The annual San Francisco Silent Movie Competition continues to be a mainstay within the annual Bay Space movie panorama and attracts throngs from around the globe and showcases silent movie classics. It’s all the time the discuss of the city when it rolls round.
However for East Bay and South Bay followers, this yr’s occasion is all that extra particular because the Orinda Theatre can be internet hosting all of its 22 packages, Nov. 12-Nov. 16. Looks like an applicable spot on condition that the East Bay neighborhood of Niles in Fremont was the location of Essanay Studios the place silent star icon Charlie Chaplin filmed a few of his classics, together with 1915’s “The Tramp.”
Talking of Chaplin, his 1925 comedy “The Gold Rush” opens the fest at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12. The timeless gem celebrates its centennial and is full of one iconic scene after one other. It’ll be offered with musical accompaniment by Timothy Brock who can be conducting the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra. (All packages function stay music accompaniment).
You may’t go flawed with any movies on this lineup, which embrace restorations, three of that are a part of the fest’s new preservation initiative.
Listed below are two goodies we suggest:
“Beau Geste” (1926): Director Herbert Brenon’s tackle novelist P.C. Wren’s journey basic is epic in each manner – scope, scale and emotion. In it, three brothers from England be part of the French Overseas Legion and ultimately sq. off with different legionnaires within the Sahara. It screens at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13 and has been restored and appears spectacular.
“Go West” (1925): Along with Chaplin, Buster Keaton was one of the influential silent movie period comedians/filmmakers, a grasp at bodily comedy. His “Go West” closes out the competition at 7:15 p.m. Nov. 16 and is an absolute delight as a man named “Friendless” (Keaton) does discover a chum within the type of a cow that’s going through an unsure destiny.
For tickets and a full lineup, go to silentfilm.org.
