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BABYLON

December 28, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BABYLON

In BABYLON, Damien Chazelle has given us several films about the last hurrah of silent films and the birth of synchronized sound. Some of them are good, some of them are muddled, and one of them is superb.  Chazelle’s ambitious attempt to encapsulate a time and place provokes respect for the effort, even when it… Read More »

Tagged With: Clara Bow, Elinor Glyn, high art, Hollywood, Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, low art, orgy, silent film, talkies

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

February 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

If you had to sum up what it’s like to talk with Elliot Lavine, cinema programmer extraordinaire, scholar of film history and engaging raconteur, it might be the moment when an emergency vehicle went by the room where I was interviewing him on February 17, 2106. While ruminating on studio policies about film restoration, he… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Al Capone, Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. DeMille, censorship, cinema history, cultural upheaval, DOWNSTAIRS, economic upheaval, Edward G. Robinson, film history, FREAKS, gambling addiction, GONE WITH THE WIND, Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Irving Pichel, Joan Blondell, John Gilbert, Lee Garmes, licentiousness, Louis B. Meyer, miscegenation, Paul Muni, pre-code Hollywood, race relations, SAFE IN HELL, SCARFACE, Sessue Hayakawa, sex addiction, Tallulah Bankhead, THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, THE CHEAT, THREE ON A MATCH, Todd Browning, TWO SECONDS, WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, WIlliam Wellman

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

Robert Osborne, Charlie Tabesh, and Turner Classic Movies

September 1, 2014 By 1 Comment

Robert Osborne, Charlie Tabesh, and Turner Classic Movies

There are many reasons to love the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. In 2007, it was because they honored Charles Tabesh, Turner Classic Movies Senior Vice President of Programming and New Media, and Robert Osborne, the cable channel’s on-air host whose wealth of knowledge about films, film history, and film folk, may be inexhaustible.  It’s certainly nothing less than… Read More »

Tagged With: cable television, Charlie Tabesh, film festival, Hollywood attitudes on race and gender, interviewing legends, Jane Fonda, John Gilbert, programming film, Robert Osborne, Rudolph Valentino, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

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