Lupe Vélez in LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS
FESTIVAL UPDATES!
1. The 14th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival!
2. Become a Member/ Renew
3. The Complete Festival Schedule
4. How, When, and Where to buy tickets
5. Festival Hotel Arrangements
6. Co-presentation with 3rd i
7. Other Upcoming Silent Films
Dear Friend of The Silent Film Festival,
The 14th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival is just a couple days away and we hope to see you there!
The weekend begins and ends with the radiant Lupe Vélez - you won't want to miss the rare chance to see her in two glorious films on the big screen!
On Opening Night, the Douglas Fairbanks/ Vélez adventure The Gaucho will be accompanied by a new score by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra written expressly for us.
As a Spanish cabaret chanteuse, in our delightful Closing Night film Lady of the Pavements, Vélez is a pawn in a pygmalion-like ruse and captures the unsuspecting heart of a Prussian aristocrat (William Boyd – future “Hopalong Cassidy” star).
Film Historian and SFSFF friend Russell Merritt (with the help of musician Donald Sosin, Library of Congress, and other archives) has been behind the recovery of three of the six songs that were originally recorded for the film including Irving Berlin's "Where is the Song of Songs for Me?"
Our screening of Lady of the Pavements will be the first time the film has ever been presented with three of the original songs performed live!
Throughout the festival there will be an impressive line up of authors and special guests to sign books. Between the films, be sure to visit Books Inc. on the Castro mezzanine to peruse their inspiring array of books. Please visit our website to see a schedule of author signings.
Our complete festival program is listed below. Please note that some of the short films which accompany features have changed.
See you on Friday!
Warm Regards,
Stacey, Anita, Jeremy, and Jesse
PS -- Don't forget to buy raffle tickets this weekend to support the Silent Film Festival and try to win a $2,700 shopping spree from our friends at McRoskey Mattress Company!
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
833 Market Street, Suite 812
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel 415-777-4908; fax 415-777-4904
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14TH ANNUAL SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Friday July 10
7:00pm THE GAUCHO (1927, F. Richard Jones, USA)
Plus: Restored two-strip Technicolor Outtakes from THE GAUCHO
Live accompaniment by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Underwritten by McRoskey Mattress Company
Co-Presented by The Mexican Museum
Special Guests: Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta
9:30pm OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Live music, food and drinks!
Saturday July 11
10:00am AMAZING TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne
12:00 noon BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT (1926, King Vidor, USA) West Coast Premiere!
Plus short: THEY WOULD ELOPE (1909, D.W. Griffith) with Mary Pickford
Live accompaniment by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Underwritten by Friends of the Festival
2:30 WILD ROSE (1928, Sun Yu, China)
Live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
2009 Silent Film Festival Award Chinese Film Archive
Underwritten by Richard J. Meyer and Susan Harmon
5:00 UNDERWORLD (1927, Joseph Von Sternberg, USA)
Plus short: VOICE OF THE VIOLIN (1909, D.W. Griffith)
Live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne
Underwritten by Adam Rubinson
Co-presented by The Film Noir Foundation
7:30 THE WIND (1928, Victor Sjostrom, USA)
Plus shorts: THE TRICK THAT FAILED (1909, D.W. Griffith) with Mary Pickford
Live accompaniment by Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer
Special Guest: Leonard Maltin
9:45 AELITA. QUEEN OF MARS (1924, Yakov Protazanov, Russia)
Live accompaniment by Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer and Mark Goldstein on the Theremin and Buchla Lightning Sticks
Co-Presented by MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS
Sunday July 12
10:30am OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT (1927-28, Walt Disney, USA)
Live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Special Guests: Leonard Maltin and Leslie Iwerks
1:30 EROTIKON (1929, Gustav Machaty, Czechoslovakia)
Plus short: THE BARBER'S QUEER CUSTOMER (1900)
Live accompaniment by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
4:00 SO'S YOUR OLD MAN (1926, Gregory La Cava, USA)
Plus short: THEIR FIRST DIVORCE CASE (Mack Sennett, 1911)
Live piano accompaniment by Philip Carli
Underwritten by Wells Fargo
6:15 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein, 1928, France)
Plus short: GETTING EVEN (D.W. Griffith with Mary Pickford, 1909)
Live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne
Generous assistance provided by Consulate General of France
Co-Presented by San Francisco Film Society
8:15 LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS (1929, D.W. Griffith, USA)
Plus short: THE LESSER EVIL (1912, D.W. Griffith)
Live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
THE SILENT FILM PRESERVATION FELLOWSHIP
This fellowship was inaugurated in 2008 as an outgrowth of our commitment to film preservation. In collaboration with George Eastman Hose's L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, a recent graduate is invited to San Francisco to restore a rare short film or selected film footage at Monaco Digital Film Labs. The fellow then returns to the Festival the following year to attend the world premiere of the preserved film.
ADVANCE TICKETS
ONLINE (JUNE 1 – JULY 9)
MAIL & FAX
PHONE
1-800-838-3006 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
IN PERSON
Festival Passes ONLY can be purchased with
No Handling Fee at:
McRoskey Matress Company
1687 Market Street @ Gough
(415) 861-4532
NO ADVANCE TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE FESTIVAL OFFICE THIS YEAR
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JULY 10 - JULY 12
DAY-OF-SHOW/ WILL CALL
IN PERSON ONLY
Castro Theatre
Friday 5pm-7:30pm
Saturday 9am-10:15pm
Sunday 9:30am-8:45pm
CASH ONLY NO GROUP DISCOUNTS
Will Call located behind Castro Theatre Box Office
Photo ID required for pick up
NEED FESTIVAL HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS?
For those of you coming from out of town, or who want to spend the festival weekend in the city, we recommend our valued hotel sponsors:
QUEEN ANNE
1590 Sutter Street
800.227.3970
AMERICANIA
121 7th St.
415.626.0200
CARRIAGE INN
140 7th St.
415.552.8600
CATHEDRAL HILL HOTEL
1101 Van Ness Ave
1.800.622.0855
GALLERIA PARK HOTEL
191 Sutter Street
1.800.738.7477
GOOD HOTEL
112 7th St.
415.621.7001
Be sure to let them know that we sent you!
SFSFF CO-PRESENTATION
3rd i South Asian Independent Film presents
Snakes, Sirens and Vamps: A Short History of Early Indian Cinema
A talk illustrated with clips, by Anupama Kapse
(Live musical accompaniment for select clips)
Co-presented with The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco
$8 (Tickets at the door only)
3rd i is proud to bring you this opportunity, as part of its Speaker Series, to see rare excerpts from some of the earliest films from the subcontinent, including: India's film pioneer, D.G. Phalke's Kaliya Mardan (1919), about the exploits of a young Krishna; Gallant Hearts (1931), an adventure-romance modeled after The Thief of Baghdad (1924); films from the legendary Bombay Talkies studio; and early sound films like Achut Kanya (1936) and Aadmi (1939).
Anupama Kapse will provide an introduction to each film, and lead us through a short history of early Indian cinema, from the silent era into the arrival of sound on the Indian filmscape. Anupama will be joining Queens College as Assistant Professor, Media Studies this fall. Her doctoral thesis, The Moving Image: Melodrama and Early Cinema in India, 1913-1947 examines the genres of Indian silent cinema through a melodramatic lens.
Please visit the Third i website for more information
OTHER UPCOMING SILENT FILMS
Smith Rafael Film Center
Tuesday, July 14
7:15pm THE KID BROTHER
Live musical accompaniment by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Please visit the Smith Rafael Film Center website for complete program information.
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Saturdays 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 phone our office at 415.777.4908.
Chatelin Bruno 
