San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrates 24 years of live-cinema, presenting silent-era films with live musical accompaniment, at San Francisco’s movie palace Castro Theatre. The festival features five glorious days of dazzling silent-era movies set to extraordinary music by a diverse group of musicians from around the world!
This year’s program features many new film restorations, including one by SFSFF in partnership with Photoplay Productions, Clarence Brown’s The Signal Tower, 1924. Films from ten countries will be represented—Bali, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Sweden, US, and the USSR—as well as more than forty extraordinary musical accompanists.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrates 24 years of live-cinema, presenting silent-era films with live musical accompaniment, at San Francisco’s movie palace Castro Theatre. The festival features five glorious days of dazzling silent-era movies set to extraordinary music by a diverse group of musicians from around the world!
This year’s program features many new film restorations, including one by SFSFF in partnership with Photoplay Productions, Clarence Brown’s The Signal Tower, 1924. Films from ten countries will be represented—Bali, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Sweden, US, and the USSR—as well as more than forty extraordinary musical accompanists.
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