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Iconoclastic filmmaking duo Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet and their even more iconoclastic cat Huillet was BOTD in 1936

el jefe político - andré hugon (1925)

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 5th century BC.

Aki.

gelosia (petri 1953)

Materia Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/mate...

capellani/gance! @segobrigense.bsky.social

just need everyone to know that this is how wildlife biologists in China introduce panda cubs to the wild

John Barrymore #BOTD in Don Juan (1926)

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Engelein (Urban Gad, 1913)

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Max Linder meets los hermanos Lumière.

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Sunday donkey

Silent stars. 437. Ludwig Trautmann (1885 – 1957). Il tourna dans une soixantaine de films et fut déporté dans un camp à cause de son homosexualité.

Alraune (Henrik Galeen, 1927)

The Ironic order

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We will be bringing you news of our latest project - building a working replica of Louis Le Prince’s 1888 motion picture camera - soon! Watch this space.

Ernst Lubitsch, Director, Producer, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Berlin

Palazzo Altemps #Roma

Palazzo Altemps #Roma

Me encanta la capacidad de Germaine Dulac para expresarse con imágenes incluso en sus títulos menos conseguidos. En el serial Gossette (1923) nos da a entender cómo su protagonista pasó de ser un niño rico a caer en desgracia y tener que buscarse la vida solo través de sus manos.

and the obsession with diagonal composition

struck again, by the strong danish eye-game

out on the deep - robert dinesen (1913) struck once again how sophisticated (the lighting, the composition, the hero that does nothing heroic) these early 1910s danish films are (and how libidinous, hello again hot alf blütecher, with his impotent lighthouse) #silentfilm #silentmovies

Das wandernde Bild (Fritz Lang, 1920)

Happy New Year's Eve, 1909 E6 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Professor Paul Flaig wrote a great book on the Weimar Republic and Hollywood slapstick, and although we're of course dealing with an earlier period, he works in German and American (and French!) comedy, plus more. Links👇

Charley Chase i jo us desitgem un Bon Nadal

"The Mysterious Cinema of Armand St. Pierre" Now Available on YouTube: youtu.be/w3so6pdcJPo An independent filmmaker and a film historian discuss ideas about sound and image, documentary, and authorship, while planning a film about a (fictional) early cinema pioneer.

gotta be il fuoco (1916)

The year is almost over, so please share your favorite silent movie watches of 2025! Mine was THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), a nasty nautical revenge picture that I had been wanting to see for years and which met all expectations and more