SFSFF presents the 21st annual San Francisco Silent Film
Festival June 2–5 at SF’s landmark movie palace, the Castro Theatre. The
program features a diverse and lively schedule of silent-era films, all with
live musical accompaniment by accomplished musicians from around the world.
This year’s program is brimming with new film restorations, including five
titles SFSFF has had a direct hand in restoring. Special guest presenters
include Illeana Douglas and Leonard Maltin. The 2016 San Francisco Silent Film
Festival Award will be presented to film writer and historian David Robinson,
who recently retired from his longtime job as director of the Giornate del
Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy.
For complete details, visit silentfilm.org
Closing Night Presentation
WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY
8:30 pm
Directed by Victor Fleming | USA, 1919 | 85 m.
With Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford,
Frank Campeau
In one of his last “Coat and Tie” comedies before becoming the
screen’s most dashing swashbuckler, Douglas Fairbanks plays the frantically
superstitious Daniel Boone Brown, the unwitting specimen of a nefarious
doctor’s hypnosis experiment. Fairbanks is as kinetic as ever, being driven
literally up the walls. Enchanting and often surreal, this comedy also marks Gone
with the Wind director Victor Fleming’s first feature at the helm.
Live musical accompaniment by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
Ticket and Pass Information
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will take place at the
Castro Theatre, June 2–5, 2016. For more information and to purchase tickets
and passes, go to silentfilm.org
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
145 Ninth Street, Suite 230
San Francisco, CA 94103
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