Upcoming & Recent Screenings
Sunday, December 15, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
Asphalt (Germany 1929)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment to film
Sunday, August 18, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
Carmen (USA 1915)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Piano accompanist for excerpts from the opera Carmen
Soloist: Cassandra Warner (mezzo-soprano)
Improvised piano accompaniment to film
Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Nana (France 1926)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
When The Clouds Roll By (USA 1919)
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Royal Cinema
608 College St., Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, December 1, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
Wings (USA 1927)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Phantom of the Opera (USA 1925)
Presented by the Toronto Theatre Organ Society
Roncesvalles United Church
240 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Improvised organ accompaniment
Sunday, October 21, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
The Lodger (UK 1927)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Improvised piano accompaniment
Friday, April 20, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Our Hospitality (USA 1923)
Trinity United Church
Newmarket, ON
Improvised organ accompaniment
Sunday, April 8, 2018 4:30 p.m.
Page of Madness (Japan 1926)
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, March 31, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
Broken Blossoms (USA 1919)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, February 3, 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Why Worry (USA 1923)
Never Weaken (USA 1921)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Collection of short silent films preceding The Circus (USA 1928)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Monday, November 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
Sunrise (USA 1927)
Presented by the Toronto Theatre Organ Society
Kimbourne Park United Church
Toronto, ON
Improvised organ accompaniment
Friday, October 27, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (USA 1923)
St. George’s Anglican Church,
Guelph, ON
Improvised organ accompaniment
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 11:00 a.m.
Confidence (USA 1909)
Manhattan Madness (USA 1916)
Vintage Film Festival
Capitol Theatre
Port Hope, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Sunday, October 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
The Girl with the Hatbox (USSR 1927)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Sunday, October 1, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Earth (USSR 1930)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, August 12, 2017, 12:45 p.m.
Peter Pan (USA 1924)
The Kingdom of the Fairies (France 1903)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Sunday, July 23, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
La Boheme (USA 1926)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON
Piano accompanist for excerpts from the opera La Boheme
Soloists: Jeffery Carl (baritone), Cassandra Warner (mezzo-soprano)
Improvised piano accompaniment to film
Sunday, July 23, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
Beggars of Life (USA 1928)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
L’inhumaine (France 1924)
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Innes Town Hall, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Ave.
Improvised piano accompaniment
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Sherlock Holmes (USA 1916)
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Royal Cinema
608 College St., Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Monday, March 20, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
“Fantasia of Colour” Silent Shorts Program
Curated by Giovanna Fossati
International film archivist with the EYE Institute in the Netherlands
Les Tulipes (The Tulips)
Directed by Segundo de Chomón, France, 1907 – 5 min
L’Album merveilleux (The Wonderful Book)
Directed by Gaston Velle, France, 1905 – 2 min
Coiffes Hollandaises (Dutch Types)
Director unknown, France, 1915 – 4 min
De Molens die juichen en weenen (Mills and Joy in Sorrow)
Directed by Alfred Machin, The Netherlands, 1912 – 7 min
Danses Algériennes I: Danse des Ouled-Naïl (Algerian Dances)
Director unknown, France, 1902 – 2 min
Les Parisiennes (The Parisians)
Director unknown, USA, 1897 – 1 min
Les Six soeurs Dainef (The Six Sisters Dainef)
Director unknown, France, 1902 – 3 min
Buona sera fiori! (Good Evening Flowers!)
Directed by Giovanni Vitrotti, Italy, 1909 – 1 min
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, ON
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, March 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Safety Last (USA, 1923)
Simcoe Street United Church,
66 Simcoe St., Oshawa, ON
Improvised organ accompaniment
Saturday, February 11, 2017, 1:00 p.m.
The Phantom Carriage (Sweden, 1921)
Bell Lightbox, Toronto International Film Festival – Toronto
Improvised piano accompaniment
How was alcohol consumption depicted during the earliest days of movie-going? The arrival of cinema to the mass audiences of the mid-1890s coincided with a renewed wave of temperance movements calling for the prohibition of liquor sales in North America and much of Europe. Whether the public outcry over absinthe’s alleged effects on the mind (Wonderful Absinthe, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1899), the exploits of “saloon wreckers” like Carrie Nation (Kansas Saloon Smashers, Edwin S. Porter, 1901) or drink’s repercussions on the family (The Drunkard’s Child, Lubin, 1909), early film-makers took note. – Eric Veillette, Programming Director, Revue Cinema
Programme
1. Wonderful Absinthe – A.G. Blaché – 1899 – 0:50
2. Kansas Saloon Smashers – 1901 – Edison/Porter – 1:00
3. Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce – 1901 – Edison/Porter – 1:41
4. Alcohol and its Victims – 1902 – 5:26
5. What Drink Did – Griffith – 1909 – 12:05
6. A Drunkard’s Reformation – 1909 – Griffith – 13:00
7. The Drunkard’s Child – Lubin – 1909 – 6:44
8. Absinthe – Gem Motion Picture Company – 1913 – 11:48
9. The Cure – Chaplin – 1917 – 31:00
Improvised piano accompaniment
Saturday, November 12, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Speedy (1928)
Sunday, October 30, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
starring Conrad Veidt
Directed by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
Friday, October 28, 2016, 8:00 p.m.
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
starring Lon Chaney
St. George’s Anglican Church
99 Woolwich St.
Guelph, ON
August 20, 2016, 11:00 a.m.
Safety Last (1923)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Toronto
April 21, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Variety (1925)
Bell Lightbox – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Toronto
April 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Romance of Far Fur Country (1920)
A documentary made for the 250th anniversary of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Innes Town Hall
University of Toronto
March 20, 2016, 4:15 p.m.
(1) Menilmontant
Directed by Kirsanoff (1926)
(2) So This is Paris
Directed by Lubitsch (1926)
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto
Sunday, November 15, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Fox Theatre
2236 Queen St. East
Toronto, ON
Presented by the Fox Theatre
Friday, October 30, 2015, 9:00 p.m.
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Knox United Church
506, 4th Street S.W.
Calgary, AB
Presented by the Calgary Organ Festival
Saturday, October 24, 2015, 2:00 p.m.
The Cameraman (1928)
Capitol Theatre
20 Queen St.
Port Hope, ON
Presented by the 23rd annual Vintage Film Festival
Sunday, May 17, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
Twenty-Six Commissars (USSR 1932)
Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaia
Film Series: Discovering Georgian Cinema
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Bell Lightbox
350 King St. West,
Toronto, ON
Sunday, May 16, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
Salt for Svanetia (USSR 1930)
A Nail in the Boot (USSR 1932)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
Film Series: Discovering Georgian Cinema
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Bell Lightbox
350 King St. West,
Toronto, ON
Sunday, May 10, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Eliso (USSR 1928)
Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaia
Film Series: Discovering Georgian Cinema
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Bell Lightbox
350 King St. West,
Toronto, ON
Sunday, April 26, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Seven Chances (USA 1925)
Directed by & starring Buster Keaton
Apollo Cinema
141 Ontario St. North
Kitchener, ON
Saturday, April 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
The Navigator (USA 1924)
Directed by & starring Buster Keaton
St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church
19 Don Ridge Drive,
Toronto, ON
Thursday, April 9, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Diary of a Lost Girl (Germany 1929)
Directed by G.W. Pabst
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Innes Town Hall
University of Toronto
2 Sussex Ave.
Toronto, ON