How all films should be shown
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003On Friday The Missus and I went to the CBSO’s Silent Heroes at Symphony Hall. A wonderfully simple idea to recreate the atmosphere of early cinema by having the orchestra play a live accompaniment to a screening of the Harold Lloyd classic ‘Safety Last’.
It was a fantastic evening. The CBSO played the original jazz band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as a prelude to the main feature, before descending into the pit during the interval. The lights dimmed; the projector began; the orchestra struck up and it was pure magic. And in the end it left me thinking just one thing: this is how all films should be shown.