Every year, for the last four years, a contemporary filmmaker with an appreciation for film history has been invited to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival to present a film. Past directors have been Guy Maddin and Terry Zwigoff, and Academy Award winners Pete Docter and Alexander Payne.
This year, the Festival welcomes Philip Kaufman, whose directorial credits include The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Right Stuff (183), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Henry and June (1988), and Quills (2000), among other films. And just recently, his Hemingway & Gellhorn premiered at Cannes International Film Festival.
At the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Kaufman will introduce director Hanns Schwarz's The Wonderful Lie of Nina Petrovna (1929), starring Brigitte Helm (Metropolis) and Franz Lederer (Pandora's Box).
Set in Czarist St. Petersburg, The Wonderful Lie is the story of the mistress of an upper class general who gives up her pampered life for the love of a lowly lieutenant. It's visually gorgeous, very European - and, one might even say, a little Kaufmanesque. Join us on Friday, July 13th and see and hear what Philip Kaufman has to say about this classic silent film.
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| The Wonderful Lie of Nina Petrovna (1929) |
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