Denver Silent Film Festival

03/12/2020

We’ve decided that we have to postpone the Denver Silent Film Festival. It’s both a hard choice and an obvious one. The health of every one of us comes first, and with all the expert advice to avoid crowds, we certainly do not want to endanger our audience or stage a festival which no one will be able attend. The hard part, of course, is that we’d put together a wonderful event, for a wonderful audience.

But we are already working with the staff of The Alamo Drafthouse to find new dates in the fall.

Please stay tuned and we will be in touch once we pick a new date.

Thank you for your continued support and understanding. We are all in this together.

Howie Movshovitz
Director,
The Denver Silent Film Festival

02/22/2020

The Denver Silent Film Festival is proud to announce the premiere of a new restoration of the wonderful Ernst Lubitsch comedy from 1926 SO THIS IS PARIS. The restoration is sponsored by Turner Classic Movies, whose head of programming Charlie Tabesh will receive the festival’s David Shepard Career Achievement Award. The film will be accompanied by the famed silent film accompanist Ben Model, whose new score has also been commissioned by TCM. The festival runs April 3-5, 2020 at The Alamo Draft House Sloans Lake on W. Colfax Ave. in Denver. SO THIS IS PARIS will play on the evening of April 4.

02/13/2020

Denver Silent Film Festival is delighted to announce that this year’s David Shepard Career Achievement Award will go to Charles Tabesh, senior vice president of programming and content strategy for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Since 1997, Charlie has managed programming of a huge inventory of films, both silent and sound. He also led programming and curation at the wonderful, now defunct, FilmStruck. Under his guidance, TCM regularly presents silent films, many of them rare treats for even experienced silent film viewers. Charlie Tabesh is a great friend to silent film. He will attend the entire festival, April 3-5, 2020 at The Alamo Draft House Sloans Lake.

07/09/2019

Hey Denver silent film fans! The Alamo Drafthouse is opening a new location in Westminster, and they're going to be showing the 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS! Come see one of the greatest science fiction films, in director Fritz Lang's original cut.

Tickets and details are here:

It’s 2026 and wealthy industrialists rule the vast city of Metropolis while the lower class toils away in the underground to keep…

05/07/2019

More silent film!

NOSFERATU is one of the most revered films in the history of cinema. As the world's first vampire movie, it is regarded as the…

04/29/2019

It's time for our last screening of this year's festival! Thank you to everyone for coming this weekend!

04/28/2019

A great time with the Keaton shorts, and now we're getting ready to show the CUDenver student shorts!

Please note that there will not be food available during the student shorts.

04/28/2019

It was great to see some very rare but very lovely Colorado films, and now we're moving onto the Great Stone Face himself, Buster Keaton!

04/28/2019

Please note: the Buster Keaton screening for today has SOLD OUT!

04/28/2019

Kicking off our last day of the 2019 festival with some Colorado short films!

04/28/2019

The student orchestra is getting tuned up for THE OYSTER PRINCESS!

We are approaching a sell out for this screening, so if you haven't already purchased a ticket, be sure to purchase online before you come to the theater to ensure you'll have a seat.