Charlie Chaplin’s Cinema Paradiso 1924 – film score LIVE!

Step back in time into the silent film era of retro Hollywood (1890 – 1930) when Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Greta Garbo walked amongst the A-list and cinemas employed pianists to improvise music as their films played. Directed by acclaimed Chinese artist and Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen and with an improvised live film score by award-winning concert pianist Matthew Shiel and a dramatic reading of the intertitles by acclaimed author Alastair Sim – to create an immersive cinematic experience that will celebrate the raw, emotional power of silent film and act as a passionate manifesto for why silent film is still relevant to us today.

Film Showings

A Trip to the Moon (1902) – first science fiction film ever made

The Gold Rush (1925) – Charlie Chaplin’s highest grossing film

Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924) – Soviet science fiction film

Metropolis (1927) – German expressionist Fritz Lang’s dystopian blockbuster

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) – horror film inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Soviet Propaganda film, critics’ choice

Un Chien andalou (1929) – Surrealist horror film by Salvador Dalí

Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (1925) – Highest grossing silent film of the 20th Century

The Call of Cthulu (2005) – modern adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft

The Artist (2011) – the highest grossing silent film of the 21st Century and a reminder that great silent films are still yet to be made