Napoleon Reviews

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

As well as . . . .

Thorina Rose, The Bay Citizen

Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Peter Debruge, Variety

Financial Times, Financial Times

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Thomas Gladysz, CityBrights 

Meredith Brody, Thompson on Hollywood

and

Michael T. Toole, Film International

Vive Napoleon

It was mesmerizing. It was thrilling. It was spectacular. It was transcendent.

A few weeks ago, over 10,000 people experienced what is already being called a legendary event. 

San Francisco Silent Film Festival thanks everyone who made NAPOLEON possible.

photograph © Pamela Gentile

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The NAPOLEON poster and souvenir book are already collector's items  

--and is available online while supplies last! 

 

Napoleon Poster by celebrated illustrator Paul Davis

Signed posters are available - numbers are very limited!    

 Napoleon Souvenir Book 

Napoleon Score by Carl Davis