Jeff Rapsis / Silent Film Music
This month: I play at Harvard, make my Pittsburgh debut, and do music for a film made in Maine
Tonight! A mid-summer 'Phantom,' plus rounding up recent screenings, notes from Lake Wobegon
This Saturday in Maine: music for silent films starring canines; this Sunday in Massachusetts: 'Padlocked' (1926) at Somerville Theatre
Why you should see Emil Jannings in 'The Last Command' (1928) on Sunday, 8/3 in Natick, Mass.
Hitchcock's 'The Ring' (1927) today at 2 p.m.: thoughts on silent film, boxing, and ballet
Tonight at 7 p.m. in Plymouth, N.H.: Milton Sills seeks ocean-going vengeance in 'The Sea Hawk'
Up next! Scoring original dinosaur flick 'The Lost World' on Wednesday, 7/16 at Leavitt Theatre
Up next: 'Don Q' at Coolidge on June 17, 'Unholy Three' at Leavitt on June 18
Up next: Harold Lloyd heads east in 'Speedy,' then reversing direction with Keaton's 'Go West'
Up next: Douglas Fairbanks in 'Zorro' on Tuesday, May 13 then 'The Gaucho' on Sunday, May 18
Back from California, next to Brandon, Vt. to open the 2025 season with 'The Strong Man'
To California to accompany 'Algol' (1920), then a new summer season of silent film in Brandon, Vt.
'Show People' (1928) on Wednesday, April 2 in Manchester starts a run of silent film screenings
This weekend: 'Zorro' still on, but 'Straight is the Way' (1921) postponed to Saturday, April 5 due to weather
Like father, like son: double feature of 'Zorro' and 'Son of Zorro' this weekend at Town Hall Theatre
How my former life as an opera singer led to this weekend's screening of 'Steamboat Bill Jr.'
This weekend: Lois Weber Film Festival, Buster Keaton, and 'Underworld' plus notes from this year's Kansas Silent Film Festival
Next: Valentino in 'The Sheik' (1921) on Monday, March 3 in Greenfield, Mass.; notes from the 50th annual Boston Sci-Fi Marathon
This weekend: 'Sunrise' in Newport on Saturday, then 'Algol' at 50th annual Boston Sci-Fi Marathon
Changed date for 'The Strong Man' this weekend; classic comedy now showing on Saturday, Feb. 8, plus Boston Globe coverage of 'The Flying Ace'
This weekend: 'Battling Butler' in Campton, N.H., then 'The Flying Ace' in Somerville, Mass.
Up next: Greta Garbo in 'Wild Orchids' on Wednesday, Jan. 29 in Manchester, N.H.
Report from Cleveland: 'The Lost World' (1925) highlights sci-fi marathon. Next up: 'Way Down East' on Sunday, Jan. 26 in Wilton, N.H.
Off to Cleveland to accompany 'The Lost World' at Case Western Reserve's 50th annual sci-fi marathon; then 'Way Down East' in Wilton, N.H.
Thoughts about silent film music and life in 2025: Back to the start in more ways than one
Time for a 2024 year-end wrap up after scoring 'Oliver Twist' (1922), my 400th silent film