Coming in 2012 to the Oakland Paramount theater, Abel Gance’s legendary NAPOLEON. These performances mark U.S. premiere of the complete restoration by Academy Award winner Kevin Brownlow and are the only performances planned *anywhere*. The five and half hour epic epic will be accompanied by maestro Carl Davis premiering and his orchestral score and conducting the forty-six piece Oakland East Bay Symphony.
These performances are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Two custom built full-size screens will flank the Paramount’s screen and will extend outside and beyond the theatre’s massive proscenium arch. Temporary projection booths will be installed with synchronized 35mm projectors for the incredible triple-screen finale .
For performances only: March 24 25, 31, April 1.
Tickets on sale now at www.silentfilm.org
Mine are:
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) – Carl Dreyer
2. Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Sergei Eisenstein
3. Greed (1925) – Erich von Stroheim
4. Napoleon (1927) – Abel Gance
5. The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov
6. Sunrise (1922) – F.W. Murnau
7. Nosferatu (1922) – F.W. Murnau
8. The General (1927) – Buster Keaton
9. The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin
10. Metropolis (1926) – Fritz Lang
You all do know NAPOLEON isn’t the only orchestra plus organ with silent film show in upcoming weeks. For instance, I’m performing at the organ together with with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks silent film adventure THE MARK OF ZORRO on April 19 & 20 in Indianapolis at the local art museum, and then over to the grand Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ in Buffalo for accompanying Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA playing the 1925 original score by G. Hinrichs and M. Winkler at Shea’s Buffalo movie palace together with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on Sunday, April 22. The grand movie palace experience with silent films and live music is back . . . thank you, THE ARTIST, for winning the Oscar and reviving our specialist interest for the general public! Dennis James, SILENT FILM CONCERTS