From Murnau to Capra, SF Silent Film Festival Astounds and Delights Its Capacity Crowds

Audiences still had Monday to look forward to, with a somewhat lighter schedule: four programs rather than the five or six available Friday through Sunday, after a from-all-accounts rousing and sold-out opening night performance on Thursday of the rarely-seen silent version of Lewis Milestone's "All Quiet on the Western Front," accompanied by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Normally I sit down on Thursday night and for all intents and purposes do not leave the venerable 1922-vintage Castro Theatre until the curtain comes down on Sunday night. The festival, with the extra day, brought masterpiece after masterpiece, re-viewings as well as films new to me, in every case...

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