Merry Christmas to all of our #SilentFilm friends out there! #Christmas2025

Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases review – on the hunt with Holmes in restored 1920s mysteries by @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social. See all three films between Christmas and New Year @wshed.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... Tickets available here: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1372...

Plenty to read about in the new (Christmas) bumper edition of @sightsoundmag.bsky.social! Including a great review by @pamhutch.bsky.social about Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #SilentFilm Festival. Go and buy a copy!

Happy to say that the new 4K of Sunset Boulevard (1950) looked incredible on the Megascreen in #Bristol yesterday. #FilmNoir Our thanks, as always, to @20thcflicks.bsky.social and @filmhubsw.bsky.social.

Gloria Swanson in all her Technicolor glory for the opening screening of Swanson Melodrama double bill. Next up, #FilmNoir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950) around the 1:30pm. #SilentFilm with thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social and @20thcflicks.bsky.social! #Bristol #Melodrama

2026 already looks very exciting thanks to @flicker-alley.bsky.social with their Focus on Louise Brooks release! 13th January is the release date. More #SilentFilm info and where to pre-order here: flickeralley.com/products/foc...

This upcoming @swsilents.bsky.social Gloria Swanson event is a treat - a triple treat in fact with two films and Meg Morley on piano. Book here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

A couple of pics taking during our screening of #SilentFilm The Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne. Our thanks to the Imperial War Muesum. Next up, Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957). Thanks also to @filmhubsw.bsky.social @20thcflicks.bsky.social.

Another fantastic #SilentFilm talk from the @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social team today. We will post the link for the video when it gets uploaded later on. Don’t forget to follow them as well.

Latest essay is on Paths of Glory, which we’re showing with @swsilents.bsky.social 22 November with The Battle of the Somme. Links to the event in the essay. Spoiler alert: essay includes details of the story of Paths of Glory.

Join us this Sat, 12PM, for our special #WW1 double bill with #SilentFilm The Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne + Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) on #Bristol’s biggest cinema screen: ti.to/film-noir-uk... Thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social & @20thcflicks.bsky.social

Coming up 22 November: I’m introducing @swsilents.bsky.social events on The Battle of the Somme and Paths of Glory. Here’s my latest piece on the anti-war cinema of the First World War. Details of events are in the article. Sign up for more essays there, too.

Big thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday. Here’s a couple of pics of us testing the films before we opened the doors… gives you a good sense how impressive the Megascreen is. Thank you to @filmhubsw.bsky.social and @20thcflicks.bsky.social. We are back next weekend: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

A week today - 22 November - we’re showing with @swsilents.bsky.social The Battle of the Somme and Paths of Glory. In my latest essay I look at the anti-war cinema of the First World War. open.substack.com/pub/festival.... Subscribe for free for more.

#BornOnThisDay the great Louise Brooks (1906-1985)! #SilentFilm #BOTD

If you want more Adolphe Menjou he’s in Paths of Glory 22 November with @swsilents.bsky.social. ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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

Well, us SWS types, have queued for 6 to 9 hour #SilentFilm screenings mind! Who waits in line for a 100-year-old, 5-hour silent movie? New Yorkers, of course: gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

See Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957) on the #Bristol Megascreen with The Battle of the Somme (1916) (thanks to The Imperial War Museum) with live music by Stephen Horne. Saturday 22nd November., 12PM. Tickets available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

As part of @filmnoiruk.bsky.social’s #FilmNoirFest this Sunday, in Weston-super-Mare. The #FilmNoir festival will be screening #SilentFilm Forgotten Faces (1928) + The Great Train Robbery (1903) both with live music by @neilkbrand.bsky.social Tickets: rhyl.merlincinemas.co.uk/film/102458-...

Maria Riva, Actress and Daughter of Marlene Dietrich, Dies at 100: She appeared in films as a child with her mom before becoming a great star for CBS in the early days of television: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/m...

Don’t forget to join us this December for a special Gloria Swanson double bill as part of the BFI’s Melodrama Season. We have 1925’s Stage Struck with live music by Meg Morley and Sunset Boulevard (1950) all at the Bristol Megascreen. With thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Well. A bit overwhelmed to read this. www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...

How it started; how it finished. A full house for our showing of the first major BBC2 series The Newcomers (1964) about Bristol and John Boorman’s reflections on this 21 years later in Money Into Light. Thanks @swsilents.bsky.social for the partnership and James Harrison for the photos.

New on the blog today for the #1925Club, I've written about GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES by Anita Loos. A wonderfully witty satire featuring Lorelei, the ultimate girl about town. It's smart, engaging and a whole lot of fun! #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/g...

Don’t forget #SilentFilm fans in the UK! The clocks go back tonight; so an extra hour in bed at least!

Just under a month until our #WW1 Special Double Bill with #SilentFilm The Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne + Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957) both on #Bristol’s Megascreen. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Listen to myself and @neilkbrand.bsky.social talk and babble to @www.johnbleasdale.com for the Writers on Film Podcast all about #Pordenone’s Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 and #SilentFilm in general. Neil talks! I babble! Thanks to John for ticking this off my bucket list! 😁

We’ll be tuning in one last time to #BBCRadio3’s #SoundOfCinema today at 4PM! Big shout out to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for being at the helm for the past 12 years! Very much our Tom Baker of the Sound of Cinema world 😁!

#AlfredHitchcock #BernardHerrmann Just landed on the desk… release date in January 2026. Review on the way via @swsilents.bsky.social blog: www.southwestsilents.com/blog

Singular tickets for our Heritage #FilmNoir event during @filmnoiruk.bsky.social #FilmNoirFest are on sale. See The Great Train Robbery (1903) and a rare chance to see crime #SilentFilm Forgotten Faces (1928); all with live music by @neilkbrand.bsky.social: wsm.merlincinemas.co.uk/film/102458-...

I review the UK @criterion.bsky.social release of Howard Hughes’ very bloated but action packed #WW1 blockbuster Hell’s Angels (1930); plus a chance to win a copy all on the @swsilents.bsky.social website: www.southwestsilents.com/post/hell-s-...

Co-director @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social selects his top five #SilentFillm titles from this year's Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 in #Pordenone, Italy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/festiva...

We are back in #Wareham this November for the #SilentFilm Weekender; tickets and passes on sale: www.therex.co.uk/news/18363 Our thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social.

It’s #InternationalChefsDay! So here’s the great Max Linder!

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

There was a very good stream event last night about Lost #SilentFilm titles called Mysteries in the Frame; The Art of Identifying (Lost) Silent Films thanks to @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social! Don’t miss out on the November event. You can signup for updates here: filmpreserve.org/receive-upda...

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

Hey #Bristol! Keep an eye out for our two posters featuring Joan Crawford and Gloria Swanson for the #BFI Too Much Melodrama season. Our thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social, @bristolaquarium.bsky.social. Crawford Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk... Swanson Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

ACH Smith introduces The Newcomers, which we are showing 26 October with @swsilents.bsky.social. Article is here and you can subscribe (free) for more on The Newcomers and other articles. Link at the bottom of the article

My piece on the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is up. Enjoy. www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Thanks to the #Pordenone Silent Film Festival's 2025 online output, last night I was able to see what @moviessilently.bsky.social was raving about in her review of The Blood Ship. It's marvellous! And a great 1st opportunity for many silent film fans as I think the 2024 Bluray is Region A only.

The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

One of the highlights from this year’s Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto has been the animated shorts starring Koko the Clown, produced by Max Fleischer. #Pordenone #SilentFilm

Some more of the amazing film posters at Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto’s #FilmFair #Pordenone

Here we go again! We are home at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #Pordenone #Italy #SilentFilm

All aboard for #BBCFour’s #Timeshift The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys episode. Plenty of great archive in this one: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Discover the 4K restoration of The Gold Rush, a new publication on The Freak, and Chaplin-inspired events around the world this autumn... Read our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/351c9a34e973... #thegoldrush100

Very sad to hear the passing of the legendary Italian film poster artist Renato Casaro (1935-2025). #RIP

Daily Telegraph Review has the 25 greatest war films today. It’s beaten by The Great Escape (oddly) but Paths of Glory is in at number 4. This is being shown @swsilents.bsky.social in Bristol with Battle of the Somme (1916) 22 November with an introduction by me. Book here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...