n HOT on the heels of the Glasgow Film Festival, the youth strand of which is already under way, comes the third Festival of Silent Cinema in the restored and re-opened Hippodrome in Bo'ness.
n HOT on the heels of the Glasgow Film Festival, the youth strand of which is already under way, comes the third Festival of Silent Cinema in the restored and re-opened Hippodrome in Bo'ness.
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This year's event in the 100-year-old picture palace runs from March 13 to 17 and features Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy, many of them with live accompaniment. Those performers include renowned silent screen piano accompanist Neil Brand, performer and story-teller Andy Cannon, below, in his guise as The Film Explainer, composer Jane Gardner with a newly-commissioned score to the closing gala film The Goose Woman, and rockabilly outfit The Dodge Brothers, including film critic Mark Kermode, accompanying the Soviet silent, The Ghost That Never Returns.
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