Jul 14, 2010 18:00
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (July 15-18 at the Castro Theatre), now celebrating its 15th year at the Castro Theater, has no rivals in North America as a showplace for the pre-sound era of film.
'''''Hail the Conquering Hero''''' is a 1944 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and William Demarest. Other notable featured actors are Ella Raines, Franklin Pangborn, Maxine Fife, and Raymond...(continue reading)
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Jul 14, 2010 17:04
The 15-year-old San Francisco Silent Film Festival has no rival in North America as a showplace for film's pre-sound era. The big event this year, not counting the arrival of silent film archivist Kevin Brownlow, is the latest edition of 1927's Metropolis , finally to be screened at its original length thanks to some 20 minutes of 16mm footage discovered in a Buenos Aires archive.
At A Theater Near You: Walk this way to see zombies, 'Dawn of the Dead' and Preston Sturges comedies
Jul 1, 2010 19:17
Hot to trot this week: the Seattle Art Museum series "Madcap Genius: The Film Comedy of Preston Sturges," which starts Thursday, and "Dawn of the Dead" with zombie-walking in Fremont on Saturday.
Jun 30, 2010 14:21
image via DVD Beaver Cynical patriotism? Such a thing does exist--and it made its way onscreen in 1944, courtesy of brilliant comedic filmmaker Preston Sturges . With a laugh that resembles the hinges on a squeaky barn door, Eddie Bracken 's skinny-as-a-beanpole "hero" isn't a hero at all. Although descended from a long line of military he-men, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith was discharged ...
