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Here for cinema, esp silent cinema and Hollywood, plus art, animals.y_gwenda on X. Pub:Clarence Brown:Hollywood’s Forgotten Master. Researching Mickey Neilan
Ireland's wildlife, Saltee islands
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Gorgeous Iceland 🇮🇸
June 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Film fragment, Marshall Neilan research. Paris.
Another 'Forgotten Director'?🤔
March 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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In “Documenting the Territory in Saint-Louis (Senegal)”, Laura Feal Sánchez interviews Mamadou Sellou Diallo, exploring his work in the creation of “audiovisual projects” that “document a space in all its complexity”
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February 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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In “The Muestra de Cine Afrodescendencias in Costa Chica: Intersections of Afrodescendance and Decoloniality in Curatorial Practice” Claudia Lora et al analyse “the curatorial work and collective exhibition of the Muestra de Cinea Afrodescendencias
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February 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Issue 28 features an array of book reviews, from City Films, to Gaza on Screen, to studies of auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu and Preston Sturges, to pandemics & zombies! doi.org/10.33178/alp...
Alphaville Issue 28, Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals. Table of Contents
Issue 28 - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose ...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Kane Geary O’Keeffe @Mouldyfajita reviews Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social @OKState_History and Lee Mordechai published @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the mass inequalities experienced in late-stage capitalism. This recent rediscovery of the sociological shifts enabled by disease makes Diseased Cinema an appropriately t...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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New issue of Alphaville 👇🏼
Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
February 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Check out the latest issue of Alphaville, hot off the presses!
Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
February 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
February 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Charles Burnett's Annihilation of Fish trailer has been made public! www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...
Charles Burnett’s Lost Comedy ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Lands 4K Theatrical Release — Watch the Trailer
Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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‘The King of Comedy’ at 42.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’ remains a chillingly relevant satire on fame, obsession, and loneliness. Explore the film’s making, themes, and legacy in our deep dive.

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February 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith, August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933), was a Canadian-American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford.

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#silentfilm #silentera #cinema #film
February 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Bogie's little helpers: the shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942. 🙂
January 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap? www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
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January 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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CFP from THE MOVING IMAGE!
Special issue: "Reassessing Small Gauge, Amateur, and Nontheatrical Film"
Guest editors: Hugo Ljungbäck, Louisa Trott, and Patricia Ledesma Villon
Proposals due — April 1, 2025
Final manuscripts due — October 1, 2025

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January 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media's issue 7 is "Corporeal Cinema" - much good reading <a href="http://alphavillejournal.com" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://alphavillejournal.com via @alphavillej
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Alphaville is a fully peer-reviewed journal edited and pu...
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November 14, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Obituary for Claude Jarman, a generous, talented man who I was honored to know for 20 yrs. He was great company when we were guests , w/
@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social, at Clarence Brown Film Festival Aug. 2023, organized by
Knox County Public Library & U of Tennessee.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The Wren is still strong in parts of Ireland, notably Kerry, with elements entwined with nature and the old pagan roots of this time of year.

"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"

Giclée prints of the original linocut here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 26, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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On 11 December 1924, Dublin's Corinthian was showing The Signal Tower (US: Universal, 1924), directed by Clarence Brown, "the perfect melodrama, realistic and thrilling enough to satisfy even the most exciting audience." Images: Evening Herald, IMDb & Archiseek. #EarlyIrishCinema
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM