San Francisco's Club Foot Orchesta has been around in one form or another since founder Richard Marriot formed the house band at Club Foot, the Bayview's arthouse-music venue, back in the early 80's. An eclectic bunch of classically-trained and avant garde musicians, CFO has come to be known best for its original scores for early silent films and performances in theatres around the Bay Area, but its not often that we get the chance to hear them, and certainly not in back-to-back performances for three classic films at the Castro, so get ready for an afternoon and evening of unusual delights this coming Sunday, 11/14. Two screenings of Buster Keaton in the 1924 surreal comedy Sherlock Jr. kick off this all day marathon, followed by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the bizarre and subversive expressionist film for which Marriot wrote one of his most widely acclaimed original scores, and finally the first Dracula film ever made, FW Murneau's 1922 Nosferatu - its score incorporates Middle European waltzes, klezmer, and gypsy music with some comic/ironic touches mixed in. Visit CFO website for more details of Sunday's program, including film clips and samples from their entire repertoire.
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