Silents Scored Live

Silents Scored Live MONTHLY SILENT FILMS WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM VIOLET CROWN'S FIRST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MATT MARSHALL Experience cinema the way it was 100 years ago... For the first 30 years of movies audiences went to the theater and watched silent images on the screen with live music. You can think of it like watching a music video, but the musicians perform live. UVA Film Lecturer and silent film accompanist Matt Marshall (and sometimes with his Reel Music Trio) brings this tradition back with modern flair, and will perform live accompaniment to classic silent films each month, giving audiences the experience of what it was like going to the movies when they were a burgeoning art form. Matt Marshall has been writing and performing music for classic silent film screenings since 2001, and has recorded soundtracks for video releases of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and pioneer French filmmaker George Méliès’ Conquest of the Pole. Marshall performs and lectures at the Center at Belvedere, a non-profit community center in Charlottesville, VA and for the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES May 25 HAROLD LLOYD's "Safety Last" Starring Harold Lloyd, it includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. The film was highly successful and critically hailed, and it cemented Lloyd's status as a major figure in early motion pictures. It is still popular at revivals, and it is viewed today as one of the great film comedies of all time. June 15 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS's "The Mark of Zorro" This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks (as "Elton Thomas") and Eugene Miller.PT2HNR2025-05-04Silents Scored Live"Silents Scored Live"

Showtimes

May 25, 2:00 pm

June 15, 2:00 pm