The San Francisco Silent Film Festival runs four days this year, and is showing more than a dozen seldom-seen silent films at the Castro Theater, ideal venue that it is. Most years I have attended parts of the program. Below is the one I would probably see if I were going to the festival this year.
Häxan : Witchcraft Through The AgesDenmark, Sweden, 1922. 106 minutes. Showing at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday 17 July. According to the program, "Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious – instead it's a witches' brew of the scary and darkly humorous."
Special support provided by the Swedish Consulate of San Francisco.Live musical accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble.