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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/san-francisco-silent-film-festival/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE GOOSE WOMAN Review: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett d: Clarence Brown</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:56:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35139</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE GOOSE WOMAN (1925) Direction: Clarence Brown Cast: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott, George Nichols, Gustav von Seyffertitz Screenplay: Melville W. Brown, titles by Dwinelle Benthall; from Rex Beach's story Highly Recommended Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, The Goose Woman At the 2011 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Clarence Brown-directed 1925 Universal release The Goose Woman was introduced by author and film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-goose-woman-louise-dresser-clarence-brown/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BLIZZARD Review: Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson d: Mauritz Stiller</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:04:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27621</guid> <description><![CDATA[GUNNAR HEDES SAGA / THE BLIZZARD (1923) Direction: Mauritz Stiller Cast: Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Hugo Björne, Pauline Brunius Screenplay: Mauritz Stiller; from Selma Lagerlöf's novel Recommended with Reservations Mary Johnson, Einar Hanson, The Blizzard Directed by Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish drama Gunnar Hedes saga / The Blizzard tells the confusing story about how a reindeer stampede affected the life of a violin [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-blizzard-mauritz-stiller-einar-hanson-mary-johnson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HUCKLEBERRY FINN Review: Lewis Sargent d: William Desmond Taylor</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:01:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27617</guid> <description><![CDATA[HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1920) Direction: William Desmond Taylor Cast: Lewis Sargent, George Reed, Katherine Griffith, Frank Lanning, Gordon Griffith, Esther Ralston, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox Screenplay: Julia Crawford Ivers; from Mark Twain's novel Recommended with Reservations Lewis Sargent in William Desmond Taylor's Huckleberry Finn Directed by William Desmond Taylor, Huckleberry Finn stars a fresh, freckle-faced Lewis Sargent as Huck. (Sargent was also featured in another 1920 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/huckleberry-finn-review-william-desmond-taylor/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2011 Highlights: Stephen Horne, Matti Bye Ensemble, Mont Alto Orchestra</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sfsff-stephen-horne-matti-bye-ensemble-mont-alto-orchestra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sfsff-stephen-horne-matti-bye-ensemble-mont-alto-orchestra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:58:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35142</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Terra Nova in Herbert G. Ponting's The Great White Silence A few words about the 2011 edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival: SFSFF 2011 was quite crowded; as a result, the programs sometimes started late, but they were always well organized. The choice of the venue couldn't be better. The Castro Theater is one of the few remaining original 1920s movie palaces [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sfsff-stephen-horne-matti-bye-ensemble-mont-alto-orchestra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Amazing Tales from the Archives: Orphan Films at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:41:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27438</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eugen Illés' The Fall of Jerusalem The 16th San Francisco Silent Film Festival first morning program, &#34;Amazing Tales from the Archives &#8211; The Archivist As Detective,&#34; presented the many problems identifying &#34;Orphan Films&#34; &#8212; unlabeled pieces of footage discovered in vaults or estates. The first example of such an orphan film was an excerpt from a movie determined to be Eugen Illés' 1922 German period [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amazing-tales-from-the-archives-orphan-films-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alexander Payne, Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27256</guid> <description><![CDATA[George O'Brien, Margaret Livingston in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise Election and Sideways director Alexander Payne, whose The Descendants is scheduled to open later this year, will be a guest presenter at the 2011 San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF). According to the SF Silent Film Festival's press release, Payne &#34;grew up watching silent films that he sent away for from the Blackhawk Films collection.&#34; Payne [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alexander-payne-kevin-brownlow-sf-silent-film/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks, Janet Gaynor, Lon Chaney: San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27137</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marlene Dietrich in Kurt Bernhardt's The Woman Men Yearn For Among the silent-film classics to be featured at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival are Victor Sjöström's He Who Gets Slapped (1924), starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert in the newly founded MGM studios' first production; five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown's The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Constance Bennett, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/marlene-dietrich-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2010: METROPOLIS, Norma Talmadge, Louise Brooks, John Ford</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/san-francisco-silent-film-festival-metropolis-louise-brooks/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/san-francisco-silent-film-festival-metropolis-louise-brooks/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:30:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24746</guid> <description><![CDATA[Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang's Metropolis (upper middle); George O'Brien (center) in John Ford's The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge in Sam Taylor and Henry King's The Woman Disputed (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicks off on July 15 with a screening of John Ford's The Iron Horse, at 7 p.m. at the Castro Theatre. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/san-francisco-silent-film-festival-metropolis-louise-brooks/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fritz Lang&#039;s METROPOLIS in Berlin and San Francisco</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:11:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22017</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Metropolis,&#34; reads a newsletter from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. &#34;The incredible discovery of long-lost footage from director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece. Found in a vault in Buenos Aires, the complete film has been reconstructed and restored by the F.W. Murnau Foundation.&#34; The restored 1927 silent classic starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Gustav Fröhlich had its premiere at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Abel Gance, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton: San Francisco Silent Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gance-chaney-keaton-san-francisco-silent-festival-998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gance-chaney-keaton-san-francisco-silent-festival-998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:57:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19364</guid> <description><![CDATA[Chang by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (top); J'accuse! by Abel Gance (middle); Lon Chaney in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar (bottom) Abel Gance's 1919 anti-war drama J'accuse! is the centerpiece of this winter's edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Castro Theater. The 162-minute, recently restored J'accuse!, which is having its US [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/gance-chaney-keaton-san-francisco-silent-festival-998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Buster Keaton, SUNRISE, THE CAT AND THE CANARY: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/buster-keaton-sunrise-san-francisco-silent-fest/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/buster-keaton-sunrise-san-francisco-silent-fest/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:30:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6405</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martha Mattox, Laura La Plante in The Cat and the Canary (top); Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will present a special series of screenings on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, at the Castro Theatre. The screening films are the Buster Keaton vehicle Our Hospitality (1923), the Russian comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927), F. W. Murnau's Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/buster-keaton-sunrise-san-francisco-silent-fest/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
