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SFSFF 2019 Programs

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AMAZING TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Live music by Stephen Horne

 

 

THE CAMERAMAN
(d. Edward Sedgwick, United States, 1928)

Live music by San Francisco Conservatory of Music, conducted by composer Timothy Brock
 

EARTH
(d. Aleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR, 1930)

Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble

 

GOONA GOONA: AN AUTHENTIC MELODRAMA OF THE ISLE OF BALI
(d. André Roosevelt and Armand Denis, Bali, 1932)

Live music by Clubfoot Gamelan
 

HELL BENT
(d. John Ford, USA, 1918)

Live music by Philip Carli

 

THE HOME MAKER
(d. King Baggot, United States, 1925)

Live music by Stephen Horne

 

HUSBANDS AND LOVERS
(d. John M. Stahl, United States, 1924)

Live music by Philip Carli

 

JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOR
(d. Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1933)

Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Sascha Jacobsen

 

L’HOMME DU LARGE
(d. Marcel L’Herbier, France, 1920)

Live music by Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius
Narration by Paul McGann
 

L’INFERNO
(d. Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan, Italy, 1911)

Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble
Narration by Paul McGann
 

LIGHTS OF OLD BROADWAY
(d. Monta Bell, United States, 1925)

Live music by Philip Carli

 

THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY
(d. G.W. Pabst, Germany, 1927)

Live music by the Guenter Buchwald Ensemble

 

OPIUM
(d. Robert Reinert, Germany, 1919)

Live music by Guenter Buchwald

 

OUR HOSPITALITY
(d. Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone, United States, 1923)

Live music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
 

THE OYSTER PRINCESS
(d. Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1919)

Live music by Wayne Barker

 

RAPSODIA SATANICA
(d. Nino Oxilia, Italy, 1917)

Live music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

 

SHIRAZ: A ROMANCE OF INDIA
(d. Franz Osten, India, 1928)

Live music by Utsav Lal

 

THE SIGNAL TOWER
(d. Clarence Brown, United States, 1924)

Live music by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

 

SIR ARNE’S TREASURE
(d. Mauritz Stiller, Sweden, 1919)

Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble

 

TONKA OF THE GALLOWS
(d. Karel Anton, Czechoslovakia, 1930)

Live music by Stephen Horne

 

THE WEDDING MARCH
(d. Erich von Stroheim, United States, 1928)

Live music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

 

WEST OF ZANZIBAR
(d. Tod Browning, United States, 1928)

Live music by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

 

WOLF SONG
(d. Victor Fleming, USA, 1929)

Live music by Philip Carli

 

YOU NEVER KNOW WOMEN
(d. William A. Wellman, United States, 1926)

Live music by Philip Carli

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