Hitchcock's Silents Will Be Screened As Part Of The 2012 London Olympics The scores of English film director Alfred Hitchcock’s early and rarely seen films and German director F.W Murnau’s 1927 masterpiece “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” are up for a creative and modern musical make-over. As part of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival this summer, the score of F.W. Murnau’s film will be completely rewritten within the context of an unusual guitar solo project crafted by Italian film archivist Paolo Cherchi Usai and Italian-born composer Giovanni Spinelli. Meanwhile, next summer, as part of the London 2012 Festival,…...
- 7/7/2011
- The Playlist
When German director F.W. Murnau subtitled his 1927 silent film Sunrise with the phrase “a song of two humans,” he almost certainly meant those words to be understood figuratively. In a few weeks, though, Paolo Cherchi Usai, an Italian film archivist and director, and Giovanni Spinelli, an Italian-born composer based in New York City, will premiere a project they have been working on for the last two years that will change that subtitle, quite literally, to “a song of one human.” In 2009, Usai approached Spinelli with a challenge: write a completely new score for the classic expressionist silent film performed entirely on one solo electric guitar. On top of this restriction was another condition. The entire 94-minute score had to played live by one ...
- 7/4/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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