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2022 Silent Film Festival — Artistic Director Anita Monga Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

2022 Silent Film Festival — Artistic Director Anita Monga Interview

After what I call a two-year pandemic pause, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns for its 25th year of showcasing the rich legacy of film history from the time before movies spoke. When I talked via Zoom with the festival’s Artistic Director, Anita Monga, on April 30 2022, we discussed the amazing range of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Blind Husbands, Booth Tarkington, Buster Keaton, Castro Theatre, DJ Spooky, Dziga Vertov, Erich Von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Foolish Wives, German expressionism, Julien Duvivier, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Library of Congress, Lobster Films, Max Linder, Natacha Rambova, Nazimova, Oscar Wilde, RE-Birth of a Nation, Russian Civil War, Serge Bromberg, silent film, Timothy Brock, Ukraine, World Food Kitchen

2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival — Anita Monga Interview

May 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival — Anita Monga Interview

I always look forward to my annual interview with Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A genteel woman with a sly sense of humor and a wealth of knowledge about cinema history, she never fails to delight in both her conversation and the dynamic cross-section of films that she programs… Read More »

Tagged With: Ana Pavlova, Anita Monga, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, Cecil B. DeMille, cinema history, Cinémathèque Française, Clara Bow, D.W. Griffith, DJ Spooky, Douglas Fairbanks, Ernst Lubitsch, film preservation, film restoration, Georges Meliès, Harold Lloyd, Library of Congress, Lois Weber, Max Fleischer, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Robeson, Rob Byrne, Serge Bromberg, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, THE FRESHMAN, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Universal Pictures

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

June 1, 2016 By 1 Comment

Anita Monga on the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Few people speak about silent cinema with such authority and such affection as Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. When we spoke on May 16, 2016, it was to discuss not just the dynamic slate of films at this year’s festival, its 21st, but also the work that the festival… Read More »

Tagged With: Abel Gance, Albatross Studios, Anthony Asquith, BFI, Bryony Dixon, Castro Theatre, cinema history, Cinemateque Francais, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Emil Jannings, Ernst Lubitsch, film history, film restoration, Guenter Buchwald, Hal Roach, Hayes Code, John Mirsalis, Laurel and Hardy, Louise Brooks, Nanook of the North, Oakland Symphony chorus, Oscar Micheaux, Ozu, pie fight, Pola Negri, Rene Clair, Rob Byrne, San Francisco, silent cinema, silent film, Silent Film Festival, The Battle of the Century, Universal Pictures, Within Our Gates

20 Years of Glorious Silence — Anita Monga on the 2015 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

May 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

20 Years of Glorious Silence — Anita Monga on the 2015 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, is a treasure trove of all things to do with silent cinema. Every time I talk with her, I learn something new, and every year at the festival that she oversees so lovingly, I see a selection of films that are the perfect distillation… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American cinema, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Anita Monga, avante-garde, BEN-HUR, Bert Williams, BFI, Blanche Sweet, Boris Karloff, British Film Institute, Bruce Goldstein, Carl Davis, Castro Theatre, CAVE OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Charley Bowers, Cinematique Francaise, Clarence Brown, Colleen Moore, Dimitri Kirsanoff, EarPlay, EMAK-BAKIA, Film Forum, Frank Capra, Greta Garbo, Hearst Castle, John Gilbert, Julia Morgan, Knut Hamsun, Lars Hansen, LIME KILN CLUB FIELD DAY, Louis B Mayer. Matti Bye Ensemble, Lusitania, Man Ray, MÉNILMONTANT, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, NORRTULLSLIGAN, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama Pacific International Exhibition, Paul McGann, Pauline Kael, PPIE, Rob Byrne, San Francisco earthquake, Serge Bromberg, SF Silent Film Festival, silent film, Stephen Horne, Surrealists, Technicolor, THE ARTIST, THE DEADLIER SEX, THE DONOVAN AFFAIR, THE GHOST TRAIN, VISAGE D’ENFANTS, WHEN THE EARTH TREMBLED, William Gillette, William Randolph Hearst

Anita Monga Unveils the 2012 SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Anita Monga Unveils the 2012 SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

Anita Monga’s enthusiasm for silent film is infectious. When I spoke to her on July 3, 2012 about the 17th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, we started with why it was one of the few places to see what Victor Fleming and Ernst Lubitsch were up to before films began to speak. We went… Read More »

Tagged With: A TRIP TO THE MOON, Anita Monga, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, film restoration, George Melies, Hugh Hefner, Louise Brooks, Pandora's Box, Paul McGann, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Sr., The It Girl, THE MARK OF ZORRO, WIlliam Wellman, WINGS

Anita Monga and the 2013 Silent Film Festival Winter Program

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Anita Monga and the 2013 Silent Film Festival Winter Program

For Anita Monga, silent film is more than just a quaint curiosity. It’s as vibrant and immediate an art form as any other, as well as the mainspring of modern cinema. When I spoke to her on February 1, 2013, she pointed this out with something I had not thought of before. The first section… Read More »

Tagged With: Anita Monga, Buster Keaton, Castro Theater, cinema, cinema history, Douglas Farirbanks, Faust, film festival, Mary Pickford, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, silent film, Snow White, WALL-E, Walt Disney

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