Charlie Chaplin: The best moments 1 [His Musical Career 1914 – Easy Street 1917 – The Immigrant 1917]
Screenplay: Vincent Bryan, Charles Chaplin, Maverick Terrell
Production: Charles Chaplin, Henry Caulfield, John Jasper
Original score: Michael Mortilla
Editing: Charles Chaplin
Cinematography: Roland Totheroh
Synopsis: Charlie is an immigrant on a ship headed for America. Charlie gives his gambling money to a woman and her daughter after their money is stolen. Once in America, Charlie is penniless. He finds a coin, which returns to the ground through a hole in his pocket. Still believing he has some money he goes to get something to eat and runs into the girl from the ship, and learns that her mother has died. Charlie finds that he has no money to pay for his meal, and fears for his life. Luckily, he and the girl are saved by using a nearby table’s tip to pay for their meal.
Runtime in total: 59 Subtitles – Slides in Greek
Music composed by Apostolos Ntarlas
Piano: Apostolos Ntarlas, Dimitra Matzouratou
Yet again, the great directors of silent film get to have their… say.
Their films though without voice, speak through art which, like a
revolution, was born in the 20th century. These amazing creators were
enchanted by the arrival of innovation in their times
pioneers of
cinema and film who experimented with the boundaries of its technical
nature
initiators in its evolution from practice to art. Enlightened
minds to whom we were introduced via darkened cinemas
the people who
gave todays cinema its artistic essence.
For the 5th consecutive year, from Monday 7th to Wednesday 16th July, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation is organizing the Silent Film Festival accompanied by live music with free entry and presenting the second part of the tribute to the great directors of silent film. As every year, the 5th Silent Film Festival has been organized in cooperation with the STUDIO-Parallilo Kykloma and its president, Christos Papadimitriou, as well as with the Film Scoring workshop under the artistic direction for musical accompaniment of Alexandros Mouzas, coordinating professor.
For yet another year, the Silent Film Festival provides the common ground
for the history of the seventh art to be brought into the present. In
the cinema hall of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, once again, Michael Cacoyannis
love for the origins of the art he served with such passion and the
artistic value of these silent masterpieces are met by hundreds of
cinephile.
Nine evenings in July and 12 great directors, amongst them; Charlie Chaplin, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Alexander Dovzhenko and Rex Ingram,
provide an occasion for the audiences of the Festival maybe for the
first time, maybe not sometimes with nostalgia and sometimes with
pleasant surprise, to view 21 films which, as forerunners, made motion picture the most widespread art form of today.
At the same time a new approach will be applied to the works of these great artists via on-stage, live musical accompaniment by composers and musicians of the new generation who find yet another area for expression and an opportunity to showcase their own work. The unique style of expression of each composer, articulated in direct reference to the cinematic language of each director, reinforce the silent messages brought by these “silent” film texts. And it is somewhat like this that these silent films of yesterday acquire yet one more reason to have their say today.
Opening film each evening, before each screening or group of screenings:
The Search for Inspiration Gone by Ashley Michael Briggs
Genre: Experimental Animation – Fiction/ Fantasy Silent
Runtime: 8 minutes
Cast: Charlie Macgechan, Poet – Yuliya Fytsaylo, Goddess – Michael Grinter, God
Directed, Written, Produced, Photographed & Edited by Ashley Michael Briggs
Produced by A.Briggs & Dee Meaden
Original Idea by Rob Makin
Original Score by Tom Hickox
Synopsis:
A poet awakens within a strange garden in need of his notebook, pencil
& inspiration. A divine couple, breakfasting, observes. A debate
unfolds; would inspiration arise from help or hinder? Will the poet find
his inspiration?
The Filmmaker (Directors Biography):
Ash is mostly concerned with creating bespoke moving image techniques to
effectively serve a particular given narrative wholly and without
compromise. Hes extremely excited that his directing debut is having
continued top tier international festival success.
