This year's annual Denver Silent Film Festival is set to take place April 28, 29, 30 in Denver, Colorado - of all places! This year's line-up of films has not yet been set, but what is known can be found below. Otherwise, find out more about the 7th annual event HERE.
The 7th Denver Silent Film Festival will open on Friday evening, April 27, 2018 with the 1927 CHICAGO. The movie tells a lurid story, based on actual events, of boozy flapper Roxy Hart (Phyllis Haver) on trial for killing her gangster lover (Eugene Pallette), and defended by her (temporarily) moral husband and a thoroughly dishonest lawyer. It's a corrupt world -- and a delicious film. (I've seen it, and it's true, it is a riotously enjoyable movies.)
The Denver Silent Film Festival's David Shepard Career Achievement Award for 2018 will go to Russell Merritt, who teaches film studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Russell Merritt has co-written (with J.B. Kaufman) two books on Walt Disney’s early films – the award-winning Walt in Wonderland (1993) and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies (2016). He has also authored articles on D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, animation, Sherlock Holmes, color aesthetics, and early film. Merritt produces and directs the Great Nickelodeon Show, a recreation of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon program which has played at the Telluride Film Festival, The TCM Classic Film Festival, Il Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Los Angeles Film Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, and assorted university campuses. (I'm acquainted with Russell Merritt. He is a fine fellow, and a bit of a Louise Brooks fan to boot.)
The 7th Denver Silent Film Festival will open on Friday evening, April 27, 2018 with the 1927 CHICAGO. The movie tells a lurid story, based on actual events, of boozy flapper Roxy Hart (Phyllis Haver) on trial for killing her gangster lover (Eugene Pallette), and defended by her (temporarily) moral husband and a thoroughly dishonest lawyer. It's a corrupt world -- and a delicious film. (I've seen it, and it's true, it is a riotously enjoyable movies.)
The 2018 David Shepard Career Achievement Award Recipient
The Denver Silent Film Festival's David Shepard Career Achievement Award for 2018 will go to Russell Merritt, who teaches film studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Russell Merritt has co-written (with J.B. Kaufman) two books on Walt Disney’s early films – the award-winning Walt in Wonderland (1993) and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies (2016). He has also authored articles on D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, animation, Sherlock Holmes, color aesthetics, and early film. Merritt produces and directs the Great Nickelodeon Show, a recreation of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon program which has played at the Telluride Film Festival, The TCM Classic Film Festival, Il Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Los Angeles Film Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, and assorted university campuses. (I'm acquainted with Russell Merritt. He is a fine fellow, and a bit of a Louise Brooks fan to boot.)
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