FILM

Discovery Green and KUHF-FM present KUHF Silent Film Concerts. At the Anheuser-Busch Stage and Fondren Performance Space. Houston Public Radio presents a series of silent film screenings accompanied by live music. Back by popular demand, classic silent films get a new twist thanks to Texas’ best indie classical musicians.

Friday, May 13, 8:00 pm:  Battleship Potemkin. Golden Arm Trio performs their haunting score to one of the greatest movies ever made – Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925, Battleship Potemkin (1925, 75 min. NR). 
 
Odessa 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship´s loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable: mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors´ revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar´s Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.

For eight decades, Eisenstein´s masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen Battleship Potemkin subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious sources.

Until now.

Kino is proud to join the Deutsche Kinematek in association with Russia´s Goskinofilm, the British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive Berlin, and the Munich Film Museum in presenting this all new restoration of Battleship Potemkin. Dozens of missing shots have been replaced, and all 146 title cards restored to Eisenstein´s specifications. Edmund Meisel´s definitive 1926 score, magnificently rendered by the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra, returns Eisenstein´s masterwork to a form as close to its creator´s bold vision as has been seen since the film´s triumphant 1925 Moscow premiere. — Kino International

"There is hardly a war documentary that does not borrow from it, and you can find direct quotations in films as disparate as Brian De Palma´s Untouchables and Woody Allen´s Love and Death." — Washington Post

GOLDEN ARM TRIO is an Austin, Texas based band led by composer, bandleader, pianist and drummer Graham Reynolds. Graham and the group constantly work in theater, dance, film, concert halls, and nightclubs.

THE BAND is a loose collective of which Graham is the only permanent member with some outstanding musicians as regularly featured additions (see band members). The band has toured throughout the United States and Europe and has released two critically acclaimed CD's.

FILM scores include feature films, dozens of short films, animated shorts, and more than 20 silent films. Film collaborators have included Richard Linklater, Steve Collins and Luke Savisky. This summer includes the score for Richard Linklater’s “A Scanner Darkly”, starring Keannu Reaves.

PERFORMANCE highlights include a live appearance on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and a night at the Kennedy Center. The eclectic nature of the band has led to double bills ranging from Ken Vandermark to The Sea and the Cake to Merle Haggard guitarist Redd Volkeart.

COMPOSITIONS by Graham Reynolds include four symphonies, two operas, a violin concerto, more than a dozen one movement string quartets, and countless chamber music pieces. The collaborative 20-CD Box Set “The Golden Hornet Project”, was chosen as a “Top Ten CD’s Under the Radar” by Rolling Stone.com. Golden Arm Trio also won Best Orchestral Album from Kansas City Pitch Weekly.

THEATER ranging from recorded incidental music to fully scored musicals with live accompaniment on more than a dozen productions. Awards include the Frederick Lowe Music Theater Award, Austin Critics’ Table, and B. Iden Payne. Graham is the resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and a company member with the Rude Mechs.

DANCE collaborators have included choreographers Yakov Sharir, Ellen Bartel, and Andrea Ariel.