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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
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
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Remembering Marie Prevost on her birthday #botd
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Big news for April 2026!
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"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
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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
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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
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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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All About The Music Podcast
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October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Film star salaries compared to the average American, and the President, in 1927
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
Whoop! Paul’s Pordenone blogs were on fire this year.
October 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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
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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
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