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The @slapstickfest.bsky.social programme is now live! I will see you there, where I will be talking about classic comedy duos, with @lucyportercomic.bsky.social. Also, flappers and Yasujiro Ozu. Separately. slapstick.org.uk/all-events/
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November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The @slapstickfest.bsky.social programme is now live! I will see you there, where I will be talking about classic comedy duos, with @lucyportercomic.bsky.social. Also, flappers and Yasujiro Ozu. Separately. slapstick.org.uk/all-events/
These wonderful silent Sherlock Holmes films, restored by the BFI, will screen at the marvellous San Francisco Silent Film Festival this week. Look out for UK dates, some with live music, in December and January silentlondon.co.uk/2024/10/17/s...
Silent Sherlock at the London Film Festival: the game is afoot
Stand outside Alexandra Palace on a clear evening with a full moon, as I did last night, and you can take in the whole city. London may be as silent as it gets from this vantage point, but the land…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
These wonderful silent Sherlock Holmes films, restored by the BFI, will screen at the marvellous San Francisco Silent Film Festival this week. Look out for UK dates, some with live music, in December and January silentlondon.co.uk/2024/10/17/s...
Big news for April 2026!
If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)
The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original rese…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Big news for April 2026!
"Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece" Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford) talks about silent cinema's depictions of Ancient Greece in this free online lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housman-le...
Housman Lecture 2025
Presented by Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford): Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece
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November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece" Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford) talks about silent cinema's depictions of Ancient Greece in this free online lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housman-le...
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Brilliant recap of the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone by HippFest director Alison Strauss!! (Thanks for the shout-out to our "fun, richly illustrated, and snappy" lecture on nasty women costume design!) 🎞️❤️
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Defiance and solidarity at the 44th Pordenone Silent Film Festival
HippFest Festival Director Alison Strauss recounts her recent trip to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, featuring various programme favourites…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Brilliant recap of the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone by HippFest director Alison Strauss!! (Thanks for the shout-out to our "fun, richly illustrated, and snappy" lecture on nasty women costume design!) 🎞️❤️
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A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
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TODAY'S THE DAY, FOLKS!
Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
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Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
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All About The Music Podcast
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October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
TODAY'S THE DAY, FOLKS!
Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
Film star salaries compared to the average American, and the President, in 1927
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Film star salaries compared to the average American, and the President, in 1927
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Updating our #silentfilm live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Updating our #silentfilm live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/
Lillian Gish klaxon! I am introducing this screening of WAY DOWN EAST on 35mm at the BFI on 16 December. Give yourself an early Christmas present! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Lillian Gish klaxon! I am introducing this screening of WAY DOWN EAST on 35mm at the BFI on 16 December. Give yourself an early Christmas present! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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cannot stress enough how GREAT this film is
Must-see melodrama alert. Next Sunday, one of the best films in the BFI Melodrama season, the silent 1925 STELLA DALLAS, screens in NFT1 with the incredible orchestral score by Stephen Horne – who also introduces the screening. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Stella Dallas + intro by composer Stephen Horne | BFI Southbank
2025-11-02T15:00:00.000, NFT1
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October 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
cannot stress enough how GREAT this film is
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Co-director @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social selects his top five #SilentFillm titles from this year's Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 in #Pordenone, Italy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/festiva...
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Co-director @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social selects his top five #SilentFillm titles from this year's Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 in #Pordenone, Italy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/festiva...
Composer Stephen Horne introduces this screening of the magnificent silent STELLA DALLAS (Henry King, 1925) with his recorded score (which is exceptionally good) at BFI Southbank on 2 November whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Stella Dallas + intro by composer Stephen Horne | BFI Southbank
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October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Composer Stephen Horne introduces this screening of the magnificent silent STELLA DALLAS (Henry King, 1925) with his recorded score (which is exceptionally good) at BFI Southbank on 2 November whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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New Writers on Film episode from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with Neil Brand and James Harrison
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The Pordenone Silent Film Festival with James Harrison and Neil Brand
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October 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New Writers on Film episode from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with Neil Brand and James Harrison
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A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playin...
PLAYING THE VAMP - Cinecity
ILLUSTRATED TALK FROM PAMELA HUTCHINSON The vamp is seductive, dangerous and aloof. An urban criminal whose weapons are dark eyes ringed with liner and a...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playin...
Whoop! Paul’s Pordenone blogs were on fire this year.
Last report from the last day of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto - Charlie, Buster, Natalie, Jackie Gleeson and Italia Almirante Manzini!!
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Train keeps a runnin’… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #44 Day Eight
That was the week that was… and it was a Festival of many parts as director Jay Weissberg noted as he introduced the final night’s gala ...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Whoop! Paul’s Pordenone blogs were on fire this year.
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The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 8
I awoke with good intentions but encountered even better conversations. And thus, my film viewing on this, the final day of the 44th Giornate del Cinema Muto, began at midday, with Koko the Clown. …
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...
The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 8
I awoke with good intentions but encountered even better conversations. And thus, my film viewing on this, the final day of the 44th Giornate del Cinema Muto, began at midday, with Koko the Clown. …
silentlondon.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...
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Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎
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Parallax Views
This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎
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www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning.
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The fault in our Tsar… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Seven
If Hammer made Soviet historical dramas with a propagandist edge in the silent era it would probably be exactly like The Wings of a Serf ...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning.
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Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 7
I have been a little slow to start up some mornings. But one thing you can guarantee that I will get out of bed for is Victor Sjöström. Victor Sjöström’s 1912 debut film no less, banned outright in…
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October 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...
Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 7
I have been a little slow to start up some mornings. But one thing you can guarantee that I will get out of bed for is Victor Sjöström. Victor Sjöström’s 1912 debut film no less, banned outright in…
silentlondon.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...
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Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6
Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …
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October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...