Looking for an alternative to that presentist, sausage-fest 100 Best Comedies list? May I recommend Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a collection of 99 silent-era films of feminist protest, slapstick and mayhem.

It's the day you've been waiting for your entire life!!! Cinema's First Nasty Women are 50% off in @kinolorber.com's site-wide Black Friday sale!!! Léontine, Bertha R., Cunégonde, and their pals can't wait to help spruce up your home... 📀🎞️🎶 kinolorber.com/product/cine...

Thank you to @slashfilm.bsky.social for including CINEMA HER WAY in their gift guide. www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...

The cat is out of the bag! Cinema's First Nasty Women will return to @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social in Jan 2026, where we first launched this whole shebang!! BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY will screen with 3 short films by @karenpearlman.bsky.social! 🎊 www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/cinem...

Had to cancel plans to attend the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, but at AFISilver … for a collection of silent shorts. “Breaking Plates and Smashing Patriarchy” 🙄 … is 10 shorts from 1903 to 1913 about rebellious women preceded by a contemporary 20-minute docudrama.

The 4th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour is coming! Valentine's Day weekend, Februray 12-15, 2026. ❤️🎞 Many more details to come soon! Follow us on social media, and sign up for our email updates at archivesonscreen.org!

join us!!!! silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

This week Léontine will be in two places at once!!! Catch her at AFI Silver for the Silent Cinema Showcase AND UN-Reno for the Feminist Comedy Confab. (No plates unbroken, no patriarchy unsmashed....) events.unr.edu/event/femini... silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

I'm excited for this FEMINIST COMEDY marathon at UN-Reno on Fri!! I'll be presenting some new research on archival cinema, followed by a @nastysilents.bsky.social screening of "Breaking Plates & Smashing the Patriarchy"! Come for the comedy, stay for the comradery. 🎞🧯 events.unr.edu/event/femini...

Join us for Feminist Influences: An Online Roundtable (Feb 12, 5PM EST) — featuring brilliant voices in feminist film and media studies! @hennefem.bsky.social @shelleystamp.bsky.social

Starting tonight!!! Breaking Plates & Smashing the Patriarchy will be on all week at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in their Silent Cinema Showcase!! 🎊🎞️🎶🌪️ @physicaltv.bsky.social silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

Thanks everyone who came to our #SilentFilm screening of 7th Heaven at the Heights Theater -- w/ *rhapsodic* music by The Poor Nobodys!! 🎶😍 Stayed tuned to @archivesonscreen.org for announcements, including the full line-up for Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Feb 12-15, 2026)! 🎞📽 archivesonscreen.org

A lost film rises from the deep! 🌊 Maurice Tourneur’s THE WHITE HEATHER (1919), newly restored after being presumed lost, shimmers back to life. 🎬 Watch the clip here, then stream the full film for free at SFFP’s site. www.youtube.com/watc... #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #SilentFilm #FilmSky

Tonight's the night! 7th HEAVEN, with live accompaniment by The Poor Nobodys, at the beautiful Heights Theater at 7:30 PM! heightstheater.com

Following AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend... (in case there are any dishes or patriarchies unbroken), you are invited to join Cinema's First Nasty Women for a rousing revue of BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY! Nov 10-13: 10 films, 4 screenings, total mayhem. silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

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Brilliant recap of the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone by HippFest director Alison Strauss!! (Thanks for the shout-out to our "fun, richly illustrated, and snappy" lecture on nasty women costume design!) 🎞️❤️ hippfest.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/d...

trick or treat!!! 🎃

It’s a superb collection at a ridiculously low price

Build your #PhysicalMedia collection for #SilentMovieDay! Kino Lorber's Fall Sale includes more than 40 silent films + collections — from Cinema's First Nasty Women and Buster Keaton to Pioneers of African-American Cinema and NOSFERATU. List in alt text www.kinolorber.com/collection/f... #FilmSky

also, la grève des nourrices (1907) -- in our nasty women collection!

Someone should, IMO, put together a Blu-ray set, something akin to the @nastysilents.bsky.social collection, for these films. It'd be really helpful for teaching to have high quality versions all in one place and I think there'd be general interest too.

If you (like many) are a fan of Valerio Greco's *beautiful* photography, please show your appreciation and share your love by buying him a coffee!!! 😍📸☕ buymeacoffee.com/silentvalerio

Help identify unknown silent films!!! 🎞️⁉️ So far 6 out of 14 of this year's SINE NOMINE selections have been identified beyond a doubt. Take a look and add your theories/inklings in the comments section... ❤️ www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/sine-nomi...

How Hungary’s Film Heritage Rose From its Ashes: Inside a Model of Movie Preservation and National Cinema Revival: variety.com/2025/film/gl...

If you missed the nasty women deliver the UCLA Copley lecture on silent film costume design in Pordenone, you're in luck!! It's now on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEG... *The audio-visual quality isn't stellar, but the slides are beautifully chaotic. @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social

The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/l...

Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with @silentlondon.bsky.social , both of us writing daily on the films! 😎 www.criterion.com/current/post...

From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/epic...

Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/l...

The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women presenting the annual Copley lecture on Silent Film Costume Design -- "DRESSED FOR CHAOS" -- at the Giornate del Cinema Muto! 🎊🎞️👗🧯 @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social #GCM44

"This was an excellent lecture by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı aka The Nasty Women Collective which highlighted the tremendous importance of costume in the act of creating the chaos of comedy...I hadn’t expected to be so fascinated in the subject but that’s education for you."

"A real highlight of the day arrived with the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture on Costume Design and Silent Cinema, this year presented by the Nasty Women Triumvirate: Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! ❤️🎞️🎩 silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

It's almost time to DRESS FOR CHAOS (👗🧨) which is both a pro-tip and an accurate description of the NASTY WOMEN COSTUME LECTURE.. *today* at 6pm at the Giornate del Cinema Muto!! Co-delivered by CFNW curators Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, & @laurah.bsky.social 🎞️🎊

And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #SilentFilm ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/tear...

A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at #GCM44, chronicled brilliantly by @pamhutch.bsky.social silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Today Léontine will return to the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone!! 🤩 She raises a ruckus as Musidora's cook in a parody of Les Vampires directed by Feuillade -- followed by Jane Gaines' lecture on Imagining silent film history with only women..... ⁉️🎞️

The irresistible benefits of becoming a @wfhinetwork.bsky.social member!!! 🎞️😍 www.wfhi.org

Day three at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and it was full-on with "Pink Tea Talking" and "little mites of wonderment"... ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/elec...

I was delighted to chat with Allison Tyra on @infinite-women.com about 'Death by Laughter,' Léontine, and feminist comedy as a catalyst for solidarity & resistance!! ❤️@columbiaup.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

If you're not following @silentlondon.bsky.social's daily recaps of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, then you're doing it all wrong! (But it's not too late!!) Day 3 just dropped. 🎞️🎶😍 silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

Bring it on, Monday… by Linda Darnell.

This week on the podcast: @hennefem.bsky.social, author of ⁠Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema⁠, talks women's laughter & film, & how archives of feminist film comedy can inspire creativity & resistance in our political culture today. 1/3 Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

A specter is haunting the #GCM44 book fair in Pordenone!! (Apparently Death by Laughter already sold out) 🎞️👻