Only time I've ever walked out of a film was CALIGULA (1979) and that was before they got to the hardcore inserts. (That said, last year's Ultimate Cut was merely terrible.)

With my the One True Bozo, Little Rock, AR, 1967.

Article makes reference to a 34" Sony CRT tipping the scales at 196 lbs. Had to move this big fella several times and can confirm.

CFP alert! The Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA. Proposal deadline is June 8. Link for details: amiaconference.net/amia-2026-ca...

Met Xie Jin in 2008 (a few months before his passing) during a trip to China with The Film Foundation. Great filmmaker; we really bonded over TWO STAGE SISTERS and RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN. Inadvertently challenged him to a drinking contest--he crushed me--but that cemented our too brief friendship.

this hit all my sweet spots 
** Elvis Costello (very) deep cut ** Beatles
 ** callback to the finale of St Elsewhere, still my favorite TV drama series

Can't overstate how much the arrival of SI in our mailbox was a highlight of my week as a kid. In addition to spectacular photography, their stable of writers was unparalleled: Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, William Nack, and Dan Jenkins were must-read bylines.

My favorite silent film and a permanent resident in my @letterboxd.social Top 4. Exciting news!

Japanese Paper Films at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival May 8 at 5pm! We are delighted to play at the amazing @castrotheatre.bsky.social with live music by Duo Yumeno #anime #japan #koto #film

A related side note: when Turner Entertainment registered colorized films for copyright -- on video, of course -- they also submitted new 35mm prints to the Library of Congress as a condition of the registration. See BRINGING UP BABY (lccn.loc.gov/91733359) as an example.

Heading up to San Francisco for the glorious Silent Film Festival! Highlights this year include QUEEN KELLY, BED & SOFA and THE CROWD. I’ll be introducing the feminist classic MISS LULU BETT on Thursday night. Join me! silentfilm.org

Charlotte introduces THE CAVEMAN (Lewis Milestone, 1926), a delightful comedy with Marie Prevost, at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Friday at 7pm!

This year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens tomorrow ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our sparkling new restoration of Victor Fleming’s HULA (1927) screens THIS FRIDAY at 3 PM at @castrotheatre.bsky.social as part of the 29th San Francisco Silent Film Festival — and Clara Bow is absolutely electric. 🎬✨

A fan of Pre-Code? Thank this guy. Bruce's advocacy and programming has directly resulted in studios preserving in 35mm a wealth of Pre-Code titles that premiered at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social. (Of course, he was my first call when we discovered the uncut BABY FACE at @librarycongress.bsky.social!)

Coming to the Castro this week! Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly and the world premiere of The Humming Bird! San Francisco Silent Film Festival. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Seconding Tanya's praise for The Field Guide to Sponsored Film. @filmpreservation.bsky.social has nearly 200 of them for viewing on their website!

Very excited to see this, especially with Stephen Horne accompanying and Library of Congress Moving Image Section Head Heather Linville introducing. Being Heather's predecessor, I am delighted to host the show on behalf of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival!

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns to the Castro Theatre May 6-10. We're pleased to be supporting screenings of QUEEN KELLY & BOOKKEEPER KREMEKE. Schedule and tix: silentfilm.org Use promo code NOIRSF at checkout for a $2 discount. #SFSFF2026

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival returns to the @castrotheatre.bsky.social May 6-10. We're pleased to be supporting screenings of QUEEN KELLY & BOOKKEEPER KREMEKE. Schedule and tix: silentfilm.org Use promo code NOIRSF at checkout for a $2 discount. #SFSFF2026 @eddiemuller.bsky.social

#filmsky #moviesky #silents One year+ ago, I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s THE MANXMAN (1929) at San Francisco’s bastion of social justice, Grace Cathedral. Such an intense, and moving film. (Plays on Tubi/Plex,…) 👏🏼 Thanks to SF Silent Film Festival The 2026 schedule, starts May 6 silentfilm.org/festival

THE PATSY is Marion’s best (indeed, a top tier silent comedy in general) and @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social will sparkle. Don’t miss!

I loved talking about the IRENE at the Library's Packard Campus in Culpeper, VA -- this one is in DC -- even if the tech seemed like science fiction (preserve a disc broken into pieces? no problem). This is a nice explainer of its wonders and it's interesting to see it being used on a Dictabelt.

Breakfast TV yesterday morning. Stan, Ollie and piano accompanist... youtu.be/fzVkMdGyHYs?...

all right Michigan, I guess you earned it

Join me at the Denver Silent Film Festival next week!! 🎞️

Grateful for this post because I've never seen the film this way. Persuasively contradicts my flippant remarks about it in a 2018 blog post about its preservation!

todays must-read!!!

Happy birthday to Gloria Swanson and happy publication day to my new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, available from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social here stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

All of Marya's interviews are insightful, and this one with @pamhutch.bsky.social is a special delight.

Spectacular overview by @hennefem.bsky.social.

every so often I like to look at my notes from when we discovered the uncensored BABY FACE in the @librarycongress.bsky.social collections

What Guy said!

"Stan" is an exceptionally moving and affectionate play by the multi-talented Neil Brand, someone who's very much attuned to the personal relationship between Laurel and Hardy. Looking forward to hearing it again!

If you don’t know much about QUEEN KELLY, let me put it this way: the backstory to SUNSET BOULEVARD was even more shocking than you imagined…

I was honored to blurb Pamela's brilliant new history of Queen Kelly, whose chaotic implosion has long begged for a treatment like this. It's a great read!

took me a while to recover from Bend Over Pac-Man

What a find! The LOC keeps turning up treasures.

The whole slate. April 8-11. 42 presentations, 17 sessions, 50+ presenters. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

One of the greatest privileges of my life to help acquire the Frederick Wiseman Collection for @librarycongress.bsky.social; if you know his work, you can imagine how massive an acquisition it was. Fred was as extraordinary a person as he was a filmmaker.

I use @letterboxd.social as a memory aid and the review feature as notes to my future self when inevitably I forget how I felt about a title in the moment. But it's full of perceptive and often hilarious commentary that has enriched my cinephilia.

Spectacular conversation between two of the best, full of insight (and links! so many links!)

Great article that doubles as a powerful testament to film preservation. Kudos to Katie Trainor, Greg Pierce, and the crew at Colorlab.

The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films added to the National Film Registry. Two silents from the teens have been preserved with NFPF funding and are now available to stream on the NFPF's website: THE OATH OF THE SWORD (1914) & THE MAID OF MCMILLAN (1916). Follow the thread for the links.

NEWS: The Library of Congress has selected 25 films for the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. Highlights in this thread. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/01/... #NatFilmRegistry

Another reason to subscribe to Andrew’s @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast: several episodes do an outstanding job explaining film and sound recording copyright both in Europe and the US.

I enjoy going through filmographies (in order!) and in 2025 that was Mikio Naruse’s. I watched 86 films on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, still the best $99 value out there.

The first silent flm I ever saw was Orphans of the Storm from the series The Silent Years, broadcast on Little Rock PBS station KETS in 1971. No exaggeration to say it quite literally changed my life and led to a rewarding career at the Library of Congress. Very sad about this.

It was an outstanding conference and I'm forever grateful to be part of the Association of Moving Image Archivists community. Join us!

Dan and Maria are enduring a Kafkaesque nightmare not of their doing. Please help if you can.