The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (Wed/12-Sun/16) is back this week, once again being held in a preserved classic Art Deco movie palace—though perhaps not the one you’d expect. While the Orinda Theatre does not date from the silent era (it opened in 1941), it’s nonetheless one of the last of its kind in the Bay Area. In more recent years, two extra houses were added that do not detract from the original “big screen” dimensions, as they got carved from what had previously been adjoining retail space.

In any case, it’s the big house that’ll be hosting SFSFF, whose theoretical return to SF’s own Castro Theatre someday remains very much TBD. The additional schlepping you might be doing by car or BART to East Bay suburbia only makes it more attractive to stay for multiple consecutive prog

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