Silent Film Archives - RADIANT CIRCUS

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS accompanied by The Meg Morley Trio

SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS, preceded by Buster Keaton’s THE GOAT with live jazz accompaniment by The Meg Morley Trio.

THE ANCIENT LAW aka DAS ALTE GESETZ

This will be the UK premiere of the restoration, and will be shown on 2K DCP with live musical accompaniment from Meg Morely.

LILI DAMITA star of THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS

FEATURES, INTERVIEWS

SPECIAL FEATURES #2 – PART 2: Michelle Facey talks women in silent cinema

In our continuing series of interviews with London’s independent curators, Michelle Facey of Kennington Bioscope talks about film legend Kevin Brownlow, her programming passions and her research into the many amazing women of silent cinema.

THE ADJUTANT OF THE CZAR + INTRO

The lighter-than-air romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train is tested when revolutionary zeal meets implacable loyalty in the heightened atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.

RADIANT CIRCUS SCREEN GUIDE - NOW BOOKING: THE CANADIAN screens at The Cinema Museum (11 APR).

THE CANADIAN + INTRO

Kennington Bioscope presents: THE CANADIAN, adapted by Arthur Stringer from W. Somerset Maugham’s 1913 Broadway play The Land of Promise, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by William Beaudine and starring Thomas Meighan and Mona Palmer.

THE LIVE GHOST TENT

A tribute to James Finlayson. The films on show are: WITH LOVE & HISSES (1927); MEN O’WAR (1929); THE HOOSE-GOW (1929); NIGHT OWLS (1930); and, BONNIE SCOTLAND (1935).

PICCADILLY WITH LIVE BURLESQUE AND MUSIC

One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, PICCADILLY is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension. Enjoy live music and burlesque before the film from local talent Pete Sauders and Marianne Cheesecake.

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior.

EARTH – RESCORED LIVE BY GROK

Genesis’ resident house band rescores Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s impressionistic silent Russian film. EARTH follows the trials of farmers on a collective who come into conflict with more affluent landowners.

LITTLE OLD NEW YORK + LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT

A young Irish girl (controversial silent film star Marion Davies) arrives in early 19th century New York disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left for her late brother. Directed by the incredibly prolific Sidney Olcott – Toronto-born of Irish descent – this historical drama is based on a play by Rida Johnson Young.