown short
and Orchids and Ermine (1927)
w/ Colleen Moore.
Niles Film Museum
37417 Niles Boulevard
Fremont, CA 94536
Tel. (510) 494-1411
Tickets $5
Website: nilesfilmmuseum.org
Thanks to Carl Allamanno!

COLORADO

Fri., May 16, '08, 7:30pm
Annual FOUR FUNNY FILMS
presents comedy films by
Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,
Charlie Chase, and Snub Pollard!
Louisville Center of the Arts
801 Grant Avenue
(at Spruce and Grant)
Louisville, CO 80027
[Editor can't find a website
or telephone number for this theatre.]
Live accompaniment by the
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Website: mont-alto.com

MARYLAND

Thurs., Jun 12, '08, 8:00pm
BLAIR THOMAS:
"CABARET OF DESIRE"
World Class Touring Puppet Theatre!
Gorgeous, hallucinatory show
in which Buster Keaton flickers
on the curtains of an imaginary
cabaret, framed by a functioning
hurdy-gurdy sculpture of tubas
and bicycle parts controlled by
the puppeteer with foot pedals.
Based on the play/poem,
"Buster Keaton's Stroll", by surrealist
poet Federico Garcia Lorca,
Blair Thompson's production is a
comedy of failures chronicling one
man's pursuit of love and affection
amid the alienation of a big city.
(Involves partial nudity.)
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
Tel. (410) 276-1651
Tickets: $15 / $8 mbrs
Websote: creativealliance.org

MASSACHUSETTS

Sun., Jun. 1, '08, 2:30pm
Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the
American Theatre Organ Society
(EMCATOS) presents
organist Christian Elliott at the
Shanklin Music Hall
130 Sandy Pont Road
Groton , MA
Tel (508) 674-0276
Tickets: $20
Chapter website: emcatos.com
Tickets: (contact EMCATOS)
Chris Elliott's website says that he's
playing to an (unnamed) silent film -
hopefully one of Buster's - but
here's your chance to hear
California-based organist Christian Elliott!
Website: christianelliott.com

MICHIGAN

Fri., Oct 3 - Sat., Oct. 4, 2008
2008 INTERNATIONAL
BUSTER KEATON SOCIETY CONVENTION
Convention program includes screening
of 2 Keaton films not seen by the public in over 50 and 80 years!!
Sat., Oct 4, 8pm - Public screening of The Navigator (1924)
at the Frauenthal Theatre
Muskegon, MI
See the Convention page on this website!

NEW YORK

Sat., May 3, '08, 3:00pm
SILENT MOVIE SERIES
Film #1: Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library
10 Morris Avenue
Cold Spring, NY 10516
Tel. (845) 265-3040
Call library for admission
and registration
(this form available)
Website: butterfieldlibrary.org
Live keyboard accompaniment
by Cary Brown!
Thanks to Bruce Calvert!

Sat., May 3, '08, 4:30pm
ESSENTIAL CINEMA presents
The General (1927)
and Neighbors (1920)
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
New York, New York
Tel. (212) 505-5181
Tickets $7 / $6 seniors & students /
free for members
Website: anthologyfilmarchives.org
(Psst - Lumiere Freres - May 31,
Melies - June 28!)

Sat., Jun 7, '08, 7:00pm
The Navigator (1924),
Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
w/ Roscoe Arbuckle,
and Chaplin's Shoulder Arms.
Capitol Theatre
Center for the Performing Arts
220 W. Dominck Street
Rome , NY43210
Tel. (313) 337-6453
Tickets:$8.50 / 7.50 seniors /
Capitol mbrs $6.50 / kids $1.50
Website: romecapitol.com
Live accompaniment
by Bernie Anderson!

VIRGINIA

Sat., July 19, '08, 2:00pm segment:
The Silent Partner (1955)
w/ Buster and Joe E. Brown; and
The Scribe (1966)
(Buster's last film); and
Sun., July 20, '08, 10:00am segment:
Tomalio (1933)
(hear Roscoe Arbuckle in his "talkie"!)
All part of the
SLAPSTICON FILM FESTIVAL
Thurs. July 17 thru Sun. July 20.
Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
1611 N. Kent Street, Lower level
(It's under an office building!)
Arlington , VA 22209
Tel. (703) 228-1841 / Maggie Gaffen
or Rob Farr, rfarr@arlingtonva.us
Website: slapsticon.org
Live accompaniment
by Ben Model and Phil Carli!
Ben's website: silentfilmmusic.com
Phil's website: philipcarli.com

WISCONSIN

Every Wednesday night at 6:00pm
CINEMATIC - FREE MOVIES!
Javavino
424 Main Street
Racine, WI 53403
Tel. (262) 633-0660
Email: info@myJavaVino.com
Free admission!
Website: myjavavino.com

Please check all show times before setting out as venues may be subject to change.