Anything But Silent: Classics from the Silent Age

 

 

Directed by Victor Sjöström

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

 

Tuesday, June 24 @ 7:30pm

 

$9 Members / $12 Public

Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or

by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.

 

Live Score Composed and Improvised by BEN MODEL

One of the most highly regarded films of the silent era, Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage rides again with a score composed and improvised live by Ben Model, on the Cinema's Mighty Miditzer Organ!. Based on Selma Lagerlöf’s rendition of a Swedish folktale, this moody, surrealistic spooker takes its title from Death’s favorite mode of transportation, which must be driven by the last sinner to die before year’s end. Sjöström both directs and stars in the film, fashioning a supernatural morality tale replete with atmospheric lighting and superimposition effects that were ahead of their time in 1921 and still chill today. He plays David Holm, a belligerent drunkard who must contend with past misdeeds of pettiness and alcoholism as he gathers the souls of the dead. Will he roam the roads forever as a ghostly driver or achieve salvation beyond Death’s spectre? This suspenseful, visually arresting classic was shot by masterful cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and will be screened in a gorgeous new 35mm print specially created for world cinema distributor Janus Films’s 50-year anniversary. —Sean Uyehara   Sweeden, 1921, 107 min.

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