Silent Film & Live Organ: Nosferatu (1922)

Murnau’s public-domain classic on a giant screen, with an improvised organ score that rattles the pews. See out the old year with the Count, then walk out into the fireworks.

The screen hangs in front of the high altar, nine metres wide, and the church is lit by nothing but the projector beam and the reading lamp on the organ console. The organist watches the film over his shoulder in a small mirror and plays it live: thin flute stops for the Carpathian roads, the full reeds when the ship drifts into Wisborg, and a low pedal note under the shadow on the stairs that you will feel in the bench.

The print is a restored public-domain copy with German intertitles and English subtitles. Bring a scarf: old churches are cold in winter. Finishes in good time for midnight.