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 […]

We are delighted to be joined by Ehsan Khoshbakht, curator of this year's Lewis Milestone: Of Wars and Men progam at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival of film restoration in Bologna. Khoshbakht will discuss Lewis Milestone's incredible body of work, including—of course—The Garden of Eden, which SFFP restored, and which will premiere at Il Cinema Ritrovato […]

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 […]