All the movies are accompanied by a pianist playing during the movies. I was there last Sunday with Jake and Mark and we all laughed like crazy people. The pianist that time, Neil Brand, has the last 20 years been playing the piano for silent films. I heard him on the radio the other day, and he said that he doesn't watch the movies before he plays because he rather improvise to get the best feeling across. Brand was amazingliny good. I can't believe that he improvised about 90 minutes of silent film and made it really fit very minute of what we saw on the screen.
This is something I recommend to everyone to do. This is something you can't really do at home and the whole thing is an experience worth it.
I like silent movies, and back in Stockholm I used to go to all the silent movies that Cinemateket, the old movie theater showed. Or at least all the ones I could, and they where always accompanied with a pianist and sometimes also a violinist. They mostly showed Chaplin and Keaton, and Keaton has since then been my favorite of the two, even if I've seen more Chaplin then Keaton movies.
I'm overly happy that my last boyfriend was a cinefile and made me get into old movies, not only silent ones.
I will go back to the Babylon tonight with a group of friends and I would love to live at the theater and see every movie until the silent movie festival is over. That would be awesome.
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