Tag: Silent Film

The Australian Cinémathèque secret weapon: The Wurlitzer

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   21 Sep 2018

We highlight the Australian Cinémathèque’s much loved secret weapon — the Wurlitzer Style 260 Opus 2040 pipe organ. From 2018 to 2020, QAGOMA will present Queensland’s Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). The Festival experience comes to life with a range of dynamic events including classic silent films with live scores, a high point the screening of Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman 1928 featuring a…

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Sleuthing with The Great Detective

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   5 Jul 2018

More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first uttered the now iconic phrase ‘the game is afoot’ to his trusted companion Dr John Watson, detective films – and the brilliant characters the genre draws upon – continue to delight and surprise cinemagoers. Unique to GOMA The Gallery’s rare 1929 Wurlitzer style 260 organ, originally housed…

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Silent masterpieces brought to life

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   24 Mar 2017

Two silent masterpieces are presented with live musical accompaniment at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA as part of ‘Film Noir’ (31 March – 21 May 2017). Watch Joseph von Sternberg’s thrilling Underworld 1927, a forceful prototype for the American gangster film genre and Friedrich W. Murnau’s beloved The Last Laugh 1924, an emotionally powerful treasure of Weimar…

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Film Noir rises from the ashes

Posted by Amanda Slack-Smith   ●   23 Mar 2017

Cynical and seductive, film noir was born in the ashes of the Great Depression and fuelled by disillusionment and the paranoia of the postwar era. In March-April, the Australian Cinémathèque presents a curated program exploring the classics as well as their modern counterparts. Film noir is one of the most visually seductive and enduring cinematic…

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Lost Cinema

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   1 Feb 2017

The Australian Cinémathèque’s program of once-lost films begins Sunday 5 February 2017 with the launch of our free ‘Lost Cinema: Queensland Discoveries’. Join film treasure hunter Joel Archer for a lively In-Conversation, followed by screenings of two short Italian melodramas which he helped rediscover. The print of Angelo Che Redime (The Redeeming Angel) 1913 was found almost entirely…

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