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Tagged with: Silent Film Festival

Screen Grabs: Monsters (and wonders) of history awaken

The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies,...

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

Screen Grabs: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Roma, The Favourite …

SCREEN GRABS This is no time for Christmas shopping, at least if you’re a film buff—not only is the genre festival Another Hole in the...

Arts Forecast: Green Thursday, Autumn Moon Fest, Comedy Day

ARTS FORECAST One of the great things about the tsunami of environmentalism hitting San Francisco this week is Green Thursday (Thu/13), during which a number of...

Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting …

SCREEN GRABS The big noise at multiplexes this weekend will be Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again—a title that could serve just as well...

Screen Grabs: Hot docs, silent classics, Bergman at 100 …

SCREEN GRABS Summer may have (let’s hope) arrived at last, but don’t let that stop you from staying indoors—particularly as two of the city’s most...

Silent is golden

SCREEN GRABS Particularly these days, a one-story building designated for commercial usage in space-hungry San Francisco is an unusual sight, so you may at...

SF Silent Film Festival screens for the times

By Dennis Harvey Every summer the Castro Theater fills with patrons — some of whom fly across the country or further for the occasion —...