[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
The Alloy Orchestra, a Boston band that
Roger Ebert has called “the best in the world at accompanying
silent films” (and whose last performance in Cleveland, a 2010
Cinematheque showing of METROPOLIS at the Capitol Theatre,
sold out the house), will return to the Cleveland Institute of Art
Cinematheque on Thursday, October 4.
The ensemble’s three members will
lend their distinctive mix of clarinet, accordion, electronics, and
junk metal percussion to two movies that they have never before
performed in Cleveland, both Soviet silents shown in rare 35mm
prints.
Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s
1926 film version of Gogol’s THE OVERCOAT will show at 7:00
pm. And a movie recently voted the eighth best film of all time,
Dziga Vertov’s MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929), will follow
at 8:45 pm for a separate admission fee. THE OVERCOAT, the
Alloy’s newest score, will be performed at the New York Film
Festival at Lincoln Center two days before they bring it to
Cleveland. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA is frequently cited as
their best score.
