Philip Carli is one of the world’s leading silent film accompanists, and this is his library of films, books, records and other oddments from the silent film era. Subscribe for members-only content and to see a new silent film every month with accompaniment improvised live on the spot by one of the best.
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The Italian with live piano by Philip Carli
It is extraordinary, in 2025, to look at this 1915 film about immigration, food safety, wealth inequality, and the ways in which political machinations affect people’s lives. The working title for the film (at least according to Wikipedia) was Dago,
The Virginian with live piano by Philip Carli
The Virginian, Owen Wister’s classic 1902 novel about the battle between Law and Might and the heart of one western schoolmarm, was adapted by Wister into a play in 1903, and by Cecil B. DeMille into a film in 1914.
Les Deux Timides with live piano by Philip Carli
Les Deux Timides is a French film, René Clair’s last silent feature, which hops back and forth between drawing room farce and slapstick. A shy young lawyer accidentally helps to get a wife-beating thug what’s coming to him, and when