We’re celebrating our crystal anniversary this year, with our milestone 15th edition to take place Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 March 2025. The 2025 programme will celebrate over 100 years of filmmaking from cinematographers across the globe...
Scotland's first and only festival of silent film with live music is back, and celebrating its crystal anniversary this year!…
watched as part of the near shore: a scottish and irish cine-concert at hippfest 2025 (this is the only film shown that is on lb)
an amazing collection of silents showcasing the relationship between ireland and scotland over the years. i really enjoyed the variety of themes and images across the films, and each one had a great introduction that enhanced the experience. the accompaniment by paul smyth was so creative and interesting, loved when he started playing the inside of…
My first Buster Keaton film and I am both shocked and pleased to see that he does his own (very dangerous) stunts!!
Skinners Dress Suit is an enjoyable time with a lot of laughs throughout the story was good and the music was wonderful
I've been watching a lot of silent films in the last year, but this was the first time I've ever got to see one with a live audience. And the experience, with everyone laughing along at Buster, in Scotland's oldest cinema, with the superb live piano accompaniment, was such a wonderful way to see silent film live for the first time. The film itself was quite straight down the line to start with but beefed up the joke quotient well…
Delightfully light and frothy silent about a man who tells his wife he got a raise that he was turned down for, so she goes out and spends all their money on a new dress suit for him and new outfit for herself - but the clothes make the man, and this ends up improving their station enormously. Mostly, also, because they introduce high society to the hot new dance step the "Savannah Shuffle" and immediately become sensations.
It's lovely,…
In which Luciano Albertini repeatedly climbs up and jumps off every building in sight. And stuffs multiple people in sacks.
Honestly, the stuntwork in this is breathtaking. There's something about early cinema: you know every jump, every fall was real and was dangerous. It adds a palpable physicality. If none of the jumps in this are particularly huge by modern blockbuster standards, knowing that a real man was doing them on a windy Tuesday afternoon makes them so much more…
rare moment of genuine sincerity on here. this was the most joyous cinema experience ive had in living memory. the hippodrome is a beautiful cinema. audience on top form. live music was magical
