SLAPSTICK LIVE
26. APRIL - 05. Mai
10 DAYS
More than 50 FILMS
SPECIAL FREE ADMISSION FOR CHILDREN (till 14 years old) for the LAST 3 DAYS (Except City Lights and the Gold Rush with Orchestra)
SPECIAL EINTRITT FREI FÜR KINDER (Bis 14 Jahre) (Ausser City Lights and the Gold Rush with Orchestra) für letzten 3 TAGEN.
10 MUSICIANS
1 BABYLON ORCHESTER BERLIN
95 Jahre BABYLON
135 Jahre Charlie Chaplin
On 11 April 1929, the BABYLON opened its doors as a silent film cinema.
We celebrate our 95th Birthday and Charlie Chaplin 135th with a great festival with the best comedies of the silent film era!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE! 135! and BABYLON 95!
Neil Brand, demon pianist and Slapstick connoisseur introduces the greatest silent comedies, from the superstars Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and Ernst Lubitsch, to the lesser-known but equally great practitioners like Charley Chase, Raymond Griffith, Mabel Normand, Charlie Bowers, Max Linder and Monty Banks.
Spanning a decade and a half of silent laughter, with features, shorts and thrills combined with hilarity, this is the pick of the greatest silent comedies ever made, accompanied by some of the world's best accompanists including Babylon's own Anna Vavilkina, Meg Morley from London, Daan van den Hurk from Amsterdam and Neil himself.
ENTIRE PROGRAM TO DOWNLOAD: FLYER HERE
The classic features of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd like The General , Steamboat Bill Jnr , Speedy also gratis: Stummfilm um Mitternacht: Speedy, The Freshman and For Heaven`s sake , The Cameraman , One Week + Tillie`s Punctured Romance and more will be accompanied by our crack team of pianists and organists, while some of Chaplin and Lubitsch's great feature comedies will have full orchestral accompaniment.
Silent comedy with live music has to be experienced, it is pure joy seeing comedy greats of a century ago make us laugh so much we forget our troubles.
This is the perfect place to discover the golden moments of silent clowning, and even experts will find much they haven't seen before, with many new restorations and undiscovered masterpieces in the festival.
A tonic in these troubled times.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Fr, 26.4. 19:30 Modern Times LIVE mit Babylon Orchester Berlin
Sa, 27.4. 19:30 Buster Keaton's The General + The Finishing Touch live Neil Brand LnH - The Finishing Touch 105'
So, 28.4. 18:00 Chaplin's The Circus live mit Babylon Orchester Berlin
Sa, 04.05. 19:30 City Lights live mit Babylon Orchester Berlin
So, 05.05. 18:00 Chaplin's The Gold Rush with LIVE Orchestra
SOLO MUSICIANS!!
Piano:
Neil Brand
Daan van den Hurk
Leonid Nemirovsky
Ekkehard Wölk
Orgel und Piano:
Dominik Gerhard
Florian Reithner
Anna Vavilkina
Jonas Wilfert
Gitarre:
Alexey Wagner
Klarinette und andere Instrumenten:
Oscar Ferdinand Buschinger