SF Silent Film Festival 2018 Program

§ San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2018 Program
Castro Theatre

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

7:00 pm
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
111 minutes | USA | 1928 | d. Paul Leni
Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

9:00 pm
Opening Night Party
McRoskey Mattress Company

Thursday, May 31, 2018

10:00 am
Amazing Tales from the Archives
100 minutes | Free
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin

1:00 pm
SOFT SHOES
With short: Detained (1924, d. Scott Pembroke, starring Stan Laurel, 17 m.)
45 minutes / with short: 62 minutes | USA | 1925 | d. Lloyd Ingraham
Donald Sosin

2:45 pm
MASTER OF THE HOUSE (DU SKAL ÆRE DIN HUSTRU)
107 minutes | Denmark | 1925 | d. Carl Th. Dreyer
Stephen Horne

5:15 pm
AN INN IN TOKYO (TÔKYÔ NO YADO)
80 minutes | Japan | 1935 | d. Yasujirô Ozu
Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

7:15 pm
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG)
73 minutes | Germany | 1930 | d. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

9:15 pm
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS (GARDIENS DE PHARE)
83 minutes | France | 1929 | d. Jean Grémillon
Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

Friday, June 1, 2018

10:00 am
GOOD REFERENCES
60 minutes | USA | 1920 | d. Roy William Neill
Donald Sosin

12:00 noon
THE OTHER WOMAN’S STORY
65 minutes | USA | 1925 | d. B.F. Stanley
Stephen Horne

2:00 pm
SILENT AVANT-GARDE
From the collection of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Films
70 minutes
Matti Bye Ensemble

4:15 pm
ROSITA
90 minutes | USA | 1923 | d. Ernst Lubitsch
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

6:30 pm
MOTHER KRAUSE’S JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS (MUTTER KRAUSENS FAHRT INS GLÜCK)
133 minutes | Germany | 1929 | d. Piel Jutzi
Sascha Jacobsen and the Musical Art Quintet

9:30 pm
POLICEMAN (KEISATSUKAN)
121 minutes | Japan | 1933 | d. Tomu Uchida
Stephen Horne

Saturday, June 2, 2018

10:00 am
NO MAN’S GOLD
65 minutes | USA | 1926 | d. Lewis Seiler
Donald Sosin and Frank Bockius

12:00 noon
MARE NOSTRUM
111 minutes | USA | 1926 | d. Rex Ingram
Kevin Brownlow Celebration
Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

2:45 pm
TRAPPOLA
With short: San Francisco, 1906
52 minutes, with short: 62 minutes | Italy | 1922 | d. Eugenio Perego
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

4:30 pm
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE)
65 minutes | Germany | 1929 | d. Richard Oswald
Guenter Buchwald Ensemble

7:00 pm
THE SAGA OF GÖSTA BERLING (GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA)
200 minutes | Sweden | 1924 | d. Mauritz Stiller
There will be a 30-minute intermission at approximately 8:45 pm
Matti Bye Ensemble

Sunday, June 3, 2018

10:00 am
SERGE BROMBERG PRESENTS
65 minutes | A selection of short silents from Lobster Films
Donald Sosin

12:00 noon
A THROW OF DICE (PRAPANCHA PASH)
74 minutes | India | 1929 | d. Franz Osten
Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

2:15 pm
THE ANCIENT LAW (DAS ALTE GESETZ)
129 minutes | Germany | 1923 | d. E.A. Dupont
Donald Sosin Ensemble with Alicia Svigals

5:30 pm
FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (OBLOMOK IMPERII)
109 minutes | USSR | 1929 | d. Fridrikh Ermler
Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

8:00 pm
BATTLING BUTLER
74 minutes | USA | 1926 | d. Buster Keaton
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra