Part of American Cinematheque's ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 4’ Legendary producer Thomas H. Ince and director Irvin V. Willat made this—“the most outspoken of all the vengeance films” according to film historian Kevin Brownlow—during the period of World War I-inspired American patriotism. Hobart Bosworth stars as Oscar Krug, a working-class American, who […]
On Thursday, June 5, SFFP Board President Rob Byrne will be joined by Ehsan Khoshbakht to discuss Lewis Milestone’s incredible body of work, including—of course—The Garden of Eden, which SFFP restored! Ehsan Khoshbakht is a film curator, filmmaker, and writer. He serves as the co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna and curates the retrospective section […]
On drum set and vibraphone, Shun Ishiwaka shows off his mastery in this film-screening “concert,” enlivening the silent movie The Dragon Painter, a quirky story of a brilliant, reclusive painter obsessed with the myth of a dragon princess. Starring Japanese matinée idol Sessue Hayakawa, the first actor of Asian descent to become a leading man in […]
