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.
Buster Keaton
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As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 …
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The Doll (Movie 1919): Amusing Ernst Lubitsch Fantasy
4 minutes readThe Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.
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Comedy Actress Rediscovered: She Could Be Chaplin!
12 minutes readComedy Actress Rediscovered: She Could Be Chaplin! But could she really? Interview with film historian Anthony Slide about rare female silent movie comedian.
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Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert: Pulitzer winner, TV star-critic, humanistic Twitter voice has died Roger Ebert, probably the best known movie critic in the United States, died earlier today in Chicago, …
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Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be …
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Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa Collaboration + Piper Laurie and Ernest Borgnine Return
15 minutes readBarbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa ‘Vision’: Hildegard von Bingen in L.A. Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film …
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar + Raquel Welch Classic Movie Picks
19 minutes readKareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Osborne: Classic movie selections on TCM. Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in …
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Abel Gance Anti-War Classic + Lon Chaney: SFSFF
11 minutes readJ’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.
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‘Happy Holidays’: Q&A with Filmmaker James C. Ferguson
8 minutes readIt’s always good to hear when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen – as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson, …
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National Film Registry: Lesbian Western & Asian-American Musical among entries which also include movies by Erich von Stroheim, Elia Kazan + John Huston.
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The General of the Army: Buster Keaton and his train. Bridge insurance needed but not required. Considered by many Buster Keaton’s masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made, …
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Marcel Marceau: Shanks + Silent Movie Mime Artist
2 minutes readMarcel Marceau: World-renowned mime artist dead at 84 Mime artist Marcel Marceau died in Cahors, France, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. The cause of death was not immediately known. Marceau …
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Anita Page: The Last Surviving Silent Film Star
33 minutes readBack in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In …
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New York Movie: Classic Cinema Set in The Big Apple
3 minutes readThe Crowd with James Murray and Eleanor Boardman: King Vidor’s working-class classic. The sidebar “The Silent City: New York in the Movies, 1898-1928” will accompany Film Forum’s (website) NYC NOIR …
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The Talmadge Sisters Norma and Constance: Unfairly neglected silent era superstars return in sophisticated comedies Her Sister from Paris and Kiki.
Remembering a Forgotten ‘Hollywood Hero’
Film historian Anthony Slide wearing Tom Mix’s hat in 1976. ‘Hollywood Hero’ John Dewar remembered Perhaps I have been around too long, but as I grow older I grow despondent …
Silent era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge at Norma’s Santa Monica beach house. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are the stars of two recent Kino International releases. Talmadges who? Well, …
The 13th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival (KSFF) will be held on Feb. 27 and 28, 2009, at the White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kansas. …
Examples of extravagance in the world’s film capital: The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. The Hollywood Book of Extravagance. How do you write something with that sort of title without falling …
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