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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

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

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