Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium

04/05/2026

04/04/2026

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In our April newsletter: Colleen Moore and Buster Keaton in two captivating comedies with live musical scores!

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03/12/2026

This one's for the cinephiles 🎬 🎞️ Lumière, Le Cinema! (2025) is coming to this April ✨ Tix available soon!

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière and company. In the process, Frémaux illuminates how the brothers employed the camera as a creative instrument as they (and their operators) mastered framing, staging, and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first ever fictional motion pictures. The result is not only a glorious re(telling) of the genesis of cinema but a profound meditation on the beautiful world captured—and the mysterious world imagined—by the Lumières.

03/03/2026

Check out our March newsletter and news of our next FREE monthly screenings with live music! https://sh1.sendinblue.com/ajlgg9hd39pfe.html?t=1772579664

The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium is a celebration of the expressive power of early cinema when accompanied by live music.

02/24/2026

Here’s a fascinating post about Louis Calhern’s dad and how he broke into Hollywood:

A minor figure in Hollywood history is finally acknowledged—by us, if no one else.

02/24/2026

One of our fondest wishes is to put on more theater organ shows, but Cleveland venues are challenging in this regard.

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02/23/2026

We're super excited about our free monthly event in March: the Czech 1926 lyrical drama A MAY TALE, which will feature musicians from Harmonia Band and new English titles courtesy of Paul Burik of Sokol Greater Cleveland. Thanks to Joey Morona and Cleveland.com for the preview!

The newly restored silent feature will be accompanied by live Central European folk music performed by a trio from the Harmonia Ensemble at Cleveland Public Library.

02/20/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/arts/music/fritz-lang-die-nibelungen.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The monumental, two-film “Die Nibelungen,” drawn from similar material to Wagner’s “Ring,” is best when presented live with a full orchestra.