#59- Go to one of the silent movie nights at the paramount

Complete! With a slight venue change. I went to the Moore and saw a silent movie during SIFF. It was pretty cool.

This is what I wrote about it on June 17th:

Last night Licia, Holly, Carl and I went to see The Unknown at The Moore. (Carl looked like the luckiest guy in the city having three beautiful redheads as his date! Oh and he seemed much healthier now than his posts from a few days back. Seems he is on the road to healing.)

It was a pretty trippy movie. It was the only silent film Joan Crawford ever did and really the best I have ever seen her look.

The best part was the soundtrack! The band Portastatic was playing live as the soundtrack. Having been a Superchunk fan back in the day I was in heaven.

Special thanks to Sean for giving us the tickets! We would not have even known about it if we didn't run into him at the party the night before.

Here is what the Moore website said about the movie:

Tod Browning's freakish 1927 film stars Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the carnival girl he hopes to marry. The lo-fi indie-rock ensemble Portastatic, led by Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, will unveil an original live score composed for SIFF for this rarely-seen silent oddity.