Movie Festivals

San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include the rare Ukrainian satire Pigs Will Be Pigs (banned in Nazi Germany) and Yasujiro Ozu’s homage to Hollywood gangster movies, Walk Cheerfully.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) titles include two super-rarities – Padlocked and Flowing Gold – the former starring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s muse Lois Moran.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will showcase Hollywood and international rarities, plus well-known silent era classics. Featured stars include Norma Shearer and Douglas Fairbanks.

2023 Cannes Film Festival winners: Molly Manning Walker’s directorial feature debut How to Have Sex was named the Un Certain Regard sidebar’s Best Film. Mia McKenna-Bruce stars.

Veteran actor Michael Douglas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. He is the eighth American to be accorded the honor (out of 17 recipients).

TCM Classic Film Festival: Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, and actor (and sometime director) George Clooney were among the Hollywood celebrities in attendance.

Cannes Film Festival 2023 has announced 19 eclectic titles in competition for the Palme d’Or, but the big story has been – and will likely remain – a high-profile U.S. …

Venice Film Festival Awards 2020: Is Frances McDormand on her way to a third Best Actress Oscar for her work in Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland?

The Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.

Cannes Winners Diane Kruger and Sofia Coppola Oscar Chances + bypassed but potential awards season contenders from Michael Haneke to Robert Pattinson.

Cannes Winners vs Oscar Nominations: Joaquin Phoenix and AIDS Drama that made Pedro Almodóvar sob plus rare Swedish Palme d’Or winner chances?

Mothers of Men (movie 1917) review: Remarkable women’s suffrage tale asks whether the female right to vote would destroy American society. Dorothy Davenport stars.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.

Around China with a Movie Camera (film 2015) review: British Film Institute compilation offers a magical window into long-gone Chinese sights.

L’Inhumaine (movie 1924) review: Uniquely modernistic Marcel L’Herbier silent mixes sex melodrama, revenge thriller and science fiction.

Venice Film Festival 2015 Jury: Oscar Winner Alfonso Cuarón President alongside The Hunger Games actress while Europeans dominate juries.

Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (movie 1913) review: Long-forgotten silent offers a rare look at black people’s lives in the early 20th century.

The Cave of the Silken Web (movie 1927) review: Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster remains intriguing thanks to its focus on some fierce women.

Ménilmontant (movie 1926) and Emak-Bakia (1927) reviews: Avant-Garde Paris’ memorable offerings for those willing to take a chance.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s ‘A Night at the Cinema in 1914’ was the second best thing to a time machine. World War I and Charles Chaplin featured.

The Girl in Tails (movie 1926) review: Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman show that to fight oppression women must stand up and scandalize.

Song of the Fishermen (movie 1934) review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.

Topics at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s Amazing Tales from the Archives included Fred Ott’s seminal ‘sneeze face’ and the technological Charles Chaplin.