The Doll (1919) movie review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) stars.
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Amazing Tales from the Archives: SFSFF spotlights unusual movie audio system, pioneering female documentarian and memorably inventive comedy fantasies.
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Mothers of Men (1917) movie review: Remarkable women’s suffrage tale asks whether the female right to vote would destroy American society.
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The Strongest (1929) movie review: The first feature (co-)directed by Alf Sjöberg is a visually splendid Arctic adventure that moves at glacial speed.
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Around China with a Movie Camera (2015) review: British Film Institute compilation offers a magical window into long-gone Chinese sights.
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L’Inhumaine (1924) movie review: Uniquely modernistic Marcel L’Herbier silent mixes sex melodrama, revenge thriller and science fiction.
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Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913) movie review: Long-forgotten silent offers a rare look at black people’s lives in the early 20th century.
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The Donovan Affair (1929) movie review: Frank Capra’s largely forgotten first all-talkie is now a silent. Jack Holt and Agnes Ayres star.
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Ménilmontant and Emak-Bakia movie reviews: Avant-Garde Paris’ memorable offerings for those willing to take a chance.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
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Midnight Madness (1928) movie review: One hour of unadulterated fluff fails to justify the titillating title. Clive Brook and Jacqueline Logan star.
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The Girl in Tails (1926) movie review: Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman show that to fight oppression women must stand up and scandalize.
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Song of the Fishermen (1934) movie review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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The SFSFF’s Amazing Tales from the Archives featured two fascinating topics: Finding Douglas Fairbanks’ The Half-Breed and early movie sound technology.
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The Canadian (1926) movie review: Thomas Meighan and its rugged Alberta setting are the key reasons to check out William Beaudine’s rural drama.
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With its focus on digital technologies and the restoration of a 1964 Best Picture Oscar nominee, this year’s Amazing Tales from the Archives weren’t all that great.
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South (1919) movie review: Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his landmark Antarctic expedition are depicted in beautiful and harrowing detail.
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Huckleberry Finn movie: Lewis Sargent toplines sentimental William Desmond Taylor effort. Huckleberry Finn (1920) movie review: Huckleberry Finn movie review: Sentimental Fare Directed by Eventual Murder Victim Directed by William…
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Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis (upper middle); George O’Brien (center) in John Ford’s The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge…
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert,…
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The Man Who Laughs with Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova. The 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), to be held at the Castro Theater throughout the July 11-13 weekend,…
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The 2007 San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will be held at the Castro Theatre on July 13–15. Among the festival’s highlights are: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old…
San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.
The Cave of the Silken Web (1927) movie review: Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster remains intriguing thanks to its focus on some fierce women.
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.
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.
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) Movie Review: Emil Jannings Hams It Up in Uninspired Ernst Lubitsch Epic
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) movie review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic.
J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
The 11th San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater begins this Friday, July 14. The three-day festival will include screenings of Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927 - Friday,…