13TH SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL — TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Tickets are on sale now for The 13th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, scheduled for July 11-13 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. "This is our most ambitious festival yet," announced Artistic Director Stephen Salmons. "We’ll present 12 programs, all with live music, in the space of 30 hours — it's an all-out silent film marathon, designed to showcase the astonishing breadth and depth of the silent era."
Pianists Donald Sosin and Stephen Horne, who brought down the house at last year's festival, will also return. "Donald Sosin will accompany Carl Theodor Dreyer's MIKAËL (1924), an emotionally charged drama considered to be a landmark in gay cinema, and Lotte Reiniger's dazzling THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), not only the earliest surviving animated feature but the first made by a woman.” More about the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema and Silent Ozu: Three Comedies, featuring piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin. Also, Films from Home Movie Day, Volume 1>more
Bringing Classic
Silent Movies to Life
Recent appearances: Pordenone Festival, Italy; Virginia Film Festival; BAM Rose Cinema; Lincoln Center Film Society
"Of all the musicians who play for the silent film today, Donald Sosin is for me the one who is most sensitive to the film he accompanies, the one who supports the film and never overpowers it." —Eileen Bowser, former Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art, NY, film scholar and author
Articles
Great articles originally published in Mix and Chronogram about the making of
silent film music
Featured DVD and Video Performances by Donald Sosin
Donald Sosin’s scores can be heard for GEORGE MELIES, SILENT OZU, THE PEACH GIRL, UNSEEN CINEMA, HAROLD LLOYD COLLECTION 2, AVANT GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OF THE 1920s AND 1930s, SIREN OF THE TROPICS, THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF FATTY ARBUCKLE, EDISON: INVENTION OF THE MOVIES, KING OF KINGS, SPIES, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, LONG PANTS, BLIND HUSBANDS, TITANIC, and THE STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS. >more
Avant Garde Films a high point of 2005
Donald Sosin announces the release of fifteen new silent film scores for avant-garde films on DVD in the UNSEEN CINEMA 7-disc set from Image. Among the films is the first American avant-garde film, MANHATTA, by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Listen to the synthesized orchestral score or view the film.
The other films in the collection include: Anemic Cinema (Duchamp), H2O (Ralph Steiner), Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra (Florey and Vorkapitch), Skyscraper Symphony (Florey) Pie in the Sky (Steiner, with Elia Kazan), Beggar on Horseback (excerpt with Edward Everett Horton), and A Bronx Morning (Jay Leyda), which was just chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress.
Little Red Jiving Hood
Granny’s girl gets some jump in her step for Little Red Jiving Hood. An interview with writer and director Ben Hillman; score by Donald Sosin. read the interview
Coming Soon
- July 4, 10:00 pm — DOCKS OF NEW YORK. At Cinema Ritrovato, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna Italy.
- July 12, 4:15 pm — MIKAËL. At the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
- July 13, 10:30 am — THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED. At the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
- August 11, 7:00 pm — TREASURES FROM THE ACADEMCY FILM ARCHIVES. At the Lighthouse International Building, 111 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, New York, NY.
- August 13, 6:00 pm — RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. At the Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with Dali exhibit.
- August 15, 8:00 pm — L'HIPPOCAMPE DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI. At the Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with Dali exhibit.
- August 23, 4:00 pm — RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. At the Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with Dali exhibit.
- More details on the performances and extended schedule
Recordings and Live Performances
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