ROBERT ISRAEL
Robert Israel has been hailed as "...one of the world's finest Practitioners of the art of silent film accompaniment." A protege of the legendary theatre organist Gaylord Carter, he made his professional debut at the age of 17.
Robert has performed before such silver screen greats as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Charles "Buddy" Rogers as well as entertaining contemporary audiences in such venues as UCLA's Royce Hall and the Los Angeles Conservancy's "Last Remaining Seats" series. In October 2002, Robert was named music director, for the ninth year, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. This was a tribute to legendary silent screen great Charlie Chaplin for the Academy's new restoration of THE CIRCUS (1928), in which Mr. Israel conducted his orchestra performing Chaplin's own music. A resident of Los Angeles, Mr. Israel is featured regularly at film festivals held at the Los Angeles County Museum's Bing Theatre and at UCLA's James Bridges Theatre. He also appears as guest lecturer and performer for various cinema schools throughout Southern California.
In addition to live performances, Maestro Israel and his orchestra have Recorded musical scores for films released by Turner Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Kino International in cooperation with Film Preservation and Associates, and Flicker Alley. Mr. Israel's television work has included composing scores for the television series "Biography" on the A&E Channel.
In 2003, he had created new symphonic scores for the Flicker Alley presentations of F.W. Murnau's PHANTOM (1922) and Louis Feuillade's twelve-part French serial, JUDEX (1917), both for Turner Entertainment. This follows several other very impressive scores also done for Turner Entertainment. These works include a new four-hour reconstruction of Erich Von Stroheim's masterpiece GREED (1924), the Lon Chaney classic TELL IT TO THE MARINES (1926), a reconstruction of the "lost" Lon Chaney classic LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927), and over twenty new scores for the films of Harold Lloyd for the Harold Lloyd Trust and Turner Classic Movies, which include eight Lloyd feature films and several Lloyd short subjects.
Robert Israel has performed as soloist and orchestra conductor throughout the United States, Japan, and Europe, including film festivals in Italy, Germany, France, England, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
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CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE
PRE-RELEASE SALE PRICE: $29.96Unseen since the early 1970s; now remastered from its original camera negatives
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CINERAMA HOLIDAY
PRE-RELEASE SALE PRICE: $29.96Cinerama Holiday crisscrosses the whirlwind vacations of two real-life, married couples
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THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION
PRE-RELEASE PRICE: $29.96A collection of six short films by the influential, avant-garde filmmaker
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FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929
PRE-RELEASE PRICE: $44.96A collection of five iconic Films Albatros productions
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THE NANOOK OF THE NORTH/THE WEDDING OF PALO (AND OTHER FILMS OF ARCTIC LIFE)
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THE LATE MATHIAS PASCAL (FEU MATHIAS PASCAL)
SPECIAL SALE PRICE: $29.70A Blu-Ray edition of The Late Mathias Pascal (1926) adapted and directed by Marcel l’Herbier
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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME / GOW
SPECIAL SALE PRICE: $27.96The two features on this Blu-ray publication honor the extraordinary lives of filmmaking team Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
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THIS IS CINERAMA
SALE PRICE: $34.95Digital premier of THIS IS CINERAMA in celebration of the 60th anniversary of its theatrical release.
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WINDJAMMER
SALE PRICE: $34.95Come abroad the magnificent Norwegian square-rigger as it sails its spectacular 17,000 mile journey.
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A TRIP TO THE MOON
$34.95Flicker Alley presents the restored Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) in its original 1902 colors More info...
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LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET UNION
$54.96Collection featuring eight seminal films from the Soviet silent era! More info...
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WILD AND WEIRD
$24.9514 short films- some favorites, others unfamiliar - made between 1902 and 1964. More info...
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INFERNO
$29.96A documentary about one of the great, unfinished works in film history, Inferno, by Henri-Georges Clouzot. More info...
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LAILA
$29.951929's epically scaled Norwegian feature comes from Danish-German director and noted cinematographer George Schnéevoigt . More info...
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CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE
$59.96Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. More info...
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CHICAGO
$29.96Like the musical Chicago, this original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. More info...
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THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT
$29.95René Clair’s sparkling comedy of manners is a witty, delicate, inspired satire on propriety and behavior in the bourgeois mind-set. More info...
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GEORGE MELIES: ENCORE
$19.95Georges Méliès built the world's first movie studio in 1896 and from it cascaded many fantastic films. More info...
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MISS MEND
$34.95Miss Mend, a 1926 three-part serial / adventure film from Soviet directors Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. More info...
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BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT & MONTE CRISTO
$34.95Bardelys the Magnificent joins Monte Cristo as two resurrected classics. More info...
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UNDER FULL SAIL
$29.95Discover a time when the truest adventure had the wind at your back and an infinite horizon all around. More info...
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: MODERN MUSKETEER
$69.95Includes eleven of the joyful modern-dress comedies, westerns, satires, dream-fantasies and romances. More info...
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PERILS OF THE NEW LAND
$39.95Two riveting and important social dramas of the American silent screen from the earliest years of feature-length cinema. More info...
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J'ACCUSE
$34.95Abel Gance’s WW I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. More info...
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LA ROUE
$29.96Never before released in the United States, this monumental French film is one of the most extraordinary achievements in the whole history of cinema. More info...
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GEORGE MELIES: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA
$59.95Georges Méliès was a genuine virtuoso, producing and directing his own films while also devising the narratives. More info...
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SAVED FROM THE FLAMES
$49.95A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. More info...
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DISCOVERING CINEMA
$29.95Discovering Cinema is a 2-disc DVD set comprised of Learning to Talk and Movies Dream in Color. More info...
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VALENTINO
$39.95Valentino is the definitive Rudolph Valentino DVD compilation featuring digital reconstructions of four previously unavailable films. More info...
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F.W. MURNAU'S PHANTOM
$29.95Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. More info...
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JUDEX
$34.95The mysterious Judex (René Cresté) is torn between an oath of justice against the wealthy banker and his secret love. More info...
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THE GARDEN OF EDEN
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This comedy from 1928 was an important film for both its star, Corrine Griffith, and director, Lewis Milestone. More info...