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Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films talks paternal influences, cocktail-swilling elephants, and when a lobster is not a lobster.

May 26, 2015 By 1 Comment

Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films talks paternal influences, cocktail-swilling elephants, and when a lobster is not a lobster.

Serge Bromberg, courtesy of the company he founded, Lobster Films, has been discovering and restoring films from the silent era through the 1960s for 25 years. The excuse for myinterview (I’ve wanted to talk to him for years) was his imminent appearance at the 20th anniversary of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which had… Read More »

Tagged With: 1920s Paris, Buster Keaton, Charley Bowers, cinema, cinema history, film archivist, film historian, film preservation, film restoration, French Surrealists, Lobster Films, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Serge Bromberg, silent film

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

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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