Anything But Silent
THE SCARLET LETTER
35mm Screening
Dir. Victor Sjöström
With live accompaniment by Ben Model
Tuesday, September 26th at 7:30 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, Victor Sjöström’s The
Scarlet Letter stars silent film superstar Lillian Gish as Hester
Prynne, a young Puritan woman in a loveless marriage to a much older man.
During her husband's long absence, she walks the woodland lanes with her
pastor, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and they soon fall in love. But when a
child is born from their affair, she is condemned to wear the brand of
Adulteress, suffering abuse and humiliation at the hands of her neighbors. (USA,
1926, 98 mins, Silent with English Intertitles | Dir. Victor Sjöström)
Ben Model is one of America’s
leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for
silent films at the New York MoMA since 1984 and the CAC since 2006. Since
March 16th, 2020, Ben has been hosting a weekly live-streamed silent film show
from his living room, “The Silent Comedy Watch Party.” Click here
to visit Ben's YouTube page!