My “top 10" for silent cinema screenings in 2025... with thanks to the archivists, programmers, projectionists, acompanists and the original artists of course! Especially those in Sweden. I mean, it's in no particular order... except for the top one! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/yet-...

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Redwood Creek BD-R A decent transfer from a 16mm print with very good score from Laurent Pigeolet. Whereas the Cinémathèque française uses 35mm nitrate original + others... Still: #JeanEpstein! #silentfilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/redw...

“Icy wind of night be gone, this is not your domain In the sky a bird was heard to cry Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds Belied the deathly silence that lay all around…”

Hey, hey!!

Wild oats? Way Down East (1920), with Stephen Horne, BFI, Too Much: Melodrama on Film Not "too much" as it turns out in a film moderated by Gish's influence on Griffith and a team effort that still carries surprising force as our heroine ask about MEN! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...

A fun film based on a play inspired by a poem by Edgar Allen Poe and the subject of a new Kickstarter than just might not be as good as David Shepard's 1998 restoration... Whatever, Lionel Barrymore is on song and young Boris Karlof is uncanny! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/jang...

Something to look forward to in 2026? Why not treat yourself to a #TPTV event! Something to write on your calendar – a date to look forward to in 2026! For tickets and more info click here: buff.ly/tffYQIN

🧵”… the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933.” RFK either knows that or hasn’t the desire to establish facts. His approach and his position are something akin to reckless endangerment of the US population.

Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull (1940)

A fun film based on a play inspired by a poem by Edgar Allen Poe and the subject of a new Kickstarter than just might not be as good as David Shepard's 1998 restoration... Whatever, Lionel Barrymore is on song and young Boris Karlof is uncanny! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/jang...

FFS just *unsubscribe*!! #GDPR #YourDataYourChoice www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I can’t get over how one directional Instagram feels… I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.

Lazy twaddle re Badly Drawn Boy: “It’s no secret that I’m drawn to slightly naff provincial guitar music from the early 2000s… It’s so twee and understated, you could imagine it being sung by the Marine Girls… very real connotations of flannel shirts, beanies & open mic nights.”

Christmas film?! 🎄🥂🌲

Wild oats? Way Down East (1920), with Stephen Horne, BFI, Too Much: Melodrama on Film Not "too much" as it turns out in a film moderated by Gish's influence on Griffith and a team effort that still carries surprising force as our heroine ask about MEN! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...

See you there! www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/

I knew Zendaya would go for a saag aloo side! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

£90 Billion in lost tax revenues every year. Brexit is the reason we are hide bound by taxation and low growth. It’s not asylum seekers, immigration or benefit cheats but the lunatic idea of leaving the single market that is hastened our decline.

And Mo scored in the 91st minute! 🇪🇬🇪🇬

The brilliant Jane Fonda, 88 today 💖

What a song!!

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Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

It was a simpler time.

Critically acclaimed fantasy from Ealing Studios. 📽️ THEY CAME TO A CITY (1944) 6am #GoogieWithers #JohnClements #RaymondHuntley drama #TPTVsubtitles

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social my neighbours won Christmas Jumpers of the Year! This is class!

"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn"

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer, Warrington, Cheshire, 1961.

Ooh, Deep Blue Sea coming up for you night 🦉🦉🦉s! TPTV with more rare films than you can see without sacrificing sleep! It’s worth it!

Mood.

Sharing my Free Stuff Thread again because you, yes you, deserve free silent movies

That’s one tough hill…

HUGE Betty Balfour news!! A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros! #SilentFilm cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/be...

"Reviled" by the "woke left"... but treated like fools by the hate-generators at the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express. Allison was praying for the amrkets to ruin our economy as punishment for Reeve's budget... whereas they appear to rather like it. She's an agent provocateur removed from reality.

Toni Basil is extraordinary! What a career in dance, film and music. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

There’s lush!

Looking forward to heading Way Down East tonight with @pamhutch.bsky.social, Stephen Horne and a very chill Lil for a proper silent film screening! #Gish #IceD

Hatfield and the North with the fabulous Northettes!

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Down to the Sea in Ships (1922). #SilentFilm

This is the way I operate with Mungo the Bolonoodle! He asks the big questions…

In case you missed yesterday’s review, the Dutch are at it again

100%! Also X and Threads are infested with bots, here is just that bit more human.

Poisoned Paradise (1924) may not be a great film but it includes Clara Bow's first leading role. For that reason - and others (Ben Model score y'all!) I'm grateful to the NFPF for restoring it and making it available via streaming! #SilentFilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/clar...

This Christmas "Channel D" will be open on #TalkingPicturesTV with a Channel Premiere Series! Classic Spy-Fiction Series begins Sunday 28th December at 4pm! THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1964) #TPTVsubtitles Stars #DavidMcCallum #RobertVaughn

Poisoned Paradise (1924) may not be a great film but it includes Clara Bow's first leading role. For that reason - and others (Ben Model score y'all!) I'm grateful to the NFPF for restoring it and making it available via streaming! #SilentFilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/12/clar...

Having to restart my BluSky account from scratch because the app wouldn't let me give my birthdate and, without it, wouldn't let me log on. I'm not complaining but... that is mildly frustrating. So, if you apprecaited my silent film and soccer ramblings, please follow me again. ITY PJx

I am introducing a 35mm screening of WAY DOWN EAST (DW Griffith, 1920) with live music by Stephen Horne at the BFI on Tuesday. Wrap up warm! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...