Silent Film Festival News: Abel Gance’s Napoleon Coming to Oakand in Early 2012
This is enormous news; I alluded to it in a Silent Film Festival post, but it well-deserves its own mention.
Abe Gance’s epic film, Napoleon, is to be shown as never before seen in its complete restoration by famed film historian Kevin Brownlow. This includes, so I gather, its entire 5 and a half hour runtime AND the epic battle scenes which require three projectors to run simultaneously.
It is running for four showings only, March 24, 25, 31, April 1, 2012.
Tickets are on sale now, and range from 40 dollars to 120 dollars. Click on jump to purchase tickets and see some scenes with a review from youtube user Spartacus007. Read More…





Once again silent film enthusiasts have a reason to cheer, as the Castro Theatre plays host to the 16th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. From July 14th to July 17th expect professional musical accompaniment by those wonderful organ players that you see performing before every movie doing their thing to some great silent films. Of course, what would a silent film festival be without at least one Charlie Chaplin film.


















