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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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
Snow White with live piano by Philip Carli
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a fantastical 1912 Broadway play by Winthrop Ames, was adapted by Ames as a film in 1916, produced by Famous Players and released by Paramount just after Christmas that year. Two wonderful features of
The Student of Prague with live piano by Philip Carli
“Yesterday upon the stair I met a man…” and he was me. Doppelgänger – mysterious doubles – have a long history in folklore around the world, but the word we use was coined as recently as 1796, by a German