Friday, May 01, 2009
Every year, the San Francisco International Film Festival screens a silent movie as part of their showcase of new and innovative cinema. This year - during the Festival's 52nd annual event - tradition holds.
On Tuesday, May 5th, the SFIFF will screen The Lost World (1925). This early sci-fi film, based on the 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name, concerns an expedition to an isolated plateau in South America where prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still live! (Arthur Conan Doyle is, of course, best known for creating Sherlock Holmes, though he also wrote a handful of worthwhile science fiction stories including The Lost World.)
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt, this 100 minute film stars Wallace Beery (as Professor Challenger), Bessie Love and Lewis Stone. Doyle's novel has been adapted to film many times - including versions in 1960, 1992, and 1998. This version - the first adaption -has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Today, The Lost World is Hoyt's best known film. It was popular in its day, and was hailed for its stop-motion animation. That animation was created by Willis O'Brien, a pioneer in the field who would go on to special effects immortality for his work on King Kong (1933). Within the annals of film history, it's been suggested that The Lost World was a practice run for the many techniques which shine in King Kong and later works.
In some ways, the dinosaurs are the stars of The Lost World. The film features some amazing stop-motion sequences. And the scenes near the end of the film, when a captured dinosaur roams through modern day London, are impressive.
This San Francisco International Film Festival presentation will take place at the historic Castro Theater. Accompanying the film will be Los Angeles-based musical group Dengue Fever, who will perform an original score. According to the SFIFF program, "Dengue Fever's score will playfully and lovingly evoke worlds both known and unknown and elevate the The Lost World’s offbeat humor and singular beauty."
Dengue Fever's unusual style has been described as a Cambodian / American musical hybrid. However, psychedelic rock, Bollywood glitz, spaghetti Western twang, ska, klezmer, funk and Ethiopian jazz all contribute to the band's unique sound. Ch'hom Nimol's powerful singing voice, in Khmer and more recently in English, is a luminous vibrato that adds exotic ornamentations to her vocal lines –while complementing the band's driving sound. That exotic sound should meld beautifully with the exotic story told in The Lost World.
SOURCE : http://www.examiner.com/x-7605-SF-Silent-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d1-Lost-World-finds-sound-in-San-Francisco
On Tuesday, May 5th, the SFIFF will screen The Lost World (1925). This early sci-fi film, based on the 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name, concerns an expedition to an isolated plateau in South America where prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still live! (Arthur Conan Doyle is, of course, best known for creating Sherlock Holmes, though he also wrote a handful of worthwhile science fiction stories including The Lost World.)
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt, this 100 minute film stars Wallace Beery (as Professor Challenger), Bessie Love and Lewis Stone. Doyle's novel has been adapted to film many times - including versions in 1960, 1992, and 1998. This version - the first adaption -has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Today, The Lost World is Hoyt's best known film. It was popular in its day, and was hailed for its stop-motion animation. That animation was created by Willis O'Brien, a pioneer in the field who would go on to special effects immortality for his work on King Kong (1933). Within the annals of film history, it's been suggested that The Lost World was a practice run for the many techniques which shine in King Kong and later works.
In some ways, the dinosaurs are the stars of The Lost World. The film features some amazing stop-motion sequences. And the scenes near the end of the film, when a captured dinosaur roams through modern day London, are impressive.
This San Francisco International Film Festival presentation will take place at the historic Castro Theater. Accompanying the film will be Los Angeles-based musical group Dengue Fever, who will perform an original score. According to the SFIFF program, "Dengue Fever's score will playfully and lovingly evoke worlds both known and unknown and elevate the The Lost World’s offbeat humor and singular beauty."
Dengue Fever's unusual style has been described as a Cambodian / American musical hybrid. However, psychedelic rock, Bollywood glitz, spaghetti Western twang, ska, klezmer, funk and Ethiopian jazz all contribute to the band's unique sound. Ch'hom Nimol's powerful singing voice, in Khmer and more recently in English, is a luminous vibrato that adds exotic ornamentations to her vocal lines –while complementing the band's driving sound. That exotic sound should meld beautifully with the exotic story told in The Lost World.
SOURCE : http://www.examiner.com/x-7605-SF-Silent-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d1-Lost-World-finds-sound-in-San-Francisco
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