it's been on for a week already, we've been the last two nights and might go again tonight.

18:30 tonight
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Germany 1914, 65 minutes, with a music soundtrack. The intertitles are probably German.
The Mandarin: Austria 1918, 54 minutes, live music with Günter A. Buchwald on the piano and violin: Italian original with subtitles, which might be German.

21:00
Pyschka (Fettklößchen) - USSR 1934, after a Novelle by Guy de Maupassant, Original with subtitles. Live accompaniment by Aljoscha Zimmermann on the piano and Sabrina Zimmermann on the violin.

Herr Zimmermann may have composed the music for Pyschka -- he did for the film we saw last night, The Merry Widow, which was based on the Lehar operette. They've been showing US silent movies the last few days, which are shown in the original version. Today's the last day of the festival, but it's on every year. The Filmmuseum is also one of the cheapest movie deals in town: 4 Euros per film, 2€ extra if there's live music for it. And there's a quite nice cafe there at the Stadtmuseum.

More info here: http://www.artechock.de/film/muenchen/kino/f-museum.htm

And here's the original of the complete wiki article I just wrote for here:

http://www.toytowngermany.com/munich/Filmmuseum

The Filmmuseum im Stadtmuseum is one of the great movie resources in town.

Filmmuseum München
80331 München, St. Jakobsplatz 1
Telephone: 233 241 50
MVV: Marienplatz - S-Bahn, U3, U6
Sendlinger Tor - U1, U2, Tram
http://www.artechock.de/film/muenchen/kino/f-museum.htm (Program)
http://www.artechock.de/film/mfz/index.htm (Verein)

Part of the Munich City Museum. Different movies every day but Monday, often quite old films, including an annual silent movie festival, where many films are accompanied by live music -- sometimes the original score, sometimes new compositions by such greats as Aljoscha Zimmermann.

They put on theme weeks: the 2005-2006 season includes Orson Welles, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Thomas Mann, the first two years of German talkies, Erna Morena, and more. As befits a true art house, movies are always in the original version with subtitles, sometimes without subtitles. However, as also befits an art house, there are sometimes people there who're real film snobs and '''if you laugh at the funny parts they'll get huffy with you'''. Unfortunately you can't tell them to just rent the DVD if they want to watch the movie without other people, because the Filmmuseum shows things like the US Library of Congress' copy of "The Patsy" from 1924, starring Marion Davies, the model for Citizen Kane's untalented second wife in Orson Welles' classic. (Marion Davies was actually not a bad actress, and Welles later regretted having been so mean to her.) This info was in part in the annual program (available on paper at the Filmmuseum or they'll send it to you if you send them a postage-paid envelope) and in part from the very nice introduction to the movie that a fellow gives right at the beginning. What a nice change from 20 minutes of commercials like at other theaters. This means of course, that you must show up on time! The complete program is on the website above and included in the local papers and movie websites.

Did I mention it's one of the cheapest theaters in town? '''4 Euros a show,''' with 2 Euros extra if it's accompanied by live music. Cannot beat that deal. If you want to reserve tickets, you can call and leave a message with your name and how many tickets you want on the answering machine, and you only have to pick them up 15 minutes before showtime, not 30 minutes like other theaters.

And there's a quite nice cafe attached -- the '''Stadtcafe'''. Open all afternoon and after films, we've been there as late as 1am. Beer, coffee, dinner on a small scale with various pasta dishes. Street seating on St. Jakobsplatz, where the new Jewish Cultural Center is being built, and seating in the inner courtyard of the '''Stadtmuseum''', as well as indoors. Nice cakes too.

If you want to support art house movies in Munich, you can join the '''Münchner Filmzentrum Verein''' for 20 euros a year and get a Euro off every ticket. That makes it 3 Euros per ticket! The Filmzentrum is very active in restoring old movies too -- this year they're working on a couple Orson Welles movies, as they were bequeathed his film estate.