March 12 – Biograph Dramas [silent film accompaniment]
When: Thursday, March 12th, 2020 at 6:30PM
What: Biograph Dramas
Entries by Commy
March 7 – Edison Comedies, Part 2 [silent film accompaniment]
When: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 at 6:30PM
What: Edison Comedies, Part 2
March 7 – Edison Comedies, Part 1 [silent film accompaniment]
When: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 at 4:30PM
What: Edison Comedies, Part 1
March 6 – Biograph Comedies [silent film accompaniment]
When: Friday, March 6th, 2020 at 6:30PM
What: Biograph Comedies
March 6 – Mack Sennet at Biograph [silent film accompaniment]
When: Friday, March 6th, 2020 at 4:30PM
What: Mack Sennet at Biograph
April 21 – SADIE THOMPSON [silent film accompaniment]
When: Sunday, April 21st @ 1:15PM
What: SADIE THOMPSON
http://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100002406
Directed by Raoul Walsh, 1928, 97 min., USA. With Gloria Swanson.
April 16 – PATHS TO PARADISE [silent film accompaniment]
When: Tuesday, April 16th @ 7PM
What: Paths to Paradise
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/5328
Directed by Clarence G. Badger, 1925, 65 min., USA.
*This film accompanies Lincoln Kirstein and Film Culture.
Cinefest 34 Recap
Back in March, I was invited back to Cinefest 34 as one of their official accompanists. Cinefest is an annual film festival in Syracuse, NY, whose focus is on old films – silents and early talkies (you can read how it all started here). I played there from 2008 to 2010, and it was wonderful to be back – the festival staff and regular attendees remembered me and I received such nice, warm welcome-back greetings everywhere, even before I accompanied the first film.
Three years later
Three years have passed since the East Japan Earthquake.
I am still lost for words when I try to talk about my feelings for what happened, and what’s been still happening in my motherland. I never dreamed of where we’d stand today, three years later, both personally and as a country.