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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2013: Day One –“Prix de Beauté”
This year’s Silent Film Festival began with the charismatic beauty of G.W. Pabst‘s often used leading lady, Louise Brooks. The most famous films from this actor-director team are arguably Pandora’s Box...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2013: Day Two –“The First Born”
Day two, and of the four films scheduled, sadly my non-film related agenda only permitted me to see one. I Followed up yesterday’s exciting and nearly pitch perfect melodrama with another film from the...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2013: Day Three –“Gribiche”
Day three of silent film watching and my hopes of seeing more than one film today turned out to be just that – hopes. Truth is I was exhausted from only haven gotten a few hours of sleep the night...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2013: Day Four –“The Last Edition”, “The...
Okay, so this post is a few days late and the Jewish Film Festival is now about to begin (day of this post, to be exact), but hey, better late than never, right? On Day Four (the final day of the fest)...
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The Little Tramp at 100: A Charlie Chaplin Centennial Celebration
Let’s face it, with every new year a new 100th anniversary of something or someone will inevitably arise. While others might have been off celebrating the centennial births of George Reeves (Superman)...
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Introducing the San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014
Well, folks, it’s that time of year. In San Francisco, the film festival season is pushing on with gusto following the close of the San Francisco International Film Festival and just before the...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014: Opening Night: “Four Horsemen of the...
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse And so thus it is with the patterns of the moon and, alongside the Earth’s shift upon its axis in which, verily, as the dawn doth shine… Ah, excuse me; neo-Romantic and...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014 – Day 1, “Song of the Fisherman” and...
Song of the Fisherman Being the first Chinese silent film I have seen, I couldn’t resist the urge to check this one out. It was certainly an interesting film. Immensely tragic, it is a downward spiral...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014: Days 2 and 3 – Germans, Swedes,...
And so once again the Silent Film Festival came and went. And with it the privilege and pleasure of watching the best versions of carefully selected films from this bygone era at the fantastic Castro...
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