The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, opening Thursday at the Castro Theatre, is sitting pretty in 2012.Winning a combined 10 Oscars, “The Artist” and “Hugo” brought silent film back into public consciousness. In March, the festival made its own headlines, screening Abel Gance’s rarely seen 1927 epic “Napoleon” and receiving accolades in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker and more. Read More