Posted on January 25, 2009, 1:46 AM, by Spencer Sundell, under
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There will be a Twitter channel you can subscribe to during the Secret Sunday Matinee starting in March. It’ll have clues about the upcoming features, maybe some secret prizes, and such like.
We’ll post details as it gets closer to the series, so stay tuned…
Update: subscribe to http://twitter.com/SecretMatinee
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It’s official — The Sprocket Society will be curating Secret Sunday Matinee II at the Northwest Film Forum this spring, March 1 – May 24, 2009!
Now at a later time — 3 PM (by popular demand). Each show will be a full two hours of classic and rare movie entertainment. Series passes will be available.
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Posted on January 2, 2009, 1:46 AM, by Spencer Sundell, under
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The outstanding Bioscope blog recently ran an extensive piece listing an amazing number of active silent film accompanists, with links to their respective web sites and capsule bios for each. It’s so good, I’m taking the liberty of reproducing it here, but without the images.
Additions and corrections are welcome in the original post’s comments.
Music, maestros, [...]
Over at SIFFblog, David Jeffers has posted a preview of this winter’s silent film series and screenings in Seattle and Olympia.
First up is this Monday, Jan. 5 with Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) at the aptly spectacular Paramount Theater, where Dennis James will be accompanying on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. It [...]