Berkeley Underground Film Society

03/14/2025

The Soho Cinema Club shows classic films

02/05/2023

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s film vault contains one of the Bay Area’s largest and most extensive film collections

01/14/2023

Easily one of the best silent film comedies ever made, and Harold Lloyd's personal favorite, The Kid Brother (1927) will be screening tomorrow at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum with Jon Mirsalis, Kurzweil Keyboard Accompaniment.

Online tickets for members and non-members of the Museum can be purchased here: https://nilesfilmmuseum.org/

08/21/2022

In 2017 SFSFF undertook the task of animating the entire Beaulieu corpus of twenty-seven unique flipbooks. The goal was to reverse the bimbelotier’s film-to-paper transformation and reconstitute the fragments as motion pictures. You can watch the results of this fascinating project here: https://silentfilm.org/preservation/flipbooks/

04/07/2022

Do you love silent movies? Become a part of our incredible volunteer team today to meet fellow silent movie buffs and watch marvelous silent cinema with live music! https://silentfilm.org/support/volunteer/

03/25/2022

THE FIRE BRIGADE is replete with stunning color images! Restored by the Library of Congress with funding from The Film Foundation, you can see it at on Monday, May 9, with live music by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius! https://silentfilm.org/event/the-fire-brigade/

12/04/2021

We're back on the big screen! February 19, 2022 — Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS with Oakland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Timothy Brock at the historic Paramount Theatre in glorious 35mm! Don't miss it: https://silentfilm.org/city-lights/

09/28/2021

Here at SFSFF we have been restoring silent films since 2013. You can watch many of our restorations for FREE in our Online Screening Room! https://silentfilm.org/video-category/sfsff-restorations/

06/27/2021

Stay cool out there folks...hide in a theater for days if you have to.

Have any of you wanted to do this?
Or did you in your younger days?

Sounds like a productive use of time. And if you are going to run away from home, running to the movies sounds like a good option. Thanks, Gary Meyer, for sharing this!