Silent movies with live music -- through Sept. 17

Arts & Sciences Culture & History
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The National Palace Museum, in yet another display that this is not CKS’s Gugong any more, is putting on a series of silent films with musicians and DJs providing live soundtracks. :slight_smile:

Check the schedule for films and showtimes.

One Chinese film is among the list, 神女 (The Goddess).

Oh, and there are some German films, too, including Triumph of the Will. So maybe this is still CKS’s Gugong after all. :s

The films run from today through Sunday, September 17.

[ul][li]City Lights[/li]
[li]The General[/li]
[li]Metropolis[/li]
[li]Nosferatu[/li]
[li]The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [/li]
[li]The Goddess[/li]
[li]The Jazz Singer [/li]
[li]The Phantom of the Opera[/li]
[li]Triumph of the Will[/li]
[li]Where the Movies Begin[/li][/ul]

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That would be Al Jonson’s Jazz Singer, right? Not Neil Diamond, surely. :astonished: :astonished: :astonished:

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The Pet Shop Boys (I like the quiet one) did that once with the Battleship Potemkin in Trafalgar Square.

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Cool. Among other jobs, my grandfather was employed long ago playing the piano in theaters during silent movies.

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Ah, if only the latter had been silent I would be saved those flashbacks of Laurence Olivier doing a worse job of acting than Neil Diamond, of all people.

“I haf no son!” :runaway:

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Erm… isn’t the Jazz Singer famous for being the first film with a soundtrack and not being silent ?

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It’s kind of a hybrid. Although it has some dialog, most of the film has title cards. And there’s not music throughout.

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Can’t read the chinese. Do we buy tickets there? I want to see the Cabinet of Dr Caligari on Tuesday. And maybe the TOT Will.

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Admission is free, but seating is limited. (How limited it doesn’t say.) People need to stand in line for admission.

No entrance more than 20 minutes after showtime.

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I went to see The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Saturday. The live accompaniment sounded, at least for the first 10 minutes or so, very much like amp hum. I thought they were just having trouble with their equipment; but, no, it was apparently supposed to sound that way. Although the accompaniment became more varied later, I still couldn’t find anything interesting – much less compelling – about it. But by that point, I would have settled for anything that didn’t make me want to find a pair of earplugs. Maybe I’m just getting old.

I hope the other DJs and musicians did a better job with the other pictures.