SILENT SUNDAYS featuring Buster Keaton Comedy Shorts
/Grail Moviehouse Presents
SILENT SUNDAYS
Sunday, June 2 at 7PM
Introduction and Q&A with Frank Thompson
Live Piano Score by Gabrielle Tee
All Tickets $18
Available at the theater or ONLINE HERE
This month we feature Buster Keaton in a collectoin of Comedy Shorts:
"ONE WEEK" (1920)
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
(19 min)
“THE ELECTRIC HOUSE” (1922)
A botany major is accidentally awarded an electrical engineering degree
and attempts to wire a home.
(20 min)
“SHERLOCK JR.” (1924)
A kindly movie projectionist (Buster Keaton) longs to be a detective. When his fiancée (Kathryn McGuire) is robbed by a local thief (Ward Crane), the poor projectionist is framed for the crime. Using his amateur detective skills, the projectionist follows the thief to the train station -- only to find himself locked in a train car. Disheartened, he returns to his movie theater, where he falls asleep and dreams that he is the great Sherlock Holmes.
(45 min)
Frank Thompson is a film historian and writer, the author of more than forty books and hundreds of articles, interviews and reviews in newspapers and magazines. He has served as writer and producer on many television shows and has produced, written and/or directed several documentaries. As an authority on film history, Thompson has provided audio commentary for many classic films on DVDs and Blu-Rays and has appeared onscreen in numerous documentaries and television specials. He lives in Asheville, N. C. with his wife Claire.
Frank Thompson
Gabrielle Tee is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and local music educator. She holds a degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from UNC-Asheville and teaches at Asheville Music School. She has written and recorded multiple albums of original music as a pianist.
Gabrielle TEE
