The GW Pabst retrospective at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social looks incredible. All of these films are fascinating. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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...

More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue! If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more! Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Melodrama! But with dastardly crimes attached. I will be at HOME in Manchester to host a post-film discussion for this screening of THE WICKED LADY (1945) on 6 December homemcr.org/whats-on/the...

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October. - Virginia Woolf #Womensart

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...

Melodramatic events in Manchester and London yet to be announced but please do launder your best handkerchiefs in readiness.

I will be introducing Orson Welles' wonderful THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social on 9 November www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-ma...

The BFI Melodrama season will be keeping me busy over the coming weeks. I may be in a cinema near you! For example, I am introducing a 1940 double-bill of REBECCA and the British GASLIGHT in Brighton for CINECITY on 16 November @attenboroughac.bsky.social www.cine-city.co.uk/event/rebecc...

Our January releases are now available for pre-order: tinyurl.com/krbpbs6x Don't forget to use the code BUNDLE at checkout to get 10% off when you order Ivy, All My Sons and Undertow. Which are you most looking forward to?

Can now report that @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration of Peter Lorre's The Lost One (the only film he directed) does not disappoint . . . also v much enjoyed, among the extras, @pamhutch.bsky.social Lorre appreciation Specs: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/wor...

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

The fabulous Dame Julie Andrews was born #OnThisDay and is celebrating her 90th birthday! She wore this Donald Brooks designed full-length sleeveless gown, embellished entirely with black and red bugle beads, as Gertrude Lawrence in Star! (1968). Sold by at Christies. #film #costume

Happy 90th bday Julie Andrews!! Did you know her Hollywood nickname was "the nun with the switchblade"?! Read all about it in @pamhutch.bsky.social's fabulous new piece in the @theguardian.com 🎊🎞️😍 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Happy birthday Julie Andrews! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

It's a pleasure and an honor to take part in this new BBC radio documentary about the great critic and curator Iris Barry (who, of course, founded the MOMA Film Library and made sure that its treasures were projected to museumgoers): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

[Queen Kelly is] “a spectacular, fanatically ornamental, yet harrowing masterwork of erotic ecstasies and horrors.” - Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Claudia Cardinale: the only actor to star in three of Sight & Sound's 100 best films of all time, but who also played the princess in The Pink Panther, destoyer & rebuilder of adolescents the world over. The cause of & cure for all our problems. No better legacy. RIP

I presented this documentary on the pioneering film critic, curator and preservationist Iris Barry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"That’s what the practice of essaying is, to me: a stumbling attempt to re-create, in language, a common space, one that is open to all." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Such fantastic opportunities to research in an amazing collection.

My pick of radio and podcasts of the week.

Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

9/7/51: Peter Lorre's The Lost One, only film he directed Thrilled to see new @filmsradiance.bsky.social SE, incl interview w/ @pamhutch.bsky.social More: Canby: www.nytimes.com/1984/08/01/m... DVD Beaver: www.dvdbeaver.com/film12/blu-r... @cuttothetake.bsky.social: cuttothetake.com/the-lost-one...

Charlie Kaufman @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy + @thr.com, @filmfan82.bsky.social on 90s queer cinema, Alice Diop @anothermag.com, RIEFENSTAHL @ 4Columns + @nytimes.com, Zeinabu irene Davis @letterboxd.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

If ever you thought, “Why don’t I book myself a weekend away by the sea, watch lots of Ida Lupino and Stanley Kubrick thrillers and learn how to plan the perfect heist?” Film Noir Fest is for you.

“Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of.” A first for me – I have presented a Radio 4 documentary on the pioneering curator and critic Iris Barry, founder of the world’s first film archive. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To celebrate the UK paperback release of Not Your China Doll, my biography of film star Anna May Wong, I’m giving away two copies! Here’s how to enter: 1) Subscribe to my newsletter Half-Caste Woman: halfcastewoman.substack.com 2) Comment on my most recent post by Friday, Sept. 5: bit.ly/464TtuU

On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Celebrating publication of this fabulous @edinburghup.bsky.social volume edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail. I wrote about legendary Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune, naturally.

The Queen ascends her throne tonight at La Biennale in Venice! The beautiful new poster is by Lauren Caddick. The new orchestral score is by Eli Denson. Queen Kelly is dedicated to the memory of Donald Krim, who started Dennis on his film journey 40 years ago.

My talk on Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune is online on YouTube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYle...

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

fascinating presentation on the legendary film critic CA Lejeune by the great @pamhutch.bsky.social !! Happening now! 🎞️✒️

Grab your spaghetti and your tennis racket. I am introducing a couple of the screenings in this joyous Jack Lemmon strand at Bradford's Widescreen Weekend next month. See you there! www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/wides...

If you are not watching this newly restored 1969 documentary about Greta Garbo, introduced by Joan Crawford, right now, you are missing out. Catch up on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🎬 THIS FRIDAY — Step into the golden age of British film criticism with the fierce, funny women who wrote it into history! For the next installment of Online with SFFP — our free monthly virtual series — join film critic Pamela Hutchinson for a lively talk on C. A. 1/3

I promised myself that I'd only post on here if I had something to say, and I think this counts: I'm thrilled to share news of my forthcoming book, "The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films". Out 12 Feb UK/17 Feb US via Laurence King Pre-order! linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark

“This new restoration, and its red-carpet premiere in Venice, may just be everything that Swanson dreamed of for her lovechild Queen Kelly.” — @pamhutch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

I wrote a brief note about QUEEN KELLY, which will play Venice FF this year in a brilliant new “reimagining” from @milestonefilms.bsky.social

We had the pleasure of showing a pair of newly-restored Anglo/German silents starring Anna May Wong: Song (1928) & Pavement Butterfly (1929) presented by @pamhutch.bsky.social Here’s a chance to catch them again at #BFISouthbank in London + a whole selection of other titles & talks…

This is a beautiful, rare and briliant bit of radio. Quite unlike anything you’ve heard in an age. Gift yourself an hour in its company. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

And here's... Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain - in hardback and more-or-less affordable paperback, scheduled for 8 January 2026: www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Rays-L...

I am giving a free online lecture on CA Lejeune (Of Observer and Manchester Guardian fame) and her fellow British female film critics – a really impressive and fascinating group of people.

I'll be in Bristol for @cineredis.bsky.social this weekend! Intro'ing 2 x magical Marxist feminist musical THE GOLD DIGGERS. Fill ur eyes w Julie Christie 🤩 Sat 26 July, 11 am, @wshed.bsky.social Sun 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Clevedon (come at 12 for cinema tour!) www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

A bit self-serving to share @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social's defense of the humble arts review, but then again, he articulates why I persist with a practice that often feels esoteric at best, inessential at worst. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

For once, Lunch with the FT is with someone truly inspiring and heroic. You might, if you can get through the tears, think that David Nott deserves rather more than seabass and chips in Sloane Square on us, but it's a start. (Link free 300x) on.ft.com/410ARdR