Could not be *more excited* to watch these 7 films by Kira Muratova now streaming on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social !!! Starting with THE AESTHETIC SYNDROME.... 🎞️😍 www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-...

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Bart G. Moens's overview essay "Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920)."

A quick post before the end of #SilentMovieDay encouraging you to watch more silent films directed by women. There’s a ton of them and they’re great!

I'm extremely honored that "Death by Laughter" made the shortlist for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social Book Prize!!! ☺️🎊 CONGRATS to the winners & fellow short-listers--such beautiful research here that I can't wait to read!! 📚@columbiaup.bsky.social www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/short...

Happy 90th bday Julie Andrews!! Did you know her Hollywood nickname was "the nun with the switchblade"?! Read all about it in @pamhutch.bsky.social's fabulous new piece in the @theguardian.com 🎊🎞️😍 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

[Queen Kelly is] “a spectacular, fanatically ornamental, yet harrowing masterwork of erotic ecstasies and horrors.” - Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Bi Gan's Resurrection will open on December 12. Watch the new teaser:

Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)

The film we need right now (again) in a special edition approved by @lizziela.bsky.social from @criterion.bsky.social with all the usual excellence including a transfer of the legendary REGROUPING, Borden's first film & a feminist mindfuck in its own right.

It begins! Except, I probably can't actually only watch silent films all month because I need to course prep. But I will try to watch at least one silent film a day instead.

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/...

If you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay, all 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis. Watch: https//archive.org... #FilmSky

So will AMC theaters just be playing the Minecraft Movie on loop? www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/e...

Happy Silent Movie Day!!! Today we celebrate with BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY, which will play in a double-feature w/ Alla Nazimova's SALOMÉ at @iucinema.bsky.social tonight!! 🎞️🎶 I recorded an intro that will be archived on YouTube after the screening. events.iu.edu/libraries/ev...

We're chuffed to participate in #SilentMovieDay with this special screening of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY at @iucinema.bsky.social!!! It will screen in a feminist double-bill w/ Alla Nazimova's SALOMÉ. 😍🎞🎶 events.iu.edu/libraries/ev...

We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027! A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss. If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.

Great line-up for the Silent Film Festival in Bruges this week!!! Including guest intros by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Prez @katesac.bsky.social & live music by Maud Nelissen, Hilde Nash, Daan van den Hurk, & Kabir Khan. 😍🎶🎞️ lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/

#Bornonthisday in 1914: filmmaker Esther Eng!

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

Packed outdoor screening of Elia Suleiman's DIVINE INTERVENTION at the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival!! 🎞️🍉❤️ @miznaarabart.bsky.social

If you're heading to the German Studies Association Conference this weekend, *don't miss* our sisters Mary Hennessy & Molly Harrabin presenting on "Weimar Cinema's Nasty Women"!!! 😍🎊🎞️ @mharrabin.bsky.social @g-s-s-n.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the fall edition of WeimarCinema.org is now live, featuring new essays and film dossiers as well as updates on recent publications and restorations. We hope you enjoy the new essays and dossiers, and find the updates and news helpful!

Let's do this!! 🧟‍♀️🎞️ @trylon.org

I had a beautiful time at the Denver Silent Film Festival!! Very grateful to the organizers & community for welcoming me. Strong feminist line-up this year, live music at every screening -- I highly recommend making the pilgrimage. 🎞️❤️🎶 (Photo cred Jason Dewitt 📸) www.denverfilm.org/programs/den...

This whole series looks fab!!! I'd give my right arm to see MADAM SATAN (1930) in 35mm. 🤩🎞️ filmforum.org/series/scree...

I found more than 30 Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025) films that are streaming. If, like me, your knowledge is limited to her best-known work, you have a wealth of discoveries here to enjoy. Anything free is in bold. I also included some YouTube posts. #FilmSky #ClaudiaCardinale

Rest in Power Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025) 💔🎞️

Get dressed for *chaos* 🎩🧨 and don't miss the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture, which this year will be delivered by everybody's favorite Nasty Women trifecta: Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social & @laurah.bsky.social at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto!! 🎞️ www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...

"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Archives on Screen,Twin Cities visits Bologna each summer for Il Cinema Ritrovato and its hundreds of restored films. We're narrowing down the shortlist for our annual edition of the festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, returning for a 4th year to the Main Cinema, February 2026 in Minneapolis!

Film critic Anthony Lane celebrates Cineteca di Bologna, its restoration laboratory, L'Immagine Ritrovata, and its annual festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato, in the latest issue of The New Yorker! 🎉 🎞 🇮🇹 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

The Giornate del Cinema Muto daily schedule is live!!! #Pordenone 🎞️🎶 www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...

Want to see me talking about my fave dog film while sharing a sofa with @fugitiveimages.bsky.social & their giant gorgeous dog??? We get into trees, precarity, women of the road & why Kelly Reichardt is a fucking genius. Get your hard copy to watch forever!

niche but true.

This is bad. "In March 2025, Mitra’s case was sent to an ad hoc committee, chaired by Harvard Provost John F. Manning. It's unclear who exactly convened the ad hoc committee, and why...Then, roughly three months later, her application for tenure had been denied." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A beautiful day @BFI with #AnnaMayWong in 2 of the greatest silent fantasy films, with lively audiences and live accompaniment! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/09/neve...

GENERAL STRIKE!!!!!

Actually the whole MOMA Film Vault Summer Camp series is amazing! If you want to see a breathtaking example of stencil-coloring, check this one out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLi...

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

last chance to see William Shatner speak Esperanto! final screening of INCUBUS (1966) today at @trylon.org at 4:45pm. 🔥🐐 www.trylon.org/film/incubus/

hell yeah!

I'm just out of WTF's.

Happy birthday to Sophia Loren, always #frockingfabulous!

film friends: any recommended mostly approachable readings on the weirdness of early cinema?