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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2024

Poker Faces

Live music by the Guenter Buchwald Quartet
Director
Harry A. Pollard
Cast
Edward Everett Horton, Laura La Plante, George Siegmann

This delicious parlor room farce about a husband posing with a woman not his wife to get in good with his boss loudly echoes into the television living rooms of Rob Petrie and Darrin “Durwood” Stephens. Double-take maestro Edward Everett Horton is paired with Laura La Plante who matches his expressive dexterity scene by scene, demonstrating why she was one of Universal’s most valued stars.

  • 83 min.
  • United States
  • 1926
  • DCP
Introduction
Jay Weissberg
Special Support
Universal Pictures
Copresenters
Frameline, SFJAZZ

Live music by the Guenter Buchwald Quartet

Conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist Guenter Buchwald is a pioneer of the renaissance in silent film music. He has accompanied silent films for thirty-eight years with a repertoire of more than three thousand titles and has conducted orchestras worldwide from Iceland to Romania, Tokyo to Zurich. In great demand as a composer, he has scored silent films as varied as Suzuki and Ota’s What Made Her Do It?, René Clair`s Paris qui dort, Chaplin´s Pawn Shop, and Murnau’s Nosferatu. A soloist known for his virtuoso improvisation, he has appeared regularly at film festivals in Berlin, Bonn, Bologna, Zurich, Pordenone, and Seattle. He is a lecturer at the Film Science Institute at the University of Zurich and resident conductor of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra for Silent Film in Concert. He is cofounder of the Silent Movie Music Company and is musical director of Bristol’s Slapstick Silent Film Festival in England. Buchwald will be joined by percussionist Frank Bockius, bassist Sascha Jacobsen, and saxophonist Mas Koga.

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Director
Harry A. Pollard
Country
United States
Year
1926
Cast
Edward Everett Horton, Laura La Plante, George Siegmann
Runtime
83 min.
Source
Universal Pictures
Format
DCP
Fri, Apr 12, 2024
6:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
$20 general
$18 member
12 and under, free
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