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A place for people who love silent film.
https://silentlondon.co.uk/
Happy holidays to all Silent Londoners, wherever you may be!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/22/s...
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Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence!
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The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now
Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/the-silent-london-poll-of-2025-vote-for-your-winners-now/
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Charlie Chaplin
7 days ago
The centenary of The Gold Rush continues! Read our end-of-year newsletter for news on restorations, screenings, books, documentaries, and more.
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#TheGoldRush100
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Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...
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The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now
Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/the-silent-london-poll-of-2025-vote-for-your-winners-now/
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9 days ago
A Girl’s Folly (1917).
#SilentFilm
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Something very exciting from
@stickingplacebk.bsky.social
– MY LIFE IS THE CINEMA, the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir' Shub!
stickingplacebooks.com/books/my-lif...
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My Life is the Cinema
Translated and Edited by Keith SanbornMy Life is the Cinema brings to English readers for the first time the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir' Shub, th...
https://stickingplacebooks.com/books/my-life-is-the-cinema
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Louise Brooks Society™
11 days ago
Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks set for first ever e-book edition! Read all about it at
louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/lulu...
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Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks set for first ever e-book edition!
Louise Brooks,Lulu,silent film,1920s,Hollywood,Jazz Age,flapper,silent movie,actor,cinema,actress,Louise Brooks Society,Pandora's Box,movies,fandom
https://louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/lulu-in-hollywood-by-louise-brooks-set.html
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The PaulAJoyce
12 days ago
HUGE Betty Balfour news!! A rare screening of two supposedly lost films of this major British star that have survived only on 9.5mm and 16mm: Cinders (UK 1926) and Daughter of the Regiment (1929). 28th January '26 with live accompaniment + intros!
#SilentFilm
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Betty Balfour Lost and Found – The Cinema Museum
https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/betty-balfour-lost-and-found/
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I am introducing a 35mm screening of WAY DOWN EAST (DW Griffith, 1920) with live music by Stephen Horne at the BFI on Tuesday. Wrap up warm!
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Buy cinema tickets for Way Down East + intro by Pamela Hutchinson, film critic and historian | BFI Southbank
A transcendent Lillian Gish brings a wide-eyed pathos to a country girl who endures an avalanche of misfortune, in this standout collaboration with D.W. Griffith.
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19 days ago
“Sergei Eisenstein: 100 Years of Potemkin” is on at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna from tomorrow through January 5 —
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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
about 1 month ago
Our latest blog is from
#artist
Juliette Losq, who visited the
#museum
on a stipend from The Stephen Herbert Award. Juliette explored our
#peepshow
collection - you can find out more about her fascinating artwork on her website here:
www.losq.co.uk
& read the full blog here:
tinyurl.com/4zdaxz6c
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Farran Smith Nehme
22 days ago
Good morning! My essay on THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL (1921), directed by the mighty Cecil B. DeMille, is up at the website for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A beautiful restoration screened this year, letting people savor the charm of Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson...
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ThomasGladysz
23 days ago
Early films featuring Louise Brooks to get Blu-ray release via Flicker Alley and
@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social
and
@silentlondon.bsky.social
and ME. Details at
louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/once...
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Once lost Louise Brooks films to have Blu-ray release
Louise Brooks, Focus on Louise Brooks, Flicker Alley, San Francisco Film Preserve, The Street of Forgotten Men, The American Venus, Just Another Blond
https://louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/12/once-lost-louise-brooks-films-to-have.html
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waltydunlop
23 days ago
Make way for Harold Llloyd's Christmas Tree, ya-da ya-da ya-da ya-da-da-da. You'd need more than a pair of glasses and a smile to take in all of that one.
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Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and
@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social
and
@thomasgladysz.bsky.social
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Focus on Louise Brooks: a Lulu of a Blu-ray from Flicker Alley and San Francisco Film Preserve
Call me Hedda Hopper*, because I have been keeping this one under my hat for quite some time. Coming on 13 January and available to pre-order now, Focus on Louise Brooks (Flicker Alley) is the perf…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/04/focus-on-louise-brooks-a-lulu-of-a-blu-ray-from-flicker-alley-and-san-francisco-film-preserve/
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Maggie Hennefeld
25 days ago
Another SINE NOMINE (#22) has been identified!! 🎞️⁉️ The *only* existing fragment of FABIENNE (FR 1920, Camille de Morlhon, Film Valetta-Edition A.G.C.). Read the full scoop!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And help sleuth out the next title...
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/sine-nomi...
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Weimar Film Network
25 days ago
Join us at the University of Warwick next week for a free screening of Die freudlose Gasse as part of Dr. Ian Roberts' Weimar 100 project! Registration here:
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Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and
@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social
and
@thomasgladysz.bsky.social
and me!
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Focus on Louise Brooks: a Lulu of a Blu-ray from Flicker Alley and San Francisco Film Preserve
Call me Hedda Hopper*, because I have been keeping this one under my hat for quite some time. Coming on 13 January and available to pre-order now, Focus on Louise Brooks (Flicker Alley) is the perf…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/04/focus-on-louise-brooks-a-lulu-of-a-blu-ray-from-flicker-alley-and-san-francisco-film-preserve/
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The
@slapstickfest.bsky.social
programme is now live! I will see you there, where I will be talking about classic comedy duos, with
@lucyportercomic.bsky.social
. Also, flappers and Yasujiro Ozu. Separately.
slapstick.org.uk/all-events/
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All Events | Slapstick Festival
All Events Upcoming events Previous events WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON OUR 2024 - 2025 EVENTS Check back here soon to see what's new, or sign up to our
https://slapstick.org.uk/all-events/
about 2 months ago
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These wonderful silent Sherlock Holmes films, restored by the BFI, will screen at the marvellous San Francisco Silent Film Festival this week. Look out for UK dates, some with live music, in December and January
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Silent Sherlock at the London Film Festival: the game is afoot
Stand outside Alexandra Palace on a clear evening with a full moon, as I did last night, and you can take in the whole city. London may be as silent as it gets from this vantage point, but the land…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2024/10/17/silent-sherlock-at-the-london-film-festival-the-game-is-afoot/
about 2 months ago
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Citizen Screen
about 2 months ago
Remembering Marie Prevost on her birthday
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Big news for April 2026!
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about 2 months ago
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"Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece" Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford) talks about silent cinema's depictions of Ancient Greece in this free online lecture.
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Housman Lecture 2025
Presented by Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford): Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housman-lecture-2025-tickets-1848065707279?aff=oddtdtcreator
about 2 months ago
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Cinema's First Nasty Women
about 2 months ago
Brilliant recap of the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone by HippFest director Alison Strauss!! (Thanks for the shout-out to our "fun, richly illustrated, and snappy" lecture on nasty women costume design!) 🎞️❤️
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Defiance and solidarity at the 44th Pordenone Silent Film Festival
HippFest Festival Director Alison Strauss recounts her recent trip to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, featuring various programme favourites…
https://hippfest.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/defiance-and-solidarity-at-the-44th-pordenone-silent-film-festival/
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National Film Preservation Foundation
2 months ago
A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by
@eastmanmuseum.bsky.social
and is available for home viewing for the first time.
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
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Neil Brand
2 months ago
TODAY'S THE DAY, FOLKS! Give it a listen, if you like it give us a FOLLOW, if you don't like it, give it a follow anyway, there's loads more on the way!
www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
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All About The Music Podcast
https://www.allaboutthemusicpod.com
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Film star salaries compared to the average American, and the President, in 1927
2 months ago
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SilentFilmCalendar
2 months ago
Updating our
#silentfilm
live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at
silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/
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Lillian Gish klaxon! I am introducing this screening of WAY DOWN EAST on 35mm at the BFI on 16 December. Give yourself an early Christmas present!
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2 months ago
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martha shearer
2 months ago
cannot stress enough how GREAT this film is
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South West Silents
2 months ago
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...
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Composer Stephen Horne introduces this screening of the magnificent silent STELLA DALLAS (Henry King, 1925) with his recorded score (which is exceptionally good) at BFI Southbank on 2 November
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Buy cinema tickets for Stella Dallas + intro by composer Stephen Horne | BFI Southbank
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=stella-dallas-1925-intro&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
2 months ago
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John Bleasdale
2 months ago
New Writers on Film episode from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with Neil Brand and James Harrison
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The Pordenone Silent Film Festival with James Harrison and Neil Brand
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uxjmUUPG2UlZ1zcekOXS8?si=gyd3gewXQ5SrKQTdeFX8rg
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Pamela Hutchinson
3 months ago
A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY
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PLAYING THE VAMP - Cinecity
ILLUSTRATED TALK FROM PAMELA HUTCHINSON The vamp is seductive, dangerous and aloof. An urban criminal whose weapons are dark eyes ringed with liner and a...
https://www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playing-the-vamp/
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Whoop! Paul’s Pordenone blogs were on fire this year.
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3 months ago
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The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 8
I awoke with good intentions but encountered even better conversations. And thus, my film viewing on this, the final day of the 44th Giornate del Cinema Muto, began at midday, with Koko the Clown. …
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-8/
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The kids are all right… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Eight
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 8
I awoke with good intentions but encountered even better conversations. And thus, my film viewing on this, the final day of the 44th Giornate del Cinema Muto, began at midday, with Koko the Clown. …
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/12/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-8/
3 months ago
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PaulAJoyce
3 months ago
Well, this is nice - name-checked by Criterion for my coverage of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto along with
@silentlondon.bsky.social
, both of us writing daily on the films! 😎
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Parallax Views
This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8950-parallax-views
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Parallax Views
This week: Essays on Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophie Fillières, and Miguel Gomes, a talk with Wes Anderson, and an AI experiment.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8950-parallax-views
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Day Seven at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto comes with an adult content warning.
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The fault in our Tsar… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Seven
If Hammer made Soviet historical dramas with a propagandist edge in the silent era it would probably be exactly like The Wings of a Serf ...
http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-fault-in-our-tsar-le-giornate-del.html?m=1
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Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 7
I have been a little slow to start up some mornings. But one thing you can guarantee that I will get out of bed for is Victor Sjöström. Victor Sjöström’s 1912 debut film no less, banned outright in…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-7/
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Day seven of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and I have lost the plot
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 7
I have been a little slow to start up some mornings. But one thing you can guarantee that I will get out of bed for is Victor Sjöström. Victor Sjöström’s 1912 debut film no less, banned outright in…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/10/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-7/
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Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six.
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6
Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-6/
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3 months ago
From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.
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Epic Thursday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Six
White Heather (1919) Are Parents People? (1925) with Neil Brand Not a lot of people know this but, when this film was screened at the K...
http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2025/10/epic-thursday-le-giornate-del-cinema.html?m=1
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Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six.
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6
Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-6/
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Maggie Hennefeld
3 months ago
"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at
#GCM44
, chronicled brilliantly by
@pamhutch.bsky.social
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5
It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-5/#more-2106312879
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A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5
It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-5/
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Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland.
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 4
Last night I dreamt I went to East Lynne again… Ellen Wood is directing my subconscious now. I love this mini melodrama strand and I really enjoyed today’s instalment, which was the lavish 1925 Fox…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-4/
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3 months ago
And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto!
#SilentFilm
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Tears are not enough… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Four
Ruan Lingyu abides... OK, new rules, we’re halfway through and it’s time to make this blog snappier. Today: · Cried – twice · ...
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Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland.
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 4
Last night I dreamt I went to East Lynne again… Ellen Wood is directing my subconscious now. I love this mini melodrama strand and I really enjoyed today’s instalment, which was the lavish 1925 Fox…
https://silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2025-pordenone-post-no-4/
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