#silent film festival

[filmnoirfoundation]

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival starts tonight at the Castro Theatre and runs through July 16. We are proud to be co-presenting, with the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Martin Frič's The Organist at St. Vitus Cathedral (Varhaník U Svateho Víta), on Saturday, July 15, 3:00 PM. FNF prez Eddie Muller will introduce the screening. In this 1929 Czechoslovakian film, an aging organist witnesses the suicide of an unknown man. Before his death, the dying man handed him an envelope with money for his daughter, who lives in a convent. He hides the man's body. Unfortunately for him, an unscrupulous neighbor witnesses his actions and blackmails him, threatening to report him for murder. DCP from film material preserved by Národní Filmový Archive, Prague. Dutch composer and pianist Maud Nelissen will provide accompaniment. She has earned international acclaim performing live and recording both solo and with her ensemble, The Sprockets.

Tickets available here.

[travsd]

The Broncho Billy Silent Film Fest Returns!

The Broncho Billy Silent Film Fest Returns!

Ten Days From Today! The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum brings its annual Broncho Billy and Friends Silent Film Festival back to real world 3 dimensional space at its brick and mortar home in in Niles, California. Highlights include films of Broncho Billy and Alkali Ike and other silent westerns, a tribute to the late Baby Peggy, a screening of Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances, a presentation by…

[gianttankeh]

Sonic Bothy Ensemble at HippFest, The Hippodrome, Bo'ness: 22/3/23.

The Sonic Bothy will perform a live soundtrack to the 1918 film 'The Blue Bird' at the opening night of this year's HippFest in Bo'ness. You can find view the festival's five day programme here, buy tickets to the event here or, if unable to join in person, stream the Ensemble's performance at 7:30pm online here.

[chadwickswidowspeak]

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance as June and Jennifer Gibbons

The Silent Twins, 2022, dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska

[joelkinnamanfansilvia]

Day 2 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Joel attends the red carpet for 'Silent Night' during the Red Sea International Film Festival on December 1, 2023.

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #287 - The Gorilla (1927)

[drsonnet]

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

Directed by : Nebojša SLIJEPCEVIC Year of production: 2024 Country: Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia Duration: 14

The Štrpci massacre was the massacre of 19 civilians (18 Bosniaks and one Croat) on 27 February 1993, taken from a Belgrade-Bar train at Štrpci railway station [pl] near Višegrad, on Bosnian territory. Štrpci massacre - Wikipedia

The Strpci Train Abductions: Oral History of a Bosnian Atrocity :

The Strpci Train Abductions: Oral History of a Bosnian Atrocity | Balkan Insight

Solidarity Stories #4: Yugoslav Officer Confronts Serb Fighters During Abductions

Bosnia Train Massacre: Cannes Film Hails ‘Forgotten Hero’ Who Confronted Killers

Bosnia Train Massacre: Cannes Film Hails 'Forgotten Hero' Who Confronted Killers | Balkan Insight

OMG:

‘Man, they took all the Muslims off the train’

#Bosnia

في 27 فبراير 1993 ، ستربتشي ، البوسنة والهرسك. أوقفت القوات شبه العسكرية قطار ركاب من بلغراد إلى بار في عملية تطهير عرقي. وبينما ينقلون المدنيين الأبرياء، يجرؤ رجل واحد فقط من بين 500 راكب على الوقوف في وجههم. هذه هي القصة الحقيقية لرجل لم يستطع التزام الصمت.

[silentlondon]

San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2024: exposure to the shadows of the past

I was looking for Yoda when I bumped into Eadweard Muybridge. These are the circles film history moves in. This year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the 27th, took place in the grandeur of the theatre of the Palace of Fine Arts, an elegant neo-classical folly of gigantic proportions, built as a temporary attraction for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition and then rebuilt in more permanent…

[theodoradove]

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is next week!!

I have an extra VIP pass which I am happy to share with anyone who would like to attend any or all of the films.

[friendlessghoul]

At first annual George Eastman Festival of Film Arts in Rochester, New York, 1956

[davidhudson]

It’s on.

[blackandwhlteaesthetlc]

I love Florence not giving that movie and experience one moment of her time anymore but I do hope a few years in the future she feels comfortable to spill some teaaaaa

Anon, can you imagine? 💀

I’m soooo curious (read: nosy) too. But yknow I think this is actually the best approach for her. She’s come out of this whole mess looking classy, cool and professional (which I’m sure only serves to infuriate some people that can continue to remain irrelevant). As much as I’d love for Florence to publicly spill somewhere down the line, I don’t think that would do her any good even if it were to be years from now. If anything, it would just give those same people more headlines/attention/exposure. Which I’m sure is exactly what they’re craving but Florence has been very smart not to engage. For me, her silence really speaks volumes.

[pacingmusings]

New York Film Festival 2023:

La Roue (Abel Gance), 1923

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 22, 2009, A Trip to the Moon was screened at the Athens Film Festival.

Here's some new fan art!

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #288 - The Red Mark

[busterkeatonsociety]

#ThrowbackThursday Damfino Paul Richard shared this programme from 1970 - the Brighton Film Theatre played Keaton films with live piano accompaniment over 42 days that summer.  We’d love to know if any of you were lucky enough to have attended!