Notes From The 26th San Francisco Silent Film Festival Jonathan Mackris November 2023 Festival Reports Some background The only way to begin responsibly is with some facts about the status of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, the long-time home of the Silent Film Festival up to and including this year’s edit...
Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (The Grand Duke’s Finances, F.W. Murnau, 1924) Jonathan Mackris October 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film The critic Chris Fujiwara once described Nicholas Ray’s Wind Across the Everglades (1958) as a “litmus test” of the auteur theory. Fujiwara intended the term to describe the fate of that film, mutilated in the ...
Keeping the Fires Burning: A Week at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Jonathan Mackris July 2022 Festival Reports Two topics have come up every time I’ve discussed the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival: One: This is the first edition of the festival after two consecutive cancellations in 2020 and 2021, leading fes...
