San Francisco Silent Film Festival wrapped

NEWS from SF SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

June 10, 2014

IT'S A WRAP! IT WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD!

SF Silent Film Festival 2014, our 19th, concluded on Sunday night June 1 with Buster Keaton's deliriously funny The Navigator accompanied by the Matti Bye Ensemble. It was the icing on the cake of a delicious weekend that started with Rudolph Valentino's scintillating tango in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Opening night was accompanied by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra who celebrated their 25th Anniversary together at the festival. 

We were pleased to host many celebrated guests from around the world including Serge Bromberg from Lobster Films, Paris; Bryony Dixon from BFI, London; Martin Koerber from Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin; Fernando Peña from Museo de Arte in Buenos Aires; Céline Ruivo from Cinémathèque Française, Paris; Patrick Stanbury from Photoplay, London; among many others! And delighted to welcome back our wonderful group of international musicians--Guenter Buchwald (Germany), Stephen Horne (UK), Matti Bye Ensemble (Sweden), Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (US), and Donald Sosin (US). We were even able to bring two more musicians into the SFSFF fold this year--Frank Bockius (Germany) and Sascha Jacobsen (US).

And we are thrilled at the triumphant restoration of 1916's The Good Bad Man with Douglas Fairbanks, spearheaded by our very own Rob Byrne and Tracey Goessel with the Cinémathèque Française. Kevin Brownlow calls the restoration "practically perfect!" 

2014 was our most ambitious Festival yet, with 19 programs featuring films from 7 different countries. Beautiful images accompanied by glorious music played live by supremely talented musicians, attended by superb audiences. Yes, thank you, our wonderful audience for making SFSFF possible!

And now's your chance to give us feedback. We'd love to hear what you have to say. Take our SHORT SURVEY HERE. You'll have the chance to win a prize!

OUR FRIENDS AT MUBI...

In collaboration with SFSFF, our friends at MUBI are showing the Swedish classic The Saga of Gosta Berling, starring Greta Garbo with accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble! Based in the Bay Area, MUBI is a global online platform (also on iPad and Android) for classic, international, and independent cinema, and they're offering an extended 30-day free trial to SFSFF film lovers. To see Garbo in one of her first roles-and much more!-you can sign up at mubi.com/sfsilent. There are many beautiful silents among their great selection of world cinema!

EAT DRINK FILMS 

All the good things in life are celebrated at the new online magazine Eat Drink Films run by Bay Area film maven and bon vivant Gary Meyer. We advise you to check it out!

And once again, thanks to all who supported SF Silent Film Festival 2014!

GRANTORS

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Grants for the Arts: San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission

PARTNER and CULTURAL SPONSORS

McRoskey Mattress Company, Wells Fargo, Leather Gloves by Fratelli Orsini, Movette, 

 Iron Mountain Entertainment Services, Haghefilm Digitaal BV

Cinémathèque Française, Consulate General of France in San Francisco, Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco, French American Cultural Society, German Consulate General in San Francisco

Cartwright Hotel, Hotel Abri, Hotel Monaco,  Hotel Rex, Hotel Zetta, The Parsonage Bed & Breakfast Inn, Prescott Hotel, Queen Anne Hotel

EVENT PARTNERS

Abbey Party Rents, Absolutely Music, A.G. Ferrari, Anchor Brewing, Armin Hammer, Bartavelle, Bay Area Communications Access, Books Inc., Brickley Production Services, Café Flore, Chow, Dante's Table, Doughnut Dolly, Epic Wines, Ixia, La Méditeranée, Lovejoy's Tea Room, Mollie Stone's, Pica Pica, Poesia Osteria Italiana, Samovar Tea Lounge, 20th Century Cafe, Urban Bread

MEDIA and PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS

Amoeba Records, City Car Share, Fandor, KQED, Landmark Theatres, MUBI, SF Jazz, TCM

COPRESENTERS

Bay Area Women in Film & Media, BAM/PFA, Berlin & Beyond, California Film Institute, California Historical Society, Center for Asian American Media, Center for the Art of Translation, Exploratorium, Film Noir Foundation, Flicker Alley, Frameline, Goethe-Institut, Himalayan Film Festival, Metronome Dance Collective, MiDNiTES for MANiACS, National Film Preservation Foundation, Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, REI, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco Film Society, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco Treasure Hunts

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