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Silent Films Soar In San Francisco

Executive director Stacey Wisnia, Artistic director Anita Monga, their dedicated staff and board of directors put on another great, wide-ranging show featuring films from Sweden, Japan, Germany, Italy, England, and Russia. It’s a far cry from the early years of the festival when founders Melissa Chittick and Stephen Salmons were grateful that anyone would show up to see Hollywood classics of the silent era. Now, the SFSFF has built up an audience that is willing to try unusual and challenging fare along with old favorites. —Italian intertitles and matching the film’s original typeface. He even learned how to write with a fountain pen in order to replicate a handful of notes and letters seen in close-up during the course of the picture. The movie features Fairbanks at his most ebullient, playing an American attending Oxford University who agrees to help out a roommate by thawing out his hard-hearted family so he can marry the woman he loves. Tracy Goessel, who is working on a definitive Fairbanks biography, funded this restoration through her family foundation, and deserves a great vote of thanks for enabling George Eastman House to bring this long-lost movie back to life. Another world premiere was a restoration of Lois Weber’s Shoes from 1916. Far too few of this important director’s films survive today, so each new “find” is an event. Like her other crusading films, this one focuses on a social injustice: the plight of an underpaid working-girl who supports her entire family and yearns for an attractive pair of shoes she eyes in a shop window. To her they represent freedom and independence, as well as fashion, but in the end, she pays much too high a price to acquire them—by selling the only thing she has left to give, her body. The surviving nitrate prints of Shoes were plagued by deterioration and decay, but the Eye Institute of the Netherlands has performed a dazzling restoration. It’s one thing to retouch a photo on your computer; it’s quite another to eliminate blotches, specks, and gouges from every frame of a feature-length film. The new print still shows signs of decomposition, but this significant film is now watchable, and that’s a small miracle. Speaking of miracles, it was only through the dogged determination and research of Cole Johnson and David Gerstein that two early Disney animated shorts, long missing, were discovered hiding in plain sight at the Museum of Modern Art.

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