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SFSFF 2017 Programs

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AMAZING TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Live music by Donald Sosin

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
(d. Sergei Eisenstein, USSR, 1925)
Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble

BODY AND SOUL
(d. Oscar Micheaux, United States, 1925)
Live music by DJ Spooky and Guenter Buchwald

THE DOLL
(d. Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1919)
Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius

THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI
(d. Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, United States, 1916)
Live music by Donald Sosin and Frank Bockius

FILIBUS
(d. Mario Roncoroni, Italy, 1915)
Live music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

THE FRESHMAN
(d. Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, United States, 1925)
Live music by Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

GET YOUR MAN
(d. Dorothy Arzner, United States, 1927)
Live music by Stephen Horne

THE INFORMER
(d. Arthur Robison, United Kingdom, 1929)
Live music by Stephen Horne, Guenter Buchwald, and Frank Bockius

THE LOST WORLD
(d. Harry O. Hoyt, United States, 1925)
Live music by Alloy Orchestra

MAGIC AND MIRTH
Live music by Donald Sosin and Frank Bockius

A MAN THERE WAS
(d. Victor Sjöström, Sweden, 1917)
Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble

OUTSIDE THE LAW
(d. Tod Browning, United States, 1920)
Live music by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

A PAGE OF MADNESS
(D. Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926)
Live music by Alloy Orchestra

SILENCE
(d. Rupert Julian, United States, 1926)
Live music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

A STRONG MAN
(d. Henryk Szaro, Poland, 1929)
Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Sascha Jacobsen

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
(d. Fred Niblo, United States, 1921)
Live music by Guenter Buchwald Ensemble

TWO DAYS
(d. Heorhii Stabovyi, USSR, 1927)
Live music by Stephen Horne

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