Silent gangster drama to screen with live music at Brandon Town Hall

“Underworld” (1927), a silent drama that spurred a boom in “gangster” movies, will be screened with live music on Saturday, June 7, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center.

Brandon’s silent film series kicks off with ‘The Strong Man’

Classics from the silent film era will return to the big screen at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, which will host another season of vintage cinema with live music.

Silent film ‘Barbed Wire’ to be screened with live score in Brandon

A rarely shown World War I prison camp drama with an unusual Christmas sequence will fill the big screen when “Barbed Wire” (1927) is revived on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Brandon Town Hall.

Get into the Halloween spirit with ‘Phantom,’ a timeless silent horror film

“The Phantom of the Opera” (1925), the silent big screen adaptation of the classic thriller, will be shown with live music on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, Route 7, in Brandon.

Classic Harold Lloyd comedy ‘Speedy’ to screen in Brandon

He was the bespectacled boy next door whose road to success was often paved with perilous detours. He was Harold Lloyd, whose fast-paced comedies made him the most popular movie star of Hollywood’s silent film era.

Classic silent film ‘The Cameraman’ to screen in Brandon Saturday with live music

Buster Keaton stars in “The Cameraman” (1928), a classic silent comedy to be screened with live music this Saturday, July 20, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall.

Classic epic ‘Thief of Bagdad’ to screen in Brandon

“The Thief of Bagdad,” a celebrated triumph for actor/director Douglas Fairbanks stands as one of greatest achievements of cinema’s silent era. It’s a film filled with images of flying carpets, exotic cities, underwater palaces, winged horses, fire-breath … (read more)

Silent film series kicks off with classic comedy and live music

Classics from the silent film era return to the big screen this May at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, which will host another season of vintage cinema with live music.

Silent classic ‘The Big Parade’ to screen with live music in Brandon

It was the “Saving Private Ryan” of its time — a movie that showed audiences combat as experienced by a soldier whose life is changed forever by the horrors of war.

Creepy haunted house silent film thriller to screen in Brandon

“The Cat and the Canary” (1927), a haunted house thriller from Hollywood’s silent film era, will be screened with live music on Friday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center.

Sparkling, silent romantic comedy screens in Brandon — with piano

She was known as “America’s Sweetheart,” but often played assertive take-charge characters that made her a role model to movie-goers around the world.

Get back to school with a screening of ‘The Freshman’

What happens when a first-year student’s dreams of college collide with the realities of campus life?

‘Ten Commandments’ movie to screen at Brandon Town Hall

Decades before he directed Charlton Heston as Moses, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille’s original silent version of “The Ten Commandments” (1923) wowed audiences the world over during the early years of cinema.

Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’ screens with live music in Brandon

He never smiled on camera, earning him the nickname of “the Great Stone Face.” But Buster Keaton’s comedies rocked Hollywood’s silent era with laughter throughout the 1920s.

Uproarious ‘battle of the sexes’ silent comedy to be screened in Brandon

The scene: Europe. The cast: Rich people. Get swept off your feet by not one but two privileged ladies, both played by amazing actress Constance Talmadge, in this effervescent battle-of-the-sexes comedy.

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