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At 30, filmmaker and editor Kevin Brownlow revolutionized film books with The Parade’s Gone By, a pathbreaking history of silent movies, soon followed by other important works, including the greatest of all cinema documentaries, among them the multi-award-winning work television series Hollywood and Cinema Europe, and unsurpassed profiles of Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Griffith, Garbo, et al. A passionate collector and restorer of lost silents—most famously, Abel Gance’s 5½ hour epic NAPOLEON—Brownlow, with partners David Gill and Patrick Stanbury, has presented “Live Cinema” events, featuring new orchestral scores composed and conducted by close collaborator Carl Davis. In 2010, Mr. Brownlow was given a special Academy Award® for his “wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade,” and, in 2018, TCM’s Robert Osborne Award, “for keeping classic films alive and thriving for generations to come.” This series includes Mr. Brownlow’s own films, those he was instrumental in restoring, and some that influenced and inspired him. Selected screenings will be followed by excerpts from his documentaries.