for August - 3rd German Silent Film Festival

Film screenings
August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2006
Venue: SM Megamall
Free Admission
Tel.:+ 632 8405723 to 24 / 8170978 goethepr@pldtdsl.net

Film Screening Schedule
Date and Time Film Title / Artists Venue
August 3 (6:30 pm) Official launch of the festival
The Podium – Chill Area
August 10 (8:00 pm) ASPHALT, music by Cynthia Alexander
SM Megamall Cinema
August 17 (8:00 pm) THE GOLEM, music by Drip
SM Megamall Cinema
August 24 (8:00 pm) TABU, music by Bo Razon
SM Megamall Cinema
August 31 (8:00 pm) The CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, music by Radioactive
Sago Project
SM Megamall Cinema

One of the country's most unique film festivals is back! Watch four
different bands each take on the task of scoring a German silent film
live. This year's series gives audiences a little horror, some
suspense, and even a love story. To be screened are "The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari", "Asphalt", "The Golem" and "Tabu".

The 1919 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", directed by Robert
Wiene, is a horror classic and landmark of German expressionism in
cinema. It is also widely considered one of the most influential
silent films ever made, since traces of the film can be seen in the
likes of later masterpieces such as "Metropolis", "Nosferatu",
"Faust", and "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" among others. Wiene's opus
showcases a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are
abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival
sleepwalker perpetuate a series of murders in a small community.
Complementing the strange world of Dr. Caligari will be the unique
score done by avant-garde group Radioactive Sago Project

"The Golem", subtitled "How He Came Into the World", is director Paul
Wegener's third and most ambitious film on the golem, a popular
figure in Jewish folklore. In the film, Rabbi Loew creates a golem to
protect the residents of 16th Century Prague's Jewish Ghetto from
being expelled from the city. The Golem saves the Jews from
expulsion, but the lumbering creature is not easily controlled and
when he runs loose, the whole of Prague is in danger of destruction.
The live music score for "The Golem" will be provided by Drip.

Director Joe May is mostly known as the man who helped start Fritz
Lang's film career. His 1929 film "Asphalt", a love story set in
Berlin in the late 1920's, is considered one of the last great German
Expressionist films of the silent era. Starring the delectable Betty
Amann in her most famous leading role (as a thieving femme fatale),
Asphalt is a luxuriously produced classic where tragic liaisons and
fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.
Cynthia Alexander will be providing the score.

"Tabu", to be scored by Bo Razon, was director F.W. Murnau's last
film. The director died tragically just seven days before its
premiere in 1931. The film, an unusual collaboration with renowned
documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty of "Nanook of the North" fame.
was filmed entirely in Tahiti, Bora Bora and Morea. In the film,
expert diver Matahi and the lovely Reri fall in love, just before
Reri becomes their tribe's "chosen one," making her off limits
("tabu") to all men. Matahi and Reri decide to run off together, but
encounter all kinds of hardship.

Each film will be accompanied by a live musical score by one of the
country's best groups. Films will be shown every Thursday of August,
8 pm at SM Megamall. Admission is free. For more information, please
call the Goethe-Institut Manila at 817 0978 or visit
http://www.goethe.de/manila

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