**This winter, both the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival return with a long awaited and much needed double dose of big screen fun.
Entertainment will be the order of the evening in Orinda and the Los Altos Hills, CA!
Did the gang that writes this blog have many amazing memories attending the San Francisco Silent Film Festival over the decades? Yes!
From November 12-16, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival shall rock the house at the Orinda Theater.
SFSFF’s Festival 2025 begins with Chaplin’s The Gold Rush on Wednesday e…
**This winter, both the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival return with a long awaited and much needed double dose of big screen fun.
Entertainment will be the order of the evening in Orinda and the Los Altos Hills, CA!
Did the gang that writes this blog have many amazing memories attending the San Francisco Silent Film Festival over the decades? Yes!
From November 12-16, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival shall rock the house at the Orinda Theater.
SFSFF’s Festival 2025 begins with Chaplin’s The Gold Rush on Wednesday evening and closes with Buster Keaton in Go West.
In between, there will be, among numerous cool classic movies, the 1926 version of Beau Geste, starring Ronald Colman and (as a bad guy) William Powell, three Sherlock Holmes adaptations, The Unknown (1927), with “man of 1000 faces” Lon Chaney Sr. co-starring with a very young Joan Crawford (that’s right. she was young once, way back in the days of silent pictures and her 1928 box-office smash OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS) and the always excellent Amazing Tales From The Archives.
There will also be a morning Fleischer Studio cartoon show featuring Ko-Ko the Clown in Jumping Beans, It’s the Cats, KoKo at the Circus, KoKo in 1999, KoKo’s Kane, KoKo’s Klock, KoKo’s Kink and KoKo’s Earth Control.
While it will be more than a bit odd to not go to San Francisco’s Castro Theatre to see silent movies on the big screen, the Orinda Theater is a very cool venue. Shows by both the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the Psychotronix Film Festival have been presented there.
Just short of a month from now, on December 6, the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival returns!
This shall be the 33rd anniversary KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival and grace the hallowed halls of Room 5015 of Foothill College in the lovely Los Altos Hills.
No doubt the show shall feature the great Joi Lansing and Scopitones will be ready to roll to entertain audiences once again!
Will have more about the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival when December begins and hope hope hope there will be NO problems forthcoming with my passport or the NY-SF flight that will get yours truly to his former stomping grounds, the San Francisco Bay Area.
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