A Rare Film Screens at the Detroit Film Theatre!
September 25th, 2011© A.J. Malouin 2011
(Rating: 5 by A.J. Malouin.) (See our side-bar page “How We Rate Movies”)
(1922/Germany. Directed by Karl Heinz Martin.)
Newly discovered, “Von morgens bis Mitternacht” [“From Morn to Midnight”] is a very rare German expressionist silent film. It is being shown in only three places in the United States: The Telluride Film Festival and the New York Film Festival, and, in between, at the Detroit Film Theatre. At the DFT, the film was accompanied by the world-famous Alloy Orchestra. This three-man “orchestra” is well-known for the silent-film scores it composes and plays on instrumentation which includes keyboard, clarinet, drums, accordion, and “wall of Junk,” metal odds and ends hung from a brass bar.
The film itself is incredibly avante-garde and radically stylized, elements which suit it well to the Alloy Orchestra’s style of music. Read the rest of this entry »