SLAPSTICK LIVE

26. APRIL - 05. Mai

10 DAYS

More than 50 FILMS

10 MUSICIANS

1 BABYLON ORCHESTER BERLIN

95 Jahre BABYLON

135 Jahre Charlie Chaplin

On 11 April 1929, the BABYLON opened its doors as a silent film cinema.
We celebrate our 95th Birthday and Charlie Chaplin 135th with a great festival with the best comedies of the silent film era!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE! 135! and BABYLON 95!

Neil Brand, demon pianist and Slapstick connoisseur introduces the greatest silent comedies, from the superstars Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and Ernst Lubitsch, to the lesser-known but equally great practitioners like Charley Chase, Raymond Griffith, Mabel Normand, Charlie Bowers, Max Linder and Monty Banks.

Spanning a decade and a half of silent laughter, with features, shorts and thrills combined with hilarity, this is the pick of the greatest silent comedies ever made, accompanied by some of the world's best accompanists including Babylon's own Anna Vavilkina, Meg Morley from London, Daan van den Hurk from Amsterdam and Neil himself.

ENTIRE PROGRAM TO DOWNLOAD: FLYER HERE

The classic features of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd like The General , Steamboat Bill Jnr , Speedy also gratis: Stummfilm um Mitternacht: Speedy, The Freshman and For Heaven`s sake and more will be accompanied by our crack team of pianists and organists, while some of Chaplin and Lubitsch's great feature comedies will have full orchestral accompaniment.

Silent comedy with live music has to be experienced, it is pure joy seeing comedy greats of a century ago make us laugh so much we forget our troubles.

This is the perfect place to discover the golden moments of silent clowning, and even experts will find much they haven't seen before, with many new restorations and undiscovered masterpieces in the festival.

A tonic in these troubled times.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Fr, 26.4. 19:30 Modern Times LIVE mit Babylon Orchester Berlin

Sa, 27.4. 19:30 Buster Keaton's The General + The Finishing Touch live Neil Brand LnH - The Finishing Touch 105'

So, 28.4. 18:00 Chaplin's The Circus live mit Babylon Orchester Berlin

Sa, 04.05. 19:30 City Lights live mit Babylon Orchester Berlin

So, 05.05. 18:00 Chaplin's The Gold Rush with LIVE Orchestra

SOLO MUSICIANS!!

Piano:
Neil Brand
Daan van den Hurk
Leonid Nemirovsky
Ekkehard Wölk

Orgel und Piano:
Dominik Gerhard
Florian Reithner
Anna Vavilkina
Jonas Wilfert

Gitarre:
Alexey Wagner

Klarinette und andere Instrumenten:
Oscar Ferdinand Buschinger

Länge: 69 min.

Slapstick Live: A Pair of Tights [OV], USA 1929, R: Hal Yates mit Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Edgar Kennedy, 20 Min

The Garage [OV], USA 1920, R: Roscoe Arbuckle mit Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, 25 Min

Teddy at the Throttle [OV], USA 1917, R: Clarence G. Badger mit Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, 24 Min,

29.4. am Klavier Ekkehard Wölk

Länge: 70 min.

Slapstick Live: It's a Gift [OV], USA 1923, R: Hugh Fay mit Snub Pollard, 14 Min,

The Playhouse [OmU], USA 1921, R: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline mit Buster Keaton, 22 Min,

The Count [OV], USA 1916, R: Charles Chaplin mit Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, 34 Min,

am Klavier Jonas Wilfert

TICKETS

Mi, 01.05. 21:45

Do, 02.05. 18:30

Länge: 61 min.

Slapstick Live: Egged On [OV], USA 1926, R: Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller, Ted Sears mit Charles R. Bowers, 24 Min,

From Soup to Nuts[OV], USA 1928, R: E. Livingston Kennedy mit Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, 18 Min

Easy Street [OV], USA 1917, R: Charlie Chaplin mit Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, 19 Min,

am Klavier Meg Morley