Silent movies with live musical accompaniment by our in-house light orchestra Gladstone's bag! Tickets are £5 and are available on the door or from Tickets Scotland here. Our films are: One a.m. (1916) - a hilarious drunken affair - starring Charlie Chaplin I Do (1921) - Comic adventures of newly-weds and children - starring Harold […]
London Symphony is a brand new silent film – a city symphony – which offers a poetic journey through the city of London. It is an artistic snapshot of the city as it stands today, and a celebration of its culture and diversity. Filmed in over 300 different locations to the tune of a newly […]
LONDON SYMPHONY A Poetic Journey Through the Life of a City LONDON SYMPHONY is a brand new silent film - a city symphony - which offers a poetic journey through the city of London. It is an artistic snapshot of the city as it stands today, and a celebration of its culture and diversity. The […]
Filmspot are delighted to present a special screening of Anthony Asquith's gripping thriller, 'A Cottage on Dartmoor', with live score composed and performed by Brighton-based pianist par-excellence, Joss Peach. A simple tale, but beautifully told, ‘A Cottage on Dartmoor’ tells of assistant barber Joe, who is in love with Sally, a manicurist. His jealous reaction […]
South West Silents returns on Saturday 1st September 2018 with a very special day celebrating everything silent film (with music of course). In fact, this is a first for us as we’ve decided to take over the epicentre for everything film related in Bristol… the cultural hub that is 20th Century Flicks! Over the course […]
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a saviour to mediate their differences. With live sound effects and musical accompaniment from Gladstone's Bag. Doors open 6.30pm, show starts 7pm
And so it returns! South West Silents are proud to announce, in collaboration with the Bristol-based brewery Dawkins Ales, the very tasty return of the wonder that is the Friese-Greene beer! Both companies have joined forces to bring back this very special beer back to Bristol area for the autumn season. The beer is in […]
Saturday running order includes Where the North Begins (USA 1923); When the Dead Are Living Again (1919); The Garden of Resurrection (UK 1919); a Pearl White "Queen Of The Serials" feature tbc; Her Night of Romance (USA 1924); Sparrows (USA 1926). All films will have live musical accompaniment. This event is in co-operation with film historian Kevin Brownlow.
Day 2 of 2: running order includes Miss Lulu Betts (USA 1921); The Silent Enemy (Canada 1930); Balaclava (UK 1928); Shorts programme; Turksib (Russia 1929); Golden Butterfly (Austrian-German 1926). All films will have live musical accompaniment. We screen from 16mm and 35mm film where possible. Both all day and per-film admission are available. This event is in co-operation with The British […]
A masterpiece of the German silent era, Diary of a Lost Girl was the second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst a mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora’s Box (1929). Brooks plays Thymian Henning, a beautiful young woman raped by an unscrupulous character employed at her […]
With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a […]
SOUTH WEST SILENT'S PRESENTS... PANDORA'S BOX (1929) G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent masterpiece Pandora's Box stars Louise Brooks in the role that secured her place as one of the immortal goddesses of the silver screen. This controversial, and in its day heavily censored, film is regularly ranked in the Top 100 films of all time (including […]
“Even now I feel again the emotion it aroused in all of us. When we left the theatre, we started erecting barricades ourselves. The police had to intervene before we would stop.” Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh, 1982 Declared the greatest film of all time at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair and one of only […]
April 23rd 1918 saw one of the most daring and heroic raids of the First World War with the British Royal Navy attempting to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge, a key U-boat and light shipping base for the Imperial German Navy. Based on the raid, Woolfe and Bramble’s much forgotten gem is a film […]
Rarely seen since its original release, Maurice Elvey’s masterpiece on the life and career of Admiral Nelson was a major passion project for Britain’s most prolific film director. Written by Alfred Hitchcock’s scriptwriter Eliot Stannard and made with the support of the Admiralty at a time when the Navy needed to recruit. The film transforms […]
One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using […]
Neoclassical post-rockers WE STOOD LIKE KINGS perform a new score for the film Koyaanisqatsi (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio, who said of his film: “Koyaanisqatsi attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the […]
Neoclassical post-rockers We Stood Like Kings saw the light of day in 2011. More than half a decade and 250 shows all over Europe later, this 4-piece piano-based band hailing from Brussels has become a reference act in live soundtracks to silent cinema. You get the picture: We Stood Like Kings isn’t a band like […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s triumphant return to murder and mayhem is both his final silent film and his first talkie. Anny Ondra plays a nice kid who stabs a guy to death in his bed. These things happen. Originally conceived as a silent film, Hitchcock made it a talkie with reshoots and a new voice for his […]
Media OS 5.1 by Partial Facsimile - interactive film screening synchronised to a live band performing in surround sound. This special Scalarama tour of shows invite you onboard an hour-long journey through the eyes of a commuter on the London tube and discusses the impacts of infobesity; the over-stimulation of digital information. The cinematic themes […]
Media OS 5.1 by Partial Facsimile - interactive film screening synchronised to a live band performing in surround sound. This special Scalarama tour of shows invite you onboard an hour-long journey through the eyes of a commuter on the London tube and discusses the impacts of infobesity; the over-stimulation of digital information. The cinematic themes […]
The UK Premier of “El tren fantasma” (Ghost Train). Mexican Silent Film with Live Music performed by the pianist José María Serralde. About this Event “ caused an outstanding impression at the Festival with his exciting musical treatment...” Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 Catalogue “Bringing this film with Ensamble Cine Mudo, is for me a […]