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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!
Thurs., May. 5, '05, 7:30pm,
One Week (1920) &
The General (1927)
at the 1924 Peery's Egyptian Theater
2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT 84401
Tel. (801) 395-3227, M-F,
12 - 6pm
& 90 min. before show.
Tickets: $5.00;
Movie & dinner for two at Bistro 285: $30;
Website:
http://www.peerysegyptiantheater.com/
Blaine Gale on the
newly restored "Mighty Wurlitzer."
Thanks to Beth Pederson!
Sat., May. 7, '05, 8:00pm,
The High Sign (1920) &
The Paleface (1922)
at the 1927 Redford Theatre
(owned by the Motor City Theatre Organ Society)
17360 Lahser, Detroit, Michigan 48219
Tel. (313) 537-2560
Tickets: $10.00
Website: http://www.redfordtheatre.com/
Steven Ball, Wurlitzer accompanist.
Thanks to MCTOS member Oren Walther!
Thurs., May. 12, '05, 7:30pm,
The Playhouse (1921)
at the Musikhuset Aarhus
Thomas Jensens Alle, DK-8000 Arhus C
Denmark
Ticket info - tel. +45 89 40 40 40.
Rick Benjamin, (Director,
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
website: http://www.paragonragtime.com/
guest-conducting the
Aarhus Symfoniorkester,
website: http://www.aarhussymfoni.dk/sw1076.asp
playing the original 1921
orchestral score to the film.
UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE's
BUSTER KEATON FESTIVAL
Friday, May 13 - June 5'05
James Bridges Theatre
University of California/Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel. (310)
206-8013.
Websites:
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
and
UCLA Calendar.
Michael Mortilla, accompanist.
Tickets per show: $8.00
KEATON'S SILENT FILMS
Fri., May 13, 7:30pm: Back Stage (1918),
One Week (1920), & Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928),
introduced by Jeffrey Vance, Buster Keaton Remembered
Sat, May 14, 7:30pm: Touring L.A.
through the Films of Buster Keaton,
by John Bengtson, author, Silent Echoes. Book signing in lobby;
Sun., May 15, 2:00pm:
"Kids' Flicks" presents The Goat (1921),
The Love Nest (1923), & College (1927);
Sat., May 21, 7:30pm: The Rough House (1917),
The Playhouse (1921), & Sherlock, Jr. (1924);
Sun., May 22, 2:00pm: The Butcher Boy (1917),
Neighbors (1921), The Scarecrow (1920),
The Electric House (1922), Hard Luck (1921),
& Day Dreams (1922);
Fri., May 27, 7:30pm: The Boat (1921),
The Navigator (1924), & Three Ages (1923);
Sun., May 29, 7:00pm: The Paleface (1922),
Go West (1925), & Our Hospitality (1923);
KEATON'S "MOSTLY TALKIES" - include:
Wedn., Jun. 1, '05, 7:30pm -The General (1927),
The Railrodder (1965), &
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965; documentary w/
Buster, Eleanor, & Gerald Potterton);
Fri., Jun 3, '05, 7:30pm -
The Ken Murray Show (excerpt, TV, 1952): re-enactment of
The Butcher Boy scene (1917, 8 min.),
The Cameraman (1928), &
The King of the Champs-Élysées (1934)
(Le roi des Champs-Élysées - French language only)
Sun., Jun 5, 7:00pm: Cops (1922), Seven Chances (1925),
& Battling Butler (1926).
Fri., May 13, '05, 8:15pm,
Sat.,May 14, '05, 2:30pm & 8:15pm,
Sun., May 15, '05, 2:30pm
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
at the
Old Town Music Hall
140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA 90245
Tel. (310) 322-2592
Tickets: $7
Website: http://www.otmh.org/
Bill Field, theatre organ accompanist.
CHEMEKETA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FILM STUDIES PROGRAM's
BUSTER
KEATON FESTIVAL
Wedn ., May 18, '05, 7:00pm
- Our Hospitality (1923);
Wedn ., Jun 8, 7:00pm - The Balloonatic
(1923)
& Seven Chances (1925);
Wedn., Jun 22, 7:00pm - The
Playhouse (1921) & College (1927)
Wedn., Jul 6, 7:00pm -
The General (1927)
Wedn., Jul 20, 7:00pm - Battling
Butler (1926)
at the newly restored 1926
Historic Elsinore Theatre
170 High St., SE, Salem, OR 97301
Tel. (503) 375-3574
Box ofc open at 6:00pm
Tickets: $5
Website: http://www.elsinoretheatre.com/
Rick Parks, theatre organ accompanist.
Tues., May 24, 2005
DVD RELEASE OF THE RESTORED "LOST
FILMS"
of ROSCOE "FATTY" ARBUCKLE
32 silent & sound films restored by
Paul Gierucki, Bruce Lawton,
Steve Massa, Richard Roberts, & guest
musicians.
Also contributing: Andy Coryell, David
Pearson,
Patricia Eliot Tobias, Brent Walker &
Robert Young, Jr.
Includes "The Arbuckle Shuffle"
(2005), a new music video
by Robert Arkus.
Paul's website: http://www.laughsmith.com/
DVDs released thru http://www.mackinacmedia.com/
Fri., May. 27, '05, 8:00pm,
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
at the Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM
Tickets: $8.00
& $15.00
Tel. (505) 988-1234
Website: http://www.lensic.com/
The ensemble of BING,
accompanists.
Sun., May 29, '05, 3:00pm,
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
at the 1926 Tampa Theatre
711 Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602
Tel. (813) 274-8286
Tickets: $10.00 & $8.00
Website: http://www.tampatheatre.org/
Rosa Rio, Wurlitzer accompanist
Thanks to Tampa's
Tara Schroeder.
SUMMER BRIEFS (More
info coming!)
Sat., June 18, '05
The Navigator (1924)
at Films on the Hill
Washington, DC
Website: http://www.filmsonthehill.com/
Robert Israel, accompanist
Sun., June 19, '05
Our Hospitality (1923)
sponsored by Orange County TOS
at the Plummer Auditorium
Fullerton, CA
Chris Elliott, accompanist
Website:
http://www.christianelliott.com/
Sat., July 16, '05
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
at the 1927 Heights Theatre
Columbia Heights, MN
Website: http://www.heightstheater.com/
David Knudson, accompanist
Thurs - Sun., July 21 - 24, '05
CHARLIE CHAPLIN CONFERENCE
sponsored by the
London College of Communication,
the University of Southampton
and the British Film Institute (BFI)
London, England
W ebsite:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/chaplin/conference/
includes a lecture comparing
Keaton's & Chaplin's movement
by U.S. physical comedian Dan Kamin
(website: http://www.dankamin.com/)
Thurs - Sun., Jul7 28 -31, '05,
reserve your hotel room for the
2005 SLAPSTICON,
which will include several Keaton films:
Thurs., Jul. 28, 1:00pm, The Taming of
the Snood (1940),
Fri., Jul. 29, 9:00am, Mooching Through
Georgia (1939)
and Fri., Jul. 29, 4:30pm,
Le Roi de Champs-Elysees (1934)
(with new English subtitles,)
at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre , Arlington,
VA.
For hotel info see website:
http://www.slapsticon.org/travel.html
Ben Model and Phil Carli, accompanists
BUSTER KEATON FESTIVAL
Mondays, Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, '05
at the Paramount
Theatre
Seattle, WA
Website: http://www.theparamount.com/
Dennis James, accompanist.
Fri., Aug. 5, '05
Our Hospitality (1923)
sponsored by the Creative Alliance
website: http://creativealliance.org/
at the Evergreen House
website: http://www.jhu.edu/~evrgreen/evergreen.html
Baltimore, MD
Anne Watts & Boister, accompanists.