BLACKMAIL with live musical accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra March 27, 2011

BLACKMAIL (Silent Version)
Live Musical Accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra!

Originally made and released in 1929 as a silent film, BLACKMAIL was partly reshot and released that same year as the first BritIsh talkie. The enormous success of the sound version and the passing of the silent film era relegated the silent version to undeserved obscurity, and it was only recently rediscovered and restored. Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. Performing at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the US and abroad (the Telluride Film Festival, Louvre, Lincoln Center, Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences, National Gallery of Art and others), Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era.

Sun, Mar 27, 3:00

Tickets $20, $17 AFI Members & Students