The 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival took place from July 15-18th, 2010 and DVDTalk writer John Sinnott was there to cover the event. Over the course of the festival 12 features were screened in addition to a good number of shorts (which were shown before each movie) and three presentations by film archivists and silent film musicians. Held in the Castro Theater, an old movie palace built in 1922 and has a wonderful Wurlitzer pipe organ dating from 1925, all of the films feature live music by an amazing array of talented musicians, which is how they were originally seen. Read John's full coverage of the festival here.

Angelina Jolie may or may not be a deadly Russian spy in the charged actioner Salt. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich. Selena Gomez has to deal with a pest of a little sister in Ramona and Beezus. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Casey Burchby. And director Todd Solondz perves it up once again surveying Life During Wartime. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jason Bailey. Also in theaters: Elijah Wood and John Hurt team up to reveal the source of The Oxford Murders. And it's the life of the artist in Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Inception, Predators, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Kids Are All Right, The Square, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Plays with Fire, Grown Ups, Toy Story 3, The Last Airbender, Cyrus, The Karate Kid, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and Restrepo. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

TV on DVD remains very popular with more and more favorites being released. New TV reviews include: Sesame Street: 20 Years...and Still Counting! - an entertaining retrospective produced for television in 1989; Mister Ed: The Complete Third Season - a sweet, funny sitcom that families and kids will love; and Jersey Shore Uncensored: Season One - undeniably addictive, meaningless fun. Other shows recently reviewed include:  My Boys: The Complete Second and Third Seasons, MacGyver: The TV Movies, and WWE Over the Limit 2010.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: The Witches of Eastwick - Spooky times in the boudoir as Jack Nicholson juggles the amorous triumvirate of Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer; Appointment with Danger - Alan Ladd investigates a murder and robbery for the U.S. Mail, but behaves like a proto-James Bond. A good noir programmer co-starring Jack Webb, Phyllis Calvert and Jan Sterling; and The Red Shoes - Powell & Pressburger's cinema/dance masterpiece almost scorches the eyeballs with color, in a new Blu-ray of a celebrated new digital restoration. Moira Shearer will clearly be the immortal image of the ballerina, enshrined in this most cinematic of dance films, a backstage musical that's more a horror film than a musical comedy. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week we have another installment of Talking Out of Frame, DVDTalk's guide to the latest and greatest arthouse films to be released on DVD and Blu-ray. This time around we have a look at Greenberg, an oddly compelling portrait of a misanthrope and the Florence Nightingale that gets involved with him, as well as the silent classic Chicago that has recently been restored. Other write ups include the Swedish thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the stop-motion animated film A Town Called Panic, and the quirky Danish crime film Terribly Happy. Check out all this and more in this month's Talking Out of Frame.

This week a trio of discs that earned the coveted DVDTalk Collector Series rating are being released: The Red Shoes [review] - one of the all-time great films and almost certainly the best ever about the art of dance; Black Narcissus [review] - still endlessly evocative and startlingly beautiful more than sixty years after it first roared into theaters; and The Professional [review] - this violent, clever, funny, and very sexy French spy thriller just dazzles. Other new releases of note include:  Cop Out [DVD review], Galaxy of Terror [review], and Forbidden World [review]. Be sure to check out our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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