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...

Lands edge Pittenweem 📷 Olympus om10 🎞️ Ilford xp2 #photography #film #35mm #filmphotography #art #monochrome #blackandwhite #seascape #cliffs #scotland #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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...

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Thank you Steve Martin for reminding us of history. These atrocities should not be happening today, but here we are. Fascism in America. #Resist. Don’t let freedom die!

Our collections come from various major figures in Light Music. Join us in exploring the riches of the Frank Cantell collection! #lightmusicsociety #sheetmusiclibrary #lightmusic

70 HOURS TO GO!!!! The Lost Films of Hollywood Calendar 2026, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Always a great day when the .pdf of Pordenone, which begins today, is released: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CATALOGO-GCM2025-LowRes-v1.pdf

As part of the next phase of funding, Yorkshire Water said it had secured £11.4m,with an additional £10m to be targeted through the wider partnership.The money would support work to open up 310 miles (500km) of river habitat across Yorkshire over the next five years. www.bbc.com/news/article...

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

The Guardian's review of Silents Synced. Will you be giving it a go? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

@bsky.app Nice piece on the Faber website about my score performances. www.fabermusic.com/news/new-eng...

Happy #SilentMovieDay to all who celebrate!! Five silent films just added to the "screening room" of the NFPF Website--including Clara Bow in POISONED PARADISE (1924), OAKLAND NEWSREELS (1914-1921), & a frozen north saga starring Corinne Griffith. 🎞️🎶🤩 www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/9/...

This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

Pasta so yes, I look like a Jackson Pollock painting

It's beginning to look more and more like Johnson himself might be in the Epstein files.

Caught up with the Plaza Cinema team in Weston-super-Mare yesterday, in ref to #FilmNoirFest. Very excited to say that we have been upgraded! This year the festival will take place in Cinema 4 (like last year) and (new for 2025) Cinema 1. #FilmNoir Passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.

11.55am Edinburgh Waverley today for BBC Radio 3!

Weird. @neilkbrand.bsky.social

I'm busking film music on Edinburgh Waverley station tomorrow morning for the BBC! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Colostomy Bag. £5 each way.

I'm not a bird expert, but I do find them relaxing to watch and listen to. Nothing is more tranquil than watching birds by a river in the midst of a town, where everything stressful is buzzing behind you.

Thanks Tan! Up to speed now...

Tomorrow!

This Wednesday Sept 24th - I'm playing Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera at the Playhouse Cheltenham. cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...

I have just watched this, forgetting Michael Morpurgo's ability to bring on blubbing. Juliet Stevenson levels. I had to watch Taskmaster to level my emotions out. It's @neilkbrand.bsky.social's fault, he said everyone should watch it!

Busy week this week - get along if you can, folks! Tomorrow at Bradford, three Sherlock Holmes shorts www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/silen... Thursday at Newcastle for trams - thecommonroom.org.uk/event/trams/ Sunday at the NFT for Thief of Baghdad. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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/...

I want my country back, too. The one that once decided however tough it is, however long it takes, whatever sacrifice it demands, it is always worth fighting fascism. thatsailingshop.com/listing/sart...

Blimey! British boxing icon Ricky Hatton found dead aged 46: talksport.com/boxing/35526...

‘A last resort’: is culling foxes the only way to save Britain’s vanishing curlews? Lethal predator control should always be used as a last resort when other methods have failed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today in the Chicago area ICE shot & killed someone and threw Kat Abughazaleh candidate for Congress, on the ground.

We have failed our children.

I know there are people who want to see the new 4K restoration of ‘The Gold Rush’ in London - I think this is it & no-one knows. Only 6 seats have sold and I had the first 3 of them! I’m just sharing the info I have. @neilkbrand.bsky.social can you help? www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-g...

Film Noir Fest 2025 will feature silent films with music played by Neil Brand (@neilkbrand.bsky.social). James Harrison (@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social) opens up at Fedora. Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo Podbean buff.ly/wk2LnPK For tickets: shorturl.at/q2jYN

The richest 100 billionaires in the U.S. have a net worth totaling $3.86 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is collectively worth $4 trillion. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

Two Tier MPs

Why have I put down an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and School Bill to ban #microplastic shedding uniforms? It is about #PublicHealth - the health of our children #PlasticPollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

This Saturday, folks! See you there!! www.beyond.radio/news/whats-o...

Brilliant Maggie!!!

erik the opera ghost killed AT MOST maybe two people and they were both being rude so let's all calm down a little

After packing them in for their August film show, The Boys are back in Bonnie Scotland on the 1st of October, 2025 at the @britpanopticon.bsky.social in Glasgow. Via Call Of The Cuckoos newsletter. #LaurelAndHardy #StanAndOllie #StanLaurel #OliverHardy

Big thanks to Green Room concerts for a great night at Lenham Tithe Barn last night!

It would have been so easy to devote a Bernard Herrmann episode of #soundsofcinema to the (splendid) usual suspects eg Psycho. But @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social typically had far more exciting ideas. A tremendous collection of wild, wonderfully orchestrated soundtracks. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A quick reminder #FilmNoir fans… on #BBCRadio3 today, 4PM, #SoundOfCinema with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social! #BernardHerrmann #BBCProms : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN