On January 18th I’ll be scoring a special presentation of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush at the Hollywood American Legion. I’m incredibly honored that the Chaplin Estate has given special permission for me to accompany the film! Ordinarily they only allow his films to be screened with the recorded score so this is a once … [Read more…]
As part of the RETROFORMAT SERIES at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood I will be performing live accompaniment for this silent gem! From the good folks at RETROFORMAT: Saturday, October 14, 2017, Lon Chaney returns to Retroformat in Tod Browning’s Outside the Law (1920), with live accompaniment by Cliff Retallick. In his second collaboration with … [Read more…]
I am honored to be a participant in the first of what I am certain will be many events put on by the amazing new VOYAGER INSTITUTE here in Los Angeles. Institute founder, Bret Berg and I are going to discuss the process of scoring silent films live. I will be playing along to a … [Read more…]
It was an honor to provide live accompaniment for the UCLA Festival of Preservation once again! The newly preserved Silent Films included: Tramp Strategy (1911) A mischievous vagabond infiltrates a bourgeois household in this newly discovered one-reel comedy by the pioneering female director Alice Guy. Peggy, Behave! (1922) Baby Peggy, one of the biggest child stars … [Read more…]
How do you write music for the story of a hero who sacrificed everything to rescue the masses of people trapped in the burning buildings of 911? What theme can you write for a man who charged forward to almost certain death to save complete strangers? How do you compose for images of children who … [Read more…]
Cliff has been working with Retroformat for several years with monthly screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood as well as other places around town. We are so excited to see the write up in the LA Times today about an upcoming Retroformat screening of Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand shorts including “Fatty and Mabel … [Read more…]
Late this past Summer, I spent a few days scoring three wonderful short, silent rarities for Flicker Alley’s upcoming William Gillette Sherlock Holmes release. The films were an absolute delight and they are featured on the new DVD/Blu-ray as part of the bonus materials. Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900), A Canine Sherlock (1912) and Piu Forte … [Read more…]
The month of July is chock full of great silent films that Cliff will be accompanying with live scores. On July 11th, Cliff will be performing for the Los Angeles premiere of the restored Vitaphone classic SYNTHETIC SIN at the Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theatre, starring Colleen Moore, which is a historic moment in Los Angeles … [Read more…]
March is full of Silent Film Gems from Charlie Chaplin’s 1st feature to Mary Pickford’s last Silent. The spring is shaping up to be very busy for Cliff with tons of silent stars from Mary Pickford to Lon Chaney. Catch him playing at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation as well as … [Read more…]
The Debut of All Wet! went off with out a hitch! The audience loved the original songs and incredibly talented ladies and we raised a bundle of money for the Stop the Millennium Project! Stay Tuned for more ALL WET! Shows in 2015 We have some very unique shows to finish out 2014. … [Read more…]