I’ve got a long one for you today! I had so much fun talking with author, critic and film historian @pamhutch.bsky.social about QUEEN KELLY, Louise Brooks, C. A. Lejeune, HÄXAN, and so much more! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

Working on teaching prep and listening to the A Series of Unfortunate Events film score. Life is a dream.

I've registered for the BAFTSS conference and the conference meal! I am so looking forward to attending and presenting my research! I'm on a fabulous panel too! I can't wait!

I begin teaching again this week, back at my PhD uni, Queen Mary University of London. I'm so looking forward to it! 🫶

I am absolutely delighted to be introducing this screening of PENNY SERENADE at the Bristol Megascreen tomorrow evening at 6:30pm (doors open 6pm). Come along for badge-making, cocktails, choirs serenading you, and even weepie-worthy Cary Grant tissues! 🎟️ www.carycomeshome.co.uk/events/2025-...

Special Offer! The amazing autobiography of #AmandaBarrie 'I’m Still Here: My 90 Years' - Signed Hardback Book! Packed with anecdotes and memories of her nine decades on stage and screen. Just £25 with free UK P&P. Grab your while stocks last! buff.ly/REAZ43p

GdT also wrote this:

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

I've only seen a few episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I just don't like it and I don't get the appeal, yet I used to play it at primary school with like every other kid in my class, but I had no idea who my character was or what I was meant to be doing, but that was still entertaining.

I once had to share my screen with IT, and he told me I needed to close my tabs to restart Chrome, so I said I'd have to call him back because I had a million tabs open with different research articles that I didn't want to lose, so I spent the next 20 mins favouriting the URLs 😂

I wouldn’t tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs.

Barbie Ferreira and more on the latest episode of Girls On Film...

🎬✨ Silent Film in the Tenderloin — a one-night-only celebration of San Francisco’s early cinema roots featuring 2 Buster Keaton shorts with live musical accompaniment! #FilmSky #SFFP #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #TenderloinMuseum #BusterKeaton #ClubFootOrchestra #GreatAmericanMusicHall #SFNeon 1/4

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Maggie Hennefeld's DEATH BY LAUGHTER "joins other feminist explorations of early cinema that provide new outlooks on established categories of film."-Judith Mayne, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. buff.ly/cCKW7Ui ‪@jcmsjournal.bsky.social‬ #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #FeministTheory #ReadUP

Catch up with all 3 episodes of the 2008 BBC Radio drama📻“The Mayor of Casterbridge” directed by #NadiaMolinari & dramatised by #HelenEdmundson from #ThomasHardy’s 1886 novel📖 🌟 #JohnLynch #RuthWilson #PaulHiggins #EmmaFielding #MaggieSteed
 #BookchatWeekly

All my tickets are booked for Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna! I cannot wait to be back! 🎥

The wife is unable to fit into a taxicab and unable to walk due to the tight skirt. Unwilling to be seen with an unfashionable wife, the husband purchases a child's wagon to aid in transport, which quickly catches on.

Danish director Viggo Larsen is one of my favorite new discoveries. He worked in every genre but my favorites are his fresh and witty comedies. A NEW HAT FOR THE MADAM (1906) satirizes the craze for giant hats and hobble skirts as a fashionable woman terrorizes Copenhagen with her huge chapeau.

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Absolutely phenomenal. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better play.

I’m so excited to go to Belfast tomorrow on a PhD trip! Planning places to visit with the other PhDs. I’ve just organised a PhD trip to the Tower of London in June too, and I’m attending a PhD visit to York later this month. I love #PhDLife and I’m gonna miss it when it’s over!

What a way to make me want to buy a book. It’s about pirates too 🏴‍☠️

Hello Bluesky! This is the new account for the BAFTSS LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies special interest group. Follow us and share your queer and trans screen studies news with us 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Joining Stephen Woolley at the 9th edition of Cinema Rediscovered is Sir Stephen Frears, director of My Beautiful Laundrette, which celebrates its 40th Anniversary and influential programmer, producer and author Lynda Myles for a rare showing of her political thriller DEFENCE OF THE REALM (1986)

Early Bird passes are on sale for the 9th edition of Cinema Rediscovered, the UK’s leading festival of newly restored & re-found cinematic gems in & around Bristol UNESCO City of Film 23 - 27 July 2025. Get access the 50+ event line-up of events, exclusive deals + priority booking via the in bio 🎟️

That was an intense but brilliant episode of Eastenders to start my day with. Steve McFadden has played such an incredible part in the mental health storyline, and I loved the format of today’s episode.

Happy Pancake Day! I made these banana, oat, cocoa pancakes topped with vanilla yoghurt and blueberries.

Anora deserves every single award it has won tonight at the #Oscars. It is my favourite film of all the nominees. And Mikey is the most fantastic actress. If you’ve not seen #Anora, please give it a watch! @neon-rated.bsky.social

I’m so looking forward to 3 days in London this week with my fabulous fellow PhDs, for a CDP event on Making Exhibitions at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social and the V&A Museum 😊 #PhDLife

A night in with Tippi 🖤

I had a lovely morning in Chichester attending @pamhutch.bsky.social’s brilliant talk on ‘sex work on screen’ at the New Park Cinema. There are lots of films that I now need to see! 🎥

Starting my day in Chichester at a really cute, arty, not-for-profit café before attending @pamhutch.bsky.social talk 🎥

Bianca throwing Sonia’s knickers into Lauren’s face has to be a top Eastenders moment 👌 #EELive #Eastenders #Eastenders40

The live #Eastenders episode 😭 There are no more original Fowlers left 😭 And why is no one wondering where Tracey is? She’s unaccounted for!

I'm really excited to be debuting an excerpt from the introduction of my book CINEMA HER WAY on IndieWire!

Someone is defiant that I don’t join today’s writing retreat.

Clearly the Shaun the Sheep range at Lush is a must have.

I love this film so much ✨ I can’t wait! 🖤

An exciting fully-funded PhD studentship available from the University of Sheffield and @histparl.bsky.social. The PhD will explore the contribution to parliamentary culture in the UK made by Irish MPs during the 19th century. Deadline for applications 5 March 2025.

I am SO excited to finally announce that on Saturday, March 29th at 11am here in Chicago I will be screening BRIGHT STAR on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social + signing copies of my book in the lounge (and also crying profusely) 🎟️ musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Fantastic news for all UKRI funded PhD students regarding their stipends from October: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-is...

It’s my fave man John Alderton in Please Sir! on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 🖤 I’m sat writing up some notes with this wonderful film in the background. It always brings me joy.

I had another dream last night that I met Julie Christie. These PhD years feel like I’m living and breathing my star girls. They’re all I think about #Obsessed

Our CDP PhD writing retreats have returned 🙌 All set for a productive day ✍️ #PhDLife

As I finish my PhD corrections, I’m starting to think about my future. If anyone knows of any academic/university jobs, please let me know. I have experience in lecturing/teaching, supervision, marking & proofreading! Thank you! ⭐️

psst... we will have Ralph Fiennes on the PCC stage on Monday 3rd Feb 18:00 for an In Conversation event. Tickets on sale tomorrow for members (24hr window), then on Thu for everyone. Obviously a lot going on here at the moment but wanted to let you know this was happening.

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

I had the most lovely time at the Girls On Film Awards tonight ✨🖤 What a wonderful celebration of women-led films 🎥 See the list of nominees and winners here: hlaagency.co.uk/category/pro...