Screening of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu with Tom Roberts performing his original score live at the Harris Theater.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror returns to the Harris Theater on Thursday, October 29, as part of the venue's annual tradition. The 1922 silent film will be screened with a live score performed by Tom Roberts, who'll be playing his own original music right there in the theater.
If you've never seen it, Nosferatu is one of the most famous silent films ever made—the one with the towering, spindly vampire and the long shadows. Because it's a silent film, it doesn't have a recorded soundtrack, so the music is played live in the room. That's the whole point of the night: you're watching the film on screen while Roberts performs his score in real time, so the music changes with the action as it happens.
The Harris Theater is a good place for this. It used to be the Art Cinema, and it's one of the few theaters around that still regularly uses 35mm film projectors, which is how these old movies were meant to be seen. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust bought and restored the facility, and it opened to the public on November 9, 1995. It's been part of the city's cinema scene since then, and this screening is one of the things it does every year.
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So, if you're in the mood for a silent horror classic and a live score to go with it, you'll find it at the Harris Theater on Thursday, October 29.
