Coming up 22 November. I’m hosting this terrific double bill for @swsilents.bsky.social: Battle of the Somme (with live music) and Paths of Glory. Book here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

So a few of us (as well as @swsilents.bsky.social ) will be heading to this year’s #SilentFilm festival Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto. It starts in under two weeks time. So do let us know if you’re going and maybe we can have a drink or two in one of the fine bars in #Pordenone! #FilmNoir

Coming up 26 October: two films about Bristol. The Newcomers, made by John Boorman before he went on to Hollywood fame, helped launched BBC2 in 1964. In Money into Light he returns to Bristol 25 years later. Thanks to @swsilents.bsky.social for partnership and @filmhubsw.bsky.social for support.

Two weeks until Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 kicks off in the town of #Pordenone, #Italy! We’ll be there and looking forward to catching up with all our #SilentFilm friends. Let us know if you’re about! More info here: www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/

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...

A beautiful thing has just landed! Very excited about this new release thanks to @flicker-alley.bsky.social! Victor Sjöström’s #SilentFilm masterpiece He Who Gets Slapped (1924) starring Lon Chaney. More info soon. Get yourselves a limited copy from here: flickeralley.com/products/he-...

A very nice nod to @neilkbrand.bsky.social and his #SilentFilm work by @kermodemovie.bsky.social on #BBCRadio3’s Private Passions. Listen in on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for our Wizard of Oz Double Bill yesterday. Thank you to @bristolaquarium.bsky.social, Nate Barlow and Dominic Irving. Don’t forget to check out what we have coming up next on our events page: www.southwestsilents.com/live-events

26 October: I’m introducing the special John Boorman and Bristol event where we show two films about Bristol - The Newcomers and Money Into Light. Thanks to @swsilents.bsky.social www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail... 6/

22 November I’m introducing the special double bill for @swsilents.bsky.social of the classic silent film The Battle of the Somme (1916) and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Paths of Glory (1957). ti.to/film-noir-uk... 8/8

Two Hollywood legends are coming to #Bristol in November and December 2025. As part of the #BFI’s Too Much Melodrama film season. #SilentFilm #FilmNoir 15/11/2025: Joan Crawford Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk... 06/12/2025: Gloria Swanson Double Bill: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

We will be there in person, but if you can’t make this year’s Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 you can see a couple of the #SilentFilm screenings (with music) online. More info: www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...

Think you know your #Westerns?! Ever heard of #SilentFilm #Western star Henry Starr?! Well, we hadn't! So here is our review of Mark Archuleta’s new book about Henry Starr and his lost film, A Debtor to the Law. Plus a chance to win a copy. More info: www.southwestsilents.com/post/discove...

Watch: Captain Scott’s famous polar shipwreck as never seen before: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Evelyn Brent by George Hommel for Josef von Sternberg’s The Drag Net (1928).

One hundred years after the release of Battleship Potemkin the David Parkinson places it in the context of one of film history’s most tumultuous and influential periods: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

#BornOnThisDay George Macready (1899-1973). Best known for #FilmNoir Gilda (1946), Seven Days in May (1964), The Great Race (1965) and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) which we're screening in November at #Bristol's Megascreen at @bristolaquarium.bsky.social: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

In one episode in The Newcomers - the six-part BBC series from 1964 we’re showing with @swsilents.bsky.social and others 26 October, you see Bristol at night. One extended scene is in an evangelical church in St Paul’s. Book here: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...

Happy National Dog Day everyone! #NationalDogDay #SilentFilm

What The New Yorker Was Watching in 1925: The first year of the magazine’s movie writing included proto-auteurist criticism, gossip, and a large dose of Charlie Chaplin: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

To go with your Sunday morning reading. Our thanks to Robin and the @bristol247.bsky.social team! A Double Dose of Oz at @bristolaquarium.bsky.social’s Megascreen. #WizardOfOz: www.bristol247.com/culture/film... #SilentFilm Tickets available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

#Napoleon #AbelGance #TheGOAT release from Boutique Potemkine: store.potemkine.fr/dvd/35450200...

While on the subject of #SilentFilm The Battle of the Somme (1916) with which we’re screening as part of the double bill (thanks to the IWM) we highly recommend this book as well… don’t forget to book your tickets tho: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Current reading - second reading for me - of Cobb’s superb novel about the First World War (which he fought in). I’m introducing Kubrick’s brilliant film of the book and the silent Battle of the Somme 22 November for @swsilents.bsky.social: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...

Pretty impressive artwork by Sam Hadley for @criterion.bsky.social’s release of Hell’s Angels (1930).

Just launched with @swsilents.bsky.social and others. Celebrate the relationship between John Boorman and Bristol with a screening of the BBC's The Newcomers (1964) and his visit to Bristol 20 years later with Money Into Light. 26/10/2025 Bristol Megascreen, 12pm: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

#GretaGarbo #JoanCrawford Head over to #BBCiPlayer for a chance to see the 1969 doc, ‘Garbo, by Joan Crawford’ written by Alexander Walker. Plenty of early #SilentFilm clips within: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The newest David Glass #SilentFilm Kickstarter Project is up and running. This one is all about Snub Pollard. These are always a good project to get behind: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ree...

#BornOnThisDay star Bert Lahr (1895-1967) best remembered as the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz (1939). #BOTD Join us for our double bill of the classic with the UK PREMIERE of the new restoration of #SilentFilm His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz (1914): ti.to/film-noir-uk...

#BornOnThisDay British born film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). #BOTD #SilentFilm

Final day to get your names in to win a copy of the #SilentFilm masterpiece that is Finis Terræ (1929): www.southwestsilents.com/post/finis-t...

Final few hours to win a copy of an excellent #SilentFilm release…

Last few hours before our competition to win a copy of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema fantastic new release of Jean Epstein’s incredible #SilentFilm Finis Terræ (1929) closes: www.southwestsilents.com/post/finis-t...

The Winners of the 2025 Federal Grant Winners from the National Film Preservation Foundation have been announced. Includes #SilentFilm short Weak But Willing (1929) starring Jean Harlow restored by San Francisco Film Preserve: www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...

MEGA SILENTS return to Bristol. Check out these fantastic big-big-screen double-bills from @swsilents.bsky.social In September, the UK Premiere of 4K restoration of forgotten silent film His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) and the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939) ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Hey there, NYC classic Film fans! When was the last time you saw a classic film at the Thalia? My Silent Clowns Film Series is bringing silent movies back to this historic repertory cinema in September. www.symphonyspace.org/events/silen...

Happy 95th Birthday to our dear friend writer, film historian and official biographer of Charles Chaplin, David Robinson. We seem to remember this was taken at David’s 80th Birthday when we celebrated with him and the @slapstickfest.bsky.social team! #CharlieChaplin

#SilentFilm: An antidote to streaming era storytelling: www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/06/02/s...

In November we have our WW1 double bill with #SilentFilm Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne; thanks to the Imperial War Muesum. + Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957). All on the massive screen in @bristolaquarium.bsky.social: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Anna May Wong on the big screen at BFI Southbank in September silentlondon.co.uk/2025/07/31/a...

One for all #SilentFilm fans! Check out Japanophiles on NHK World Japan starring our good friend Johan Nordstrom: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Don’t forget to join us for our first #SilentFilm event of the autumn with a #WizardOfOz double bill at @bristolaquarium.bsky.social #Bristol! Tickets now on sale: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

This afternoon, 2:10pm @cineredis.bsky.social (#Bristol), Anna May Wong stars in the great (and very much forgotten) Großstadtschmetterling (Pavement Butterfly/ 1929). Join us at the UK Premiere of the new restoration of this #SilentFilm classic. More info: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

It's the last day of #CineRedis25!

A great event yesterday @wshed.bsky.social during @cineredis.bsky.social with Henry K Miller and @bryonyd.bsky.social marking 100 Years of the Film Society. More #SilentFilm adventures today with Anna May Wong and @silentlondon.bsky.social. More info: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

A #SilentFilm masterpiece and a perfect release from the Eureka’s #MastersOfCinema team! Check out @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social review of Jean Epstein's Finis Terræ (1929), plus, a chance to win a copy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/finis-t...

Don't forget to join us @wshed.bsky.social during @cineredis.bsky.social in #Bristol for a special event marking 100 Years of the Film Society. Hosted by the #BFI’s Bryony Dixon it should be a real film history treat: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1331...

Paul from the great Prince Charles Cinema (@princecharlescinema.com) is at #Bristol’s @wshed.bsky.social for @cineredis.bsky.social!

Us heading to @wshed.bsky.social for @cineredis.bsky.social this morning… #SilentFilm

As part of @filmnoiruk.bsky.social’s #FilmNoirFest this coming November, in Weston-super-Mare. The #FilmNoir festival will be screening #SilentFilm Forgotten Faces (1928) + The Great Train Robbery (1903) both with live music by Neil Brand. Festival passes now on sale: ti.to/film-noir-uk...