This has been a great season in New York for seeing silent movies with live musical performance. Two of the more noteworthy offerings at the Tribeca Film festival were the U.S. premiere of “Passio” with a live ensemble at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the New York bow of “Rebirth of a Nation,” an inventive deconstructuction of the racist classic “Birth of a Nation” by hip hop artist D.J. Spooky. Through next Thursday at the Village East, you can see Guy Maddin’s wonderful new silent melodrama “Brand Upon the Brain!” which I reviewed yesterday, accompanied by not only an orchestra but a live narrator and a live-sound effects crew. But you’ll have to move fast to book the most incredible film/live action presentation I’ve ever seen. “El Automovil Gris” (“The Grey Automobile”), which I saw in 2003 at the North Carolina Museum of the Arts with my daughter Xan, is an edited version of a 1919 Mexican serial based on the exploits of a real-life gang. It’s accompanied not only by a piano but by three narrators who simultaneously describe the action in English, Spanish and Japanese, as well as acting each scene out in the tradition of the Japanese Benshi. There are also antic subtitles devised by Claudio Valdes-Kuri, an avant-garde Mexican stage director who devised this overwhelming spectacle, a commentary on the difficulty of multi-lingual communication, which has been touring internationally for years. “El Automovil Gris” will be presented one time only Friday night at the Quad as the opening-night attraction in a series of 11 Spanish-language films curated by David Bowie as part of his exciting, brand-new High Line Festival. Don’t miss it.