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.
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Porgy and Bess film: Costly and controversial + hard-to-find black musical version of Gershwin Broadway hit is most notable LoC National Registry entry.
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Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of …
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Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel …
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Noah’s Ark with George O’Brien, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, and Paul McAllister. Of all the films from that magical moment when silent movies merged into sound, nothing is as effective …
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Castro Theatre special screenings: ‘Haunted house’ horror-comedy The Cat and the Canary + Oscar-winning Sunrise + unique Soviet comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford On Valentine’s Day 2009, Feb. 14, …
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Diseuse Berta Singerman and Luana Alcañiz in Nothing More Than a Woman. The 1934 melodrama Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, a unique sample of …
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Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise, an early Academy Award winner directed by F. W. Murnau. Berlin Film Festival: Women in Silent Films The Retrospective sidebar of the 2007 …
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Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film …
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 …
Essential movies from long ago Film historian Kevin Brownlow re: essential movies from the silent era in the Sunday Times (image: Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise.) “This year …