SF Silent Film Festival

Join MAX for the opening night of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater at 7:00 pm, where we will watch the restored version of the 1922 film, "Foolish Wives." This extravagant film costed a fortune to make and features a live orchestra in the Castro Theater. The director, Erich von Stroheim, starred as the butler, Max, in the movie "Sunset Boulevard" and was known in Hollywood as "the man you love to hate." This film is about a count in Monte Carlo who charms naive women in order to swindle them out of their money, but ends up double-crossing too many women.

We will meet outside Twin Peaks Bar at 6:15 pm, so we can get in line and go in together as a group into the theater. After the film, those who wish are invited to grab a casual dinner at a restaurant in the Castro. Buy your own tickets to the film for $25 at https://silentfilm.org/event/foolish-wives/. Be aware that in order to buy tickets, you may have to set up an account with a username or email and password with the SF Silent Film Festival. But you DO NOT need to become a member or pay additional fees, except for the price of the movie itself.

Champions for this event are Michael Meehan at michaeljmeehan999@gmail.com and Bruce Cecil at bruce.cecil@maxsf.org