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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

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