John Dixon
The Alloy Orchestra plays a live score to accompany the silent film, 'The Last Command,' on Friday at Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – A watery-eyed old man, head nodding uncontrollably, grabs at a medal, snatched from him by another extra on the movie they are about to film about the Russian revolution.
The full story is available in our paid story archive.