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News: February 12, 2010

Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS

15th Anniversary Festival
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Newly Restored METROPOLIS!

Dear Friend of the Silent Film Festival,

Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about METROPOLIS: the incredible discovery of long-lost footage from director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece. Found in a vault in Buenos Aires, the complete film has been reconstructed and restored by the F.W. Murnau Foundation and has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival today, February 12.

The surprise is that we will present the San Francisco screening of this gorgeous and complete restored version at our 15th Anniversary festival in July, accompanied by the world-renouned Alloy Orchestra!

We are thrilled to be able to bring this to you and cannot wait to celebrate METROPOLIS as both a silent masterpiece and a testament to the value of film preservation.

In preparation for announcing the complete program schedule of our 15th Anniversary festival (July 15-18), we are updating our mailing list.

If you’ve moved, or if you don’t receive snail mail from us and would like to, please send your current address to info@sffs.org. (If you have been receiving Silent Film Festival mail, no need to respond – you’re on our list!)

Stay tuned for more announcements and updates! And don’t forget to visit our blog!

Warm Regards,
Stacey, Anita, Jeremy, and Lucia

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
833 Market Street, Suite 812
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel 415-777-4908; fax 415-777-4904
stacey@silentfilm.org

BECOME A MEMBER

By making your annual membership contribution today, you’ll receive discounts on admissions and party tickets for our 15th Anniversary Silent Film Festival in July and our Winter Event!! To renew, become a member, or review member levels and benefits, please click here.

OTHER SILENT FILM FESTIVAL NEWS

Our 15th Anniversary Silent Film Festival will be July 15-18, 2010. That’s right, we’re adding a day, and six programs! Make sure to mark your calendar now for our most ambitious and thrilling festival yet!

SFSFF ON THE WEB

Visit our new blog!

Become our fan on Facebook!

Check out the “Archive” page on our website for essays on past films we have presented. It is still a work-in-progress, but all of the essays will be online before too long.

UPCOMING SILENT FILMS IN THE BAY AREA

Oakland East Bay Symphony

At the Paramount Theatre in Oaland
Friday, March 19, 8pm
Sunday, March 21, 2pm
THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1926)
Live organ accompaniment by Christoph Bull

For more information please visit the Oakland Symphony website.

Pacific Film Archive

Before “Capraesque”: Early Frank Capra
January 16, 2010 - February 27, 2010

Sunday, February 14
2:00 THE MATINEE IDOL (Frank Capra, 1928)
Introduced by Joseph McBride
Judith Rosenberg on piano

Saturday, February 20
6:30 THE WAY OF THE STRONG (Frank Capra, 1928)
Judith Rosenberg on piano

Friday, February 26
7:00 SO THIS IS LOVE (Frank Capra, 1928)
Bruce Loeb on piano

Please visit the PFA website for complete program information.

Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Every Saturday at 7:30pm

Please visit the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum website for complete program information.

We are pleased to be able to bring you information about silent film screenings in the Bay Area and we thank our members for making it possible. To make a membership contribution in support of our activities, please visit our website or call our Development Director, Jeremy O’Neal at 415.777.4908.

About the organization:

The Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization promoting the artistic, cultural, and historic value of silent film. Silent filmmakers produced masterpieces and crowd-thrilling entertainments. Remarkable for their artistry and their inestimable value as historical documents, silent films show us how our ancestors thought, spoke, dressed and lived. It is through these films that the world first came to love movies, and learned how to appreciate them as art. They have influenced every generation of filmmakers, and continue to inspire audiences nearly a century after they were made.

The 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival will take place at the Castro Theatre July 15-18, 2010.

For information, please visit our event page in late May, 2010

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