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Revisiting the Classics

George Heymont | Posted 04.17.2013 | Arts
Read More: Faust, Emil Jannings, Film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Gounod, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Doktor Faust, Pieter De Rooij, F.W. Murnau, Timothy Brock, Christian Elliott, La Damnation De Faust, Gosta Ekman, Arrigo Boito, Hector Berlioz, Marguerite Clark, Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Mefistofele, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival recently offered audiences a chance to wonder just how well they knew two classic tales which, over the years, have acquired so many cultural imprints and branding opportunities that people assume they know these stories upside down and inside out.

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Learning From the Masters

George Heymont | Posted 05.09.2013 | Arts
Read More: British Film Institute, Douglas Fairbanks, Film, Stephen Hough, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Mary Pickford, Alfred Hitchcock, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, F.W. Murnau, Rube Goldberg, One Week, Elgin Lessley, Sybil Seeley, Fatty Arbuckle, Silent Film Festival, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

If you want to see an example of creativity as "intelligence having fun," watch the opening sequence from 1920's The Scarecrow as the 5'6" Buster Keaton and 6'3" Joe Roberts sit down to one of the most elaborately choreographed breakfasts you will ever see in your life.

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On The Artist, The Lure of Nostalgia, and Ten Silent Movies Worth Talking Up

John Farr | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Metropolis, The Academy Awards, King Kong, The Artist, Margin Call, Battleship Potemkin, Martin Scorsese, The New York Times, G.W. Pabst, Best Movies on DVD, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Silent Film, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Silent Movie, Hugo, Thirteen/WNET, Louise Brooks, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, A.O. Scott, City Lights, Fritz Lang, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Just when you start believing there's no hope for anything daring and original coming out of Movieland, something gets released that surprises you. The Artist is one such movie -- and what's new about it is that it's old.

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G.W. Pabst: A Film Director for All Seasons

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Pandora?S Box, F.W. Murnau, Diary of a Lost Girl, G.W. Pabst, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Silent Film, Hollywood, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News
Thomas Gladysz

G.W. Pabst stands alongside Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau as one of the three great directors working in Germany during the silent film era. Pabst, however, has not always gotten the attention paid to his more celebrated colleagues.

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