A Great Weekend for Films in Detroit!!
Saturday, September 25th, 2010© A.J. Malouin 2010
The Alloy Orchestra visits the Detroit Film Theatre this weekend. They’ll be playing music they have scored for four silent films:
1. “Chelovek s kino-apparatom” [“Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera”] (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
2. “The Complete Metropolis” (Fritz Lang, 1927)
3. “Masters of Slapstick” A 60-minute family-friendly program of short films featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
4. “Blackmail” (Hitchcock, 1929)
All of this filmic material is stunning. What The Alloy Orchestra does in bringing the film to life is Amazing!!!
As Yours Truly sits here writering this, it is already tooooo late to see the first selection in this grouping. If you Act Now, however, you can still have one of the best filmic experiences to be had in the USA: stunning silent films, enhanced by the scores of The Alloy Orchestra, seen in one of the best architectural theatres in the country.
Yours Truly talked to the percussionist of The Alloy Orchestra at length, after their performance on Friday evening. (more…)