Silent films shouldn’t be seen alone. Watching movies from the silent era is a participatory experience, a fact driven home this past weekend at the 19th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Unspooling in the seductive environment of the historic Castro Theatre, the three-day event presented a wide variety of films from many countries, including a handful of exciting restorations and discoveries. It was Argentinian film collector Fernando Peña who discovered that an alternate version of Buster Keaton’s 1921 short subject The Blacksmith existed in home-movie form—with four minutes of hilarious, never-before-seen footage—and French archivist Serge Bromberg who unearthed the...
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