The PaulAJoyce
@pauljoyce07.bsky.social
I write about silent film and theatre when I’m not publishing, cycling, walking or listening. Also Liverpool Football Club.
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The brilliant Jane Fonda, 88 today 💖
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December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The brilliant Jane Fonda, 88 today 💖
What a song!!
20 December 1968 - Glen Campbell topped the US album chart with 'Wichita Lineman'. Although the LP would stay in the chart for 46 weeks, it would be Campbell's only No.1 album. The title track which was written by US songwriter Jimmy Webb, reached No 3 on the US singles chart. #GlenCampbell
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What a song!!
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1. Thread about rights demoralisers on BlueSky and X 🧵
Hybrid warfare isn’t tanks or missiles.
It’s psychological.
In the UK, one of its most effective targets has been the Brexit debate, especially citizens’ rights and Freedom of Movement — because they go to identity, belonging, and fairness.
Hybrid warfare isn’t tanks or missiles.
It’s psychological.
In the UK, one of its most effective targets has been the Brexit debate, especially citizens’ rights and Freedom of Movement — because they go to identity, belonging, and fairness.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...
The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now
Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…
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December 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...
It was a simpler time.
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It was a simpler time.
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Critically acclaimed fantasy from Ealing Studios.
📽️ THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944) 6am #GoogieWithers #JohnClements #RaymondHuntley drama #TPTVsubtitles
📽️ THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944) 6am #GoogieWithers #JohnClements #RaymondHuntley drama #TPTVsubtitles
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Critically acclaimed fantasy from Ealing Studios.
📽️ THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944) 6am #GoogieWithers #JohnClements #RaymondHuntley drama #TPTVsubtitles
📽️ THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944) 6am #GoogieWithers #JohnClements #RaymondHuntley drama #TPTVsubtitles
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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social my neighbours won Christmas Jumpers of the Year! This is class!
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social my neighbours won Christmas Jumpers of the Year! This is class!
"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn"
December 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn"
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Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Warrington, Cheshire, 1961.
Photographer John Bulmer, Warrington, Cheshire, 1961.
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, Warrington, Cheshire, 1961.
Photographer John Bulmer, Warrington, Cheshire, 1961.
Ooh, Deep Blue Sea coming up for you night 🦉🦉🦉s! TPTV with more rare films than you can see without sacrificing sleep! It’s worth it!
NIGHT OWLS 🦉 through the night with #TPTV All programmes #TPTVsubtitles
22:10 MARGERY & GLADYS (2003)
00:10 THE DEEP BLUE SEA (1955)
02:15 DICK TRACY'S G-MEN (1939)
04:25 RETURN OF A STRANGER (1961)
06:00 LAW OF THE PLAINSMAN (1960)
22:10 MARGERY & GLADYS (2003)
00:10 THE DEEP BLUE SEA (1955)
02:15 DICK TRACY'S G-MEN (1939)
04:25 RETURN OF A STRANGER (1961)
06:00 LAW OF THE PLAINSMAN (1960)
December 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Ooh, Deep Blue Sea coming up for you night 🦉🦉🦉s! TPTV with more rare films than you can see without sacrificing sleep! It’s worth it!
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Sharing my Free Stuff Thread again because you, yes you, deserve free silent movies
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
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December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sharing my Free Stuff Thread again because you, yes you, deserve free silent movies
That’s one tough hill…
Tryfan mountain over Llyn Ogwen, Snowdonia, north Wales, photo by Tomasz Janicki.
December 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
That’s one tough hill…
HUGE Betty Balfour news!!
A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm
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A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm
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Betty Balfour Lost and Found – The Cinema Museum
cinemamuseum.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
HUGE Betty Balfour news!!
A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm
cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/be...
A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm
cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/be...
"Reviled" by the "woke left"... but treated like fools by the hate-generators at the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express. Allison was praying for the amrkets to ruin our economy as punishment for Reeve's budget... whereas they appear to rather like it. She's an agent provocateur removed from reality.
If we lose an imaginary war with Russia, Gary Lineker and the woke left will be to blame - well that's a perfectly sane take Allison
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Reviled" by the "woke left"... but treated like fools by the hate-generators at the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express. Allison was praying for the amrkets to ruin our economy as punishment for Reeve's budget... whereas they appear to rather like it. She's an agent provocateur removed from reality.
Toni Basil is extraordinary! What a career in dance, film and music.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie - and had a smash hit with ‘Mickey’
The woman Quentin Tarantino called ‘the goddess of go-go’ is one of the most connected and accomplished in Hollywood. At 82, she recalls working with Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, David By...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Toni Basil is extraordinary! What a career in dance, film and music.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
There’s lush!
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There’s lush!
Looking forward to heading Way Down East tonight with @pamhutch.bsky.social, Stephen Horne and a very chill Lil for a proper silent film screening! #Gish #IceD
I am introducing a 35mm screening of WAY DOWN EAST (DW Griffith, 1920) with live music by Stephen Horne at the BFI on Tuesday. Wrap up warm! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Way Down East + intro by Pamela Hutchinson, film critic and historian | BFI Southbank
A transcendent Lillian Gish brings a wide-eyed pathos to a country girl who endures an avalanche of misfortune, in this standout collaboration with D.W. Griffith.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Looking forward to heading Way Down East tonight with @pamhutch.bsky.social, Stephen Horne and a very chill Lil for a proper silent film screening! #Gish #IceD
Hatfield and the North with the fabulous Northettes!
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Hatfield and the North with the fabulous Northettes!
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Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
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Down to the Sea in Ships (1922). #SilentFilm
December 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Down to the Sea in Ships (1922). #SilentFilm
This is the way I operate with Mungo the Bolonoodle! He asks the big questions…
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is the way I operate with Mungo the Bolonoodle! He asks the big questions…
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In case you missed yesterday’s review, the Dutch are at it again
Today's review covers THE CURSED MILL (1909), a French film shot in Belgium about sexual jealousy, murder, and windmills among the Dutch.
The ending was deemed too much for America and was cut by a New York censor board.
moviessilently.com/2025/12/14/t...
The ending was deemed too much for America and was cut by a New York censor board.
moviessilently.com/2025/12/14/t...
The Cursed Mill (1909) A Silent Film Review
When a local Dutch beauty chooses a wealthy miller over her smitten boyfriend, the stage is set for a tale of adultery, murder, and desecration of a corpse.
moviessilently.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In case you missed yesterday’s review, the Dutch are at it again