Reel Orchestrette: live musical accompaniment to Broken Blossoms

Reel Orchestrette, Bradford Reed (pencilina, drums) & Geoff Gersh (guitar, sanshin), will perform a live score to D. W. Griffiths Broken Blossoms at the Nitehawk Cinema on:

Saturday July 27th @ 11:30AM
Sunday July 28th @ 11:30AM

Before the Jazz Age, it was the dark ages for women. In Broken Blossoms Lillian Gish plays a girl living in poverty with a violent and abusive father. Seemingly her only escape is the questionable freedom of a life of prostitution or the squalor and slavery is in the form of a loveless marriage. She discovers a middle path through a chance meeting with an outsider: Cheng, a Chinese immigrant shopkeeper. But she is a white, virginal and underage. Their relationship is impossible in the time and place they live. There love is an illicit and tragic but because of this it is also transcendent and beautiful.

http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/movie/broken-blossoms

http://www.reelorchestrette.com