the San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2009 Tribute to Alice Guy Be Natural

LOUISE BROOKS SOCIETY @ 2009-02-13 15:13:00
I am excited about tomorrows4th Annual Silent Film Winter Eventat the Castro Theater in San Francisco. The event is put on by the good folks at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival

A selection of shorts by pioneering female director Alice Guy Blache
will also be shown prior to each film.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Noon - OUR HOSPITALITY (1923)
Set against the drama of an age-old feud between two families, Buster Keaton's ingenious take on Romeo and Juliet is a laugh-out-loud parody of Southern hospitality, circa 1830. Upon learning he's inherited the ancestral estate, Buster takes the first train home to reclaim his heritage. Soon he's courting a sweetheart and dodging her family's bullets. Buster's daredevil rescue attempt above a waterfall is one of the all-time great movie stunts.
Live piano accompaniment by PHILIP CARLI
Directed by John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Ralph Bushman, Craig Ward, Buster Keaton Jr. (1 year old) 35mm Print Source: DourisCorporation
Preceded by short, Alice Guy Blache's THE DETECTIVE AND HIS DOG (1912)
2:40pm - A KISS FROM MARY PICKFORD (1927)
Co-Presented by The Mary Pickford Foundation and The San Francisco Film Society

Movie stardom gets a gleeful once-over in this madcap slapstick farce from Russia. Goga is a brash young ticket-taker smitten by aspiring actress Dusia, but she only has eyes for movie idols like Douglas Fairbanks. Goga decides to become a famous screen star himself, starting with a stunt man job at a movie studio. But when Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford arrive on a promotional tour, (with rare footage of the Hollywood couple which only exists in this film!) Goga gets all the fame he could ever want - at his own peril!
Live translation of Ukranian intertitles read by Steven Jenkins from San Francisco Film Society.
Written & Directed by Sergei Komarov Starring: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Igor Ilinsky and Anel Sudakevich 35mm Print Source: The Mary Pickford Institute

Preceded by short, Alice Guy Blanche's MATRIMONY'S SPEED LIMIT (1913)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
6:30pm - SUNRISE: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Co-Presented by Film Noir Foundation

One of the supreme artistic achievements of the silent era, SUNRISE is a timeless ode to the forces of love, desire, guilt and redemption. Director F. W. Murnau infuses his fable of a man, a temptress, and a wife with a lyrical, dreamlike intensity that makes for a heightened emotional experience you'll never forget. Recipient at the very first Academy Award ceremony in 1929 of the only Oscar ever given for Unique and Artistic Picture.
Live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer by DENNIS JAMES
Directed by F.W. Murnau Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston 35mm Print Source: 20th Century Fox
Preceded by short, Alice Guy Blache's FALLING LEAVES (1912)
9:30pm - THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927)
Co-Presented by MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS
At the stroke of midnight, the heirs of Cyrus West gather at his old dark house for the reading of the will. One of them will inherit his estate and take possession of the famous West diamonds - if they can survive the night without going insane. And wouldn't you know it, there's an escaped lunatic somewhere on the premises. Who shall live? Who shall die? In this thriller-chiller comedy, horror and hilarity lurk behind every secret panel! From the director of THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, our sold-out hit at this past summer's 2008 Festival!
Live accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer by DENNIS JAMES and Foley Artist, Mark Goldstein.
Directed by Paul Leni Starring: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall 35mm Print Source: Film Preservation Associates

Preceded by short, Alice Guy Blache's THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1913)
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Alice Guy Be Natural ©riginal by Alice Guy Jr.2009

Festivals Film muet 2009

Kansas Silent Film Festival

The Kansas Silent Film Festival takes place at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas 27-28 February 2009. The festival will include the US premiere of the rediscovered Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), starring John Gilbert.

A Festival of Silent Cinema Essex

A four day programme of silent films aiming to show exactly what these first films looked like and what the audience were seeing between 1896 and the late 1920s. To be held at the Electric Palace, Harwich, Essex, 7-10 May 2009.

Festival d’Anères

The 2009 Festival d’Anères in France takes place 27-31 May 2009.

Il Cinema Ritrovato

Bologna’s festival of restorations and resdiscoveries, Il Cinema Ritrovato, takes place 27 June-4 July 2009.

Capitolfest New York

Capitolfest, central New York’s silent and early talkie classic film festival takes place 7-9 August 2009 at the Capitol Theatre, Rome, NY.

Bonner Sommerkino Bonn

The Bonner Sommerkino festival of silent films in Bonn, Germeny, takes place 13-23 August 2009.

Giornate del Cinema Muto Pordenone

The Giornate del Cinema Muto, or Pordenone Silent Film Festival, takes place 3-10 October 2009.


The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
will present its forth-annual winter program on Valentines Day, February 14, 2009

Silent film Festival (now in its 7th year) in Karlsruhe
taking place January 22 to 25. 2009Link:
http://www.skuss.uni-karlsruhe.de/Film_und_Medien/Stummfilmtage_KA.htm

FESTIVAL FILM MUET ALICE GUY

FESTIVAL FILM MUET D'ALICE GUY SOLAX FILM

LITTLE TICH ET SES GRANDES BOTTES 1900 ALICE GUY CINEMA PIONEER WHITNEY MUSEUM 2009

LITTLE TICH ET SES GRANDES CHAUSSURES 1900 ALICE GUY BLACHE CINEMA PIONEER WHITNEY MUSEUM NEW YORK 2009

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4





Little Tich, about 1899 (finer copy)
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Harry Relph, known on the stage as 'Little Tich', (July 21, 1867 - February 10, 1928) was an English music hall comedian. Noted for his various characters, including The Spanish Senora, The Gendarme, and The Tax Collector, his most popular routine was his amazing Big Boot dance, which involved a pair of 28-inch boots. This act was preserved on film in 1900 by pioneering director Alice Guy. He was also popular as a pantomime dame; in one season he appeared with Marie Lloyd and Dan Leno also in the cast.

Harry was born at Cudham, now in the London Borough of Bromley, one of fifteen children to the landlord of the Blacksmith's Arms. He made his first stage appearance at the age of twelve at Rosherville Gardens, Gravesend. Anyone stout at that time earned the nickname of Tich (referring to the claimant in the Tichbourne Case), so Harry, only 4ft 6in (1.37m) in height became Little Tich.

He performed internationally, and at the age of 42 was made an officer of the French Academy, for his performances at the Folies Bergere. His final performance was at the London Alhambra Theatre in 1927, with Jack Hylton's Band, and he died at Hendon after a long illness in 1928.

He was a polydactyl, having five fingers and thumb on each hand, and six toes on both feet. Mementoes of his life are still preserved at the public house which was his place of birth.

Festival du film muet de Pordenone

Hanno scritto sulle Giornate / About the Pordenone Festival



Crazy Rays and Scattered Shadows – Lokke Heiss (Silent Era, June 2008)

The world’s leading international silent-film festival, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, presented annually in northern Italy, is still going strong after more than a quarter century. The 26th edition of the festival in October 2007 marked a significant milestone: this was the year the festival returned to its original home in the city of Pordenone. Because of the demolition of the Cinema Verdi, the Pordenone theater that had originally housed the screenings, and delays in construction of a new theater to take its place, the festival had temporarily relocated to nearby Sacile for the previous eight years. But in 2007, with the erection of a new Verdi on the site of the old and the resolution of lingering structural issues, the Giornate returned to Pordenone. It was a triumphant homecoming. – J.B. Kaufman (Classic Images, no. 392, Feb. 2008)

Of all the intertitles appearing on screen during the 26th edtion of le Giornate del Cinema Muto, none raised a more knowing laugh than the warning in The Golden Road to Health and Beauty, the English version of a German physical-culture film from the mid-1920s: "Constant sitting is very bad for the body." Just so – especially for a festival that keeps you glued to your seat before celluloid from 9am to past midnight.
Back in its original base of Pordenone in the impractical new Teatro Communale (half ocean liner, half Moby Dick), Italy's prestigious showcase for silent cinema did a fair amount to make the pains bearable. – Geoff Brown (Sight & Sound, Dec. 2007)

Le Giornate del muto sono rientrate a casa. Una casa tirata a lucido: il Teatro Verdi nuovissimo, che occupa, con la bianca imponenza d’un iceberg di fantasia (e con in sala qualche gradino di troppo) lo spazio del vecchio, dove le Giornate erano cresciute e diventate “il più bel festival del mondo” come dicono gli studiosi e gli addetti ai lavori che vengono dall’estero. E che anche stavolta – dal 6 al 13 ottobre – erano i più a festeggiare la rentrée pordenonese, non senza qualche rimpianto, tuttavia, per la parentesi degli otto anni della trasferta nella vicina, riposante Sacile. – Piero Pruzzo (Film D.O.C., n. 75, nov.-dic. 2007)

Ormai unanimente considerato secondo festival italiano (secondo Mueller), o terzo (versione Veltroni) o comunque quarto (Barbera), possiamo – tranciando di netto – metterlo addirittura al primo posto per la coerenza e l’articolazione internazionale del progetto. L’edizione appena conclusasi ha ampiamente confermato la qualità dell’offerta, anche se il ritorno nella più comoda e natia Pordenone ha lasciato molta nostalgia per il miracolo degli anni di Sacile, quando tutta una città ha coccolato con grande senso dell’ospitalità una manifestazione di specialisti, accogliendoli in un ambiente affascinante. Pordenone dovrebbe conquistarsi il ruolo di ritrovata sede, non considerarlo un atto dovuto: e invece molte cose, dall'anonimato inestetico della sala di proiezione all'impoverimento dei momenti conviviali (che richiedono sponsor generosi), hanno solo accentuato la nostalgia. – Sergio Grmek Germani (Il Manifesto, 16.10.2007)

Tired of movies looking like videogames rather than celluloid projections of men and women? Come to the Pordenone Silent Film Fest in northern Italy, now in its 26th year. The gold standard for silent film presentation, complemented by the world's finest musical accompanists, Pordenone is the autumn destination for programmers, academics and enthusiasts from around the globe. - Variety Staff ("50 Unmissable Film Festivals", Variety.com, 7 Sept. 2007)




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