The recent San Francisco Silent Film Festival showing of Napoleon at the Oakland Paramount generated a lot of positive press. Here is a sampling.
“At 9:40 p.m. Saturday, the near-capacity crowd at the
3,000-seat Paramount Theatre rose from the places it had settled into
eight hours earlier and cheered a mighty cheer, the kind of
full-throated, sustained roar not usually heard in a movie theater. The
audience had just lived through one of the world’s great cinematic
experiences: an all-day screening (complete with snack and dinner
breaks) of Abel Gance’s mesmerizing 5½-hour silent film from 1927,
accompanied by Carl Davis conducting the 46-piece Oakland East Bay
Symphony, performing his own superb score. Their applause and shouts
paid tribute to both the sustaining power of this kind of movie going
experience
and to Gance's creative genius.” — Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times
“Unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in a movie
theater. You walk out exhilarated. It’s a day you will remember for the
rest of your life!” — Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle
“ ‘Thrilling’ is the only word to describe the experience of watching Abel Gance’s 5½
hour epic Napoleon, at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California,
accompanied by Carl Davis and the Oakland East Bay Symphony. One of the great moviegoing events of your life.” — Leonard Maltin’s
Movie Crazy
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Good review. Thanks for sharing.
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