Amazing 36-film series at Film Forum in New York to honour the legendary Kevin Brownlow. filmforum.org/series/kevin...

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MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (1926) aka "What if Hal Roach did Die Fledermaus and made it even sassier?"

Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️ 📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone Save the date!

Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto also has a fantastic online #SilentFilm festival running alongside the Pordenone screenings, highly recommended if you can't make it to the festival in person. www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/abbonamenti-...

More than 72% of tickets now sold for screening of rarely seen Bristol films 26 October with @swsilents.bsky.social. Book here: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...

We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!! You can join here: lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/... We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!

On the occasion of #HWC2025 our colleague Eric Hoyt (of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) has written this wonderful blog post. Includes links to resources from Media History Digital Library. wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

I wrote about Sally Potter's THE GOLD DIGGERS & why u shd come to @cineredis.bsky.social 26/27 July to see this "Hollywood studio–meets European arthouse–meets feminist avant-garde – WITH SONGS!" sparkling unicorn feat. luminous Julie Christie. #FilmSky Read more👇 clubdesfemmes.com/culture-club...

So looking forward to this! 📽️🎞️🎟️🍿

UK-based film studies friends - please help @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social Her MA research explores how Open Access has affected film academia in the UK. If you're a film/screen media academic working in the UK with experience of OA publishing, please fill in/share her anonymous survey.

C’mon folks we need more Marion Davies! Please support if you’re able! #SilentFilm

Apply now for our Reframing Film Sessions on Wed 23 July at @wshed.bsky.social (start of #CineRedis25) Join some of the most inspiring voices in film exhibition and distribution for practical insights into the world of restorations, film rights and upcoming re-releases. wshd.to/reframingfil...

VFX workers on ‘AVATAR’, as well as those who work at Marvel Studios and Disney, have officially ratified their first labor contract, which includes: • Health plan • Rest periods • Overtime pay • Meal penalties • Industry pension • Turnaround times • Raises of 4% and 3.5% (via Variety)

Coming up next in @wshed.bsky.social season Walter Murch: The Art of the Cut - The Godfather. 11 May, 14.00. And don’t miss Murch himself, 15 May. Book here for this special evening: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1317...

Destination: Bristol, UK Cinema Rediscovered 23 - 27 July 2025 Places to stay & practical info: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis... Image: Věra Chytilová’s Kalamita (Czechoslovakia 1982), one of the 50+ film events at the fest taking place at cinemas incl. @wshed.bsky.social & @cubecinema.com

⌛ Final Week ⌛ Time is running out to visit our current exhibition: 'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️ 🔗Opening times + digital highlights: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time #UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

7:45pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 👌Worth a Watch👌 The 1962 short documentary film🎥 “Nine, Dalmuir West” directed by #KevinBrownlow An atmospheric homage to #Glasgow’s tram system following the last #Tram to run in September 1962

Updating our #silentfilm live events listings once again tonight. Lots more to see. For details check out silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

This will be great. Triple Oscar®-winner Walter Murch, one of cinema’s most acclaimed film and sound editors, comes to @wshed.bsky.social for a special screening and in-conversation event to launch his memoir Suddenly Something Clicked. 15 May 2025. Book here: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1317...

Warner Bros and Kodak released a 10+ minute video of Ryan Coogler explaining how he shot Sinners on film and how people can see it in different formats in theaters. This is some of the best film promo I’ve seen in years. youtu.be/78Ru62uFM0s?...

Nicholas Brothers klaxon 📢

Buster Keaton ready for a good inning. #oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilm

Fun MakerSpace Day with @titachico.bsky.social at #BristolCommonPress and #TheatreCollection with print, mirrors & a terrifying murder clown

Constance Talmadge in Polly of the Follies (1922) #oldhollywood #constancetalmadge #silentfilm

Original release print of STAR WARS???!!!!!!!!!

BFI Film on Film Festival is back 🤩 www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-fil...

Save the date! May 24th: a full day of 1930s comedy films at The Cinema Museum! Laurel & Hardy, W.C.Fields, Aldwych Farces and more, plus a rare chance to see Buster Keaton in a wonderful French sound feature. Full details tbc, but here's a flavour: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...

The Lost Laugh is a blog and free-ezine devoted to silent and early sound film comedy. There have been fourteen issues, and I'm currently working on the fifteenth. They're free to download as pdfs here: thelostlaugh.com/magazine/

Won't you look at that! 😍

Buster Keaton, master of comic timing, was ready for his #siegfriedandjoy magic moment 98 years early… #BusterKeaton #ItsAllComingBackToMeNow www.instagram.com/reel/DIHeHdH...

A screen grab from my Love Affairs to Remember video essay whichI'm discussing later, exploring Love Affair (1939), An Affair to Remember (1957), Love Affair (1994) and and a Bollywood version, Mann (1999). Can't wait to share this and get feedback!

Los Angeles-area movie lovers! Charles Burnett will appear in-person at the Aero on Wed., April 16, for a screening of his masterpiece, “Killer of Sheep” (new 4K restoration!)! Check out the attached for more screenings.

Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend! Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi... @colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social

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 🎟️

Best use of the new edited closeup technology in George Albert Smith's THE SICK KITTEN (1903)

🔴New: I wrote about the cultural oddity that is my beloved @20thcflicks.bsky.social. For @lwlies.com. lwlies.com/articles/20t...

Life is a cabaret… Weimar Berlin is coming to Bristol on 15 March, and so am I, thanks to @swsilents.bsky.social silentlondon.co.uk/2025/03/05/w...

Coming up next Saturday 15th March is the second double-bill programme in our City Montage series with @swsilents.bsky.social: Berlin Symphony of a City (1927) and Cabaret (1972). ti.to/film-noir-uk...

As part of #NationalLottery Open week, @wshed.bsky.social is putting on a FREE Projection Booth tour on 22 March, a chance to meet the team & discover how the films screening make it onto the big screen. Find out how you can get involved + Ts & Cs: www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/open-week/of...

If you missed our screening of the hilarious HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), you can enjoy a Public Domain Movie Night screening in your own home! 🍿📽️👀 Watch the full film here ➡️ archive.org/details/his-... #PublicDomain #ClassicFilm #InternetArchive

It's March and it's Monday and it's 5pm so whether you believe us or not it is literally time for WEEK TEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY THIS LIGHT 💡❤️

Big thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for our City Montage #SilentFilm Double Bill opener! We are back at the Megascreen on Saturday 15th March, 12PM with @pamhutch.bsky.social with Berlin Symphony of a City (1927) + Cabaret (1972) TICKETS: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

There's a new issue of The Lost Laugh in the works - a free pdf zine about vintage comedy. This issue's cover star is Syd Chaplin. Its not too late to contribute if youd like to. More details here! thelostlaugh.com/2025/02/28/i...

Now is now… Last chance to catch Perfect Days after its continuous 1 year run… 👇

Such a pleasure to introduce #BusterKeaton ‘s comedies to a new audience at @slapstickfest.bsky.social - thanks for coming Sarah! Watch Sarah @popcornchat.bsky.social ‘s reel to hear when #BusterKeaton’s granddaughter Melissa first discovered his silent films… ⬇️🍿📽️😂

Looking forward to this perfectly-paired @swsilents.bsky.social Megascreen double bill of MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) and #BusterKeaton ’s THE CAMERAMAN (1928). (I’ll be introducing the Keaton flick…)

Another year older, another festival finished ✅ A lot of laughs last week at @slapstickfest.bsky.social, culminating in over 3 months of hard work. Thank you to the team for the support whilst they pulled together such an incredible feat. Photo credit: Ella McDonald #slapstickfest25

Apply now to Beyond Shorts, a five-month career-development programme designed to elevate SW-based producers and directors who have a strong track record in screen-based work and are ready to take the next step into making features or HETV. Apply by Mon 24 March. watershed.co.uk/filmhub/beyo...

Any thoughts on silent films with pigs, @swsilents.bsky.social @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social ?