Friday night's grand opening will be Harold Lloyd's masterpiece comedy The Kid Brother. A beautiful print, an architectural masterpiece of a theater, a lively and appreciative audience, and live music combine to make this the absolute best way to experience silent film. This show is followed by the opening night party for Festival Pass holders.

For ticket information, and information on the complete festival schedule, visit The San Francisco Silent Film Festival web site.

Saturday we present one of our most unusual and stunning films. The Silent Enemy follows a tribe of Ojibway Indians, who recreate the lives of their ancestors as they meet the challenges of a hard winter. Fine nature photography, an ethnographically accurate recreation of a lost way of life by those who once lived it, and a melodramatic story-line result in a beautiful and moving film that is rarely seen on the big screen. This film -- being a faithful recreation of the lives of a tribe that relied primarily on meat during winter months -- contains scenes of violence against animals.