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Every year, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents a 4 day summer program in February and a 1 day winter program in July.  The festival presented an excellent program on Saturday, July 12, 2011, beginning with 3 Charles Chaplin shorts, and moving on to a great French masterpiece called “L’Argent” from 1928 and “La Boheme,” an MGM film, from 1926.

The 3 Chaplin shorts included “The Rink” from 1916, “The Adventurer” from 1917, and “The Pawn Shop” from 1916.  I enjoyed the The Pawn Shop the best of these 3.  Chaplin does a wonderful bit dissecting a clock, taking his time, and milking every minute of it.  All three of the Chaplin shorts feature a lot of fighting between Chaplin and either Henry Bergman or John Rand or both. Catch up with viagra no prescription canada this animation flick to find out if there are negative reports from any pharmacies you have found. Without levitra india fail swig tablets prior getting into sexual intercourse. Careful supervision price of cialis of a trained physician is though advisable. If they are avoided, your online shopping can be safe and problem free. sildenafil for women  During the show, I heard children laughing.  As you know, these films played at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, which was built in 1922.  As Donald Sosin played live piano, and I heard children laughing in the audience, I saw the  inventive genius of Chapin, and I felt the magic of the silver screen.  As Adolph Menjou said in his autobiography, “It Took Nine Tailors,” they called Chaplin a genius because he was one.  It’s nice to see his genius unfold on the big screen.

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