Fri 25 May
Broken Blossoms
Cine-Concert
90 mins
USA | 1919 | dir. David Wark Griffith, with Richard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, André de Beranger | silent
French pianist Armel Dupas, a film composer and member of jazz bassist Henri Texier’s Sky Dancers Quintet, performs an exclusive ‘live’ imaginary soundtrack combining acoustic piano and electronica to D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, a haunting, fragile romance between a gentle, opium-addicted Chinese man and a Cockney waif, brutalised by her father.
Double bill: screening & live music + talk The History of European Jazz on Fri 25 May at 7pm: £15, conc. £13
The film will be screened on a rare 35mm print
Bookings
Fri 25 May