Sunrise Articles

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 "grew up watching silent films that he sent away for from the Blackhawk Films collection." Payne [...]

Jean Simmons, Paul Newman in Until They Sail Jean Simmons, who died this past January, was remembered in this year's In Memoriam segment at the 2010 Oscar ceremony. Well, great. Simmons was a fantastic actress. As far as I'm concerned, she stole Hamlet from Laurence Olivier, Elmer Gantry from Burt Lancaster, and Spartacus from Kirk Douglas. But why an image of Jennifer Jones in The [...]

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg FILM Breakfast at Sunrise d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger The Enemy d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings The Unknown d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: [...]

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 [...]